MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS, CHRONOLOGICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL BOUNDARIES OF MAGNA HUNGARIA IN EASTERN EUROPE
The archaeological culture of the Ugrians-Magyars (Hungarians) changed over time during their stay in the Urals, but retained its ethnic semantics. Therefore, the issue of the Ural ancestral homeland of the Magyars-Hungarians (Magna Hungaria) should be solved with the use of processual archaeology techniques. They can be used in order to outline a series of archaeological sites marking the chronological, geographical and morphological boundaries of Magna Hungaria in the region. Their interpretation by the contemporary researchers is only making them more unstructured and uncertain, stretching from the Tobol to the Volga and from the Sylva to the Samara Bend. This makes the very idea of the ancient Hungarian homeland located in the Urals rather unconvincing, as in this case the ancient Hungarians-Magyars were virtually “everywhere”. The existing archaeological sources considered in the context of positivistic-processual archaeology demonstrate that the Magna Hungaria as an ethnogeographical concept can be associated with the Chiyalik archeological culture genetically ascending to the archaeological cultures of the Cis-Urals and the Kama region in the second half of the 1st Millennium A.D.