Re: [tied] RE: Two questions

--- alex_lycos <altamix@...> wrote:

> Very important is that they do not appear in the
> writings of Constantine
> Prophyrogenitus. As far I know, Prophyrogenitus
> wrote about everything
> within Empire in his work, about folks and stuff.
> The Vlahs seems to be
> unknown to him. He speak about the "Romans" when he
> speak about the
> Dalmatian population but that is all.More probably
> the Vlahs have been
> not within Empire, otherwise the silence about them
> is not to explain.
> There cannot be said that Prophyrogenitus seen the
> Vlahs as the usual
> citizens of the Empire. In that time, the difference
> between "Romaioi"
> and "others" was very clear and I very doubt the
> Greeks should have seen
> the "Vlahs" as "Romaioi".
> The only left possibility is that the folk of Vlahs
> lived outside of the
> Byzantine Empire and because of the last invasion of
> the Hungarian
> tribes, they have been forced to leave the region.

******GK: Porphyrogenitus wrote a great deal about
peoples outside the boundaries of the Byzantine
Empire, esp. those of the north (e.g. Pechenegs, Rus',
Bulgars, Magyars etc.). Since he makes no mention of
Vlachs the argument can certainly be made that there
were no Vlachs to mention at that time north of the
Danube. At least none that mattered as a military and
political factor.*******



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