I am not a linguist, so i can't argue here. However i used Poland in geographical sense, to describe territories which are called Little Poland and which from 990 or earlier to partitions were Polish. I've read that Celtic presence in Little Poland was quite strong, and as arguments in that book were given names like Vistula and Tyniec, but since, again, i am not a linguist, i have to believe to ethymology given in that book. |
I've also read once that Goths indeed lived in Ukraine, but they live amongs Slavic tribes (since generally from two theories about origin of the Slavs, theory which place their homeland between Wisla and Dnieper is more probably than that which place that homeland between Odra and Wisla. szopen |