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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bert Gedin, post: 3124261, member: 92556&quot;]You say, Valens, that the Goths lost their meaning, and then, that, after 1475, they no longer had any political significance. Those are two different, possibly contradictory, statements. I did some browsing, resulting in that the &quot;Gothic problem&quot; was addressed by Nazi &quot;scholars&quot;, who planned to rename the Crimea Gotenland. The Soviets did their bit to &quot;Russify&quot; history of the Crimea. To study the Crimean Goths became increasingly difficult. - My own guesstimate is not that the Goths mysteriously vanished into thin air, but intermingled with other populations. Maybe, today, there is no such thing as a &quot;pure&quot; Goth, although many people, especially in and around the Caucasus, have some Gothic traces, from their ancestry.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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