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Kalevipoeg
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Topic: How long have you been living at home? Posted: 09-Feb-2005 at 17:36 |
How long have your people been living at your current geographical location? Estonians, if i scrape the depths of my mind, have been living at our present location for atleast since 2000 B.C., maybe a lot longer. Agriculture was a part of the native life here since 3000 B.C. Estonians, for a long time, were also the most northern people dealing with agriculture due to the true Estonian invention, the rehi.
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Capt. Lubber
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Posted: 10-Feb-2005 at 00:05 |
Norwegians, according to my history book, have lived here about 12,000 years. Since the last big glaciers retracted
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Deyde in his sleep, with shame and dishonour,
Bleedinge ay at the nose in dronkenesse,
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Cyrus Shahmiri
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Posted: 10-Feb-2005 at 02:03 |
12,000 years ago Iranians really lived at home, 12,000 years old Meymand village in Kerman:
And they still live there:
A Room
A Mosque in Meymand village
More Photos: http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Geography/meymand.htm
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Posted: 10-Feb-2005 at 06:59 |
During the Migration of peoples the Saxons and the Franks ended up
here, so that's 1500 years. The Frisians arrived here much earlier,
about 600 BC IIRC
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Kuu-ukko
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Posted: 10-Feb-2005 at 07:38 |
Are we talking about people living generally or the people speaking the current language? Because they are two different things.
Genetically people have lived in Finland from about 8000-6000 BCE, but the people speaking the proto form of Finnish have lived from about 1000 BCE.
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Posted: 10-Feb-2005 at 09:47 |
Originally posted by MixcoatlToltecahtecuhtli
During the Migration of peoples the Saxons and the Franks ended up
here, so that's 1500 years. The Frisians arrived here much earlier,
about 600 BC IIRC
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Loke, Attila, the grete conqueror,
Deyde in his sleep, with shame and dishonour,
Bleedinge ay at the nose in dronkenesse,
A captayin shoulde live in sobrenesse
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Teup
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Posted: 10-Feb-2005 at 09:50 |
Originally posted by MixcoatlToltecahtecuhtli
During the Migration of peoples the Saxons and the Franks ended up here, so that's 1500 years. The Frisians arrived here much earlier, about 600 BC IIRC |
What about the celts?
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Posted: 10-Feb-2005 at 11:59 |
At least since those neolithic guys showed up 9000+ years ago.
The Batavians?
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Posted: 10-Feb-2005 at 12:28 |
Batavians were partly Celtic. It's not sure what happened with them.
But most likely a part went south with the retreating Romans and the
other part was assimilated into the Salian Franks.
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Teup
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Posted: 10-Feb-2005 at 12:38 |
I thought there was more celtic ancestry to the Netherlands... maybe it's just the tallness of both the Celts and the Dutch that feeds this idea
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Posted: 10-Feb-2005 at 12:59 |
Well you're tight with money, like the Scots, so you never know
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Kalevipoeg
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Posted: 10-Feb-2005 at 14:29 |
"Are we talking about people living generally or the people speaking the current language? Because they are two different things."
I meant the true ancestors of the modern nation who have developed only in their language and the ethnicity is the same to date. Not the first people at the location.
Anyway, good replies guys.
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Mangudai
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Posted: 10-Feb-2005 at 15:04 |
In Sweden the situation is complicated - but in my case some of my ancestors have lived here fr 12 000 years either case...
Among the Smi (I have partly smi origin) and many political correct anti-nationalist swedes it's a matter of course that the smi have lived in present day Sweden for 12 000 years since the end of the last ice age, and that the germanic swedes' ancestors ("the white man") arrived much, much later as invaders. As you can see - they think that the situation is just like in America where the white man invaded and subjugated the natives.
For the swedes (which I am) it's right the opposite though - the swedes arrived as a germanic speaking tribe 12 000 years ago whereas the smi are mongoloid invaders from Asia that arrived a couple of hundred years ago. This theory was predominant during the early 20th century and produced by nationalist, racist schollars
To me both this ideas are ludicrous. The first people that arrived here in Scandinavia in wawes are probably the ancestors of both swedes and smi (and norwegians, danes and finns as well) - it was first much later that they separated (as the swedish and norwegian ancestors in the south took up farming whereas the smi continued to hunt). Also the swedish ancestors adopted germanic Indoeuropean languages at some time and mixed with people from the south, whereas the smi ancestor mixed with people from the east and adopted a finno-ugrian Uralic language. Still they remained caucasians though - the smi are not mongoloid as many still believe. And the swedes and norwegians are not oppressive "white men" as some smi like to think (who are imaging themselves as "non-white" for some reason)
The first written evidence of both the swedes and the smi is Tacitus Germania from 98 AD, which speaks of the suiones and fenni (smi), both inhabiting Scandinavia. I think therefore it's totally pointless to try figure out who was here first
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Posted: 10-Feb-2005 at 18:25 |
A few centuries only. I live in Argentina, but my father, most of my
grand parents and all of my great grandparents are Europeans (from
Spain and Italy). Spanish started settling here in the XVI century...
and well, I am sure you know the story already.
Before they came, there were two big tribes around the province, the
Querandes in the core and most of it, Tehuelches in the south and in
the North Tobas. They were nomads, not particularly developed so it is
hard to tell for how long they had been living here, but it is said
that most likely they arrived between 12000 - 9000 BC.
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Posted: 10-Feb-2005 at 20:19 |
IIRC, Benelux and much of Germany was originaly predominatly Celtic,
and Germanics moved in and eventualy assimilated most of them. The
oldest Celtic finds of any sort are in Central Europe IIRC.
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Posted: 10-Feb-2005 at 20:44 |
I thought in their final days they once again moved from England to here... but oh well nevermind.. as always it's just one big blur of peoples, especially in this spot, where a whole bunch rivers meet the pleasantly gulf-stream-warmed sea
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Posted: 10-Feb-2005 at 21:25 |
Hmm, the Belgea lived on both sides of the channel, i'm not sure about
them moving anywhere. If anything, it was Germanics moving from N.
Netherlands to Southern England indeed, Old English or )Anglo-Saxon in
the historic sense, not the modern popular usage) was very similar to
old frisian apparently.
Brythonic celts did move over to Brittany round this time though.
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Posted: 11-Feb-2005 at 01:56 |
We speak Persian in Iran for at least 4,000 years.
It is the Persian inscription of Ariaramnes (Peace of Aryans), one of ancestors of Darius the Great:
Ariyramna \ xyathiya \ vazraka \ xyathiya \ xyathiynm \ xyathiya \ Prs \ Cipai \ xyathiyahy \ pua \ Haxmaniahy \ nap \ thtiy \ Ariyramna \ xyathiya \ iyam \ dahyu \ Prs \ tya \ adam \ dray \ miy \ hya \ uvasp \ umartiy \ man \ baga \ vazraka \ Auramazd \ frbara \ vasn \ Auramazdha \ adam \ xyathiya \ iyam \ dahyu \ amiy \ thtiy \ Ariyramna \ xyathiya \ Auramazd \ man \ upastm \ baratuv
Ariaramnes, the great king, king of kings, king in Persia, son of king Teispes, grandson of Achaemenes. King Ariaramnes says: This country Persia which I hold, which is possessed of good horses, of good men, the great god Ahuramazda bestowed it upon me. By the favor of Ahuramazda, I am king in this country. King Ariaramnes says: May Ahuramazda bear me aid.
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Posted: 25-Mar-2005 at 05:40 |
Iranians are really old nation.Wonderful.
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