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Subject: Re: [POLAND] Mongolian/Slavic eyes
Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 13:33:12 GMT
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A certain amount of ravishment must have taken place - along with all
the other usual atrocities of irregular warfare and religious conflict
but there was also a great deal of immigration, integration and
intermarriage. In medieval and later early modern times, entire
communities of Tartars settled in Poland-Lithuania practicing the
Muslim faith and others converted to Christianity.
Co-habitation of Slav and Turco-Mongol nomad peoples is mentioned
by Byzantine writers and Slav and nomad tribes often combined in war
as had German and nomad tribes earlier,
There can be hardly any royal or noble family that does not have
some genetic trace of the Turkic and tartar dynasties that led the
Cumans and Magyars.
Cordially,
John (Rohde).
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