Re: [tied] Piotr..your thoughts on....?

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
wrote:

> "Exactly how" is anyone's guess, but if the
> historical cradle of the
> Albanians was in the highland areas of what are now
> Kosovo and northern
> Macedonia, their language may well derive from that
> of Dacian colonists and
> evacuees on the right bank of the Danube, in Moesia
> Superior. There might
> have been other contributions: for example, the
> Carpi, according to
> Jordanes, raided Moesia as allies of the Goths in
> the third century.

*****GK: Ammianus Marcellinus further tells us that
the Carpi were settled in Pannonia by Diocletian
(28.1.5: Carporum, quos antiquis excitos sedibus
Diocletianus transtulit in Pannoniam). This event is
dated 295 AD. The later fate of these Carpi is not
recorded. Pannonia was subjected to much "barbarian"
depredation in the later 4th and in the 5th centuries.
An Ossetian-like scenario (a "head for the hills"
superimposition of "Dacian" colonists upon Illyrian
locals) is entirely possible if speculative.*****

But all

> that is highly speculative. The safest bet is that
> the slightly Romanised
> Moesian Dacians = Proto-Albanians.
>
> Piotr
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