Buckles, belt mounts, and other objects of the so-called "Subotcy horizon", which were unearthed at Caterinovca, Slobozia, and other sites along the middle course of the Dniester show similarities with archaeological finds from the 10th-century Carpathian Basin.
The Continuation of the Chronicle by Friar George, which was written in the middle of the , recorded the first historical event - an alliance between the Magyars and the Bulgarians in the late 830s - that can without doubt be connected to the Magyars.