(A Concise History of the Baltic States (Cambridge Concise Histories)) [By Quotes

“Basanavicius himself was intensely interested in Lithuanian history and folklore and published extensively in those fields, contributing to the romanticization of the Lithuanian past and hypothesizing that Lithuanians as a people were descendants of the Thraco-Phrygians who once had lived on the shores of the Black Sea.(page 238)”
― Andrejs Plakans, (A Concise History of the Baltic States (Cambridge Concise Histories)) [By: Plakans, Andrejs] [Feb, 2011]