Maternal Genetic Ancestry and Legacy of 10th Century AD Hungarians

The ancient Hungarians originated from the Ural region in todays central Russia and migrated across the Eastern European steppe, according to historical sources. The Hungarians conquered the Carpathian Basin 895-907 AD, and admixed with the indigenous communities.\n\nHere we present mitochondrial DNA results from three datasets: one from the Avar period (7th -9th centuries) of the Carpathian Basin (n = 31); one from the Hungarian conquest-period (n=76); and a completion of the published 10th-12th century Hungarian-Slavic contact zone dataset by four samples. We compare these mitochondrial DNA hypervariable segment sequences and haplogroup results with published ancient and modern Eurasian da