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

S & L 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'.

There have been no Romans anymore in the XII century. What do intend Mr
Brezeanu to say with that? Does he consider the Romanians being the
Romans?

> 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'.

If we take as basis the XII century , then it will mean that Mr Brezeanu
consider the romanians called themselves "romans". It look somehow
doubtfully since in the XII century there must already have been the
change /om/ > /um/, aka "rumân".

> 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.

This is the only passage where CP speaks about romans. He shows though
dalmatians, but not valachs. Wellknown, the Vegliot language is not a
dialect of Rom. Lang. And indeed, Begining with Dicolectian, Dalmatia
was well populated with Romans getting later a strong italo-venetian
influence.

Alex