Recent research has tended to show that while the Huns are not the same as the Hungarians, the Huns and Magyars both came from Central Asia, the former in the fourth and fifth centuries, the latter in the tenth.
雖然近代愈來愈多的研究顯示，匈奴人「不等於」匈牙利人，只是匈奴、馬札爾二個民族都是由中亞而來，不過一個在西元四、五世紀，一個在第十世紀。