Originally posted by Maljkovic
I have to make my point here. Many history records say that the area setlled by Croats and Serbs was laied to waste by the Avars, so there wouldn't be that many natives around. Also, there are numerous archeological evidence linking Croats to south Ukraine, especially the give-away red and white squares. Now south Ukraine is way too far south to be speaking of a slavic nation! Also, all archeologic evidence from the 7. century sugests Croats were horsemen. This is very unusual for Slavs, who were mainly footsoldiers. Therefore I'm inclined to believe that asimilation into slavic ethnicity happened after Croats settled in the Balkans. |
There is numerous genetic evidence that many inhabitants of Hercegovina have majority illyrian blood. Alongisde cultural traits. Fact is that Slavs were few in number, the ruling families for most part were slavs, the rest an amagalm of peoples, mostly illyrian.