Re: Your historical timeline

From: tgpedersen
Message: 35243
Date: 2004-12-02

>
> This seems a logic argument : Romans kept the old toponimy (this
is
> true) but to built a New city near Skodra naming it with '-dava'
> seems unprobable.
>

Counterexample: Juli-acum > Jülich from Julius and the Celtic
toponymic suffix -acum. So in this case the Romans followed local
custom in naming. And there are more examples.


Torsten