Re: [tied] Balkan?

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
Neither Poles nor

> Italians would have had any problems with the sound
> [v], and the term <Wol/och> 'Vlach' (with East
> Slavic phonetics) had long been familiar to the
> Poles (we reserve the West Slavic variant <Wl/och>
> for the Italians,

*****GK: Interestingly, Italy was called the
"Voloshs'ka zemlya" in the Old Kyivan Chronicle, and
the 1-2nd c. Roman imperial conquests along the Danube
were attributed to "Vlachs" (or "Volochs").*****



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