The most important result of the study of the Paleo-Balkan populaions is the evidence that the Bryges were a component element of the later communities of Paonians, ancient Macedonians, Dassaretii and of Edones and Mygdonians in the south east part of Macedonia. Even the early Bronze Age Paeonian population was closely connected with the Bryges. Paeoninan linguistics and onomastics are characterized with many glosses and names of Brygian origin which indicates that the Bryges were substratum of the Paeonian ethnic development.
The ancient Macedonians, whose history can be followed only after 700 B.C., were most probably formed during the Early Iron Age from populations that had already inhabited the territory and from those arriving there during the Transitional Period. Their onomastic and linguistic remains point to their contacts with the Brygian substratum.
