Genealogy /
Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]
No, I mean Croats and Serbs they came most or less from the neighboring territory between r. Elbe and r. Wisla.
You greatly mistaking here. That what you speak is myth. Its confusion regarding general and original name of all Slavs- Sarmatian name. See, both `Serbian` and `Croatian` names inherit from Sarmatian name. Just, Serbian (in Eng.) is closer to original. Its local version of Sarmatian name (Srbi- Balkan/CE, Serbya- Lusatia/CE). `Sarmatian` name is Greco-Roman form of original SRBI, while `Croatian` name represent `Sarmatian` name in solely Latin version of it.
So, when you say that in early middle ages some old records speak of Serbs (Serbians) and Croats (Croatians) on Polish soil, you in fact speak of `Sarmatian` name on Polish soil, which is logical considering that you Poles also originate from Sarmatians (ie Serbians). I mean, we are all Sarmatians (Serbs) but Balkan/CE Serbs just keep using that once original name.
Now, speaking of Balkan/CE Serbian-Croatian antagonism, its different. We here don`t speak of Serbs in general but about Serbs Serbs. Same identity is defined on the base of same language (same local Slavic `shtokavian` dialect), same mentality, culture and same genetics of populations of Serbia and Croatia (and Bosnia, Herzegovina, Montenegro, etc). As I said, foreign factor (Vatican and Germany) using Catholicism to separate Serbs over religious lines, so there comes Croatia.
I said Serbs and Croats and I mean it - I think it is pretty precise in English. Well.... ask some expert but if you ask me that was precise enough.
But if you speak like that you accepts fact of forcible turning of Serbs into Croats. It would be same as I say that Protestant or Orthodox Poles aren`t Poles, that they differ from Catholic Poles and therefore are different ethos. Fact that Croatian state exist that there are some people who call itself Croats don`t nee to confuse you. It don`t change fact that we all the time speak about Serbs. Its just that odds are too strong and my people wasn`t able to offer proper resistance to the pressure of Vatican and Germany.
Still, you as Polish, at least, have to show some understanding. You Poles often were victims of partitions. Not to say that Vatican didn`t quite reward Polish Catholicism. Germans were always chosen people and Poles infidels no matter that they opted for Catholicism.