Re: [tied] Re: Kastamonitu

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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Kastamonitu


Hey, who refuses to respect facts? First of all, the
Castamonitu monastery on the island of Athos was attacked
_during_ the eighth century, not _before_ it, by an alliance
involving several ethnic groups, one of them being named as
"Blacoryncini" (Blakorunkinoi) (if I remember correctly) in a
still later source that recounts those events. There is no
mention of Blachernae there, let alone a connection being made
between Blachernae and the Vlachs. As far as I remember, the
river Rhyncus is located in Chalcidice, and the name
Blacoryncini _may_ mean 'Vlachs living on the Rhyncus' (as
opposed to other "Rhyncians"). Even if the identification is
correct, we are _not_ dealing with pre-metathesis times, and
those putative Proto-Romanians make their début in northern
Greece, not in modern Romania.

Piotr

[moeller]

Romania has here nothing to do. I was thinking just about the
aparition of the name Blakho in the history.But now I observe
something doesnt fit ok here..read please:

"An anonymous writer of the 7th century, whose notes were
preserved in the monastery of Kastamonitu (on the island of
Athos) is writing about the era of the destruction of
paintings (717-843). According to his notations, in the 8th
century, Bulgaria was occupied by the Rhékinos, the
Blakhorékhinos and the Sagudateos."

Hmm.. an anoymous writer of 7 century ( until 699) speaks
about an era which is dated between 717-843? That is indeed
funny..

BTW.. we have 3 groups here. Rekhinos, Blakhorekhinos and
Sagudateos.
if Blakho is hard to identify the Rekhinos whou should be?And
Sagudateos?