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Géza Szabó

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Variations on continuity in light of the graphemes of Regöly

Hivatkozás

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.53644/MKI.OAW.2022.127

Absztrakt

When examining continuity in the Carpathian Basin, it is particularly justified to highlight the line of the Iranian ethnic groups, especially as the names of Hungary’s largest rivers may be attributed to them; we can follow the continuity of some of the geographical names from the Iron Age. Continuity prevailed not so much in the territorial or ethnic sense, but mainly through the presence of common traditions, ethnic bases or elements of civilisation, i.e. in the frames of cultural continuity. In the background, there are peoples with
Iranian roots coming from virtually the same cultural sphere – mostly from similar ethnic groups which were not necessarily genetically related – breaking away in recurring waves and settling in the Carpathian Basin and in other parts of Europe at various times. The results of modern genetic, linguistic and other analyses are frequently conflicted due to the traditional approach built on local ethnic continuity and to the continuous cultural and often ethnic over-layering. It will be possible to interpret these analyses more accurately, adjusted to their higher resolution of information, if we take into consideration that the survival of the same ethnicity is not absolutely necessary in a specific territory for the
continuous presence of certain cultural elements and if we also take account of the new waves of settlers coming from the same culture.

Kulcsszavak

Pannons, graphemes, cultural continuity, Iranian effects, Rovash scripts