*****GK: DAI was written as a handbook for his son re
foreign policy. ... what is even more interesting is
that he [ie Porphyrogenitus] does not mention the Vlachs as relevant for
Byzantine foreign policy.
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http://www.geocities.com/serban_marin/brezeanu2000.html
".the 'Romans' were called with the ethnonym in the XII century, or -
utilising an almost general term in the Peninsula - as 'Vlachs'. However, it
is important that this last ethnonym of the Balkan Latins was utilised by
the foreigners, and not by the Vlachs themselves. The latter continued to
constantly self-named as 'Romans'. Two centuries previously, in a well known
passage from De administrando imperio, Constantine the Porphyrogenitus had
informed about the Latin population in Dalmatia, brought from Rome by the
Emperor Diocletian: "these are also called as Romans, because they came from
Rome, and even nowadays they have this name"27. A half of millennium after,
Ireneo della Croce also explicitly affirmed that the Vlachs from the
northwestern part of the peninsula, also nominated by the foreigners as
cici, "called in their language as rumeri [emphasis mine] / addimandosi nel
proprio linguaggio Rumeri".
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