Quote Originally Posted by Dunai View Post
Even in this study it appears that the Hungarian elite had a very heterogeneous origin, reaching from almost all the two West-East extremes of Eurasia. Of course an autosomal study would finally paint a more realistic picture, from where exactly they were from in Eurasia, but until then it can be speculated that a Central Asian or even East Asian warrior population has conquered the Uralic-Scythian Old Hungarians, and together they moved into the Carpathian Basin, where this Turkic elite (possibly already Hungarianized) still lived separated from the regular Hungarians a few decades, until the tribal society was mostly abandoned, and the kingdom was established.
Mixed Turkic founding populations mixing with Uralic populations during movement west, as I have said for years. By the time the Kingdom was established the mixing had been completed for centuries.