Editing Hungary (section)

== Etymology ==
{{Main|Name of Hungary}}
The "H" in the name of Hungary is most likely derived from historical associations with the [[Huns]], who had settled Hungary prior to the [[Pannonian Avars|Avars]].{{Citation needed|date=January 2024}} The rest of the word comes from the Latinised form of [[Medieval Greek|Byzantine Greek]] {{lang|grc-latn|Oungroi}} ({{lang|grc-Grek|Οὔγγροι|italic=no}}). The Greek name might be borrowed from [[Old Church Slavonic|Old Slavonic]] {{lang|cu-latn|ągrinŭ}}, in turn borrowed from [[Oghuric languages|Oghur-Turkic]] ''[[Onogurs|Onogur]]'' ('ten [tribes of the] Ogurs').<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Benjamin Golden|first=Peter|date=2011|title=Studies on the Peoples and Cultures of the Eurasian Steppes|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281319966|journal=Editura Academiei Române|pages=23}}</ref> ''[[Onogurs|Onogur]]'' was the collective name for the tribes who later joined the [[Bulgars|Bulgar]] tribal confederacy that ruled the eastern parts of Hungary after the Avars.<ref name="Király">{{cite book|last=Király|first=Péter|title=A magyarok elnevezése a korai európai forrásokban ''(The Names of the Magyars in Early European Sources)'' /In: Honfoglalás és nyelvészet ("The Occupation of Our county" and Linguistics)/|publisher=Balassi Kiadó|date=1997|location=Budapest|url=http://webshop.animare.hu/honfoglalas+es+nyelveszet+83813.html|isbn=978-963-506-108-2|page=266|access-date=7 October 2015|archive-date=13 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413130130/http://webshop.animare.hu/honfoglalas+es+nyelveszet+83813.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=A History of Hungary|editor=Peter F. Sugar|publisher=Indiana University Press|date=22 November 1990|isbn=978-0-253-20867-5|page=9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SKwmGQCT0MAC&pg=PA9}}</ref> [[Peter Benjamin Golden|Peter B. Golden]] also considers the suggestion of Árpád Berta that the name derives from [[Khazar language|Khazar Turkic]] {{lang|zkz-latn|ongar}} (oŋ "right", oŋar- "to make something better, to put (it) right", oŋgar- "to make something better, to put (it) right", oŋaru "towards the right") "right wing". This points to the idea that the Magyar Union before the Conquest formed the "right wing" (= western wing) of the [[Khazars|Khazar]] military forces.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Berta|first=Árpad|title=Die chasarische Benennung der Ungarn}}</ref>

The Hungarian [[Endonym and exonym|endonym]] is {{Lang|hu|Magyarország}}, composed of {{lang|hu|magyar}} ('Hungarian') and {{lang|hu|ország}} ('country'). The name "Magyar", which refers to the people of the country, more accurately reflects the name of the country in some other languages such as [[Turkish language|Turkish]], [[Persian language|Persian]] and other languages as ''Magyaristan'' or ''Land of Magyars'' or similar. The word ''magyar'' is taken from the name of the leading tribe name of the seven major semi-nomadic Hungarian tribes.<ref>György Balázs, Károly Szelényi, [https://books.google.com/books?id=4NlnAAAAMAAJ The Magyars: the birth of a European nation], Corvina, 1989, p. 8</ref><ref>Alan W. Ertl, [https://books.google.com/books?id=X9PGRaZt-zcC&pg=PA358 Toward an Understanding of Europe: A Political Economic Précis of Continental Integration], Universal-Publishers, 2008, p. 358</ref><ref>Z. J. Kosztolnyik, [https://books.google.com/books?id=NPBnAAAAMAAJ Hungary under the early Árpáds: 890s to 1063], Eastern European Monographs, 2002, p. 3</ref>