Allow me to go back to the description of the region:
Balkan - Dinaric - Carpathian region is at the crossroad of two ancient (and current) migration routes: East / West - directly from Asia over the Pontic–Caspian steppe, a grassland stretching from the Danube Delta to the Ural Mountains; South / North - from Middle East over Marmara Sea.
Balkan - Dinaric - Carpathian region is at the crossroad of two ancient (and current) migration routes: East / West - directly from Asia over the Pontic–Caspian steppe, a grassland stretching from the Danube Delta to the Ural Mountains; South / North - from Middle East over Marmara Sea.
The Danube provided a highway towards the center of Europe and the high mountain ranges of the Balkans and Dinarics on the right/south bank and Carpathians on the left/north bank directed the traffic toward north-west.
So it's a funnel for migrations, but let's think about how life was in this funnel?
Nature is generous here: green valleys, mountains full of game: salt, gold and ores, large plain in the middle watered by the Danube and tributaries full of fish.
Land of running milk and honey, isn't it? But not for long because there was (and is) a long queue at the entrance.
When I look back at the history of my family, I see that every generation has witnessed war, every second generation has been through a major war which made them run, and it changed borders, rules and administration language.
The only certitude in the funnel was for millennia that almost every generation will go through an event that would make them move, losing belongings, bringing new language, new rules, new religion.
We have seen that some chose to stay here, by living and hiding in the mountains when invaders came. Which meant they often had to restart from scratch.
What would you want to relay to next generations and how would you make sure the message isn't lost?
So it's a funnel for migrations, but let's think about how life was in this funnel?
Nature is generous here: green valleys, mountains full of game: salt, gold and ores, large plain in the middle watered by the Danube and tributaries full of fish.
Land of running milk and honey, isn't it? But not for long because there was (and is) a long queue at the entrance.
When I look back at the history of my family, I see that every generation has witnessed war, every second generation has been through a major war which made them run, and it changed borders, rules and administration language.
The only certitude in the funnel was for millennia that almost every generation will go through an event that would make them move, losing belongings, bringing new language, new rules, new religion.
We have seen that some chose to stay here, by living and hiding in the mountains when invaders came. Which meant they often had to restart from scratch.
What would you want to relay to next generations and how would you make sure the message isn't lost?
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