Why is Hungary called Hungary?

It is logical to assume that the name refers to the Hun roots of Hungary, and maybe it does explain one letter. In reality, Hungarians got the name of a Bulgarian-Turkish tribal alliance, something that cannot easily be explained.

Hungarian chronicles agree that Huns and Hungarians are brothers on grounds of the historical relationship between Hunor and Magor, and they even share the same notion that Prince Árpád came to the Carpathian Basin to seize King Attila’s legacy. It is safe to assume because of this that the neighbouring nations of the ancestors of Hungarians would call the country by the name of Hungaria, Hungary, Ungarn, Vengrija, Wegri, and so on, reports 24.

Outsiders are right to assume that Hungarians come from Huns since Attila made a terrible reputation for himself from Asia to the Atlantic Ocean, and it was almost like the wild and warrior Huns came back with the arrival of Hungarians. However, according to  historian Dr Gábor Thoroczkay, not everything is what it seems.

“Let’s look at the then-official Latin language and the name Hungaria as the country and Hungarus as the title of the nation. In that case, the stem of the word is not ‘hun’ but the ‘onogur’ part.”

‘Onogur’ means ten ogurs which refers to the alliance of ten tribes. We are talking about the Bulgarian-Turkish people that appeared in the fifth century in Europe in the area that is South-Russia and South-Ukraine today. The name ‘onogur’ most likely was used and became common when Prince Kuvrat established a short-lived empire in the seventh century. After its disintegration, part of the onogurs migrated north but most of them wandered to the area that is Bulgaria today. One of Kuvrat’s sons, Kuber, moved to the Carpathian Basin with a small group.