From: "Stephan Nikolov" <stephan.nikolov@history.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars
Date: 23 Apr 1999 00:00:00 GMT
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Cluster User wrote in message <371e4dc5.13035143@news.yale.edu>...
>On 20 Apr 1999 10:12:44 GMT, e.karloukovski@uea.ac.uk (Vassil
>Karloukovski) wrote:
>
>>>if one is going to quibble about details and not accept "libertin"
>>>as simply a latinization,
>>
>>
>>or simply a roman name?
>
>rather uncommon for that isn't it?
>


A social status can be mistaken for a proper name by the later Greek scribes.
This is not unknown phenomenon in Byzantine "barbarian" onomastics.

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