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Poles and Russians -- love-hate relationship? [209]
crow, kak o si kurac :)
you wrote " Slavs originate from Balkan (from Danube and from Adriatic) as even genetic findings confirmed."
please Serbian friend don't spread garbage hypothesis.
The origin of Slavs is most likely from the border region between Poland and Ukraine.
This is why we have Sorbs (ancestors of Serbs) living next to Poles and Krakow area used to be home to White Croats.
The location of the speakers of pre-Proto-Slavic and Proto-Slavic is subject to considerable debate. Serious candidates are cultures on the territories of modern Belarus, Poland and Ukraine. The proposed frameworks are:
Lusatian culture hypothesis: The pre-Proto-Slavs were present in north-eastern Central Europe since at least the late 2nd millennium BC, and were the bearers of the Lusatian culture and later the Przeworsk culture (part of the Chernyakhov culture).
Milograd culture hypothesis: The pre-Proto-Slavs (or Balto-Slavs) were the bearers of the Milograd culture
Chernoles culture hypothesis: The pre-Proto-Slavs were the bearers of the Chernoles culture of northern Ukraine
From the 19th century onwards, the debate became politically charged, particularly in connection with the history of the Partitions of Poland, and German imperialism known as Drang nach Osten. Generally, both German and Slavic want to be 'autochthonic' on land at river Vistula.
Autochthonic theory (the Proto-Slavs are native to the area of modern Poland), before 5th century.
Allochthonic theory (the Slavs immigrated to the area of modern Poland) after 5th century.
The debate has been used as a tool of political propaganda and is often emotionally charged and interspersed with pseudoarchaeology and national mysticism.
Contemporary scholarship in general has moved away from the idea of monolithic nations and the Urheimat debates of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and its focus of interest is that of a process of ethnogenesis, regarding competing Urheimat scenarios as false dichotomies.
