From: george knysh
Message: 22031
Date: 2003-05-17
> george knysh wrote:1/3 of
> There
> > may have been Romanians in the Hungarian armies
> which
> > occasionally invaded Galicia in the 12th and 13th
> > centuries, but they are not mentioned separately.
> > "Expansion" is not the right word here. There is
> no
> > record of settlement. On that basis, we could
> argue
> > that the Irish "expanded" all the way to Kyiv
> because
> > there was an Irish monastic presence there before
> > 1240.(:=)))
>
>(Alex) Or that the Dacians became latinised because
> their theritory was******GK: Yes, that is a difficulty for the integral
> for 150 Years under Roman administration:-)
>******GK: Good luck (:=))) My issue compares to yours
> > GK: Alex, it has been known for a very long
> time
> > that the "Jus Valachorum" ("Voloshs'ke Pravo") in
> > Galicia in the 14th and 15th century was
> > overwhelmingly used by local peasants, not by
> Romanian
> > colonists. Most of the life of these "Valachian"
> > villages continued to be regulated by the
> traditional
> > "Rus' Law". The "militarization" of many of these
> > villages is a later phenomenon, as is the
> co-optation
> > of their "knyazi" into the local secondary
> > aristocracy. The Romanian (actually Moldavian)
> > influence is clear, but this is a borrowed system,
> not
> > evidence of colonization.
>
> This is how I will conclude about Rom. Lang too. The
> Latin influences
> are clear, but this is a borrowed system , not a
> evidence of
> latinisation:-)