I think I have *finally* located Ezero, at least
within a few km. It's on the Hebrus/Evros, up on the branch that becomes
the Tundzha in Bulgaria. The nearest town on my National Geographic Atlas map
would seem to be Yambol. Karanovo is just a bit to the west of it.
Ezero, of course, is usually cited as the site of
the earliest Bronze Age in Europe (ca 3200 BCE), and is most likely source for
the Troad's Bronze Age culture. Having located Ezero, it's no problem whatsoever
to see how this would be. It's just down the river to the Aegean, and thence
east. It is presumably the route Anatolic took into Anatolia. Yes, I see, I
really see how it likely happened.
Incidentally, as a guess, I presume that 'ezero'
is the Bulgarian word for 'lake', 'lagoon', or the some such, and that the word
also appears to be the word for lake in Romanian too, in the form 'ozero'. There
are ozeros in the far southwestern corner of Ukraine, between the Dnister
and the Danube.
The way river names change their names,
country-to-country, and era-to-era makes for a great deal of confusion.
Mark .