Re: [tied] Re: Albanian origins and much more

george knysh wrote:

> *****GK: Has anyone wondered if at some point the term
> "Vlach" could have covered more than just the
> Romanians? I.e. could it have included (for a time)
> the Albanians? And only later become "specialized" as
> a designation of the Romanians ONLY?

I do not know about Albanian called as such. In the X century both folks are
mentioned by the Greeks on their name we know today. Albanoi and Blakoi.

> I ask because we
> know how many different populations were designated by
> similar terms in areas of contact with Germanic
> groups.*****

To be honest, I don't remember exactly but the Slavs & Greeks did not called
the Dalmatians with the Germanic therm. Any idea how the Dalmatians have
been called by Slavs? In the chronic of Anonymus, regardless how true/false
the stories are, the call there the Vlachs "vlachs" and -depending on the
interpretation of the Latin text- an another folk called "pastores romanus".
Somewhere I have the feeling we discussed that once since from this point we
got the discussion to the "Nestor Stary Chronic ot Kiev":-))

Alex