Re: [tied] Does Koenraad Elst Meet Hock´s Challenge?

> It's hard to tell which route would have been the most likely one
>for Out-of-India migrants to have taken, once they had crossed the
>obvious Khyber pass. I'm aware of only one historical precedent,
>the migration of the Gypsies out of North-Western India into Iran,
> Mesopotamia and then coming to Europe in two waves: one through
> Anatolian into the Balkans, the other through Egypt and North
>Africa to Spain. So the only known historical precedent took a
>wholly different route.

> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal

Miguel, it's not an issue in this thread, but I'm interested. What
indicates the Spanish Gitanos came by the African route rather than
being just the southwestern branch of the European dispersion?

Dan Milton