Re: Humboldt [was The Vlach Connection]

From: S & L
Message: 37649
Date: 2005-05-06

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From: "alex" <alxmoeller@...>
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 7:57 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] RE:Re:RE:Re: The Vlach Connection
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> So far I remember Humboldt used in his
> "Descroptio Europae Orientalis" an Armenian source which mentioned the
> Valachs as being north of Danube in 921.
> Alex
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Is there a link between Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, Freiherr von Humboldt
[1769-1859] and a work named "Descriptio Europae Orientalis"?

Is this "Descriptio Europae Orientalis" in fact "Anonymi descriptio Europae
orientalis: imperium Constantinopolitanum, Albania, Serbia, Bulgaria,
Ruthenia, Ungaria, Polonia, Bohemia: anno 1308 exarata [ edidit, praefatione
et adnotationibus instruxit Olgierd Gorka. - Cracoviae: sumptibus Academiae
litterarum, 1916, 70 pg.; 24 cm]?

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