And it all means the same, too. There are or have been in the past
languages and regions that were Slavic, Slovak, Slovenian, Slavonian,
and Slovinzian. Just like Serbian and Sorbian is etymologically the
same.
(And Welsh, Walloon, Gaul, Rotwelsch, the Walsertal, etc., but that
just means "foreign", and was a designation for all that was alien,
if I'm not mistaken...)
Peter S.
--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Peter Hering" <hering@m...> wrote:
> Right Peter S.,
> it is Slavonia, not Slovenia...!
> Most of Slavonia is Croatian, only the easternmost
> area is part of YU... the southern borderline to
> Bosnia has always been formed by the "Drava"
> river - we'll be visiting the city of "Brod", divided
> into "Slavonski Brod" and "Bosanski Brod"...!
> btw: sometimes it seems confusing about these
> denominations, like Slovakia's proper name:
> "Slovenska Republika"...
> Peter H.
>
> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: ps1966nl
> Date: Monday, January 21, 2002 21:06:42
> To: BoundaryPoint@y...
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Croatian-Yoguslavian border
>
> Grant Hutchison wrote:
> (...)But: "Since autumn 1991 the Croatian region of Baranya, as
well
> as most of the Slovenian borderland along the Danube, have, in
effect
> been under Serb occupation and the Serbs consider it part of the
self-
> proclaimed Serbian Republic of Krajina. (...)
>
> Probably not Slovenian, but Slavonian. I.e. not the country, but
the
> Croatian region.
>
> Peter S.
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