>Well, I don't believe in the Daco-Roman continuity story, and
>I think that Romanian (i.e. the Romance dialect cluster
>including Daco-Romanian, Istro-Romanian, Megleno-Romanian and
>Aromanian) developed South of the Danube, i.e. somewhere either
>in Illyria or in Thracia. The fact that Romanian is a Romance
>language, and that it shares a substrate with Albanian, both
>point to Illyria rather than Thrace
>
>Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
How about Gottfried Schramm's theory that Albanians are
in fact Bessi (sort of South-Danubian Dacians)?
http://www.mgh.de/da/rezensionen/band51.1/0166.html
Gottfried Schramm, Anfänge des albanischen Christentums. Die
frühe Bekehrung der Bessen und ihre langen Folgen (Rombach
Wissenschaft: Reihe Historiae 4) Freiburg im Breisgau
1994, Rombach Verlag, 270 S.; ISBN 3-7930-9083-3
["The Early Conversion of the Bessi and its long-term
consequences."]
What if Albanians and Romanians are continuators of the same
initial local population (cum immigrated waves from across
the Danube), both groups presenting different stages of
the adopted Latina Vulgata? (According to various authors and
interpretes, the Dacian language family also had a quite "belt"
South of the Danube, in today's Bulgaria, as well as an even
larger territory in neighboring Serbia way into today's Bosnia
and Kosovo. So, we may recommend one another <<Go figure!>>.
Plenty of territory extra Daciam Felicem, namely in Dacia
ripensis, Dacia mediterranea, Moesia Superior and Dardania. :-))
George