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Romanians probably occupied larger territory than that one. also Roman legions were indeed situated in Dacia,and most of the time on the Danubian limes,since that was the borders.

My point is not that this words are Dacian,neither i care for his opinion but there in the paper is Orel's dictionary which is cited by him about common lexic between Romanian and Albanian which I guess should be adressed.

What there should be mention is great many words of Romanian substrate are shared with Albanian. Common Lexic in Romanian and Albanian. Substrate and Loanwords. http://www.academia.edu/5766282/Common_Lexic_in_Romanian_and_Albanian._Substrate_and_Loanwords

This is a scheme of Berstein and Trubachev between the connection of Balto-Slavic languages,you can see South-Slavic resp for Slovenian,Serb-Croat,Bulgarian and Macedonian more closer to Baltic.While Baltic neighbors like Polish,other west Slavs much further,east Slavic dialects still bit...

If you don't understand the question let me simplified it to you.Where the language that become known as Baltic was spoken? Because there is isoglosses shared only between Baltic and South-Slavic,which suggest the two dialects had contacts among them.

I think that major question to me is where proto-Baltic was spoken,because almost certainly it wasn't where it is in present day. Because there is many isoglosses shared only between Baltic and South-Slavic,which suggest close interaction between this two dialects. I have read for example about...

I have seen this,well for stirrups is thought to have came to Europe with Avars,6th century,no archeological proof for before that,and yet some members were speculating that IE from the steppe were grabbing woman on their horseback of other cultures,let alone the stability on the horse without...

I think this map is largely based on previous linguists in the field,for example the division of "Illyrian" into two groups from Radoslav Katicic Dalmatian-Pannonian and Illyrian proper.Paeonian seem very much close to Thracian.Moesian or Daco-Moesian was Georgiev dialect grouping i guess who...

I do not see English translations from this,however is a good thread to discuss.

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Eunuchs were common thing if that is your point,yes.And i do not deny that. However Eunuch job was very much different from that of the either soldier or administrator. You quoted for the Janissaries,they weren't castrated but "forbidden" to marry.Janissaries were initially forbidden from...

How do you know that they were eunuchs? Being a soldier or administrator doesn't automaticaly mean eunuch,in reality many of the slave kids taken in the Otoman empire from the Balkans for example came to be grand viziers and married the sisters of the sultan himself,they were no eunuchs being...

However i do not think that Saqaliba would had big impact on the population in Sicily,we are not talking about waste land here but already settled area. Or otherwise i don't understand the history of the region,maybe genetics can tell us something but i don't see Slavic Y-dna there for example?

Saqaliba were not only eunuchs in reality The Saqāliba occupied various functions: servants, eunuchs , craftsmen, soldiers and even guards of the caliph. The Byzantine chronicler Theophanes mentions that in the 660s, the Umayyad caliph Muawiya I er established in Syria an army of 5,000 Slav...

There was a quarter in Palermo called Harat as Saqaliba,the other four were Al Qasr , Al-Khalisa , Harat al-Masjid , where the so-called SaqālibaSon Mosque ( Masjid Ibn Siqlab ) was located, and Harat-al-Gadidah , the Jewish quarter also known as Harat al-Yahud. ("Jewish Quarter"). The Harat...

On the map you presented i see a lot of diversity in Ukraine,Romania and Hungary too for example.

And how we can know who brought the language if there was both steppe and Iran_Neo let's say in similar percentage?

Doesn't need to be related to Armenian to come from that area,there was many other Anatolian languages,Iranic languages for example. Albanian at least to me seem connected to Germanic and Balto-Slavic the most,but this could be later influence maybe? Also i was discussing other possibilities not...

I have been saying this for years even without genetic evidence that Greek arrived from near Armenian teritory through Anatolia,even thought all were denying this. I am on same opinion even for Albanian now,the southern route Iran_Neo took to Italy maybe the sister language like Messapic.

Albanians represented as Kosovars behind them are Macedonians,Bulgarians and Romanians with similar ancestry.If i follow the later they have more Daco-Thracian ancestry,one Thracian sample was very EEF like,for comparison "Illyrian" sample from Croatia had 30% steppe ancestry and 15% EHG. Maybe...