The Onogurs, also known as (Bulgar) Utigurs, were a horde

Orda (organization)

An orda or horde was an historical sociopolitical and military structure found on the Eurasian Steppe, usually associated with the Mongols. This entity can be seen as regional equivalent of a clan or a tribe...

 of equestrian nomads in the North Eurasian steppe

Eurasian Steppe

The Eurasian Steppe is the vast steppe ecoregion of Eurasia in the Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands Biome. It stretches from Hungary to Mongolia...

 east of the Don River (Russia)

Don River (Russia)

The Don River is one of the major rivers of Russia. It rises in the town of Novomoskovsk 60 kilometres southeast from Tula, southeast of Moscow, and flows for a distance of about 1,950 kilometres to the Sea of Azov....

 during the 5th to 8th centuries. The Onogurs crossed the Volga and entered into Europe around the year 460 within the larger context of the Great Migrations

Great Migrations

Great Migrations is a seven-episode nature documentary television miniseries that airs on the National Geographic Channel, featuring the great migrations of animals across the globe. This is truly one of the greatest pieces of nature documentary there is. The producer, David Hamlin, has won 3...

 and the Turkic expansion. In a old turkic language interpretation of Onogurs: On~Ono means "10" and Gar~Gurs~Gur~Gundur, mean "tribes", so Onogurs means "People of 10 tribes" or "People of 10 Arrows". Hungarians call the tribes as being the following: 3 tribes (Ság, Ladány, Berény-Tárkány - the Kabar

Kabar

The Khavars or erroneously Kabars were Khazarians, therefore Turkic people who joined to the Magyars  in the 8th century.- History :...

 federation) settled in Hungarian Transilvania plus 7 tribes (Megyer~Magyar

Magyar

Magyar may refer to:* A nation and an ethnic group native to and primarily associated with Hungarian people* The Hungarian language,...

~Madar~Madjar~Muageris -the dominant tribe-, Jenő, Keszi, Nyék, Kér, Tarján and Kürt~Kubat~Kubrat

Kubrat

Kubrat or Kurt was a Bulgar ruler credited with establishing the confederation of Old Great Bulgaria in 632. He is said to have achieved this by conquering the Avars and uniting all the Bulgar tribes under one rule....

) settled in Panonia. A misunderstanding is very comomon calling the onogurs as being bulgars since bulgars could be: Bul~Bol meaning "Many" and Gar~Gurs~Gur~Gundur meaning "Tribe", thus the "people of 10 tribes" sometimes is called "People of many tribes" or "Bulgars" also. There is also a historical relationship between Onogurs and the Khazars

Khazars

The Khazars were semi-nomadic Turkic people who established one of the largest polities of medieval Eurasia, with the capital of Atil and territory comprising much of modern-day European Russia, western Kazakhstan, eastern Ukraine, Azerbaijan, large portions of the northern Caucasus , parts of...

 Empire, until the breakdown of Great Prince Arpad

Árpád

Árpád was the second Grand Prince of the Hungarians . Under his rule the Hungarian people settled in the Carpathian basin. The dynasty descending from him ruled the Hungarian tribes and later the Kingdom of Hungary until 1301...

 Almos.

Etymology

The name Onogur is analyzed as On-Oğuz "ten (tribes of the) Oğuz". The 7th-century tribal alliance of Old Great Bulgaria

Old Great Bulgaria

Old Great Bulgaria or Great Bulgaria was а term used by Byzantine historians to refer to Onoguria during the reign of the Bulgar ruler Kubrat in the 7th century north of the Caucasus mountains in the steppe between the Dniester and Lower...

 was also known as the Onogundur-Bulgar Empire (or in its western version Onoguria). It is uncertain whether they should be considered identical to the Onogundurs.

Hungarians and Onogurs

The name of Hungary

Name of Hungary

The English name Hungary is from Middle Latin Hungaria, via French Hongrie.The name is thought to be a latinization of Hungari, Ungari, Ungri, Ugri which was the name given by Byzantine writers to the Hungarians , and by early Russian writers to an Uralic people dwelling east of the Ural...

 and the name of the Hungarian people are also connected with the term of Onogur, because in the western European languages the Hungarians (Magyars) are called Onogurs (e.g. Ungarisch, Hongrie, Hongar, Ungherese). The Magyars must have belonged to the Onogur tribal alliance and likely they became its ethnic majority.

Hungor & Maugor

The Onogurs were ethnically closely related and allied to the Cozarig-Bulgar

Bulgars

The Bulgars were a semi-nomadic who flourished in the Pontic Steppe and the Volga basin in the 7th century.The Bulgars emerge after the collapse of the Hunnic Empire in the 5th century....

 tribes the legend being that the Onogurs and Bulgars descended from princes of Kush: Hungor & Maugor. Maugor has recently been identified as Muageris.

The legend of Hunor and Magor

Hunor and Magor

Hunor and Magor were, according to a famous Hungarian legend, the ancestors of the Huns and the Magyars. The myth was promoted by the medieval historian Simon Kézai in his Gesta Ungarorum . Kézai's aim in providing a common ancestry for the Huns and the Magyars was to suggest historical continuum...

is a part of the Hungarian folklore as well.

See also

• Bulgars
  Bulgars
  The Bulgars were a semi-nomadic who flourished in the Pontic Steppe and the Volga basin in the 7th century.The Bulgars emerge after the collapse of the Hunnic Empire in the 5th century....
  
  
• Huns
  Huns
  The Huns were a group of nomadic people who, appearing from east of the Volga River, migrated into Europe c. AD 370 and established the vast Hunnic Empire there. Since de Guignes linked them with the Xiongnu, who had been northern neighbours of China 300 years prior to the emergence of the Huns,...
  
  
• Khazars
  Khazars
  The Khazars were semi-nomadic Turkic people who established one of the largest polities of medieval Eurasia, with the capital of Atil and territory comprising much of modern-day European Russia, western Kazakhstan, eastern Ukraine, Azerbaijan, large portions of the northern Caucasus , parts of...
  
  
• Kutrigurs
  Kutrigurs
  The Kutrigurs , first mentioned in 539/540, were a horde of equestrian nomads later known as part of the Bulgars that inhabited the Eurasian plains during the Dark Ages. They came into existence when the Eurasian Avars conquered half of the Hunno-Bulgars, whilst the remaining group, who were free ...
  
  
• Utigurs
• Hungarian prehistory
  Hungarian prehistory
  Hungarian prehistory refers to the prehistoric Magyars, from the time when they separated from Common Ugric until their invasion of the Carpathian basin in the late 9th century...