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Old 08-29-2011, 04:11 PM   #11
Vedun*

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That's what modern "anti-German" Austrians would like you to believe. Mozart's father was born in Augsburg, his mother in Salzburg (as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart himself), which was not even Austrian during his lifetime, but independent, culturally basically a Bavarian territory and therefore a part of the "Bairischer Reichskreis":
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichskreis

Mozart was later living and dying in Vienna, yes, but actually that doesn't even matter as German speaking parts of Austria during the 1700s were as German as the Rhineland or Hesse (or otherwise we also have to call Goethe a "Frankfurtian" and not a German poet )
Maybe so, but this discussion is not about Mozart or any other individual that at some time called himself German. There were other people too who were called German in their time, like Ludwig der Deutsche. He was "German" while his own brother was "French". Try sorting that out.

The point was in the absurdity of very notion of "German blood", as well as nationalism of western European nations. It's a bunch of lies.

Yeah, the famous Slovenes and Czechs from Salzburg.... hmpf

That's a laughable theory, just like your pan-Slawism (especially if one thinks about the many wars and little solidarity between various Slavic people). The Boii were Celts, who indeed gave this region their name, but they were absorbed by Romans (some of them also lived in Gaul and N. Italy) and Germanic tribes. It's obvious that you don't like the fact that Slavic people arrived rather late "on the stage". Trying to make people believe the Boii were Slavs is about as absurd as all these funny theories that you would hear from Turks.
I don't give a flying lamb's nipple about pan-anything, pan-slavism particularly, so don't mistake me for one. This is about historical truth.

The etymology of the word Boii is neither Celtic nor Germanic, as I already pointed out the similarity between Bayern and Boyars (Bojary) - warriors, nobility. Suffice to say that Czech also means warrior in Slavic.

Austria is not Slazburg only, and the toponyms there don't support some "post Celtic/Germanic" Slavic invasion. That's simply a nonsense. What does Vienna (Wien) means in German, or let's say Graz?

To conclude, Bavarians got Germanised early, but your folk customs, music, costumes, the way you speak German etc. still today don't point very much to German direction.
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