Re: The Vlach Connection

--- alex <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

> > GK: This is where we differ. The Kyivan
> Chronicle
> > accepts the continuity of the Vlach presence in
> > Bulgaria, but denies it in Hungary, suggesting
> that
> > they were expelled in Avar times (around 610/630).
> Of
> > course at that point Byzantine power collapsed as
> far
> > south as Greece, so they would not have noticed
> > "infiltrators" in more northern areas other than
> the
> > major players.
>
> but they noticed it 3 centuries later?

Alex

*****GK: Why not? As the reconquista proceeded. The
Byzantines did not fully reconquer Bulgaria until the
11th c. (and lost part of it again in 1049 for nearly
one hundred years).*****




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