>*****GK: I had heard differently. There is also a
>large mountainous area in Serbia known as "Old
>Vlachia".*****
That's right, and if my memory isn't too... athero-
sclerotic there was not only one Vlahia in Serbia
(or rather Yugoslavia, coz I can't remember in
which provinces; e.g. on a conventional map
of mine, with not too many details on it, there
is a VlaSic^ area between too peaks Paljenik (1943m)
and Gola (1473m), where the nearest localities
that are more or less known to the outer world
(also due to the war in the 1990s) are Zenica to
the East and Banja Luka to the NW).)
George