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	Vlachs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This explains the pockets of Vlachs that could be found all over the Balkans and as far north as Poland and as far west the Czech Republic, and Croatia.
		Romanian culture was influenced by the Slavs and later by the Hungarians and Germans (mainly in Transylvania).
		The religion of the Vlachs is predominantly Eastern Orthodox Christianity, but there are some regions where they are Catholics and Protestants (in Transylvania) and a few are even Muslims (former converts from Greece, living in Turkey since the 1923 exchange of populations).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vlach (577 words)

	NL16_1: The Vlachs in Bosnia
		Vlachs from inside Bosnia also crossed the border to join them; the three reasons given by Benedict Kuripesic for the depopulation of Bosnia in the early sixteenth century were plague, the devshirme (collection of male Christian children), and the flight of the Serb-Vlach martolosi across the border.
		Vlachs are found today scattered over many parts of the Balkans; the biggest concentration is in the Pindus mountains of northern Greece, but there are also Vlachs in Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania and Serbia, as well as the remnants of a Vlach population in the Istrian peninsula.
		Vlachs have always been bilingual, and since they were never the administrators, the language which has survived in the records is never their own one.
	www.farsarotul.org /nl16_1.htm (3398 words)

	Etymology of Vlach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vlach is a Slavic term used to designate the Latin peoples of South-Eastern Europe : Romanians, Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians and Istro-Romanians.
		In the Yugoslavian census figures, the Aromanians of Macedonia and the Romanians of Serbia were both classified as "Vlachs".
		A name used for the Southern Vlachs of Greece is "Kutsovlach" (literally "limping Vlach"; possibly a reference to the way they spoke Greek), however the Aromanians consider it quite offensive.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Etymology_of_Vlach (349 words)

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		Vlach asserts that small room sizes, gable roofs, and rectangular floor plans (often consisting of two or more rooms), like thatched roofs and dirt floors, represent clear Africanisms in early slave houses on the plantations.
		Vlach also presents the argument that the porches built onto the African slave dwellings throughout Colonial America were not only an African architectural trait, but were adopted by the dominant white culture and can be found on many American houses today.
		Vlach points out that most of the Haitian slaves were taken from the Yoruba region of West Africa, where similar materials and building techniques were utilized.
	www.eiu.edu /~historia/2001/shotgun.htm (3224 words)

	ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA
		The Vlachs of Pindus, &c., on this hypothesis, were to be regarded as later immigrants from the lands north of the Danube,,.
		In the 13th and 14th centuries, the Vlach population in the Hungarian kingdom, according to Hungarian documents, was negligible in the Banat (Hungarian, Bánság) and Maramures (Hungarian, Mára maros), and it could not possibly have been so considerable in other parts of what is now known as Transylvania, either.
		In fact, the Vlachs, although permitted to use the mountain pastures in summer for their sheep and goats, were allowed to settle further in the country than the border regions only after the terrible ravages wreaked by the Mongols.
	www.hungarian-history.hu /lib/faf/toc06.htm (3660 words)

	Vlachs [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Vlachs (also called Wlachs, Wallachs, Olahs) is a blanket term covering several distinct modern Latin peoples descending from the Latinised population in Central Central Europe is the region of Europe between Eastern Europe and Western Europe.
		The origin of the word Vlach is disputed, some say it is possibly Germanic The Germanic languages form one of the branches of the Indo-European (IE) language family, spoken by the Germanic peoples who settled in northern Europe along the borders of the Roman Empire.
		Aromanians Aromanians (also called: Macedo-Romanians or Vlachs, in Aromanian they call themselves arumâni, armâni or aromâni) are a population living as a minority in Northern Greece, Serbia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Albania and Bulgaria; their number is estimated to about one or two million....
	www.wikimirror.com /Vlachs (2987 words)

	Vlachs articles and news from Start Learning Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Vlachs (also called Wlachs, Wallachs, Olahs) is a blanket term covering several distinct modern Latin peoples descending from the Latinised population in Central EuropeCentral, Eastern EuropeEastern and Southeastern Europe.
		Main article: Etymology of Vlach The word Vlach is from Germanic languagesGermanic : the same origin led to the words "Welsh" and "Walloons" in other parts of Europe.
		The religion of the Vlachs is predominantly Eastern OrthodoxyEastern Orthodox Christianity, but there are some regions where they are Catholic s and Protestant s (in Transylvania) and a few are even Muslim s (former religious conversionconverts from Greece, living in Turkey since the 1923 exchange of populations).
	www.startlearningnow.com /Vlach\|Valachian.htm (691 words)

	Vlachs - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		Vlachs (also called Wlachs, Wallachs, Olahs) are the Romanized population in Central and Eastern Europe, including Romanians, Aromanians, Istro-Romanians and Megleno-Romanians, but since the creation of the Romanian state, this term was mostly used for the Vlachs living south of the Danube river.
		They are descendants of the Roman colonists or of the Romanized Dacian, Thracian and Illyrian local population (see Origin of Romanians for more about the dispute about the origin).
		Aromanian culture developed initially as a pastoral, later to be greatly influenced by the Byzantine and Greek culture.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Vlach (525 words)

	DICTIONARY - LoveToKnow Article on DICTIONARY
		Etymology, in other words, is essentially the history of the form of a word up to the time when it became a part of the language, and is, in a measure, an extension of the history of the development of the word in the language.
		Related to the etymology of words are the changes in their form which may have occurred while they have been in use as parts of the language modifications of their pronunciation, corruptions by popular etymology or false associations, and the like.
		Other special features of the book are the completeness with which variations of pronunciation and orthography (with dates) are given; the fulness and scientific excellence of the etymologies, which abound in new information and corrections of old errors; the phonetic precision with which the present (British) pronunciation is indicated; and the elaborate subdivision of meanings.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DI/DICTIONARY.htm (12383 words)

	Kosovo, Origins: Serbs, Albanians and Vlachs - Noel Malcolm
		As this name suggests, the Vlachs are closely linked to the Romanians: their two languages (which, with a little practice, are mutually intelligible) diverged only in the ninth or tenth century.
		While the origins of the Vlachs are obscure enough, the origins of the Albanians have been the subject of a much more bewildering mass of conflicting claims and theories.
		One large group of Vlachs seems to have broken away and moved southwards by the ninth or tenth century; the proto-Romanians stayed in contact with Albanians significantly longer, before drifting north-eastwards, and crossing the Danube in the twelfth century.
	vmro.150m.com /en/nm/kosovo.html (8094 words)

	Articles - Romanians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		It is possible that the Romanians adhered to the Old Bulgarian Church, since early medieval Bulgarian tsars claimed authority over the territories inhabited by the Vlachs.
		The name of " Vlachs " is an exonym that was used by Slavs to refer to all Romanized natives of the Balkans.
		Nowadays, the term Vlach is more often used to refer to the Romanized populations of the Balkans who do not speak the Romanian language but rather the Aromanian language and other Romance languages such as Istro-Romanian and Megleno-Romanian.
	www.awningz.com /articles/Romanians (1360 words)

	Articles - Aromanians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Vlachs was a term used in the Medieval Balkans, as an exonym for all the Romanic people, but nowadays, it is commonly used only for the Aromanians and Meglenites, the Romanians being named Vlachs only in historical context.
		On a visit to Metsovo, Epirus in 1998, Greek President Costis Stephanopoulos called on Vlachs to speak and teach their language, but little has been done in practical terms since then.
		There is currently no education in their native language, but unlike in Greece, the Vlachs are a recognised national minority in the Albanian constitution, despite the Greek view that the Vlachs of Albania form part of the wider Greek minority.
	www.x-moto.net /articles/Aromanians (808 words)

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		Etymology The facts relating to the formation or derivation of a word.
		Welsh A name derived from the continental Volcae, which came to be applied indiscriminately to all Western European inhabitants of the Roman Empire.
		In Britain the word Welsh was probably first applied to speakers of Latin; on the Continent, variants such as Walloon, Wallon, Waalsch, Welsch, Velsk, and Vlach are still applied to the French, the Italians and the Romanians.
	bahai-library.com /books/lango/lang34.html (1619 words)

	Vlachs -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The term was originally an, as the Vlachs used various words derived from romanus to refer to themselves ( români, rumâni, rumâri, aromâni, arumâni etc).
		Many Vlachs were (A clergyman who watches over a group of people) shepherd s and they always looked for better pastures.
		Just like the language, the cultural links between the Northern Vlachs (Romanians) and Southern Vlachs (Aromanians) were broken by the (Click link for more info and facts about 10th century) 10th century, and since then, there were different cultural influences:
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/V/Vl/Vlachs.htm (1054 words)

	CELT :: FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The Volcae were one of the Celtic peoples that barred, for two centuries, the southward expansion of the German tribes in central Germany on the line of the Hartz mountains and into Saxony and Silesia.
		In the middle ages certain districts of what is now Germany were known as "Welschland" as opposed to "Teutschland", and the word is cognate with Vlach (see: Etymology of Vlach) and Walloon as well as the 'wall' in Cornwall.
		Celtos or Celta with plurals Celtoi or Celta:s), of unsure etymology*.
	www.witwib.com /index.php/?s=celt (3042 words)

	Etymology of Vlach - Art History Online Reference and Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Vlach is a term used to designate the Latin peoples of South-Eastern Europe : Romanians, Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians and Istro-Romanians.
		This usage is still kept in English in the word Welsh.
		A name used for the Southern Vlachs of Greece is "Kutsovlach" (literally "limping Vlach"), however the Aromanians consider it quite offensive.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Etymology_of_Vlach (366 words)

	Macedonian Heritage - FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Macedonians of antiquity: A tribe of Greek culture and language The etymology of their name is further proof of their greek identity.
		Such concern on the part of Bulgarians, Greeks, Vlachs, Albanians and Muslim Slavs in FYROM, is better understood, if one realizes that the tendency by Slav-Macedonians not only to appropriate but also to monopolize the Macedonian name would, in the end, deprive the other groups of that state of their own name and identity.
		Romanian nationalism targeting Macedonian Vlachs drew in its turn from the glory of Rome, Latin tradition, and the Roman legions.
	www.macedonian-heritage.gr /FAQ.html (3705 words)

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		The ages of the Vlach settlements in the Balkan peninsula
		The migrations of the Vlachs outside the Balkan peninsula
		The vestiges of the Vlachs living in the Balkan peninsula in the Middle
	www.hungarianhistory.com /lib/dunay (712 words)

	Greek-Albanian Unity in Byzantine times! - www.ezboard.com
		Other authors assert that stradioti came from the Italian root strada (road) and that the term stradiotto meant a wanderer or wayfarer, thus denoting an errant cavalrymen or warrior.[15] The question of the etymology of the appellation stradioti is further complicated by the various spellings and versions of the term in the primary sources.
		vlachs always assimilate into other populations, what a better choice than assimilating with their next door neighbor since ancient days(somewhere in dadania or moesia).
		On the other hand in Albania, there are still a number off Vlachs whom preserved their language until our days.
	pub18.ezboard.com /fbalkansfrm48.showMessageRange?topicID=85.topic&start=1&stop=20 (7238 words)

	P H O T O S Y N K Y R I A 2 0 0 0 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Nestling in a hollow surrounded by even loftier hills, it remains invisible until the final twist of the road brings it into view.
		Its geographical position is reflected in the etymology of its name, the Vlach word Nymphaion deriving from the word Niveasta, which is susceptible to three different interpretations in Greek: - Invisible, Bride and Where the Snow Lies, Nymphaion is also known by the name Neveska.
		Niveasta was first inhabited in around 1385 by wandering Vlachs and frontier guards of the Roman Empire, when they had failed to halt the advance of Ottoman raiders along the narrow defiles of the Via Egnatia.
	www.photosynkyria.gr /2000/03_uk.html (374 words)

	1053-UDJT.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Following is an attempt to dig into the extremely rich, high and profound value described by words of the upper layers of a civilization I was born into, the Indo-European brand of Old Europe.
		These are the mountains of the Vlachs, the ubiquitous, numerous, apparently vanishing, perpetual Pelasgians.
		Vlachs are ubiquitous, from Peloponnesus, Pind, Thessaly, Athos and Macedonia, north and south of via Egnatia, to the Haemus (Balkans), and even Bohemia, Moravia, Prussia and Southern Germany.
	www.iris-ward.com /_HTM/SITE/SYMB/1053-UDJT.htm (6480 words)

	languagehat
		The Vlachs (who call themselves Aromanians) are spread throughout the Balkans, and have traditionally practiced a form of nomadic pastoralism that has become increasingly difficult in this era of hard-and-fast borders and governmental insistence on everyone's having an address.
		A basic belief of Vlach culture is that one should live elsewhere in summer than in winter, and that the summer home should have three qualities: it should be away from civilization, it should be cool, and it should be a place where you can simply enjoy festivities and fun.
		And for a less scholarly and more paranoid approach, here is an account of "Vlachs in Greece and beyond" (the page looks blank; you have to scroll way down).
	languagehat.blogspot.com /2003_02_01_languagehat_archive.html (6557 words)

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		Etymology is truly fascinating and can reveal many popular misconceptions.
		From the 8th century, there is a mention of Vlachs (a Romance population) living in the valley of the Rhinos, towards the end of the 10th century, beginning with 976 AD, Vlachs are repeatedly recorded in different places of the Balkan peninsula.
		To strengthen their demands, the authors affirmed that the Vlachs were the most ancient population in the country, since they originated from the Roman veterans who were brought to Dacia by Emperor Trajan in the 2nd century AD.
	www.hungarian-history.hu /lib/dunay/dunay01.htm (5900 words)

	roma2_3
		Most of the entries here are primary source documents in German or Latin and provide further clues into the significant Romany presence in Europe during this period.
		This is an historic overview of the European Romany tribes emphasizing their socio-cultural differences across centuries and borders while underlining their similarities.
		This is an examination of the Roma’s language (including the etymology of many key Romani words such as Rom, gadje, etc.), religion, exodus, and subsequent migrations, beginning with their departure from the Punjab region.
	www.osi.hu /rpp/biblio/roma2_3.html (2072 words)

	Articles - Volcae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		It is consequently not surprising that it became the generic name for southerners, i.e.
		Celts and Romans, contained in Wales, Wallis, Walloon, and Wallachia (see also Etymology of Vlach).
		The Volcae Arecomici of their own accord surrendered to the Roman Republic in 121 BC, after which they occupied the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis, the southern part of Gallia Transalpina.
	www.x-moto.net /articles/Volcae (369 words)

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