"Szkítia három tartománya"

The earliest sources are the chronicles written and composed in the 13th-14th centuries which contain the autenthic origin-myth of the Hungarians. The myth of the miracle stag appoints the mythical space of ethnogenesis in the Eastern European steppe: this space can be located on the north-eastern region of the Black Sea and the northwestern foreground of Caucasus. After the myth and location of Scythia there can be found an enigmatic description. „In fact the Scythian realm has a single border, but administratively it is divided into three kingdoms, namely Bascardia, Denria and Magoria." Comparing this with the Gesta Hungarorum written by Anonymous Notary of King Bela there can be read another tradition: Scythia equal with Dentumoger. Was the name Dentumoger composed from Dencia and Magoria with omission of Bascardia or Dentumoger was divided into Denria and Magoria and later completed with Bascardia? In the first case the chronicles are keeping the real ancient tradition, otherwise the Anonymous Notary's version could be the original one. Although his Gesta Hungarorum was written earlier (ca. 1210) than the chronicles, but the texts from the 13th— 14th centuries are containing gestas or chronicles from the 11th—12th centuries, too. Thus we can not be sure when got the elements of the oral tradition into the historiography. The first opinion which states the primordiality of the chronicles with „Bascardia—Dencia—Magoria" tradition was represented by count Géza Kuun. On the contrary Zoltán Gombocz asserted that Dentumoger has priority and Bascardia was inserted into the Hungarian chronicles only after those geographical discoveries which defined Ungaria Magna (Elder Hungary of the Volga-region) as Baskiria. In fact, before the 1240s there were three land which can be called Hungary. On the one hand the Central European Hungarian Kingdom of course, but on the other hand two eastern Hungaries: the first one in the Caucasian region, the other one is alongside the River Volga called Ungaria Magna and it was found by predicant friar Julian in 1236. Later it was identified as Baskiria by Franciscan friars, but the idea of Hungarian—Baskirian identification appeared in the works of Muslim authors much more earlier: first by Al-Istakhri in the first part of the 10th century. It is remarkable that Abu-Hamid al-Garnati who lived in the Central European Hungarian Kingdom between 1150-1153 regarded its king and nation as Basltir. All of these circumstances make problable that count Géza Kuun has right and therefore in the „three kingdoms of Sythia" can be revealed the original tradition