Hungarian Turanism

Hungarian Turanism (Hungarian: Turánizmus or Turanizmus) is a diverse phenomenon that revolves around an identification or association of Hungarian history and people with the histories and peoples of Central Asia, Inner Asia or the Ural region.

It includes many different conceptions and served as a guiding principle for many political movements. It was most lively in the second half of the 19th century and in the first half of the 20th century. It is related to the concept of Turanism.

Before the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin, the Hungarians were semi-nomadic and their culture was similar to other steppe peoples. Most scientists presume a Uralic homeland for the ancient Hungarian conquerors (mainly on genealogical linguistic grounds, and on the basis of limited genetic research carried out on a very limited number of ancient skeletons found in graves from the age of the conquest). The proto-Hungarian tribes lived in the Eurasian forest steppe zone, and so these ancient ancestors of Hungarians and their relationship with other equestrian nomadic peoples has been and still is a topic for research.

In Hungarian mythology, Hungarian Turanism has been based on an ancient, and still living tradition (the legend of Hunor and Magor, the mythical forefathers of the Hungarian nation, or the legend about the Turul, a mythical bird of prey, and a frequently used heraldic beast). In Hungarian tradition the royal house of the Huns and subsequently Hungarians bears the name of the Turul clan (original Latin: genere Turul).

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