Pietroasa (etymology +)

[Francisc Czobor]

Of course I knew about this Dacian tribe (I remember its name 
as "Caucoenses"), but on the map that I have seen (from the "Romanian 
Historic Atlas") they where located further north than the curvature 
of the Carpathians.
But I think that it is merely a coincidence. The interpretation of 
Caucaland as Hauha-land "highland" is more plausible in my opinion 
than a Dacian-Gothic hybrid (and is also plausible for the old 
Gothic "H", pronounced rather as a velar fricative, to be rendered 
as "C" by the Romans).

Francisc

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Andrei Stirbu <andrei_stirbu at ...> 
wrote:
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> > The treasure is currently attributed to the Visigothic leader 
> > Athanaric, that, according to Ammianus Marcelinus, organised a 
> > resistance against the invadig Huns in a place named by the Goths 
> > "CAUCALAND" (i.e. Hauha-land = "Highland") in the mountains 
called in 
> > Latin "Montes Serorum". This place was identified with the 
curvature 
> > zone of the Carpatian Mountais, namely with the Siriu mountains 
> > (indentifyable with the "Montes Serorum"), that are not far from 
> > Pietroasa, in the same county of Buzau. It is presumed that 
Athanaric 
> 
> You may know that a Dacic tribe was named Caucocensii, placed on 
the map of Ptolemeus in the area close to exterior of  the Carpathian 
curbure:
> http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/macedonia_1849.jpg
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