Re: [tied] RE: DAI [was Moses of Khoren's "Geography"]

--- S & L <mbusines@...> wrote:

> *****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.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>

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.

*****GK: Thanks for reminding us of this important
text. In other words, CP DOES mention the Vlachs but
not as "Vlachs", rather as "Romans". He remains silent
about "Romans" North of the Danube.*****




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