>"As for Dacia, we may take it for granted that after the
>third century it was almost completely cut off from the
>rest of the Roman world; no further linguistic wave
>was to reach it." This is, of course, due to the withdrawal
>of the Romans in AD 271.
What these authors do/did not insist upon (although
they know/knew and agree with it) is that the ancestors
of the Romanian people also lived in other provinces
in the area between the Adriatic, Egean and Black Sea,
incl. in the other two Dacias, Dacia mediterranea,
Dacia ripensis, Moesia Superior, Moesia inferior.
Namely after AD 271 way until the beginning of the...
"dark ages" introduced by the Avar catastrophy (let's
take the "magic" year 614 :) in what had remained of
the Roman empire (its eastern part).
Afterwards, indeed, sort of a splendid isolation,
regarding the linguistic exchanges with the rest of
the Romance world.
>Peter
George