Re: The Vlach Connection

From: george knysh
Message: 37626
Date: 2005-05-05

--- alex <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
Did the valachs migrated
> with
> the Slavs and Avars South of Danube or they have
> been
> allways there but much changed so the Bizantine
> considered
> them as being a new ethnos?
>
> Alex

*****GK: Right now I would guess a bit of both.
Romance-speaking but (now) Slavic rite Christians. So
the Greeks would not "recognize" them as descendants
of the Danubian Romeans (in spite of their
self-designation) and would designate them by the Slav
term.******




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