Re: Slovanik, my new romlang

Quoting Peter Clark <peter-clark@...>:

> On Tuesday 30 July 2002 06:10, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
> > Quoting Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>:
> > > Historical plausibility?
> > > We all know, that the Slavs have never even been near the borders
> > > of the Roman Empire;
> >
> > Not so:  the Crimea was an Imperial vassal state for centuries,
> > all the way well into the Byzantine period.  It is almost certain
> > that slavic tribes also inhabited parts of the Empire itself,
> > although not in great numbers until well after Constantine the
> > Great.
[snip]

>         Anywho, the Crimea is somewhat out of the question as an
> urheimat for your Slavs.
I should probably point out that I never made any such assertion.

>         Anyways, all that to say that the Slavs weren't really in
> Crimea en masse until 1783, when the Russians occupied the Crimean
> Tartar state. Sorry.
Perhaps I wasn't clear:  the question was whether there were Slavs
*near* the borders of the Roman Empire, and indeed, I would protest
that there were Slavs near (or even a few in) the Crimea.

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