Information on the ethnic composition of the region over several centuries is almost entirely absent, with the strong likelihood that they did not fit into standard "national" patterns, as the 19th-century revolutionary nationalist movements wanted.
Podaci o etničkom sastavu regije nedostaju za nekoliko vekova, a po mnogo čemu ne bi se uklapali u standardni nacionalni uzorak, kako su to revolucionarni nacionalistički pokreti 19. veka podrazumevali.