--- alex <
alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> >
> > GK: There is also a
> > large mountainous area in Serbia known as "Old
> > Vlachia".
> >>
> >> alex
>
> Not just a mountain
*****GK: I said mountainous area, not mountain. My old
Soviet Encyclopaedia prints this "Staryj Vlakh" nicely
in its map of Yugoslavia.*****
but there is an article on the
> net regarding the
> toponyms "Stari Vlah" and in greek "Palayovlachoi".
> Take a look here:
>
>
http://www.geocities.com/serban_marin/brezeanu2000.html
*****GK: Yes. Either you or Sorin provided this
reference earlier.******
> P.S. - when appeared the "vojevodate" as statal form
> in the Slavic
> countries?
*****GK: The term applied to different situations in
different countries. It seems very old indeed, a
distinctly Slavic designation. In Kyivan Rus' the
vojevoda was the top general of a ruling prince. The
political form there was that of the knyaz' held
territory. Occasionally (very rarely) these
territories were administered by non-princely
"posadniks" (one of the best known is Ostromir of
Novgorod), but the "vojevodate" was never a "statal
form" here.*****
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