Abstract
The dominant opinion among Hungarian historians is that the ancestors of Subcarpathian Rusins could not appear in their modern homeland before Hungarians and the tribes that joined them acquired their homeland in the Middle Danube. Even the information provided by the medieval chroniclers, suggesting the opposite, is interpreted as the negligence of the latter. However, the archaeological data indicate the Eastern Slavs expansion in the 8th – 9th centuries not only in the basin of the Upper Tisza, but also in more southern areas up to the borders of medieval Transylvania. They could get there by the will of the Avar Khagans. The Western area of the settlement of “Ruthenians” extended to the Danube bight and, possibly, to Lake Balaton, where the toponym “Tihany”, presumably of East Slavic origin, is preserved.
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