From: alex_lycos
Message: 20583
Date: 2003-03-31
>Since in Rom. is just Vlad and Dragomir ( I exclude derivative as
> Similarly, the name of the leader of a Bulgarian embassy to
> Constantinople in 809 AD is routinely given as 'Dragomir' - a common
> even nowadays and with a clear Slavic meaning name, but the 809 AD
> form is 'Dargamir' (DARGAMHROS). Compare also to the names of two
> other rulers - Bezmer (VII c.) and Malamir (IX c.), for which Slavic
> and Iranian etymologies has been proposed