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I'm pretty sure that the Polabian Slavs (the Obotrites in particular) and the nucleus of Poland were never part of Greater Moravia, nor that Greater Moravia was ever Orthodox. Why is it then that the Cyrilic alphabet was adapted from the Greek alphabet (the basis was clearly medieval Greek...

That's completely ridiculous. There's not even 100 million people living in that region (the entire Mashriq, that is the Levante plus Mesopotamia, and I'm counting in Israel and the Palestinian territories). Even if Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Gaza and the West Bank were to completely empty...

The Eastern Slavs obviously also adopted eastern Christianity, but Bohemia and Poland did not adopt the Orthodox Church from the Byzantine Empire, instead they adopted western Catholicism. The same applies for the West Slavic peoples living along the Elbe, as well as the Croates and the...

I have a question, why do you only look at Old Church Slavic, Greek and Latin, and not at other Slavic languages (and English, which isn't a very good representative of theGermanic languages, due to its abundance of Romance loanwords), and other Indo-European branches? Because if you ignore that...

I said exactly the opposite: By that 'routine' I meant the US (or the West in general) propping up of despots like Saddam Hussein and Hosni Mubarak because they believed that was the lesser evil. Following the demise of Pan-Arabism, by denying the prospect of democracy, the West inadvertedly...

Radical Islam as we know and loathe it today didn't take 500 years to appear. Its a development of the past century (starting out with the carving up of the Ottoman Empire by the Entente powers). I never talked about what I prefer, I talked about what would likely have happened. I said what...

Seriously, where do you take that from? Without US involvement in Europe during World War II, the most likely thing that would have happened is that the iron curtain would have extended along the Channel coast, and all of Continental Europe would have fallen under communist rule. There was no...

Australia may be wealthy, but it is is also headed for environmental collapse due to desertification and mismanagement of the land. Having said this, Tony Abbot is behaving like a complete moron with the current situation. I find it absolutely hypocritical when leaders of immigrant nations are...

Stop comparing the situation of 'native' Europeans to that of the Native Americans after 1492. That comparison does not hold up, not even by a long stretch. The displaced people from the Near East are decisively not technologically superior criminals-turned-entrepeneurs with a nag for gold that...

What's next, DejaVu? You're taking the "Protocol of the Elders of Zion" for gospel? :banghead: If you want to criticize the state of Israel, fine, but stick to the facts and stop posting anti-semitic fantasy.

I'd like to say that a Late Neolithic origin for the Basques is very much compatible with the linguistic evidence: Proto-Basque was decisively not the language of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, and given that its an isolate language, the notion "Basques were recent (Bronze Age) immigrants"...

That's just your own declaration, and here, you're ignoring the evidence. I've mentioned before in this thread, both the Chernoles culture and the Milograd culture lend themselves as viable original Slavic "homelands", compatible with the linguistic evidence. No, what you're doing there is...

By the way Milan, you actually did exactly that, earlier in this thread, in post #124:

If you claim you're not Macedonian, could you tell us why your location does say that you're posting from Macedonia? :rolleyes2: Slavic languages are spoken by some 300 million native speakers. And that's not an invention of the 19th century. And, the migration period is decidedly not an...

Pardon, but I'm not dogmatic. I'm merely insisting on the scientific methods. First, the Anatolian hypothesis was originally forwarded by Colin Renfrew, and second, I would like to know how that hypothesis has anything to do with what I said? I'm talking about sound changes that occured in...

I mentioned earlier in this thread that Slavic "gord" (town, settlement) must be a Germanic loanword, by the phonetic evolution (see post #176). The word would derive from an earlier form *gard. You can compare it with Lithuanian "gardas" (fence, enclosure). If you compare that with related...

'Bright alans' is not only according to some, it is actually the generally accepted etymology: in Hindi "rausan", and in Persian "roushan", respectively, mean 'bright'. Here, the /o/ in the name "Roxolani" actually represented an earlier Indo-Iranic *au.

One signature feature of the Balto-Slavic languages is the merger of PIE *o > *a (something they actually share with the Germanic languages). Proto-Slavic, at a later point, shifted short *a (but not lot long *ā) to *o. The relative chronological order of these sound changes is important, but...

Before you condescend into paranoia about "Eurabia", I'd like to put you a bit into historic perspective: I find it more telling that for the past 1400-odd years, every historic Muslim polity and empire in the Middle East - from the Rashidun caliphs to the Ottoman Empire - and the polities that...

If anything is going to finish Europe, its hysteria, populism and creeping fascism (UKIP in the UK, Front National in France), not immigration. You're talking about human beings, not some kind of zombie apocalypse or a hostile force of "colonizers" that is out to take away your land. I find...