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The first mention of Vlachs in Serbian medieval chronicles is dated from the time of [[Stefan the First-Crowned|Stefan Nemanjić]], most likely 1198-1199, and it is related to a donation act towards restoration of [[Hilandar|Hilandar monastery]] with aid from the inhabitants of the area of [[Prizren]].<ref>[https://www.academia.edu/36939351/The%20heritage%20of%20Western%20Balkan%20Vlachs Octavian Ciobanu : The heritage of Western Balkan Vlachs]</ref> |
The first mention of Vlachs in Serbian medieval chronicles is dated from the time of [[Stefan the First-Crowned|Stefan Nemanjić]], most likely 1198-1199, and it is related to a donation act towards restoration of [[Hilandar|Hilandar monastery]] with aid from the inhabitants of the area of [[Prizren]].<ref>[https://www.academia.edu/36939351/The%20heritage%20of%20Western%20Balkan%20Vlachs Octavian Ciobanu : The heritage of Western Balkan Vlachs]</ref> |
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From the very end of the 12th century, several Serbian documents mention the Vlachs shepherding in the mountains between the [[Drina]] and the [[Morava Valley|Morava]].<ref>{{Cite journal |title=A „ROMÁNOK FÖLDJE” |url=https://www.arcanum.com/hu/online-kiadvanyok/ErdelyHun-erdely-tortenete-harom-kotetben-1/elso-kotet-a-kezdetektol-1606-ig-6/iii-erdely-a-kozepkori-magyar-kiralysagban-8961526-323/2-a-magyar-honfoglalastol-a-tatarjarasig-362/a-romanok-foldje-3CB/ |journal= |language=Hungarian}}</ref> |
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Vlach (English: /ˈvlɑːx/ or /ˈvlæk/), also Wallachian (and many other variants[1]), is a historical term and exonym used from the Middle Ages until the Modern Era to designate speakers of Eastern Romance languages living in the Balkans and north of the Danube.[2]
Although it has also been used to name present-day Romanians, the term “Vlach” today refers primarily to speakers of the Balkan Romance languages who live south of the Danube, in Albania, Bulgaria, northern Greece, Northern Macedonia and eastern Serbia. These people include the ethnic groups of the Aromanians, the Megleno Romanians and, in Serbia, the Timok Romanians.[3] The term also became a synonym in the Balkans for the social category of shepherds,[4] and was also used for non-Romance-speaking peoples, in recent times in the western Balkans derogatively.[5] The term is also used to refer to the ethnographic group of Moravian Vlachs who speak a Slavic language but originate from Romanians, as well as for Morlachs and Istro-Romanians.[6]
Vlachs were initially identified and described during the 11th century by George Kedrenos. According to one origin theory, modern Romanians, Moldovans and Aromanians originated from Dacians.[7] According to some linguists and scholars, the Eastern Romance languages prove the survival of the Thraco-Romans in the lower Danube basin during the Migration Period[8] and western Balkan populations known as Vlachs also have had Romanized Illyrian origins.[9] However, many non-Romanian historian believe that Vlachs originated in the southern Balkans and migrated north from there from the 11th-12th centuries onwards.[10][11][12][13]
Currently, Eastern Romance-speaking communities are estimated at 26–30 million people worldwide (including the Romanian diaspora and Moldovan diaspora).[14]
Etymology
The word Vlach/Wallachian (and other variants such as Vlah, Valah, Valach, Voloh, Blac, oláh, Vlas, Ulah, etc.[1]) is etymologically derived from the ethnonym of a Celtic tribe,[5] adopted into Proto-Germanic *Walhaz, which meant "stranger", from *Wolkā-[15] (Caesar's Template:Lang-la, Strabo and Ptolemy's Greek: Ouolkai).[16] Via Latin, in Gothic, as *walhs, the ethnonym took on the meaning "foreigner" or "Romance-speaker" and later "shepherd, nomad".[16][5] The term was adopted into Greek as Vláhoi (Βλάχοι), Slavic as Vlah (pl. Vlasi), Hungarian as oláh and olasz, etc.[17][18] The root word was notably adopted in Germanic for Wales and Walloon, and in Switzerland for Romansh-speakers (German: Welsch),[5] and in Poland Włochy or in Hungary olasz became an exonym for Italians.[16][1] The Slovenian term Lahi has also been used to designate Italians.[19]
Romanian scholars have suggested that the term Vlach appeared for the first time in the Eastern Roman Empire and was subsequently spread to the Germanic- and then Slavic-speaking worlds through the Norsemen (possibly by Varangians), who were in trade and military contact with Byzantium during the early Middle Ages (see also Blakumen).[20][21]
Historical and modern uses
The term first appeared in late medieval sources and was used primarily as an exonym for speakers of the Balkan Romance languages, especially Romanians.[1][3] But testimonies from the 13th and the 14th centuries show that, although in Europe and beyond, they were called Vlachs or Wallachians (oláh in Hungarian, Vláchoi (Βλάχοι) in Greek, Volóxi (Воло́хи) in Russian, Walachen in German, Valacchi in Italian, Valaques in French, Valacos in Spanish), the Romanians used the endonym Rumân or Român, from the Latin Romanus, meaning "Roman".[1][22]
However, in historical sources the term "Vlach" could also refer to different peoples: "Slovak, Hungarian, Balkan, Transylvanian, Romanian, or even Albanian".[23] In late Byzantine documents, the Vlachs are mentioned as Bulgaro-Albano-Vlachs (Bulgaralbanitoblahos), or Serbo-Albano-Bulgaro-Vlachs.[24] According to the Serbian historian Sima Ćirković, the name "Vlach" in medieval sources had the same rank as the name "Greek", "Serb" or "Latin".[25]
During the early history of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans, there was a military class of Vlachs in Serbia and Ottoman Macedonia, made up of Christians who served as auxiliary forces and were exempted of certain taxes until the beginning of the 17th century.[4] Some Greeks used Vlacho[when?] as a pejorative term.[citation needed] In Žumberak, members of the Greek Catholic Church were called Vlachs, while in Carniola, all inhabitants of Žumberak were called as such.[citation needed] In the Posavina and Bihać areas, Muslims used the term Vlasi for all Christians (both Orthodox and Catholics), while the Catholics used that name to refer to Eastern Christian Orthodox.[citation needed] Under the Ottoman rule, a large part of the Dalmatian hinterland was repopulated by Slavic settlers, both Orthodox and Catholic, speaking the Shtokavian dialect and called Vlach or Morlach by the inhabitants of the Dalmatian coast and islands. In these areas, the term Vlah evolved to Vlaj (pl. Vlaji) and is still used as a derogatory term to refer to the rural inhabitants of the hinterland, both Croats and Serbs, as "peasants" and "ignorants".[26] In Istria, the ethnonym Vlach is used by the Chakavian-speaking Croatian inhabitants to refer to the Istro-Romanians and the Slavs who settled in the 15th and 16th centuries.[27]
Nowadays, the term Vlachs (also known under other names, such as "Koutsovlachs", "Tsintsars", "Karagouni", "Chobani", "Vlasi", etc.[28]) is used in scholarship for the Romance-speaking communities in the Balkans, especially those in Greece, Albania and North Macedonia.[29][30] In Serbia the term Vlach (Serbian Vlah, plural Vlasi) is also used to refer to Romanian speakers, especially those living in eastern Serbia.[3] Aromanians themselves use the endonym "Armãn" (plural "Armãni") or "Rãmãn" (plural "Rãmãni"), etymologically from "Romanus", meaning "Roman". Megleno-Romanians designate themselves with the Macedonian form Vla (plural Vlaš) in their own language.[3]
Medieval usage
8th century
First precise data about Vlachs are in connection with the Vlachs of the Rynchos river (present-day North Macedonia); the original document containing the information is from the Konstamonitou monastery.[31]
9th century
According to the medieval Hungarian book Gesta Hungarorum ("The deeds of the Hungarians"), when the Hungarians of Grand Prince Árpád conquered the Carpathian Basin, Slavs, Bulgarians and Blachij, and also the shepherds of the Romans (sclauij, Bulgarij et Blachij, ac pastores romanorum) inhabited it.[32] Most researchers say that the Blachij are the Vlachs,[33] others that they are the Bulaqs, a Turkic people.[34] The chronicle's authenticity is in question in historiography.[35][36][37][38]
10th century
During the Middle Ages, the term "Magna Vlachia" appears in Byzantine documents, meaning the ancestral homeland of the Vlachs, this name was used for Thessaly and present-day North Macedonia.[39][40][41]
John Skylitzes mentioned the Vlachs in 976, as guides and guards of Byzantine caravans in the Balkans. Between Prespa and Kastoria, they met and fought with a Bulgarian rebel named David. The Vlachs killed David in their first documented battle.[42]
Byzantine writer Kekaumenos, author of the Strategikon (1078), writes about a leader, Nikulitsa, who is given command by Basil II over the Vlachs in Hellada theme. Nicolitzas switched alliance to Samuel of Bulgaria after the conquest of Larissa by the Bulgarian Tsar.[43][44]
Mutahhar al-Maqdisi, "They say that in the Turkic neighbourhood there are the Khazars, Russians, Slavs, Waladj, Alans, Greeks and many other peoples".[45]
Ibn al-Nadīm published in 998 the work Kitāb al-Fihrist mentioning "Turks, Bulgars and Vlahs" (using Blagha for Vlachs)[46][47]
11th century
The names Blakumen or Blökumenn is mentioned in Nordic sagas dating between the 11th–13th centuries, with respect to events that took place in either 1018 or 1019 somewhere at the northwestern part of the Black Sea and believed by some to be related to the Vlachs.[48][49] Non-Romanian scholars on the subject, such as Omeljan Pritsak, however, point out that the texts probably refer to a nomadic Turkic people, since the "Blakumen" in the texts are “non-christian heathens” and nomadic horsemans.[50][page needed]
Kekaumenos writes about the revolt in 1066 in the region of Thessaly led by Nikoulitzas Delphinas, nephew of the homonymous 10th century military commander, and father in law of the writer.[51]
In 1094, the Cuman army crossing the mountains of southern Bulgaria was led through the mountains by the Vlachs.[39]
Also in 1094 the first mention of Vlachs in Moglena region is made, the document is kept in the archive of the monastery Great Lavra on Mount Athos. According to this Emperor Alexios I Komnenos replies to the monks of the monastery complaining that people on their domain are not paying taxes. The document contains some of the first Romanian names, such as Stan, Radu cel Şchiop, and Peducel.[52]
In 1099, crusading armies were attacked by Vlachs, in the mountains along the road from Braničevo to Niš.[39][53]
12th century
The Russian Primary Chronicle, written c. 1113 states that the Volochi people attacked the Slavs of the Danube and settled among them and oppressed them, leading to the Slavs departing and settling around the Vistula under the name of Leshi.[54] Later, the Hungarians drove the Vlachs away, taking and settling the land.[55][56] The Primary Chronicle thus contains a possible reference to Romanians, although most non-Romanian historians consider the Volochi the Franks, as their country is placed west to Baltic Sea and near England by the author of the work, Nestor the Chronicler.[57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65] The Frankish Empire stretched from the North Sea to the Danube.
In 1105, monks on Mount Athos were tempted by Vlach women dressed as men selling milk and wool products.[39]
Traveler Benjamin of Tudela (1130–1173) of the Kingdom of Navarre was one of the first writers to use the word Vlachs for a Romance-speaking population.[66]
Byzantine historian John Kinnamos described Leon Vatatzes' military expedition along the northern Danube, where Vatatzes mentioned the participation of Vlachs in battles with the Magyars (Hungarians) in 1166.[67][68]
The uprising of brothers Asen and Peter was a revolt of Bulgarians and Vlachs living in the theme of Paristrion of the Byzantine Empire, caused by a tax increase. It began on 26 October 1185, the feast day of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki, and ended with the creation of the Second Bulgarian Empire, also known in its early history as the Empire of Bulgarians and Vlachs.
Mentions of Vlachs in Medieval Bulgaria also come from Niketas Choniates who writes about a Vlach called Dobromir Chrysos who established an autonomous polity in the upper region of Vardar river and Moglena.[69] A similar event is recorded by the same author in the area of Philippopolis where a Vlach called Ivanko, formerly a boyar at the Asen brothers' court was given military command by Emperor Isaac and expanded his rule to Smolyan, Mosynopolis, and Xanthi.[70]
The first mention of Vlachs in Serbian medieval chronicles is dated from the time of Stefan Nemanjić, most likely 1198-1199, and it is related to a donation act towards restoration of Hilandar monastery with aid from the inhabitants of the area of Prizren.[71]
From the very end of the 12th century, several Serbian documents mention the Vlachs shepherding in the mountains between the Drina and the Morava.[72]
13th century
Sándor Timaru-Kast alleges that the Venetian Chronicle refers to the land that would become Wallachia as "Black Cumania", the colony of "black Vlachs" who migrated northwards.[73]
In 1213, an army of Vlachs, Saxons and Pechenegs, led by the Count of Sibiu, Joachim Türje, attacked the Bulgarians and Cumans from Vidin.[74] After this, all Hungarian battles in the Carpathian region were supported by Romance-speaking soldiers from Transylvania.[75]
In 1220, king Stefan the First-Crowned proclaimed that all Vlachs of his kingdom belonged to the Eparchy of Žiča.[76]
Shortly after the fall of the Land of the Olt, a church was built at the Cârța Monastery and Catholic German-speaking settlers from Rhineland and Mosel Valley (known as Transylvanian Saxons) began to settle in the Orthodox region.[77] In the Diploma Andreanum issued by King Andrew II of Hungary in 1224, "silva blacorum et bissenorum" was given to the settlers.[78] The Orthodox Vlachs spread further northward along the Carpathians to Poland, Slovakia, and Moravia and were granted autonomy under Ius Vlachonicum (Walachian law).[79]
In 1246, Béla IV of Hungary reinforced the privilages of the Archbishopric of Esztergom and gave it new privilages as well. One of the new rights of the archbishopric was the right to collect taxes from the Székelys and the Vlachs, "wherever the Vlachs come into the country, they have to pay".[80][81][82]
In 1247, Béla IV of Hungary gives the "Land of Severin" to the Knights Hospitallers with two polities (kenezatus of John and Farkas), except kenezatus of voivode Litovoi which was left to the Vlachs as they held it.[83]
In the grant (around 1280) by his wife and queen, Helen of Anjou, which confirmed the grant given by Stefan Vladislav to the Vranjina monastery, the Vlachs are separately mentioned, along with Arbanasi (Albanians), Latins and Serbs.[84]
In 1285 Ladislaus the Cuman fought the Tatars and Cumans, arriving with his troops at the Moldova River. A town, Baia (near the said river), was documented in 1300 as settled by the Transylvanian Saxons (see also Foundation of Moldavia).[85][86] In 1290 Ladislaus the Cuman was assassinated; the new Hungarian king allegedly drove voivode Radu Negru and his people across the Carpathians, where they formed Wallachia along with its first capital Câmpulung (see also Foundation of Wallachia).[87]
At the end of the 13th century, during the reign of Ladislaus the Cuman, Simon of Kéza wrote about the Blacki people and placed them in Pannonia with the Huns.[88][89] According to some Romanian historians, archaeological discoveries indicate that Transylvania was gradually settled by the Magyars, and the last region defended by the Vlachs and Pechenegs (until 1200) was between the Olt River and the Carpathians.[90][91] Other historians argue that there is absolutely no evidence for such an event.[38][35][34][13][57][12][11][10][36][92][39]
14th century
First mention of a Vlach called Radul in 1329, in the Istrian Peninsula.[93]
Croatian chronicler Miha de Barbazanis writes that Vlachs from the area of Cetina River fought for Mladen II Šubić of Bribir against Charles I of Hungary and Ban John Babonić.[94][95]
In the 14th century, royal charters from the Kingdom of Serbia included segregation policies stating that “a Serb shall not marry a Vlach.”[96][97] However, these laws were not successful and intermarriage between Slavs, Vlachs and also Albanians did take place.[96]
15th century
In 1404, Archbishop Johannes de Galonifontibus, in his Libellus de notitia orbis, notes that the Vlachs originated from Macedonia, but were already living in "Great Vlachia" too, which corresponds to Wallachia.[98]
The biggest caravan shipment between Podvisoki in Bosnia and Republic of Ragusa was recorded on 9 August 1428, where Vlachs transported 1500 modius of salt with 600 horses.[99][100]
Nicholas of Ilok styled himself as Bosniae and Valachiae Rex.[101]
Toponymy
In addition to the ethnic groups of Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians, and Istro-Romanians who emerged during the Migration Period, other Vlachs could be found as far north as Poland, as far west as Moravia and Dalmatia.[102] In search of better pasture, they were called Vlasi or Valaši by the Slavs.
States mentioned in medieval chronicles were:[citation needed]
- Wallachia – between the Southern Carpathians and the Danube (Ţara Românească in Romanian); Bassarab-Wallachia (Bassarab's Wallachia and Ungro-Wallachia or Wallachia Transalpina in administrative sources;[which?]
- Moldavia – between the Carpathians and the Dniester river (Bogdano-Wallachia; Bogdan's Wallachia,[citation needed] Moldo-Wallachia or Maurovlachia; Black Wallachia, Moldovlachia or Rousso-Vlachia in Byzantine sources[92]);
- Second Bulgarian Empire, between the Carpathians and the Balkan Mountains – Regnum Bulgarorum et Blachorum in documents by Pope Innocent III[which?][citation needed]
- Terra Prodnicorum (or Terra Brodnici), mentioned by Pope Honorius III in 1222. Vlachs led by Ploskanea supported the Tatars in the 1223 Battle of Kalka. Vlach lands near Galicia in the west, Volhynia in the north, Moldova in the south and the Bolohoveni lands in the east were conquered by Galicia.[103][neutrality is disputed]
- Bolokhoveni was Vlach land between Kyiv and the Dniester in Ukraine. Place names were Olohovets, Olshani, Voloschi and Vlodava, mentioned in 11th-to-13th-century Slavonic chronicles. It was conquered by Galicia.[104][neutrality is disputed] But it is important to note that among historians, the Bolokhoveni are clearly a Slavic people, as their name and their archaeological finds clearly position them as Slavs, and written sources all refer to them as Slavs.[105]
Regions and places are:
- White Wallachia in Moesia[106][need quotation to verify]
- Great Wallachia (Μεγάλη Βλαχία; Megáli vlahía) in Thessaly[106]
- Small Wallachia (Μικρή Βλαχία; Mikrí vlahía) in Aetolia, Acarnania, Dorida and Locrida[106]
- Morlachia, in Lika-Dalmatia
- Upper Valachia of Moscopole and Metsovon (Άνω Βλαχία; Áno Vlahía) in southern Macedonia, Albania and Epirus
- Stari Vlah ("the Old Vlach"), a region in southwestern Serbia
- Maior Vlachia, a region in southwestern part of Croatia mentioned in 1373[107]
- Romanija mountain (Romanija planina) in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina[108]
- Vlașca County, a former county of southern Wallachia (derived from Slavic Vlaška)
- Greater Wallachia, an older name for the region of Muntenia, southeastern Romania
- Lesser Wallachia, an older name for the region of Oltenia, southwestern Romania
- An Italian writer called the Banat Valachia citeriore ("Wallachia on this side") in 1550.[109]
- Valahia transalpina, including Făgăraș and Hațeg
- Moravian Wallachia (Czech: Moravské Valašsko), in the Beskid Mountains (Czech: Beskydy) of the Czech Republic.[110]
Shepherd culture
As national states appeared in the area of the former Ottoman Empire, new state borders were developed that divided the summer and winter habitats of many of the transhumance groups. During the Middle Ages, many Vlachs were shepherds who drove their flocks through the mountains of Central and Eastern Europe. Vlach shepherds may be found as far north as southern Poland (Podhale) and the eastern Czech Republic (Moravia) by following the Carpathians, the Dinaric Alps in the west, the Pindus Mountains in the south, and the Caucasus Mountains in the east.[111]
Some researchers, like Bogumil Hrabak and Marian Wenzel, theorized that the origins of Stećci tombstones, which appeared in medieval Bosnia between 12th and 16th century, could be attributed to Vlach burial culture of Bosnia and Herzegovina of that times.[112]
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Medieval necropolis in Radimlja, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Hypothetical map depicting Vlach transhumance in the Western Balkans, showcasing several examples of Vlach necropolises.[113]
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Romanian immigrants on Ellis Island in national dress
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Vlach shepherd of Banat (Auguste Raffet, c. 1837)
Legacy
According to Ilona Czamańska "for several recent centuries the investigation of the Vlachian ethnogenesis was so much dominated by political issues that any progress in this respect was incredibly difficult." The transhumance of Vlachs, the heirs of Roman citizens, may be a key for solving the problem of ethnogenesis, but the problem is that many migrations were in multiple directions during the same time. These migrations were not just part of the Balkans and the Carpathians, they exist and in the Caucasus, the Adriatic islands and possibly over the entire region of the Mediterranean Sea. Because of this, our knowledge concerning primary migrations of the Vlachs and the ethnogenesis is more than modest.[114]
Researcher have also raised a concern about cultural appropriation of Vlach heritage in the Balkans, denial of Vlach descend of various groups and personalities, and exclusion from political life.[115]
See also
Notes
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- ^ "Valah". Dicționare ale limbii române. dexonline.ro. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
- ^ a b c d Vlach at the Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ a b Sugar, Peter F. (1996). Southeastern Europe under Ottoman Rule, 1354–1804. University of Washington Press. p. 39. ISBN 0-295-96033-7.
- ^ a b c d Tanner 2004, p. 203.
- ^ Ivan Mužić (2011). Hrvatska kronika u Ljetopisu pop Dukljanina (PDF). Split: Muzej hrvatski arheoloških spomenika. p. 66 (Crni Latini), 260 (qui illo tempore Romani vocabantur, modo vero Moroulachi, hoc est Nigri Latini vocantur.).
In some Croatian and Latin redactions of the Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja, from 16th century.
- ^ Fine, John V. A. Jr. (1991) [1983]. The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. p. 10. ISBN 0-472-08149-7.
Traditionally scholars have seen the Dacians as ancestors of the modern Rumanians and Vlachs and the Illyrians as the proto-Albanians.
- ^ According to Cornelia Bodea, Ştefan Pascu, Liviu Constantinescu: "România: Atlas Istorico-geografic", Academia Română 1996, ISBN 973-27-0500-0, chap. II, "Historical landmarks", p. 50 (English text), the survival of the Thraco-Romans in the Lower Danube basin during the Migration Period is an obvious fact: Thraco-Romans haven't vanished in the soil & Vlachs haven't appeared after 1000 years by spontaneous generation.
- ^ Winnifrith, Tom J. (2002). Badlands-Borderland. A History of Southern Albania/Northern Epirus. London: Duckworth. p. 44. ISBN 9780715632017.
Romanized Illyrians, the ancestors of the modern Vlachs
- ^ a b Schramm, Gottfried (1997). Ein Damm bricht. Die römische Donaugrenze und die Invasionen des 5-7. Jahrhunderts in Lichte der Namen und Wörter [=A Dam Breaks: The Roman Danube frontier and the Invasions of the 5th-7th Centuries in the Light of Names and Words] (in German). R. Oldenbourg Verlag. p. 326.
- ^ a b Herbert J., Izzo (1986). On the history of Romanian (Marino, Mary C.; Pérez, Luis A. ed.). The Twelfth LACUS Forum, 1985. Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States. pp. 139–146.
- ^ a b Schramm, Gottfried; von Puttkamer, Joachim; Arens, Meinolf, Virgil Ciocîltan, Zoltán Szász, Daniel Bein, Thede Kahl, Hansgerd Göckenjan, Wolfgang Dahmen, Hans-Martin Gauger, Johannes Kramer (2002). Hogyan kerültek a románok többségbe jelenlegi államuk területén? [How did the Romanians became majority in Romania?] (PDF) (in Hungarian). pp. 332–343.
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The name 'Vlach' was a word used by the Slavs for those they encountered who spoke a strange, usually Latinate, language; the Vlachs' own name for themselves is 'Aromanians' (Aromani). As this name suggests, the Vlachs are closely linked to the Romanians: their two languages (which, with a little practice, are mutually intelligible) diverged only in the ninth or tenth century. While Romanian historians have tried to argue that the Romanian-speakers have always lived in the territory of Romania (originating, it is claimed, from Romanized Dacian tribes and/or Roman legionaries), there is compelling evidence to show that the Romanian-speakers were originally part of the same population as the Vlachs, whose language and way of life were developed somewhere to the south of the Danube. Only in the twelfth century did the early Romanian-speakers move northwards into Romanian territory.
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Note: The Vlach Connection
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Further reading
- The Watchmen, a documentary film by Alastair Kenneil and Tod Sedgwick (USA) 1971 describes life in the Vlach village of Samarina in Epiros, Northern Greece
- John Kennedy Campbell, 'Honour Family and Patronage' A Study of Institutions and Moral Values in a Greek Mountain Community, Oxford University Press, 1974
- Gheorghe Bogdan, MEMORY, IDENTITY, TYPOLOGY: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY RECONSTRUCTION OF VLACH ETHNOHISTORY, B.A., University of British Columbia, 1992
- Franck Vogel, a photo-essay on the Valchs published by GEO magazine (France), 2010.
- Adina Berciu-Drăghicescu, Aromâni, meglenoromâni, istroromâni : aspecte identitare şi culturale, Editura Universităţii din București, 2012, ISBN 978-606-16-0148-6
- Octavian Ciobanu, "The Role of the Vlachs in the Bogomils' Expansion in the Balkans.", Journal of Balkan and Black Sea Studies, Year 4, Issue 7, December 2021, pp. 11–32.
External links
- ROMÂNII BALCANICI AROMÂNII—Maria Magiru about Aromanians (in Romanian)
- The Vlach Connection and Further Reflections on Roman History
- Orbis Latinus: Wallachians, Walloons, Welschen
- Vlachs in Greece
- Cultural appropriation of Vlachs' heritage
- French Vlachs Association (in Vlach, EN and FR)
- Studies on the Vlachs, by Asterios Koukoudis
- Vlachs' in Greece (in Greek)
- Consiliul A Tinirlor Armanj, Youth Aromanian community and their Projects (in Vlach, EN and RO)
- Old Wallachia—a short Czech film from 1955 depicting life of Vlachs in Czech Moravia