The Hungarian tribes left the area of between the Ural mountains and the Volga river. They passed along the Volga and the Caspian Sea. After several hundred years of wandering, they reached the Carpathian Basin.

The ethnic group from which the Magyars originated lived innitially with Finno-Ugric, then with Ugric peoples at the foot of the Ural Mountains, where, around 500 BC the Magyars became a separate ethnic group. The Magyar - which means "man" - dates from this period.