Jireček line
The Jireček line is an imaginary line that runs through the Balkan Peninsula and linguistically the Latin area of influence in the north from the Greek in the south for the period from the conquest of Greece by the Roman Empire to the division of the same into the west and east, i.e. approximately from second BC to the late 4th century AD , separates. The line runs from the Albanian city of Laç via Serdica - today Sofia in Bulgaria - and then approximately over the ridges of the Balkan Mountains to the Black Sea .
This line was determined on the basis of archaeological finds: to the north of it the inscriptions are mainly in Latin , to the south of it in Greek .
This line is important for the localization of the area in which some Balkan peoples emerged, especially the Dakor-Romanians and Aromanians . The possibility that a Roman people could have formed south of this line is very unlikely.
The line was first mentioned by the Czech historian Konstantin Jireček in 1911 in a history book about the Slavic peoples.
See also
literature
- Konstantin Jireček : History of the Serbs. Volume 1: Until 1371 (= General History of States. Department 1: History of the European States. Vol. 38, 1). Perthes, Gotha 1911.