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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IvaPan, post: 6006240, member: 78949&quot;]Very interesting discussion, Any, at least for me <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> What you said has a lot of logic. Of course, there is still a lot of&nbsp; unknown or unexplained things - for instance, I was taugh that the geographical spaces that are nowadays Romania and Bulgaria were inhibited by Thracians in antiquity who used to have quite develped organised societies and are mentioned in ancient Greek sources, eg. Iliad. They were not Slavs, Slavs came here much later, the Thracians were the local residents conquered by the Romans. There are numerous archelogocal artefact that prove the Thracians had quite developed civilisation, found in tombs (they used to make overground tombs) and underground, like gold and silver treasures, also many Roman artefacts, as these lands were governed by them for hundreds of years. Constantine the Great was born and grew up here, in Nish (present day Serbia). And thus a lot of treasure hunting and smuggling, even nowadays, takes place here.</p><p>Spartacus was a Thracian-Dacian (present day Romania), the name Dacia (of the car brand) comes from the ancient predecessors&nbsp; of Romanians. The problem with studying the Thracian culture is the lack of written by them texts, only indirect Greek or Roman sources. You know, &quot;Verba volant, scripta manent&#039;</p><p>Later the Slavs came, even later the Old Bulgarians came, they are not Slavs, of disputed origin (some say Persians, others - Tatars but the most recent genetic evidences show that we have very little in common with Tatar or Turkic genes, also not much in common with Slavs but mostly old Bulgarian genes, so most probably they were indeed Persians) and made a nice mix here with the Slavs and the remnants of the ancient Thracians <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> The old Bulgarians (who spoke Persian or Turkic) accepted the Slavic language while in Romania the Slavs accepted the Romanic language. As Balkans are on the crossroads between Europe and Asia, a lot of mixing and population influxes occurred. B.t.w. we have a lot of Persian words in our language.</p><p>Francs were a Germanic tribe, as far as I know, so no surprise that they spoke German language.</p><p>As a conclusion - go figure how the present languages were formed! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie58" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie58" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie58" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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