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Yeah, from what I remember, Giannopoulos mentions (among others) the theory of a potential connection of proto-Greek with Cetina, one of the post-Vucedol cultures, but also brings up that it might be hard to make it account for the known historical spread of Greek considering it seems to affect...

Yep, that's indeed true, there have been Mycenaean findings in southern Epirus and Pieria (southern Macedonia) to my knowledge but both areas (and even parts of Thessaly) seem to have been rather peripheral to the Mycenaean world itself. The exact relationship isn't certain but there certainly...

I think the map Yetos posted was based on Georgiev's view that pre-Greek toponyms (the ss/nth type of stuff, and others) start to dramatically dwindle beyond a certain line that roughly runs from central Thessaly to Aetolia and instead various toponyms he thought could be explained as rather...

As you wrote above, I think much of the apparent misunderstanding in this thread stems from you and Yetos using "Hellenes" to specifically refer to the identity that emerged from perhaps a tribe in Thessaly to slowly encompass the whole Greek-speaking world and this being misunderstood as...

Very interesting. Some of the answers in the more detailed article seem to point towards that. Only a couple of countries seem to rate 'personal faith' as more important of a reason than 'tradition etc.'. I'm a bit surprised by the apparent importance of Orthodoxy and religious morality in...