J2b, From Eluri/Alluria (Luristan) to Illyria (Illuría)

[torzio]

Croatian migration according to Croatian sources:

https://izvornik.fandom.com/wiki/Jesu_li_Hrvati_Iranci?

https://www.hkv.hr/izdvojeno/vai-prilozi/322-prilozi-lanova/6949-o-iranskom-porijeklu-hrvata.html

Google Translate:

 

[MOESAN]

Whatever the remote linguistic origin of the name, it stays to prove the way(s) taken by the people who carried this name to central Europe...

 

[Moja]

Luristan is located in the centre of Zagros Mountain, Lurs call this mountain Zagrev/Zagreb, the same as Croatian capital, some linguists believe the original name of it was Zaberg "mountainous land", from za/zam "land/earth" and berg "mountain" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/برگ#Northern_Lurish

 

[MOESAN]

Luristan is located in the centre of Zagros Mountain, Lurs call this mountain Zagrev/Zagreb, the same as Croatian capital, some linguists believe the original name of it was Zaberg "mountainous land", from za/zam "land/earth" and berg "mountain" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/برگ#Northern_Lurish

I have some difficulties to swallow the undiscutable common origin of all these pronouciations AND meanings... But, who knows?...

 

[Moja]

Name of another ancient region in the west of Iran near the land of Zamua was Liburna, inscription of Ashurnasirpal II:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liburnia

Liburnia (Ancient Greek: Λιβουρνία) in ancient geography was the land of the Liburnians, a region along the northeastern Adriatic coast in Europe, in modern Croatia, whose borders shifted according to the extent of the Liburnian dominance at a given time between 11th and 1st century BC.