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Where were the Hungarians before they were behind the Ural mountains!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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looks like i got a similar answer!.!. but here's some details!.
it does not specify where they were before the ural mountains!.

Sometime during the fourth millennium BC, the Uralic-speaking peoples who were living in the central and southern regions of the Urals split up!. The peoples speaking Finno-Ugric languages dispersed primarily towards the west and northwest and came into contact with Iranian speakers who were spreading northwards!.[23] From at least 2000 BC onwards, the Ugrian speakers became distinguished from the rest of the Finno-Ugric community!. Judging by evidence from burial mounds and settlement sites, they interacted with the Andronovo Culture[24]!. More advanced tribes arriving from the southern steppes taught them how to farm, breed cattle and produce bronze objects[citation needed]!. Around 1500 BC, they started to breed horses and horse riding became one of their typical activities[citation needed]!.

In the early first millennium BC, the northern Ugrian subgroup (the Ob-Ugrians) moved to the lower Ob River, while southern Ugrians remained in the south and became nomadic herdsmen[citation needed]!. Since these southern Ugrians became the ancestors of the Magyars, this division is usually marked as the beginning of the Magyars as a distinct ethnic group[citation needed]!. During the following centuries, the Magyars continued to live in the wood-steppes and steppes southeast of the Ural Mountains, strongly influenced by their immediate neighbours of Iranian extraction[citation needed]!.Www@QuestionHome@Com