Post by Kukul-Kan on Jan 5, 2004 18:54:20 GMT -5
The origins of the Goths
www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art198e.pdf
The ‘Gothicization’ of large numbers of non-Goths was not brought about by “the predominance of ‘true Goths’” (Heather 1991: 327) but by the absence of major linguistic differences between the Germanic tribes of the 2nd century. It is only to be expected that the most prestigious Germanic dialect was spoken close to the border of the Roman Empire and largely taken over by the newcomers. The Gothic majority did not exist at the outset but came into being as a result of the process of assimilation as the groups
adapted to one another.
Ethnogenesis of the Slovaks
www.elis.sk/hum/full/hum197b.pdf
The process of the creation of a common consciousness among all the Slavs living
in the northern parts of the Kingdom of Hungary was launched in the tenth-eleventh
centuries. It was completed approximately towards the end of the twelfth century at
the latest. From that time on we can speak about Sloviens-Slovaks (.united. Slovak
people) throughout the territory of what is today Slovakia and very probably also scattered
(in smaller numbers) in the areas bordering the eastern part, partially also the
southern and south-eastern parts. Although the Slovak people did not create any political
organization at that time, its territorial ethnogenesis could be considered as
completed in the twelfth century. The influence of the state formation where the northern
Hungarian Slavs lived, namely the Kingdom of Hungary coacted there.
www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art198e.pdf
The ‘Gothicization’ of large numbers of non-Goths was not brought about by “the predominance of ‘true Goths’” (Heather 1991: 327) but by the absence of major linguistic differences between the Germanic tribes of the 2nd century. It is only to be expected that the most prestigious Germanic dialect was spoken close to the border of the Roman Empire and largely taken over by the newcomers. The Gothic majority did not exist at the outset but came into being as a result of the process of assimilation as the groups
adapted to one another.
Ethnogenesis of the Slovaks
www.elis.sk/hum/full/hum197b.pdf
The process of the creation of a common consciousness among all the Slavs living
in the northern parts of the Kingdom of Hungary was launched in the tenth-eleventh
centuries. It was completed approximately towards the end of the twelfth century at
the latest. From that time on we can speak about Sloviens-Slovaks (.united. Slovak
people) throughout the territory of what is today Slovakia and very probably also scattered
(in smaller numbers) in the areas bordering the eastern part, partially also the
southern and south-eastern parts. Although the Slovak people did not create any political
organization at that time, its territorial ethnogenesis could be considered as
completed in the twelfth century. The influence of the state formation where the northern
Hungarian Slavs lived, namely the Kingdom of Hungary coacted there.
