Re: [tied] Re: Your historical timeline

george knysh wrote:

>> Thermidava.
>
> ****GK: I merely suggested that there was no way of
> proving when exactly and under what circumstances this
> city was founded. One may argue for just about any
> period prior to 130 AD. My real point was that one
> city, no matter when founded, was hardly sufficient
> evidence to bolster Marius' contention about the
> pre-Roman nature of certain Albanian linguistic
> traits.****

Thermidava could have been build at last in the time of Burebista, I will
say. A later time seems imposible due the Roman occupation of the region.
The linguistic trait is of another nature. The Romanian equivalences to
Albanian are pre-roman and for that the testimony are the Romanian phonetic
aspect of the words compared with the phonetic aspect of the Roman Loans in
Albanian. Marius -I guess- tried to make a scenario for explaining the
presence of Dacian words in Albanian due the _known_ getic migration BC. A
later migration in AC-time is not known, just supposed by some
scenario-builders.

Alex