WI: Slavic "Romania", Romanian "Yugoslavia"

Rather than simply in OTL Romania, might the South Slavs be present in what in our timeline is Ukraine, perhaps mixing with east Slavic dialects? This would lead to a clearer cultural separation from other eastern Slavs, which might lead to longer periods of being a separate nation.
I'm not this intepretation of the nature of Slavic populations make sense, as I understood their differentiation in 3 groups wasn't very old and formed as they migrated, so if they don't I'm not sure why one would expect South Slavic features to appear in Ukraine.
 
Well, i was thinking more about a mass migration of east romance-speakers to the area (perhaps during the RE fall?), but this looks interesting too. Still, what about the slavic Dacia?
Slavs did OTL migrate to Dacia, but unlike in Dalmatia/Illyria the Slavic language did not take root. Both Dacia and Dalmatia was Romance speaking before the Slavic migration.
 
Slavs did OTL migrate to Dacia, but unlike in Dalmatia/Illyria the Slavic language did not take root. Both Dacia and Dalmatia was Romance speaking before the Slavic migration.

Yes, but the opposite could happened. Perhaps if the daco-romanian population migrated massively to Illyria during the slavic invasions, leaving a sparsely populated Dacia which can be easily assimilated and fortifying the presence of romance dialects in Dalmatia/Illyria.
 
Yes, but the opposite could happened. Perhaps if the daco-romanian population migrated massively to Illyria during the slavic invasions, leaving a sparsely populated Dacia which can be easily assimilated and fortifying the presence of romance dialects in Dalmatia/Illyria.
A Slavic elite might make Slavic languages more profitable to speak. If Slavic is used across Romania as a trade tongue, Religious tonge(as in OTL, Chuch Slavonic) and language of nobillity.
 
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