 The earliest Hungarian chronicles adopted the idea that the Huns and Hungarians were closely related . Anonymus did not mention the Huns , but he referred to Attila the Hun as a ruler " from whose line Prince Álmos " , the supreme head of the Magyar tribes , descended . However , Simon of Kéza explicitly identified the Huns and the Hungarians in the 1280 . He started his chronicle with a book of the history of the Huns , thus presenting the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin as the reoccupation of a land inherited from their ancestors . Thereafter the identification of the two peoples was the basic theory of the origins of the Hungarians for centuries . 
