The evidence suggests that in Noricum the urban population as well as the demography of military outposts was largely Roman. But the rural population of the countryside was largely not Romanized. There is no evidence nor Source of reports that would suggest that the ancestors of the Slovenes immigrated into the region. The name »Sloveniac existed before the arrival of Croats in the year 626 AD. All the present-day Croatian territories belonged to Slovenians and it had been named »Slovenia«. A leading European linguists, Mario Alinei states: »l have to commence by clearing away one of the most absurd consequences of the traditional chronology, namely, that of the 'arrivaľ of the Slavs into the immense area in which they now live. The only logical conclusion can be that the southern branch of the Slavs is the oldest and that from it developed the Slavic western and eastern branches in a differing manner and perhaps at different times ... Today only a minority of experts support the theory of a late migration for the Slavs... The surmised 'Slavic migration' is full of inconsistencies. There is no 'northern Slavic language', it is rather only a variant of the southern Slavic ... The first metallurgic cultures in the Balkans are Slavic ... and connected with Anatolia ... Slavic presence in the territory, nearly identical to the one occupied by them today, exists ever since the Stone Age ... The Slavs have (together with the Greeks and other Balkan peoples) developed agriculture ... agriculturally mixed economy, typically European, which later enabled the birth of the Greek, Etruscan, and Latin urbanism. Germanic peoples adopted agriculture from the Slavs ...«
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