eadingas
11-28-2004, 10:59
A most frustrating thing is finding information about European tribes - their ethnicity, location, name, etc.
Why?
Because every page and every book gives different data depending on who writes it.
The celtic tribes site names every European tribe as Celts. Dacian, Thracian, German tribes, they're all celts.
The german tribes listings have every tribe listed as German, with only exception of french Gauls and some Britons, but even not all of them.
The Dacians, according to the Dacian history sites, would spread over all Balkans, all the way to Macedon.
The Scythians according to Scythian historians, cover entire coast of Black Sea, including most of Dacia and parts of Thracia.
As for Central Europe - Poland, Czech and Hungary - this is as complicated as it gets, since every single of millions of nations that lived in this area for more than ten years claims that their ancestors lived here since antiquity. The Lugians are Slavs for Slavic historians, Vandals for German historians, Celts for celtic historians and Scyths or Sarmatians for Scythian or Sarmatian historians. Bohaemia was either inhabited by Celts for the most of its history (according to Celt historians), or the Boii lived there only for a short while - enough to give the region its name - and then they were gone, replaced by Germans. Of course, there's also a theory that Boii were German all along. Or maybe Scythian, Dacian, Thracian, Hindu or Chinese??
And it's of course all for the same period of time, to make it harder. It would be easy if all these data covered different centuries - first scythians, then came celts, then came germans... no, they were all there at the same time, they were all called the same!
Make up your mind, people!!
Thank you for listening, I just had to vent this after another whole day of trying to figure out who the hell really lived in eastern Pannonia.
Why?
Because every page and every book gives different data depending on who writes it.
The celtic tribes site names every European tribe as Celts. Dacian, Thracian, German tribes, they're all celts.
The german tribes listings have every tribe listed as German, with only exception of french Gauls and some Britons, but even not all of them.
The Dacians, according to the Dacian history sites, would spread over all Balkans, all the way to Macedon.
The Scythians according to Scythian historians, cover entire coast of Black Sea, including most of Dacia and parts of Thracia.
As for Central Europe - Poland, Czech and Hungary - this is as complicated as it gets, since every single of millions of nations that lived in this area for more than ten years claims that their ancestors lived here since antiquity. The Lugians are Slavs for Slavic historians, Vandals for German historians, Celts for celtic historians and Scyths or Sarmatians for Scythian or Sarmatian historians. Bohaemia was either inhabited by Celts for the most of its history (according to Celt historians), or the Boii lived there only for a short while - enough to give the region its name - and then they were gone, replaced by Germans. Of course, there's also a theory that Boii were German all along. Or maybe Scythian, Dacian, Thracian, Hindu or Chinese??
And it's of course all for the same period of time, to make it harder. It would be easy if all these data covered different centuries - first scythians, then came celts, then came germans... no, they were all there at the same time, they were all called the same!
Make up your mind, people!!
Thank you for listening, I just had to vent this after another whole day of trying to figure out who the hell really lived in eastern Pannonia.