Name of Hungary

Hungary, the name in English for the European country, is an exonym derived from the Medieval Latin Hungaria. The Latin name itself derives from the ethnonyms (H)ungarī, Ungrī, and Ugrī for the steppe people that conquered the land today known as Hungary in the 9th and 10th centuries. Medieval authors called the country Ungaria and later Hungaria, but the Hungarians even today call themselves Magyars and their homeland Magyarország.

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