alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>a) Place: He indicates Dacia Aureliana as the main place of Romance
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>population Mainly Moesia Superior with also some pockets of more or
>less Romanized populations in the North of Danube (Transylvania
>Plateau)
>
>Moesia Superior is a Dacian zone (see -dava distribution) so it make
>sense regarding the Romanian Substratum.
>
>The Proto-Albanian language could be closed to Daco-Moesian or with
>Illyrian : on both cases this have sense.
Cf. Diocesis Daciae" around AD 400
(according to the map by A.H.M. Jones, The Later Roman Empire 234-602.
Johns Hopkins, 1986):
South-West of today's Romania, most on today's
territory of Serbia and the westernmost aresas of
today's Bulgaria:
Diocesis Daciae consisted of:
- Moesia I
- Praevolitana
- Dardania
- Dacia mediterranea
- Dacia ripensis.
In the neighboring diocese, "Diocesis Thraciae", cf. esp.
Moesia II
i.e. the northern "belt" of today's Bulgaria (a.k.a.
"Tribalia")
and Scythia [Minor] (today: Dobrudja in Romania).
In addition, regions North of the Jirecek and Skok lines, i.e.,
northern areas of the dioceses "Diocesis Macedoniae" and
"Diocesis Thraciae".
Whole lotta territory for both emerging linguistic entities that
carry the relevant regional substrata; both within the Roman
administrative & linguistic frame -- as well as for several
centuries after the neighboring, north-Danubian Dacian
provinces had been abandoned by the military complex of
the Empire that retreated soth of the river (an Empire which
went on exerting its influence in the region for about 130
years after the germanic Hun Odowakar had ousted the
last caesar of the western Empire, i.e., of Rome).
George