Simple question; Did the romans come in any contact with slavic

They most likely knew of their existence but they generally just lumped all barbarians together as Gauls, Celts or Germans

>Romanians are not slavs

Yeah, we get it, your Romans...

>>1515400
W-wat? :c

>>1515370
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Road

>>1515370

Probably not. Greeks definitely had some contact with both though since they had colonies in Ukraine.

>>1515370
>Gauls and Celts
Gauls are Celts. And I guess they sorta of did if you mean various different ethnic groups that are barbarians in the literal sense.

>various Celtic tribes in mainland Europe and British Isles
>Hunnics
>Germanics

>>1515400

There were no slavs in Dacia or the Balkans by that time.

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According to linguists the Proto-Balto-Slavic language didn't split into Baltic and Slavic before the 5th century, so the ethnogenesis of the Slavs happened at the same time the Western Roman empire fell.

By the next century they were well known though. Especially by Eastern Rome.

Gauls were Celts

>>1517927
Post the one on the Sassanids.

They wrote about them atleast. There is the obvious Fenni but also Budini, who may have been a Finno-Ugric tribe

>>1515400
The slavic migrations happened 6 centuries later.

>>1515370
The Romans and Slavic peoples met in the 5th/6th centuries.

They were aware of them. but since Germanic tribes were in the way of meaningful contact it never came to fruition

>>1518404
Forgot link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenni

>>1515370
They knew them, but they didnt conquered them

>>1518417
This speaking about the old Roman Empire.

The Eastern Roman Empire had slavs nominally under their power

>>1518409

Fenni were probably the Sami people

>>1517927
>According to linguists the Proto-Balto-Slavic language didn't split into Baltic and Slavic before the 5th century

Wrong.

Already by in 2nd century there were two Baltic tribes mentioned living. In Kaliningrad/Northern Poland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galindians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yotvingians

And you could have at least read wikipedia language page on Balto-Slavic languages which say they split 1400BC.

They definitely had contact with the baltic peoples, Archaeologists know this because of the presence of baltic amber in ancient roman jewelry, even back to Rome's earliest days. Pytheas had a book lost to history about the Baltic area and it's people. All surviving documents referring to Pytheas has him calling the people there teutons and other latin names for german tribes, however greeks/romans were pretty shit anthropologists by modern standards so who knows what tribes they encountered.

>>1515370
They've bought amber from the Balto-Slavic tribes of yore.

>>1518422
Isn't Russia considered the 3rd Roman Empire?

It was also mentioned that this would be the last empire. (last Roman Empire?)

I guess it makes sense... religion and symbolism

>>1519926
Russians are as much a "Third" Rome as the Ottomans were themselves.

>>1518636
If you ever see the names Gray and Atkinson you should immediately disregard everything it says

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrQ_vgfkxNg

>>1519926
No it isn't that's just insulting to Rome

>>1519969

Wow BTFO by science. Also that Slavic languages specialist is a qt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vistula_Veneti