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<p>dciurchea wrote:<br>
><br>
> "In the land of Scythia to the westward dwells, first of 33<br>
> all, the race of the Gepidae, surrounded by great and<br>
> famous rivers. For the Tisia flows through it on the<br>
> north and northwest, and on the southwest is the great<br>
> Danube. On the east it is cut by the Flutausis, a swiftly<br>
> eddying stream that sweeps whirling into the Ister's<br>
> waters. Within these rivers lies Dacia, encircled by the 34<br>
> lofty Alps as by a crown." Jordannes:V<br>
> (The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Origin and Deeds of the Goths, by<br>
> Jordanes, Translated by Charles C. Mierow<br>
> <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14809">http://www.gutenber<wbr>g.org/etext/<wbr>14809</a> <br>
> <<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14809">http://www.gutenber<wbr>g.org/etext/<wbr>14809</a>> : V)<br>
><br>
> The name of the river should be Plautausis (i.e. in modern<br>
> Romanian 'plutashi', eng. raftsmen).<br>
> Indeed, this river which today starts in the mountains as Bistritza<br>
> and later as Siret down to the Danube was used by raftsmen until<br>
> 1969 to convey timber down to Danube and therefore may be taken<br>
> as "Plutashi">><wbr>Plauta(u)<wbr>si(s), the border of Gepidia with Caucoensi.<br>
> According to a decent map derived from Ptolemy<br>
> (<a href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/macedonia_1849.jpg">http://www.lib.<wbr>utexas.edu/<wbr>maps/historical/<wbr>macedonia_<wbr>1849.jpg</a> <br>
> <<a href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/macedonia_1849.jpg">http://www.lib.<wbr>utexas.edu/<wbr>maps/historical/<wbr>macedonia_<wbr>1849.jpg</a>>) the<br>
> name of this river is "Cogaeonus", i.e. a name related to the Getic<br>
> sacred mountain Kogaion.<br>
> The term "koga" is used locally today as an insult for the<br>
> strangers, foreigners (not in dictionaries)<wbr>; the official name is<br>
> Neamtz(usually denoting a german; the word is actually formed<br>
> starting from the root "neam"=stock)<wbr>, as an euphemism for foreigner,<br>
> since today there is a small ucrainean community there; perhaps in<br>
> antiquity Starbon(7:3:<wbr>5) was told about the "Kogaionon" the border.<br>
><br>
> I am glad to learn that the toponimic transcripted by Jordannes was<br>
> in fact genuine Romanian (i.e. Wallachian), as with Galtis on Alutha.<br>
><br>
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Once again the historian Jordanes was incorrect in identifying the <br>
Gepidae as German. Please stop using his flawed historical assumptions. <br>
They (the Gepidae) were never of that stock but alleged to have been a <br>
remnant of the Sumerians. They (Gepidae) were destroyed by Trajan in the <br>
2d Century A.D. What remained of the ancient Dacians, the Gepidae were <br>
absorbed by the later Huns, Magyars and other Slavs. Here is a good <br>
scientific research project, examine the Gepidae DNA/RNA with present <br>
day Dacians, Bulgars and Romanians. Match with the DNA of Sumerians and <br>
see what the human genome says.<br>
<br>
Frederick Louis Scoggins<br>
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