From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 26869
Date: 2003-11-04
----- Original Message -----
From: "Miguel Carrasquer" <mcv@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Albanian names (2) -> Besa, Besiana (Iulia Bessa -
Personal Name)
> On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 20:26:31 +0000, alexandru_mg3
<alexandru_mg3@...>
> wrote:
> > 1. We have attested female names in today Albania : Besa
> > 2. We also have an Albanian word : besa
> > 3. We also have an attested female name (inscription) at Ulpia
> >Traiana Sarmizegetusa in Dacian time : Iulia Bessa...
> > 4. We have a Thracian (Dacian) tribe named Bessi that lived in
> >the time of Iulia Bessa, along the Danube River.
> >
> > These are 4 Facts (not interpretations)...and I hope you will not
> >start to deny facts...
> There's also:
>
> 5. New York City, 1935: George Gershwin writes "Porgy and Bess"
6. Much closer to Dacia, there's also Bessarabia (connected neither with the
Bessi nor with the Arabs). Similarities are of course facts, but since such
"facts" come a dime a dozen and are easily generated by chance, they don't
add up to probative evidence.
Piotr