Post by highduke on Oct 12, 2008 20:30:09 GMT -5
Common Toponyms of Rep. of Georgia & Albania (A-S)
A comparison between an links to an
International Directory and Cities and Towns and
Excerpts of scanned pages from
Races of Europe By Carleton Stevens Coon
A comparison between an links to an
International Directory and Cities and Towns and
Excerpts of scanned pages from
Races of Europe By Carleton Stevens Coon
1. Bushati / Busheti
indexmundi.com/z/?lat=41.8666667&lon=45.5833333&t=p&r=740&p=busheti&cc=gg&c=georgia
indexmundi.com/z/?lat=42.1194444&lon=19.8997222&t=p&r=660&p=bushat&cc=al&c=albania
indexmundi.com/z/?lat=41.9597222&lon=19.5341667&t=p&r=660&p=bushat&cc=al&c=albania
2. Buzaj / Buzala
indexmundi.com/z/?lat=40.8591667&lon=19.7836111&t=p&r=660&p=buzaj&cc=al&c=albania
indexmundi.com/z/?lat=42.3811111&lon=43.9216667&t=p&r=740&p=buzala&cc=gg&c=georgia
3. Baboti / Baboti
indexmundi.com/z/?lat=42.0569444&lon=19.4011111&t=p&r=320&p=babot&cc=al&c=albania
indexmundi.com/z/?lat=42.0475&lon=42.7175&t=p&r=520&p=baboti&cc=gg&c=georgia
3. Balan / Balani
indexmundi.com/z/?lat=40.5622222&lon=19.7180556&t=p&r=360&p=ballan&cc=al&c=albania
indexmundi.com/z/?lat=42.3472222&lon=44.4772222&t=p&r=540&p=balaani&cc=gg&c=georgia
4. Bashkimi / Bashko (means unity in Albanian)
indexmundi.com/z/?lat=40.6805556&lon=19.4138889&t=p&r=400&p=bashkim&cc=al&c=albania
indexmundi.com/z/?lat=41.6644444&lon=44.1494444&t=p&r=580&p=bashk%27o&cc=gg&c=georgia
5. Bathore / Batiuri
indexmundi.com/z/?lat=41.3777778&lon=19.7616667&t=p&r=400&p=bathore&cc=al&c=albania
indexmundi.com/z/?lat=41.9333333&lon=43.8333333&t=p&r=600&p=batiuri&cc=gg&c=georgia
6. Beden /Bedoni, Bediani
indexmundi.com/z/?lat=41.1202778&lon=19.5391667&t=p&r=400&p=beden&cc=al&c=albania
indexmundi.com/zp/gg/600.htm
7. Kurta, Kutali Kurtan / Kurta Kurtlari
indexmundi.com/zp/al/2020.htm
indexmundi.com/zp/gg/2160.htm
8. Shesh, Sheshaj / Sheshani (5 variations)
indexmundi.com/zp/al/3400.htm
indexmundi.com/z/?lat=41.8252778&lon=45.6794444&t=p&r=3640&p=shashiani&cc=gg&c=georgia
9. Sirake / Sirkva
indexmundi.com/z/?lat=40.5783333&lon=20.1597222&t=p&r=3520&p=sirake&cc=al&c=albania
indexmundi.com/z/?lat=41.5666667&lon=43.5333333&t=p&r=3760&p=sirkva&cc=gg&c=georgia
10. Shkalle / Shkaleri
indexmundi.com/zp/al/3420.htm
indexmundi.com/z/?lat=43.0161111&lon=42.6213889&t=p&r=3680&p=shkaleri&cc=gg&c=georgia
11. Skuraj / Skura
indexmundi.com/z/?lat=41.6886111&lon=19.7963889&t=p&r=3540&p=skuraj&cc=al&c=albania
indexmundi.com/z/?lat=41.8583333&lon=41.9261111&t=p&r=3780&p=skura&cc=gg&c=georgia
Coon made remarks in his writings about the similarity between Albanians and non-Europeans. In the late 50s, Coon went to excavate Belt Cave on Iran¡¯s Caspian shore, a region located immediately next to the Caucasus & Anatolia. His remarks are implicit:
Physically, the people looked more European than any others I had seen in the Middle East, both in their facial features and in their clothing. Many of them particularly resembled northern Albanians, a people whom I had studied in 1929 and 1930 and I soon saw one reason why.
In Albania, mothers strap babies to cradles, which they carry with them as they go to the market or go about their work. Although the infants¡¯ heads are no bound, the immobilization of their shoulders forces them to lie on the back of their heads. As a result the heads are flattened in infancy and this condition is retained throughout life. As soon as I saw a pair of young mothers carrying their babies in such cradles, I knew why these people looked so much like Albanians.
Here was a surviving culture closely linked to the origins of European civilization, lived in by a people of European physical type, in the one part of Iran which has enough rainfall to preserve the forest on which its technological aspects depended.
There could be no question of this culture having come from Europe. The whole trend of history has gone in the opposite direction.
The Seven Caves
Carleton Stevens Coon
Chapter 4: Belt Cave and the Caspian Shore
Page: 135
Knopf, New York, 1957
www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/7681/coon_135.jpg
In Albania, mothers strap babies to cradles, which they carry with them as they go to the market or go about their work. Although the infants¡¯ heads are no bound, the immobilization of their shoulders forces them to lie on the back of their heads. As a result the heads are flattened in infancy and this condition is retained throughout life. As soon as I saw a pair of young mothers carrying their babies in such cradles, I knew why these people looked so much like Albanians.
Here was a surviving culture closely linked to the origins of European civilization, lived in by a people of European physical type, in the one part of Iran which has enough rainfall to preserve the forest on which its technological aspects depended.
There could be no question of this culture having come from Europe. The whole trend of history has gone in the opposite direction.
The Seven Caves
Carleton Stevens Coon
Chapter 4: Belt Cave and the Caspian Shore
Page: 135
Knopf, New York, 1957
www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/7681/coon_135.jpg
After noting that Caucasian Iranians share a common physical type, material culture and the unique cradling practice with European Albanians, Coon nullifies any possibility that this Caspian coastal population could have come from Europe or anywhere from the west.
The men who inhabited these houses wore round black caps, homespun jackets of wool of black sheep, white woolen trousers bound by the ankles and rawhide buskins with the hair left on the skin. Ruddy cheeks, thin noses, blue of gray eyes. Where were we now? We might have been back in the Balkans in Albania, Yugoslavia or even farther...
The Seven Caves
Carleton Stevens Coon
Chapter 4: Belt Cave and the Caspian Shore
Page: 132
Knopf, New York, 1957
www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/7681/coon_132.jpg
The Seven Caves
Carleton Stevens Coon
Chapter 4: Belt Cave and the Caspian Shore
Page: 132
Knopf, New York, 1957
www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/7681/coon_132.jpg