Official historians maintain that the territory of present-day Austria was populated by Latinized Celts before the presumed arrival of Slavs. But they do not say why the Celts, who had already been for several centuries under Roman rule and were therefore on an appreciably higher level of culture and defence skills, would have accepted the Slavic multitudes as its own ruling class, and adopted their language and their customs without going to war. This is improbable. To take the entire territory from the Adriatic Sea to the Danube River without major battles would have been impossible. Yet no ancient writer mentions battles. Why? Probably because there were none. The native village population was not the Latinized Celts, but Slovenians; that is, their ancestors. Germans called them Windische.

That the Veneti were part of Slovenian history came into sharp focus in 1989 when three Slovenian researchers, Dr. Jožko Šavli, academician Matej Bor, and Father Ivan Tomažic published their findings in the book Veneti: naši davni predniki. The gist of their positions is as follows: 1) Slovenians lived in their lands long before the presumed settlement in the 6th century, 2) the name Veneti relates to the West Slavs, 3) Slovenians are their descendants and 4) Venetic and Slovenian languages were related.There were at the same time a few people who came to different conclusions. They understood that our forbears did not come from somewhere else in the 6th century—that they were an ancient, indigenous people in central Europe... to learn more about Veneti, please click HERE