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| | Aromanian Vlachs: The Vanishing Tribes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | To the -always increasing- list of Brits who experienced Vlachs, and then wrote about them in alluring terms, should be added Rebecca West, herself an iconoclast character (albeit one of Sloane extraction) who, in 1937 ventured deep into the Macedonian vilayets, and to whom we owe another Vlach vignette: |
 | | The Byzantine chronicler and daughter of the Emperor Ana Comnena mentions at 1200 a Vlach city in Thessaly (Greece of today), as laying between Kissavon and Trikala, and entered by her father the Emperor while fighting the Normands of Bohemund who were laying claim to what is today Greece. |
 | | Philippus de Diversis, who described the city as it existed in 1440, says that the various officers of the republic do not make use either of Slav or Italian, with which they converse with strangers, but a certain other dialect only partially intelligible to us Latins, and cites words with strong Ruman affinities. |
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