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Posts by david885  

Joined: 1 Mar 2010 / Male ♂
Last Post: 19 Apr 2013
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From: London, England
Speaks Polish?: a little bit
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david885   
19 Apr 2013
Genealogy / Who are the Poles? Balts, Germanics, or Sarmo-Sycthians? [19]

I wonder why you started new threads when these subjects are already up...
I'm just interesting and i don't think you can find thread like this with similar topic..

Back to topic, who are the Poles in your opinion? Slavicised Germanics? Slavicised Balts? Slavicised Sarmo-Scythians? Or proto-Slavs with significant Germanic ancestry in the West and Baltic ancestry in the North East? I'd love to hear Polish members' opinions and of course, non-Polish members' opinions. :)
david885   
19 Apr 2013
Genealogy / Who are the Poles? Balts, Germanics, or Sarmo-Sycthians? [19]

Polonised Balts? Germanics? or Sarmo-Sycthians?

IMO, I'd imagine that while they are certainly linguistically related to Balkan Slavs, the plurality of their DNA is in fact Baltic in origin, with sizeable Germanic and Slavic admixture, and perhaps some Finnic in the East as well.
david885   
17 Apr 2013
Genealogy / Are Silesians people German/Germanic? [178]

I think Mostly they were of German origins, with considerable Slavic admixture. There was intensive colonization of Silesia since 13th century onwards, but also there was a gradual assimilation of Poles living in this region. The region was simply multiethnic, both German and Polish, am I correct?
david885   
17 Apr 2013
Genealogy / Are Silesians people German/Germanic? [178]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesia

Germanic tribes were first recorded within Silesia in the first century. Slavic peoples arrived in the region around the seventh century, and by the early ninth century their settlements had stabilized.
david885   
16 Apr 2013
Genealogy / Are Silesians people German/Germanic? [178]

MergedWhat is the origin of German Silesians?

I'm interested in knowing where the German-speaking Silesians came from. Did they come from Germany itself, East or West, or were they always there? Were they introduced to the area by Germany, or were they always a ethnicity on their own? Was Silesia an indigenously German area? I'm not entirely sure how to formulate this question properly.

My friend is a German-speaking Silesian, and when asked him nationality would say Silesian first, German second.
david885   
14 Apr 2013
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1462]

Rysavy,
I can see the similiarities, but the rapper have more robust and squareish face which I associated with Poles.
david885   
10 Apr 2013
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1462]

typical Polish face imo
youtube.com/watch?v=gPSMJMh2Ndk
david885   
18 Nov 2012
History / Was Prussia mostly German? [65]

Was Prussia ever mostly German or was it just a German ruling class eg Teutonic knights ruling over Balts, Poles and others(Tartars, Jews etc)?
david885   
10 Nov 2012
History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]

We will be differentiated culturally using different terms whether it’s east Europeans or other terms regardless of political situation in Europe, as we probably were differentiated in the past unless we are assimilated into west European cultures. In eastern Slavic countries and west European countries the subject of cultural and geographic location in Europe is not discussed among people as often. I maybe wrong, but that’s how it seems to me. We know who we are and where we live. :)

Brits don’t want to be associated with Europe and European culture. Or do they? Why do we need to be so concerned? There is nothing wrong discussing it but I think we are putting more emphasis on the concept 'west/central/east Europe' than we should be.
david885   
9 Nov 2012
History / Polish relation about Russians, Ukrainians? [281]

Merged: Polish-Russian friendship

What do you think of the Polish-Russian friendship?

In Russian and Poles have much in common. Russian - the people closest genetically to the Poles.
david885   
9 Nov 2012
History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]

Slovenia could be classified either as Central European or South-Eastern (not Southern). Yugo countries and Bulgaria have not much in common with Spain and Portugal, more correctly said nothing. (Except Croats and Slovenes are Roman Catholics). Serbs Bulgarians and Macedonians share lot with Greeks, but Greeks are far more Mediterranean, altough even on Crete you have folkdances costumes closer to South Slavic. Greece could be either Southern European or South-Eastern.

Baltic states are more Eastern European than Northern. And Britain and Irelan are not Northern Europe in any retrospect. Don't you agree?
david885   
4 Nov 2012
History / Where do Upper and lower Silesians came from? [7]

Grzegorz_
Interesting, thanks. Much of upper Silesia is today mixed territory of Poles from East driven out of their ancestral homes from Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine, mixed together with local Germans, Poles and Silesians that were not driven out (authocthons) by Soviets. Am I correct?
david885   
3 Nov 2012
History / Where do Upper and lower Silesians came from? [7]

I've heard somewhere that they resettled from Kresy in today's Belarus and Ukraine mixed with local Germans. Is it true? Please enlighten me if I am wrong.
david885   
1 Mar 2010
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1462]

I'm polish/german side
i'm from england
people said i look english, italian, welsh, irish because i look mediterranean
but can you tell me what my feature are
which one german and polish
or another nationality?




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