HUNGARIAN (MAGYAR) FEATURES OF THE FUNERARY RITE OF MEDIEVAL BURIAL GROUNDS OF THE CIS-URALS

Abstract

The article considers the statistical features of the burial rite practiced by the Hungarians in the period of Arpad’s rule and the burial grounds of the Perm Cis-Urals dating back to the same period. The authors reveal the similarity of the primary features of the funerary rite and specifi c material culture. It is concluded that the “Eastern” Magyars (Hungarians) not involved in the Westward migration were present in the Perm Cis-Urals in the 10th - early 11th centuries. The materials of the Cis-Urals burial grounds contain rather prominent “Magyar” traits characteristic of Hungarian burial grounds of the Arpads period. This suggests that a part of the Magyars who did not leave in 884 together with tribes of the seven elders, remained in the Urals throughout the 10th-11th centuries, including not only the partial territory of the contemporary Tatarstan and Bashkiria, but also the territory of Perm Krai, also forming a part of Magna Hungaria lands.