Genealogy /
Polish DNA? Poles have the most genes in a group includes Balts, Macedonians and Greeks. [264]
Well, not exactly BB.
Well, I don't think so too... ;)
Marek seems to think so!
Note that it is in the 13th-14th century when these crusades are called, and its exactly when this map seemed to be reproduced by the Vatican.
That's why it's great they found an even older copy in the Topkapi-palace in Istanbul...double proof is just better. :)
The populations of these regions were already so intermixed
Not at the beginning. The Slavs pushing westwards assimilated those germans who still lived there after most of them migrated south to Rome.
Even more mixing happened as the Germanics came back...since then it's a continous shoving back and for.
"here are the Germanics" and "here are the Sarmatians."
In the beginning there were surely clear borders between people of different traditions, language, culture...as today.
It was clear to Ptolemy and Tacitus. The border between our both people is still there even after 2000 years of mixing.
If they pushed Germanics back, or helped push them forward, is altogether a blur.
I agree it's never only black and white and more of a grey blur.
But its the Germans who were painted by the Slavs in the blackest colors, as the only agressors, for centuries...it's time to throw that one sided viewpoint into the bin! :)
Just think about how Poles justify the ethnical cleansing of millions of Germans..."
re-taking originally polish lands"....Tja...that argument is now busted!
