Re: The Vlach Connection

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From: "george knysh" <gknysh@...>
Subject: Re: [tied] The Vlach Connection
> --- alexandru_mg3 <alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > "The Vlach Connection" - is the best 'theory'
> > that I could find
> > until now related to the "Origin of Romanians" (the
> > parallelism with
> > the Britain situation is extraordinary ...)
> > Please read it, is really great:
> > http://www.friesian.com/decdenc2.htm
> > Only the Bests,
> > Marius Alexandru
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Try to read Alexandru Madgearu's "Continuitate si dicontinuitate culturala
la Dunarea de Jos in sec. VII-VIII", 255 pg, Editura Universitatii din
Bucuresti, Bucuresti, 1997.

> *****GK: What's "great" about it? It starts out with a
> falsified linguistic map of Moldova (where are the
> Gagauz? Where are the numerous Ukrainian and Russian
> enclaves?) and of southern Odesa Province.
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Where they should be; ON the map ! The gagauz are listed as bulgarians. The
map is quite accurate from THIS perspective. Anyhow, the gagauzi were
colonized in today Moldova Republic only at the end of XVIII century [see
http://www.jmu.edu/orgs/wrni/gagauzia25.htm ].

> Eventually,
> it provides this ["Hidden from history, like other
> Dark Age migrations, the Roman evacuees from Dacia
> could well have, in returning, provided the additional
> impetus of Latinization that erased the vestiges of
> the ancient Dacian language. Nor need this have been
> an all-at-once process"] as its key argument for the
> mass presence of Romanians north of the Danube long
> before the 12th century. The problem here is that what
> is "hidden from history" is also hidden from
> archaeology. There is no evidence of a mass or
> continuous influx of carriers of the material culture
> of the Roman Dacias northward after 602 AD.
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It is very difficult to give "ethnicity" to archeological findings. More, we
should make difference between cultural continuity / ethnical continuity /
inhabiting continuity.
If we know who the Ciurel culture bearers were, we quite do not know for
sure who the bearers of the Dridu culture were. Where they only slavs? Or
only bulgarians? Or only (proto)romanians? Or a mixture?

Best Regards,
S o r i n