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I left this thread because I was at first accused of spamming the thread, then of hijacking/privatizing the thread, then of devaluating and burying the thread because other forum members apparently refused to post in it alongside me. All were false accusations, as can be seen now. Nobody refused to post in the thread because of me. And the fact that I gave too much importance to the autosomal matches (of which I was also accused of) helped me to develop the hypothesis presented below.
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This is a three part message.
The new hypothesis about the arrival of the I-FGC22045 haplogroup in the Balkans is named the Saxon Hypothesis. This hypothesis can explain the presence of the haplogroup in Transylvania and the Balkan countries.
My father has a few autosomal matches that have ancestors with the surname Kramar. I searched this name and found that "kramar” was the name given to the leader of a Vlach caravan.
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The Vlach cheese was reputable because of fat, and in 1325 sold one libra for 10 folars compared to other cheese that sold for 8 folars. In 1420 Vlach cheese was sold for 15 folars. With their caravans, led by
kramar, mostly composed of horses numbering between 10–100, they conducted a large part of the trade between inland and coastal cities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlachs_in_medieval_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina#Culture=====
The name Kramar is derived from the German name
Kramer/Krämer, which meant traveling merchant.
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[KRAMER] German and Dutch: occupational name for a shopkeeper or trader, from an agent derivative of Middle High German, Middle Low German krām ‘trading post, tent, booth’. This surname is also found in some other parts of Europe, e.g. in Britain, Poland, and France (Alsace and Lorraine); In part, Kramer is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname, originating from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola, Slovenia (see Kocevar ). Compare Kraemer .
Americanized or Germanized form of Polish Kramarz , Czech Kramář, Slovak Kramár, Slovenian (compare 3 below), Croatian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian Kramar.
https://www.familysearch.org/en/surname?surname=KRAMERIn Middle Low German during the Late Middle Ages, Kramer meant "travelling merchant". The meaning later changed to "merchants trading with different rather small things".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramer_(surname)
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The fact that the Vlachs have taken a German word to describe their caravan leader means an early contact between the two populations, Vlachs and Germans. This early contact could explain the apparition of the I-FGC22045 haplogroup in the Vlach population.
The Croatians say that the Kramar name is more widely encountered in Prelog, in northern Croatia, close to Cvetlin, from where are originary the Kramar ancestors of the autosomal matches of my father.
On the other hand they say that the name is frequent (1 in 9 families) in Maline, a village from Bosnia-Herzegovina close to Travnik, the town from where the Drobnjaks originated.
https://actacroatica.com/en/surname/Kramar/=======
According to Serbian historian Andrija Luburić (1930), by oral tradition their origin [of the Drobnjaks] was from Travnik in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and initially they were called Novljan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drobnjaci#History=======
According to the Serbian Wikipedia a caravan leader was named Primichur or Kramar. The name Kramar was borrowed from the Saxon miners, with whom the caravaneers had trade relations.
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У средњовјековним трговачким караванима, примићуром (крамаром) се називао старјешина поносника. Назив примићур је византијског поријекла, али од латинског „primus in cera“ и обично је означавао катунара. Ријеч крамар (старија њемачка ријеч, позајмљена од рудара, Саса) позната је и данас, а јавља се у средњовјековним споменицима.
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У своје вријеме, записани су и познати крамари: Хлапац Станковић, Херак Милошевић, Дубравац Милићевић... Сви крамари поменути у архивским књигама, били су власи, из данашњих области у Херцеговини и Црној Гори, односно катуна: Бањани, Буквићи, Бурмази, Дробњаци, Журовићи, Малешевци, Мириловићи, Перветинићи, Пилатовци, Предојевићи, Томићи и остали.
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In medieval trade caravans, the head of the pride was called a primichur [primićur] or kramar. The name primićur is of Byzantine origin, from the Latin "primus in cera" and usually meant the leader of a katun [village]. The word kramar (an older German word, borrowed from the Saxon miners [Sas]) is still known today, and appears in medieval monuments.
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In their time, famous shopkeepers were also recorded: Hlapac Stanković, Herak Milošević, Dubravac Milićević... All the shopkeepers mentioned in the archive books were Vlachs, from today's areas in Herzegovina and Montenegro, i.e. katuna: Banjani, Bukvici, Burmazi, Drobnjaci, Žurovići, Maleševci, Mirilovići, Pervetinići, Pilatovići, Predojevići, Tomići and others.
https://tinyurl.com/primichur-kramar (original article on Serbian Wikipedia)
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My father (Constantin Munteanu) has autosomal matches who have ancestors with almost all the surnames mentioned above.