When was Christianity wiped out in Dacia?
I believe in the sixth century, when the Avars turned up.
What happened to the West Roman Army after 410?
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I believe in the sixth century, when the Avars turned up.
Italian is a direct descendant of Vulgar Latin. (But you can see the influence of Germanic invaders in blue-eyed Italians, for instance.)
Mirc
Not mIRC!!!
Source?
How would that work with the large amount of Latin-derived religious words in Romanian*? Where would those have come from, if Christianity disappeared at some point and was reintroduced later? Why would Christianity have been wiped out, and at what point would it have been brought back?
* just a couple of examples:
cruce - crux/crucis = cross
altar - altar = altar
preot - presbit = priest
biserica - basilica = church
Dumnezeu - domine deus = God (lit. dominant god)
inger - angellus = angel
san/santa (popular) - sanctus/sancta = saint
liturghie - (the Latin word escapes me) = liturgy
How could those, and many others, have shown up in Romanian considering Latin/Italian had no influence at all on orthodoxy?
Germanic peoples and their descendants are not the only blue-eyed Europeans.
You can see a little evidence of Germanic influence on the Italian language, but only in the shape of a rather unimportant "superstratum". Certain words (like bianco, blu), are Germanic loanwords, but those are not words of huge importance.
Sharwood
Rich, doctor nephew
A better sign of Germanic influence would be blonde hair, but even that's not exclusively from Germanic invaders.
You've made my day. Such a great one-liner!
The Avars entered the Balkans through Romania, but finally settled in the Hungarian plain. Also, the Romanian language derives directly from Latin (maybe Vulgar Latin, but definitely not Italian. Presbyter, basilika and liturgia are Greek words, BTW, so probably derive from Byzantine or Greek-Orthodox influence.)
I realize that blue eyes aren't specifically Germanic, but in this case they result from Germanic infusions into Italy, like from the Longobards (Longobardi, i.e. Longbeards, italianized from Germanic). Possibly not of huge importance, but these are examples of Germanic traces in Italy and Italian.
Sofista
Deity
@Jeleen, my question was more aimed at getting to see Teeninvestor's possible answer, considering his somewhat offbeat [/pussyfooting] take on history.
Italy hosts no "pure race"... just like every single other European country, especially those around the Mediterranean. And all is good, no culture can thrive feeding from a single root!
Italy hosts no "pure race"... just like every single other European country, especially those around the Mediterranean. And all is good, no culture can thrive feeding from a single root!
@Jeleen, my question was more aimed at getting to see Teeninvestor's possible answer, considering his somewhat offbeat [/pussyfooting] take on history.
Italy hosts no "pure race"... just like every single other European country, especially those around the Mediterranean. And all is good, no culture can thrive feeding from a single root!
Poland is pure nation of Poles
Mirc
Not mIRC!!!
Well, yeah, but I don't get how that relates in any way to a loss of Christianity in Dacia...
It definitely derives directly from (a slightly earlier version of) Vulgar Latin, trust me, I know that!
I'm fairly sure that they exist in Catholic religious language... They were adopted into Latin way before any split happened. Even assuming that they entered through Greek (which I doubt, since almost all non-Latin religious words in Romanian are Slavonic, not Greek), that certainly doesn't mean that they were introduced after a supposed "wiping out" of Christianity in Dacia.
Sharwood
Rich, doctor nephew
The Vatican is a pure nation, comprised entirely of Vaticani.
Sharwood
Rich, doctor nephew
And break with Vaticani tradition? NAY!Its only pure if you ignore the altar boys
Just Poles? How do they procreate?
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