How have been called your national ancestors?

To have been able to survive as a people through so many periods of foreign domination and mixing says something about the quality of Romanian culture.

For myself, a Highland Scot, the mixture would be something like:-

Pict
Scot
Irish
Norse
Roman
French
Spanish
English (God forbid)
Whatever else was available..........

Originally posted by kafkas To have been able to survive as a people through so many periods of foreign domination and mixing says something about the quality of Romanian culture.

There is very few cultural continuity between the ancient period and the medieval one, actualy the medieval Romanian culture is among the most retarded in Europe, the first states appeared only in 15th century and up to 13th century there is little, almost nothing known about what happened on this territory.

Originally posted by Theodore Felix Besides the first, who probably lived in continuum, the rest lived either in small numbers(such as the Sarmatians, or perhaps more appropriate, the Alans), never dominated too much culturally, or marked their stay by a short occupation that did not do much culturally. All these exempting the Goths, who moved out eventually. The original Daco-Thracian culture probably remained prodominant.

What you say is true with the exception of Slavs. I think Romanians are rather Slavs than Dacians. The amount of Daco-Roman population was very reduced at the coming of Slavs (5-7th centuries) but they managed to absorb the Slavs (linguisticaly) due to the stepped coming and setling of them.

Originally posted by Menumorut There is very few cultural continuity between the ancient period and the medieval one, actualy the medieval Romanian culture is among the most retarded in Europe, the first states appeared only in 15th century and up to 13th century there is little, almost nothing known about what happened on this territory.

If you mean high, elaborate, literate culture yes, I'd agree, if you just mean culture you're wrong. If there wouldn't be a culture, there wouldn't be archaeology because people wouldn't leave behind anything but their bones.

There is very few cultural continuity between the ancient period and the medieval one, actualy the medieval Romanian culture is among the most retarded in Europe

The people are the culture, not the state. Various geo-political reasons could be there to hinder enough centralization and organization so as to create a state, nevertheless, the people keep the continuity.

Pure desert Arab with no foreign influence except a sli possibility of African blood.

Al-Jassas

Pakistani.

As with all periferous or otherwise and uninhabital places no one wants to migrate to (deserts, arctic regions) only one group, in this case Scandinavian. Only believable possible mix being mix of Sami.

Edited by Styrbiorn - 13-May-2008 at 08:07

Different waves - one (smaller) with Seljuq, then the big wave with Timur which actually started the Turkification of NW Iran.

I missed one from my list: Assyrian.

If the research that others have done is correct and I have correctly identified one of my great-grandfathers (same first name, last name and middle initial, born in the same place at the same time, but with a wife who is not my great-grandmother) then my ancestry includes:

 

Briton (including Bodica of the Iceni)

English/Saxon

Scots

Irish

French/Frank

Swiss

Norman

Danish

Norwegian

Rhenish

Prussian (possible, depends on which research you believe)

 

By way of John of Gaunt and legend my ancestry includes Edward III, Henry II, William the Conqueror, Alfred the Great, Egbert, Macbeth, Duncan, Robert the Bruce, Kenneth Macalpin, Charlemagne, Justinian, Marc Antony, Constantine, Wencelas, St. Louis, Joseph of Arimathea, Priam of Troy, King David, King Solomon, St. Stephen (the martyred deacon) and St. James (which one is disputed).

 

I may also be a cousin of some sort to George Washington.  One of my ancestors was a Matilda Washington who was married to a James Lawrence who went on crusade with Richard the Lionhearted.  Other researchers claim a Washington/Lawrence connection to George Washington, but I’ve never seen any documentation for what the direct link is.

 

One of my grandfathers also claimed that his mother was a Cherokee Indian from North Carolina.  One of his ancestors did act as something of an agent for some Cherokee Indians in what is now Oklahoma following the Civil War.