U tome leži zec. Prisustvo naših ljudi u Apuliji nije samo vezano za rani srijedni vijek, nego su u mnogim izvorima posvjedoćeni izbjeglice pred Turcima. Što je i prirodno, jer je sa južnih dalmatinskih otoka najkraći put do Gargana.
"It is interesting that the early Slavic traces on Gargano survived for a long time although the assimilation of eleventh-century settlers had already been completed by the end of the twelfth century, and despite the later arrivals of refugees at the time of the Ottoman invasions in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries."
https://rauzino.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/slavs_but_not_slaves-n-jakus-zrinca1.doc
Добар рад. Да, присуство FT14506 грана се може објаснити приливом каснијих избеглица, али и приливом ранијих избеглица пред Бугарима, које су се досељавале из Рашке или неке друге суседне, источније области:
"Who were these Slavs and when did they settle at Monte Gargano? Andre Guillou considered their settlement as a consequence of the already mentioned intervention of Michael Višević in 926, which he explained as a result of the occupation of Michael's land by the Bulgarian emperor Simeon. Since Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus named them Serbs, Guillou also considered them as such, and in another article he even stated that they may have been fugitives from Rascia, perhaps fleeing from Simeon in the first quarter of the tenth century. Some Serbs (the ruling family included) are known to have come to Croatia while fleeing before Simeon at that time, but there is no evidence that any of them crossed or intended to cross the Adriatic. Branimir Gušić raised the question whether the Gargano settlers may have arrived there in the tenth century, and this is also the time-period suggested by Ferdo Gestrin, a Slovenian scholar who has written extensively about the Slavic settlement in South Italy in the Late Middle Ages. Jean-Marie Martin has argued that the settlers were more probably Narentan Slavs and not those of Hum, since the islands dominated by the Narentans are closest to the Gargano coast. In his opinion, the migration was a consequence of the raid undertaken by the Macedonian-Bulgarian ruler Samuel (Samuilo) along the eastern Adriatic coast, while previous Slavic invasions of the Italian coast had left no trace. Eventually, it should be mentioned that the seventeenth-century scholar Pompeo Sarnelli left a note that the villages of Vico and Peschici were founded by Slavs who, under the command of Sueripolo Capitano, defeated the Saracens invading Gargano in 970. They were invited by Emperor Otto I, who afterwards rewarded them with land on the peninsula."
Прилично сам сигуран да је ово најизвеснија опција, судећи на утврђен источни правац досељавања наших грана испод FT14506 на источни и централни Балкан, у којима су откривена бројна генетичка раздвајања а која датирају из раног средњег века, у првом реду са бројним Бугарима, Молдавцима, у појединим гранама имамо и Србе са простора Шоплука, Помаке и тд.
