Proto-Lovásic Tribes Move into the Podravian Midlands

Population Migration / Travel

Expansion of the Mascotic Marshlands around 2,200 BCS caused the ancestors of the Lovasnép to migrate into the Podravian Midlands from the southwest.

Dramatic climate change around 2,200 BCS caused rapid expansion of the vast marshlands to the south of Podravia, resulting in massive migrations through the area. It was at this time that the ancestors of the Lovasnép moved into the region from the southeast. No scholarly consensus has emerged as to the original homeland of these proto-Lovasic people.   Despite the controversy concerning their genesis, there is near universal agreement that by 2,000 BCS the proto-Lovasnép were well established in settled communities among their more nomadic neighbors along the west bank of the Suprat River. They cultivated millet, wheat and other crops, brewed beer and bred animals – especially horses, cattle, goats and pigs, and over time became known as the Lovobas f’Olyokyözött (“Riders between the Rivers”)