Hungarian prehistory#Etelk.C3.B6z

Etelköz (also Atelkuzu, Hungarian for " land between the rivers " ) refers to the last home of the Magyars ( Hungarians ) shortly before and probably even after their migration into the Carpathian Basin, about the middle of the 9th century to around 895, from the the Magyars by the Bulgarians under Tsar Simeon I - allied with the Pechenegs - have been displaced.

The name apparently dates back to the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII, who called 950 this residential area of ​​the Magyars as " Mesopotamia ". The exact location of Etelköz is still controversial. Since the colonization of Etelköz but marks the penultimate stage in the westward migration of the Magyars, the area in question is likely to have the northwest of the Black Sea and east of the Carpathians.

The nomadic lifestyle of the Magyars as a large cattle -holding horse people suggests also to focus on the localization of Etelköz on the steppe region. Taken together with the name itself, it appeared that at least Etelköz east by the Volga ( Old Turkish Etil ), but can be rather limited at least by the lower course of the Danube within the meaning of the Hungarian tradition through the lower reaches of the Don, to the west. Therefore, it may be roughly stated that Etelköz is to locate in the area of ​​southern Ukraine, Moldova or possibly also in the northeastern Romania.

In the Hungarian literature Etelköz was sometimes exaggerated romantic as the "land of happiness ".