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>northern areas before the Middle Ages
What do you consider northern? The Raetians are definitely in northern Europe. But even that ignores the fact that Romans said they came from the land of the Veneti, in the area of Estonia-St. Petersburg today, and that Doric Greeks were clearly in contact with Scythians. Are we supposed to ignore that the runic-esque script of Latin somehow gets carried over as far as Mongolia and Kazakhstan in the ancient period but we're supposed to think that Latins invented it? And no way Phoenicians went up there.