Re: Early Croatian names

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

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> --- On Wed, 6/18/08, Abdullah Konushevci <akonushevci@...> wrote:
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> By the way, close to Athens exists Albanian village Harvati, also in
> Prespa lake exists also Harvati. No one knows how they are founded.
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> ****GK: Perhaps they were founded by migrants "from Croatia", either

Albanian, or subsequently Albanized. There are a couple of areas in
Ukraine called "Pechenihy" (et sim.) The favourite theory is that they
might have been originally settled by Pechenegs (there are records of
such settlements, in general, in the chronicles, dating back to the
11th and 12th centuries). No Pechenegs live there today.****

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It could be true, but, unfortunately, I have no evidence when they are
historically attested. It will be easy if we will have some chronicles.

Konushevci