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This article is about the history of Vlachs from South of Danube. For the history of Northern Vlachs (Romanians), see History of Romania. Vlachs (also called Wlachs, Wallachs, Olahs) is a blanket term covering several distinct modern Latin peoples descending from the Latinised population in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. ...
Length 2,888 km Elevation of the source 1,078 m Average discharge 30 km before Passau: 580 m³/s Vienna: 1,900 m³/s Budapest: 2,350 m³/s Belgrade: 4,000 m³/s just before Delta: 6,500 m³/s Area watershed 817,000 km² Origin Black Forest...
This article provides only a brief outline of each period of the History of Romania; details are presented in separate articles (see the links in the box and below). ...
Origins Main article: Origin of Romanians The Romanians (also sometimes referred to as Vlachs) are a nation speaking Romanian, a Romance language and living in Central and Eastern Europe. ...
Vlachs were the romanized people of South-Eastern Europe. Most common theories say their ancestors were Dacians/Thracians, but some theories asserting that they could be even romanized Illyrians or Greeks. Vlachs (also called Wlachs, Wallachs, Olahs) is a blanket term covering several distinct modern Latin peoples descending from the Latinised population in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. ...
Dacia, in ancient geography the land of the Daci, a subtribe of the Getae, was a large district of Central Europe, bounded on the north by the Carpathians, on the south by the Danube, on the west by the Tisa (Tisza river, in Hungary), on the east by the Tyras...
Thrace is a historical and geographic area in south-east Europe spread over southern Bulgaria, north-eastern Greece, and European Turkey. ...
This article is about an ancient civilization in southeastern Europe; see also Illyria (software), Illyria (character in the TV series Angel). ...
Their place of origin is hard to be determined as they can be found all over the Balkan peninsula. Aromanians can be found in Greece, Bulgaria, Albania and the Republic of Macedonia, while Romanians in Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Serbia and Hungary. However, most historians agree that their original land was somewhere North of the Jirecek Line. The Balkans is the historic and geographic name used to describe southeastern Europe (see the Definitions and boundaries section below). ...
Map of areas inhabited by Aromanians Aromanians (also called: Macedo-Romanians in Romania or Vlachs in most other countries; in Aromanian they call themselves arumâni, armâni or aromâni) are a people living throughout the southern Balkans, especially in northern Greece, Albania and the Republic of Macedonia, and...
Official languages Macedonian¤,2 Capital Skopje President Branko Crvenkovski Prime Minister Vlado BuÄkovski Area – Total – % water Ranked 145th 25,713 km² 1. ...
Serbia and Montenegro – Serbia – Kosovo and Metohia (UN administration) – Vojvodina – Montenegro Official language Serbian1 Capital Belgrade Area – Total – % water 88,361 km² n/a Population – Total (2002) (without Kosovo) – Density 7. ...
The Jireček Line The Jireček Line is an imaginary line that divided in the ancient Balkans, until the 4th century, the influences of the Latin (in North) and Greek (in South) languages. ...
Their occupations were mostly trading, shepherding and craftmanship, but judging from the variety of ancient vocabulary related to agriculture we can assume that in the Roman period they were mostly farmers. A fruit stand at a market. ...
In a draw in a mountainous region, a shepherd guides a flock of about 20 sheep amidst scrub and olive trees. ...
Arts and crafts comprise a whole host of activities and hobbies that are related to making things with ones own hands and skill. ...
Byzantine Period The first record of Balkan Romanic settlement in the Byzantine age can be found in the writings of Procopius, in the 5th century: the forts named Skeptekasas (Seven Houses), Burgulatu (Broad City), Lοupofantana λουpoφαντάνα (Wolf's Well) and Gemellomountes Γεμελλομούντεs (Twin mountains). The writings of Procopius of Caesarea (500 ? - 565 ?), in Palestine, are the primary source of information for the rule of the emperor Justinian. ...
// Events Romulus Augustus, Last Western Roman Emperor Rome sacked by Visigoths in 410. ...
In 586, the first written record of their name and their language appears on a Byzantine chronicle about an incursion against the Avars in the Eastern Balkans. When the baggage of a mule slips, the muleteer shouts "Torna, torna, fratre" (Return, return, brother!), although it might just be the last appearance of Latin. Events Reccared succeeds his father Leovigild as king of the Visigoths. ...
The Byzantine Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centred at its capital in Constantinople. ...
The Eurasian Avars were a nomadic people of Eurasia who migrated into central and eastern Europe in the 6th century. ...
Latin is the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ...
Blachernae, the suburb of Constantinople was named after a "Scythian" Duke Blachernos, whos name is believed to be linked with the name of "Blachs" (Vlachs). Blachernae is a suburb in the northeastern section of Constantinople. ...
Map of Constantinople. ...
Scythia was an area in Eurasia inhabited in ancient times by people probably speaking Indo-Iranian languages, known as the Scythians. ...
The Byzantine writer Cecaumenos, in his Strategicon of 1066 wrote that the Vlachs of Epirus and Thessalia came from North of the Danube and from along the Sava and that they were the descendants of the Bessi. Events January 6 - Harold II is crowned King of England the day after Edward the Confessor dies. ...
The Bessi were an independent Thracian tribe who lived in a territory ranging from Moesia to Mount Rhodope in southern Thrace, but are often mentioned as dwelling about Haemus, the mountain range that separates Moesia from Thrace. ...
In the 10th century the Hungarians arrive in the Pannonian plain and, according to the Gesta Hungarorum written by anonymous chancellor of King Bela III of Hungary, the plain was inhabited by Slavs, Bulgars, Vlachs and "pastores Romanorum" (Roman shepherds), although the chronicle was writen around 1146. As a means of recording the passage of time, the 10th century was that century which lasted from 901 to 1000. ...
Position of the Roman province of Pannonia Pannonia is an ancient country bounded north and east by the Danube, conterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, and southward with Dalmatia and upper Moesia. ...
There are two works with the name Gesta Hungarorum. ...
Bela III of Hungary (Hungarian , Slovak: Belo III), born in 1148, was King of Hungary circa 1172_1196. ...
The Slavic peoples are the most numerous ethnic and linguistic body of peoples in Europe. ...
What on Earth is Varkun, and how could it be related to the word Bulgar? Furthermore, I believe the current view is that Bulgars were not originally Turkic (article seems to agree), so it does not make sense for the word to be derived from a Turkic language. ...
Events Saint Bernard of Clairvaux preaches the Second Crusade at Vezelay, Burgundy First written mention of Bryansk. ...
In 1185 a leading Vlach noble, Peter Asen, led a Bulgarian revolt against Byzantine rule and declared himself Tsar Peter II (also known as Theodore Peter). The following year the Byzantines were forced to recognise Bulgaria's independence. Peter styled himself "Tsar of the Bulgars, Greeks and Vlachs". Events April 25 - Genpei War - Sea Battle of Dan-no-ura leads to Minamoto victory in Japan Templars settle in London and begin the building of New Temple Church End of the Heian Period and beginning of the Kamakura period in Japan. ...
The Byzantine Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centred at its capital in Constantinople. ...
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Ottoman period In the 18th century, as many of the Vlachs became involved in the trade between the Occident and Orient, their main city, Moscopole, became one of the most important and prosperous cities of the Balkans, until it was sacked and pillaged by the Ottomans in 1788. (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ...
Voskopojë (Albanian with definite article Voskopoja; Aromanian: Moscopole; Aromanian with definite article Moscopolea; Greek: Μοσχόπολις, Moscopolis or Moschopolis; Serbian: Moskopolje;) is a small village currently in south-eastern Albania. ...
1788 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
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Modern history Today, the official position of the Greek government is that the Vlachs are only Greeks speaking a Latin dialect (so they are not admitted to be a national minority -- in fact, Greece does not recognise any minorities), although there is not enough evidence in favour of this claim, and as a consequence they are not encouraged to keep their language and traditions, but encouraged to "return" in speaking "the language of their ancestors". In sociology and in voting theory, a minority is a sub-group that forms less than half of the population. ...
See also Vlachs (also called Wlachs, Wallachs, Olahs) is a blanket term covering several distinct modern Latin peoples descending from the Latinised population in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. ...
This article provides only a brief outline of each period of the History of Romania; details are presented in separate articles (see the links in the box and below). ...
References - Lozovan, Eugen. Romani şi barbari pe cursul mijlociu al Dunării.
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