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JOURNAL ARTICLE
The Vlakhs of Mount Pindus
Robert Stuart
Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London
Vol. 6 (1868), pp. 311-327
Published by: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3014268?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
pp. 313-314:
In North Thessaly their chief towns were Larissa and Tricala; in Dolopia, Kastania, and in Phthiotis, Armyro on the gulf of Volo.
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Source: Anonymi Descriptio Europae orientalis. Imperium Constantinopolitanum, Albania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Ruthenia, Ungaria, Polonia, Bohemia. Anno MCCCVIII exarata. Cracoviae, 1916:
As per the anonymous traveler of Eastern Europe from the XIV century, it is stated that Vlachs (whom the author calls "Blasi"), are a numerous people living between Macedonia, Achaia and Salonika.
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Source: Johann Thunmann, Untersuchungen uber die Geschichte der ostlichen europaischen Volker, I. Leipzig, 1774:
The author openly states that Vlachs represent half the population of Thrace, and three quarters of inhabitants of Thessaly and Macedonia.
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In 1605 AD, half of Salonika's Christian
Greek Orthodox population was of Vlach origin.
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When Stefan Dušan conquered lands all the way up to Duchy of Athens, he called himself "Count of Vlachia." Extensive settlements of Vlachs are also mentioned at that time in Euboea, the Peloponnese and even Crete.
Source:
Даскалов, Георги, Армъните в Гърция, Университетско издателство "Св. Климент Охридски", София, 2005, page 21
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As per scans/source provided months ago on this forum:
- Thessaly used to be called 'Great Vlachia' or 'Megali Vlachia',
with the capital Larissa.
- The Chronicle of Epirus refers to 'Great Vlachia' as 'Greco-Vlachia'.
- 'Great Vlachia' was a strong state during the decades of its ruler 'Jovan I', which was between 1258 and 1296.
- This Vlach state was under frequent attacks from Serbian rulers, as even the archbishop Danilo* noted - how king Milutin went with his army in order to conquer and plunder "drzhavu zemlye Vlahiotske".
The fact that Serbian sources refer to these lands as
"drzhavu zemlye Vlahiotske" says it all.
* - Danilo II: Zhivoti kraljeva i arhiepiskopa srpskih, izdao Djura Danicic Zagreb 1866, page 114.
PS:
https://books.google.ca/books?id=Dl...=Valaques Mucapor Derziparus Magnotes&f=false
https://books.google.ca/books?id=xK...ved=0ahUKEwj14raLuJXYAhUG5IMKHXvlAHsQ6AEIXjAI
... Les Magnotes, qui ont conserve encore le souvenir d'une invasion Geto-Thrace, en designant tous les Peloponnesiens tant ceux qui habitent au-dela de Sparte, que ceux qui s'etendent vers Calamata, sous le nom
de Valaques (οι Βλάχοι).
... The Maniates, who still retain the memory of a Geto-Thracian invasion, by designating all the Peloponnesians both those who live beyond Sparta, and those who extend to Calamata, under the name of Vlachs.
Let's not forget the Peloponnesian traditional song
"Mia Vlacha Vlachopoula, Arvanitopoula..."
https://books.google.ca/books?id=5F...6AEINjAC#v=onepage&q=Mardaïtes Sathas&f=false
The Mardaites or Tzaconiens, rugged warriors who, from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, appear in Epirus, Cephalonia, Thessaly, Peloponnese, and Crete; Chalkokondyles and Bishop Meletios say they come from the Pindus mountains.