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Theophylact Simocatta (Greek: Θεοφύλακτος Σιμοκάτ(τ)ης – Theophylaktos Simokat(t)es) was an early seventh-century Byzantine historiographer, arguably ranking as the last historian of Late Antiquity, writing in the time of Heraclius (c 630) about the late Emperor Maurice (582–602) he was calling...

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I read some article on Balto-South Slavic isoglosses and they came to conclusions that "proto" South Slavic speakers were "neighbours" with Baltic languages.Which Slavic language today has the most common words with Baltic languages?but this could be later interactions.

I don't missquote anyone here,my only words are "place names that are or could be connected to Slavs" that's again hypothetic sentence,everything else is authors work,don't twist words please,actualy it has been noted that a uniform Slavic language community could not have been possibly...

Ancient Rituals- Mat Zemlya Some work of Constantine L. Borissof. The cult of the ‘Great Mother (Goddess)’ taking its beginning in the Palaeolithic times. Central and Eastern Europe was the area of the oldest ‘Great Mother’ figurines bearing explicit fertility connotations. One can see here a...

Antonio Sciarretta's Ancient Toponymy The late place-names of probable Latin origin have not been included. The IE roots are in the form given by Pokorny's Indogermanische Wörterbuch. Place names that are or could be connected with Slavs. Upper Pannonia Celemantia Place: Leanyvar of Iz^a...

From where you have this?in my opinion if Balto-Slavic ever formed single language they were in places roughly they occupy today,Slavic as more innovative had contacts with more languages and replaced the archaic Balto-Slavic,no major migration were happening to perhaps explain this.one of...

Who conquered who and when which period?

That does not mean that Slavic evolved in the Balkans,but rather mean that no Slavs came from North to South in the 7th century,or the cultures Milograd,Chernoles,I haven't claim any of those to be Slavs,we know what a Slav mean,we were comparing words and cognates,thus neither Phyrgian or...

Ancient Rituals Dodola Dodola (also spelled Doda, Dudulya and Didilya, pronounced: doh-doh-la, doo-doo-lya, or dee-dee-lya), Perperuna or Preperuša is a pagan tradition found in the Balkans and among Slavs. A girl, wearing a skirt made of fresh green knitted vines and small branches, sings...

Yes indeed i post,you haven't read the conclusion,this wasn't Balkans but Illyricum,it is within Balkan peninsula,but Balkans is much wider area,none said that Slavic "evolved" within "Roman empire" that's your words over again,I had a post for the Balkanic sprachbund and the diffusion of the...

^All this are "pre Latin" i.e pre Roman conquest

Couldn't find some from Moesia any suggestions?

Antonio Sciarretta's Toponymy Ancient Toponyms Last modified: September 25, 2010 Illyricum Contents The Roman province of Illyricum was bounded by the Ras^a river (toward Venetia), the river Drin (toward Macedonia), and the Adriatic sea. Toward Pannonia and Moesia in the interior the...

Jordanes didn't had to say much about them,he was dealing with Sklavenoi.

Which Celts and Illyrians in 7th-9th century?

We determine one language faith because of Latin influence,didn't knew this,and you must mean the area of Dalmatia instead of Croatia proper.OCS has arround 150 Greek loanwords and loanwords from the extinct Dalmatian Latin,Why don't you explain other posts,about isoglosses and various other...

"It is now generally agreed that the people who lived in the Balkans after the Slavic "invasions" were probably for the most part the same as those who had lived there earlier, although the creation of new political groups and arrival of small immigrants caused people to look at themselves as...

Map of Constantine the Great empire,What kind of evidence you have which languages was spoken within the empire?apart from Latin being adminstrative,do you have any mention of Albanian for instance or the Vlachs,was from that period any Thracian,Illyrian inscription,couple times i wrote Slavic...

First dating "We are Slavs" is from 12th century Russian chronicles,but that was more like claiming ancestry,term Sloven,Slavjan in Slavic sense mean speaker of Slavic,but not in ethnic sense only speaker of my tongue,well how could they be pirates and harrass trough Adriatic if they came from...