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John Van Antwerp Fine, The Early Medieval Balkans: a critical survey from the sixth to the late twelfth century

Quote: The name ANTES suggest this people was intermixed with Iranians, and linguists point to a large number of Iranian loanwords in Slavic that were acquired very early. This would not be surpsising if the Slavs came from Ukraine because they would have had contact with both Iranian Scythians and Sarmatians. Indeed the Sarmatians were still to be found in […]

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