1. Ever heard of Odessa, TX or Naples, FL? Yes Confused? No "Well, my point is there were more than one towns with the name Apollonia." Yes, and...? One was on the Black Sea coast, and there is one in Asia Minor in addition to the one in present day Albania.
Oh wow, so I was suposed to guess you meant the one also called Sozopolis(also a greek name). Dude, are you kidding me? There's tons of places with the same names. The first one that comes to mind is Fier. I'm sorry I got it wrong.
2. There is no point discussing the geographical term "between Don and Danube" as you can see that region clearly on the map. Of course back then the idea of national borders like we have today was far from people's minds. Still, I don't believe it is such a broad term. And Moesia was involved, because I had to give the point to where the Bulgars migrated to : from the area between the rivers Don (southern Ukraine) and the Danube delta (today's border between Romania, Moldavia and Ukraine) to Moesia (south of the Danube river in present day Bulgaria). It is completely useless to argue about this info as it is not a matter of oppinion but geographical and historical facts. Yet if you can find some new info that I've totally missed, I'd be intrigued to learn about it.
The comment wasn't directed at weather or not i knew where those places were, but about what you said and how it didn't make sense. The Moesia is NOT "down" the Don river. Also the Don and Danube are really far apart.
3.The Dacians, Getae and Illyrians are all Thracians. There are however some scholars that argue the origin of the Illyrians. On that we can discus in civilized manner. I'd appraciate it if you can present me a good source that argues your point.
I take it you don't really know much about Albania. Let me enlighten you on the subject. Albanian is the only language of it's type in the whole world. There is no other language like it. If Dacians and Albanians were both Thracians then how come they have nothing in common in their languages. And don't bring up some lame percentage of turkish the share. Also culturally they had nothing in common. As I have stated before Thracians were hellenized a long ass time ago so there's no point in even debating this.
4. Philip of Macedon ruled over Thracia which is a geographical term. Do not confuse Thracia with where the Thracians lived. This made me chuckle. As Herodotus said, the Thracians were numerous and spread from Asia Minor to the Carpathians. I guess if you consider the already hellenized Phrygians and the dessolute Dacians. [i]The region of Thrace is situated south of the Balkan mountains in presnt day Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece.[i] I thought you said Albania and Romania were Thracian as well?!?!
I tried not to offend anyone, so I hope we can continue this thread in a civil manner and learn some more interesting facts. Sure.
Also do appreciate when people do research lol before making a statement. It means they cared about what they said, because they took the time to do research. If you have respect, you'd do the same before arguing what's wrong and what not. HAHAHAHAHA!
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