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The Iranian (steppic) origin of Croats is just a speculation. First known Croatian dukes had Slavic names and their language was Slavic. The genetics and anthropology also indicate Slavic origin. Archeology doesn't see any traces of Iranian culture in Croatian medieval tombs. However, Slavs...

Croats plot pretty much between BA Croatia and East Slavs. Bulgarian case is, however, more interesting.

In what way are the names "more like Greek" except that they were written in Greek?

That's interesting. How would he explain a meaning/origin of his surname? We have Bouga in the list: Is it just a coincidence?

I've seen many Lithuanian names ending with -as and -is. E. g. Arvydas Romas Sabonis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvydas_Sabonis

Some useful links: The document which indicates the Dalmatian origin: http://www.korcula.net/mpolo/mpolobrit.htm An article by dr. Zivan Filippi on Polo/De Polo family in Korcula: http://www.korcula.net/mpolo/mpolo2.htm

I called Dalmatians those who spoke a dialect of Dalmatian Romance. They lived in the coastal cities. Later they were assimilated by Catholic Slavs (Croats) and started to speak Croatian.

Under the the term "Latins" there were two ethnic groups - Dalmatians and Catholic Slavs (Croats). Under the term "evil Slavs" the author mean East Orthodox Slavs who were sometimes hostile towards the local Catholic population.

There is no doubt that Marco Polo was Venetian. However, there are some indices that he was a son of Dalmatian imigrants. There are also indices that the family Polo origin was in the town (and island) of Korčula. This is what I found after a quick search. There are some arguments in this text...

If any person from the Dalmatian coast has read what you stated about Marco Polo’s origin, he is probably already dead of laughter. In the local culture the word Vlach (or locally: "Vlay") means: a man from the hinterland, more correctly a mountain shepherd. You see, wherever Marco...

I actually found two Icelanders in the tree. Ok. Iceland was probably uninhabited before the first Norse people arrived. However, the Greenlanders have a long history of contacts with Europeans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenlandic_Inuit

Could it be that they arrived from Greenland or Iceland? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit

They were called Goths by the local non-Slavic authors. There could've been different reasons for that, most likely an anachronism. They probably looked like their prredecessors in Dalmatia - Ostrogoths.

Many formerly Baltic teritories became Slavic since around 500 AD. "Klokotati" is actualy a modern Croatian word (onomatopoeia). There is another modern Slavic (Czech) word - "kluk" (boy). Touga could be related to another river Daugava.

The legend is probably recycled a much older folk tale. The names of characters suggest that Croats might have been speakers of an extinct Balto-Slavic dialect before they started to speak Slavic. Contemporary 9th century names of the rulers suggest Germanic influences (Suffix -mir). IMO, The...

There are seven Croatian personal names recorded in the 10th century work "De administrando imperio". It is believed that the names are of non-Slavic origin. However some think that the names are actualy Baltic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_hypotheses_of_the_Croats Other medieval...

What does Coon's work have to do with autosomal data?

It is worth noting: http://croatianhistory.net/etf/austria.html Carantania: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carantania

That's not the point. We've been discussing about where the Croats and Slovenians picked up the light blue component. Medieval Czech is ideal proxy for that analysys because the historical sources point to Bohemia and Poland as the source of the last Croatian migration. You should go back and...