From: alex
Message: 35612
Date: 2004-12-23
> *****GK: I would like to add that the expressionare these facts not a bit too early my dear? So far we remember, the Magyars
> "chased away" also suggested that organized Wallachian
> communities (with leaders) existed somewhere beyond
> the boundaries of the "Hungarian Land". Microanalysis
> of the Tale's text indicates that this "somewhere"
> started with Bulgaria south of the Danube. It is the
> Onogurs, according to Sylvester, who "chased away" the
> Wallachians from the territory of southern Romania and
> Moldavia in the 7th c. But the Bulgarians did no
> "chasing away". Which implies that the Wallachian
> aristocracy continued to exist south of the Danube,
> along with Slavs and dominant Bulgars. And this was
> surely in line with historical reality. This is why
> the Kyivan policy makers of 1116, intent on reviving
> the imperial dreams of Svyatoslav, were suddenly
> interested in the Wallachians.****