 According to mainstream scholarly consensus , the Hungarians are not the autochthonous population of the Carpathian Basin . Their ancestors arrived there through a series of westward migrations across the Eurasian steppes around 894 , centuries after their departure from their original homeland located somewhere in the East . Many details of the Magyars ' prehistory – the location of their original homeland , the ancient Magyars ' connections with the Turkic peoples and the Khazar Khaganate , their lifestyle and political organization , and the background of their conquest of the Carpathian Basin – are still subject to scholarly debates . With regard of the connections between the Magyars and the Turkic tribes , archaeologist Gyula László mooted an alternative theory in the 1960s . According to his theory of the " double conquest " , a large group of people who spoke a Finno @-@ Ugrian language arrived in the Carpathian Basin in 670 , and a Turkic @-@ speaking people conquered the same territory in the late 9th century . László 's theory has never been widely accepted . 
