Originally posted by Soldier of Macedon
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Strabo informs us that the Greeks regarded the Gatae as a branch of Thracians, and says further, that the people of that name occupying both sides of the Danube.
1. Before it was coined, 'Slavic' it was the mother tongue of the Thracian civilization.
2. The people on the other side of the Danube, were linguistically and culturally identical to those people on this side. The difference between the "Sklavenoi" on one side of the Danube, and the Thracian and Macedonians on the other, was political. Culturally and linguistically they were identical.
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