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Introduction or reintroduction of buckwheat to North East Europe happened in different ways and probably time based on names given to this plant by Balts, Slavs and Baltic Finns.
Balts and Slavs call buckwheat Greek (griķi, grechka), as if it was introduced by Greeks or by population who learned it from Greeks (and another important point - named Greeks Greek not Hellens!).
Baltic Finns did not learn buckwheat from their Baltic neighbors, instead they call it Tatar which sounds to me like... Tatar.
If so, they learned buckwheat from either Tatars or population who called buckwheat Tatar (neither Balts nor Slavs who learned it from ultimately Greeks).
This all points to the speculation that buckwheat became popular in the region late into Anno Domini. IE tribes of region would learn it one way (ultimately from Greeks, but say Scythian via Black Sea connection is possible?) and FU tribes another way (ultimately from Tatars).
Balts and Slavs call buckwheat Greek (griķi, grechka), as if it was introduced by Greeks or by population who learned it from Greeks (and another important point - named Greeks Greek not Hellens!).
Baltic Finns did not learn buckwheat from their Baltic neighbors, instead they call it Tatar which sounds to me like... Tatar.
If so, they learned buckwheat from either Tatars or population who called buckwheat Tatar (neither Balts nor Slavs who learned it from ultimately Greeks).
This all points to the speculation that buckwheat became popular in the region late into Anno Domini. IE tribes of region would learn it one way (ultimately from Greeks, but say Scythian via Black Sea connection is possible?) and FU tribes another way (ultimately from Tatars).