Anthony Endrey (Excerpts) The ancestors of the Hungarians were a Turanian people who probably lived in the area between the Tigris River and the Zagros mountains, known as Subartu in ancient times, during the fourth and third millennia BC. Their settlements may also have extended to the mountainous region of Upper Mesopotamia during this period. The Hungarian language is a distant relative of the Finno-Ugrian and Turkic languages but not