A mysterious people, whose traces we encounter in the nomenclature and in the customs throughout Germany as well as in nearby countries. Their name reflects also the form of the present-day linguistic groups like Wenden (Sorben of Lusatia), Winden (Kashubi of Pomerania) or Windische (Slovenians) and also Veneti (in Veneto, Italy). Their traces are to be found in all territories between the Baltic and the Adriatic Sea, where today different nations live. Who were the Veneti?

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It makes one wonder that such a standpoint concerning the Celts was also taken upon by those academic worlds, which must have followed the directions of the pan-Slav ideology. Why? In sense of this ideology, all "Slav" people supposedly had their origin in the so-called ancient Slavs, which had their common home somewhere in the Trans-Carpathian region. These "original" people should have been divided later into Eastern Slavs (personalized by the Russians), into Southern Slavs (personalized by the Yugoslavs meaning Serbs), and into Western Slavs (personalized by Poles or Czechs, not decided yet).

http://arhiv.bhslovenia.org/zgodovina-prikaz.php?id=89

He continues: "A Proto-Slavic speech community had divided into Proto-West Slavic and Proto-East Slavic dialects some time before the formation of the Lusatian Culture (ca. 1300-ca. 1100 B.C.E.) and had also extended throughout a great part of Western and Central Europe and as far as Paphlagonia, the northern coast of Asia Minor. There, according to Homer (11. ii, 85), they (hoi Henetoi) specialized in the breeding of 'wild mules.' Šavli's valid findings from his analysis of European toponymy (Veneti, 13-47) adequately establish an infra-structural Slavic presence throughout these regions. This conclusion is equally supported by Bor's chapter, 'Similarity of the Slovene, Latvian, and Breton Words.' (Veneti, 324-33 1) The reviewer has also carried out the homework for this independently, inducing him to inevitable concurrence with Bor's results. The significance of Bor's discovery of a layer of Slavic loanwords in Breton cannot be overstated.... Bor has clearly established the existence of Slavic loans in Breton and this fact strongly suggests that prior to the arrival in Armorica of the Brythonic (Insular P-Celtic) speaking refugees fleeing the Saxon invasions of South Britain, the indigenous Venetic population had indeed been Slavic. That a knowledge of Slovenian dialectology enabled Bor to proceed in his analysis is itself of importance."

http://www.dangel.net/SLOVENIA/NewLookSloveneHistory.html