Kakve ovo više ima veze sa temom?!?
Prisustvo Vlaha (Romana) na svim ovim teritorijama
objasnjava toponime.
This was something I was able to find and save from the internet.
Discussion is below:
dkatsetos wrote:
>In fact, one wonders whether the indigenous Roman inhabitants of the themata
of Dalmatia (i.e., as distinguished from Slavic ethnos) and Dyrrachium were
in fact, the genealogical precursors of Mauroblacoi [Morovlachs, a.k.a.
Morovlasi according to XV cent. Venetians] and Palaiovlacoi? This would
point to a much broader ethnolinguistic kinship and integration of the
putative progeny of Rhômanoi with other authochthonous populations streching
from the Illyricum to Thessaly (or possibly even further south...) >
According mentions in Lazarou (page 85) (The Aromounian language), the name
-Mayro-Vlach- is of Byzantine origins according to Hacquet who is writing:"Le
nom morlaque vient des slavons mare ou mur, qui signifie la mer, et vlach,
qui signifie italien:c'est comme si l'on disoitles italiens maritimes".
The Italian-Vlachs sailors one might say.
Capidan doesn't agree (Limba, 432 notation 264), wanting them posibly as such
because of their clothes of black-Mayro color.
Same with Kovacec (Descrirea, 25) who is adding that such name was given to
the ones living out of the cities of the Adriatic however being Romanophones.
Lozovan himself is sypporting the Byzantine origins of the name wanting them
to be "les Nigri Latini du Presbyter Diocleas (Romains 234, n.51), and
Lazarou is giving two more mentions by N. Iorga and Kourilas as well as of
Mori wanting the replacement of the name by that of Morlaco-Murlaco.
And now a small surprise for the list from Liakos (The origins of the
Aromounians) pages 151 and 120. (Translation by Lyngos)
"Descendants of such people (The Tervunians as were called at
Porfyrogennitos' times the ancient populations of the Dervani and the
Diocletians meaning the Docleatians of the classic era, both Celto-Illyrians
people that during the descend of the Avars were in their bilingual times
speaking the Illyrian in the house and the Latin out of it), were the
Morlachi=Illyrian Vlachs, meaning the Vlachian families of shepherds of
Dalmatia and the rest of Illyria, which were the majority of the population
of Raska (todays Hergegovina) and of Monte-Negro, all the way to the times of
the Kral Dushan.
Only during the 18th century their Slavization was completed (as
Cvijic-Peninsule Balionique pages, 29,71,159,181,357,372), and Jorga
(Histoire des Roumains de la Penin des Balkans, Bucarest 1919, pages 23,33).
Their earlier existance could be validated by the existance of such names
like Tsernei-Keraynii Illyrians in Monte-Negro and those Era-Rai-Rati-Araxi
from Raska (Stefanos Byzantios), precisely the people which the Serbs to our
days keep calling them as *Stari-Vlasi=Ancient-Old Vlachs*.
The same people were called as Vlachs by the Turks ( Sudost, Todorof, Glasnik
Zemaljskog Muzeia u Sarajevu).
http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/public/mgsa-l/2003-March/001832.html
> dkatsetos wrote:
>
> >In fact, one wonders whether the indigenous Roman inhabitants of the
> themata of Dalmatia (i.e., as distinguished from ethne Sklavike) and
> Dyrrachium were in fact, the genealogical precursors of Maurovlacoi
> [Morovlachs, a.k.a. Morovlassi according to XV cent. Venetians] and
> Palaioblacoi?Ý This would point to a much broader ethnolinguistic
> kinship and integration of the putative progeny of Rhômanoi with other
> autochthonous populations streching from the Illyricum to ThessalyÝ
> (or possibly even further south...) >
>
>
[snip]
> The above mentioned Keraynii were known in the Vlachian language as
> Tserauni-Cerauni, and according to Chalkokondylis, Tsernaioi-Kernaioi,
> the sma people that together with the Buii and the Mazarikians arrived
> and occupied the area around Domokos.
> From the same family were those Caldashi, our Kladades-Gioldasaioi,
> part of whom descended in Mani of Peloponnisos, and they became known
> as Tserno-Michaloi and later as Mayro-Michalis !
>
> Liakos wants the name Mwroi=Mayroi-Vlachs, to be originated in
> distiction-contradiction to that *Albanji* name given to the
> Easterner Thracians from *Alba=daylight-East-White* and of that
> White-Vlachia =the Second Bulgarian Empire-Kingdom of the Assens. (
> See, Liakos "The Origins of the Albanians and the Roumanians" page
> 47-48 notation 98).
>
Christos D. Katsetos
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