From: alexmoeller@...
Message: 15245
Date: 2002-09-07
----- Original Message -----
From: "george knysh" <gknysh@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Toponymy and ethnic Realities at the Lower
Danube by Brezeanu Stelian
>
> --- alexmoeller@... wrote:
> > Toponymy and ethnic Realities at the Lower Danube
> >
> > in the 10th Century.
> >
> > "The deserted Cities" in the Constantine
> > Porphyrogenitus'
> > De administrando imperio
> >
> >
> > Stelian Brezeanu,
> >
> > University of Bucharest
> >
> ******GK: In my view, these "ruined cities" were not
> located along the Dnister, but on the Lower Dnipro (as
> indicated in other manuscripts of DAI cited in the
> Jenkins apparatus). The whole area was known as the
> "Bi(e)loberezhya" (the "white shore") in the time of
> Constantine VII and Svyatoslav. They were in fact the
> remnants of the cities of Scythia (later also known as
> the "Ulch grads" since they were controlled by the
> Ulch Huns in the 5th-6th cs.) Brezeanu's article may
> have interesting contributions as to other things, but
> I believe that he is off the mark entirely with
> respect to the geographical issue.******
>
[Moelelr] hei, you read very quick. I need some longer to read
the whole article. But this should be maybe because my
english:-)