--- alex <
alxmoeller@...> wrote:
We know
> about the Goths which are supposed to have been the
> first who somehow
> forced the Slavs to move and the Huns which made
> almost everyfolk to
> move with them. The assumption that the Goths and
> after this the Huns
> have been the folks which trough their presence (or
> more as simply
> presence) obliged the Slavs to move I found first in
> the work of Th.
> Mommsen about the Roman Empire if I remember well
> and it seemed reliable
> to me.
*****GK Actually Alex, there were mini-movements of
(probable) Proto-Slavs caused by the Sarmatians in the
1rst c. and by Goths in the 4th c.(a relatively small
scale retrenchment towards the north in both cases)
This has been archaeologically verified. But I doubt
if that is what you had in mind. The huge expansion of
Slavdom which began in the later 5th c. was due
neither to Goths nor to Huns. We talk about migration,
but perhaps the just mentioned "expansion" is a better
word, since Slavs continued to hold the areas whence
they "expanded". Perhaps a similar scenario would work
for the Romanians, viz., expansion rather than
"migration" (except for those actually involved in the
move). BTW Mommsen has been quite superseded by a host
of 20th c. investigators.******
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