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").*****

[moeller] indeed. the polish and the slavs in generaly in the
medieval time made a very small difference between italians and
romanians (woloch, waloch), (wolosz, walosz)