From: george knysh
Message: 19511
Date: 2003-03-02
> > george knysh wrote:not at
> > > GK: Porphyrogenitus ... 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. ..
>
> From: "alex_lycos" <altamix@...> March 01, 2003
> > I see it in the same way. Within the Empire we
> have testimonies about
> > every John and Peter but not about Valahs. Outside
> of Empire, just about
> > people who have been organised in a certain way
> and played a military or
> > a political role. Since neither inside of Empire,
> nor outside of Empire
> > is anything about Vlahs, it should be reasonable
> to assume they have not
> > been a military and political factor to speak
> about, but they have been
> > outside of the Empire. ... The second point from
> the linguistic point
> > of view is the common lexic with Albanians. Lexic
> which it seems is
> > bigger as assumed until now. And therefore it was
> advanced the
> > hypotheses, they must have been living together
> somewhere. This
> > "somewhere" could never be located since in the
> medieval times is no
> > testimony which should give any information about
> "the place" where they
> > could live together.
>
>(S&L) So, according to these posts, the Vlachs are
> N or S of Danube before*****GK: You problem is with Alex, not with me. All
> the X century. Being confused �where are they?-