More on VLACHs
Serbs are really Vlachs. Diocletian, who is an intelligent person, has been educated by ignoramuses. I hope he hasnt paid too dear a price for the stupidity of his teachers.
Austria’s law of the Wallachians STATUTA VALACHORUM of 1630 is purely a geographic term, referring loosely to a territory called Wallachia. Jews from there often bear the surname WALLACH, e.g. actors Eli Wallach and Mike WALLACE, ne’ WALLACH.
Just so, SLAVONIA in medieval Europe meant the SLAV LAND stretching from Villach in Austria to Belgrade, the Slovenes to the Serbs in today’s terms.
Nation states are creatures of the 19th century. Anybody posting on history ought to know that. If they don’t, they should step down from their soap box.
Ethnic names, national tags are labile.
Indians I neednt go into Columbus and all that. When thousands of US historians and history buffs of non-English descent say we in regard to the War of Independence, they would be laughed off the stage if a time machine could transport them back to 1776. Virginians and Londoners in the 1700s called Englishmen in the Virginia colony Americans. They called the English in Ireland Irish. The Scotch-Irish in the Appalachians were called Irish in the early 19th century, then Scotch-Irish, Hillbillies” and in PC Appalachians; in todays reigning stupidity theyre re-baptized Scots-Irish; to which I prefer Scots-Iris. What we call the Irish were called the Celtic Irish in books of 1900. In the 6 Counties Protestants call themselves British, though to the rest of the world they are Irish. Palestinians in 1930 were Jews. All subjects of Istanbul were called Turks, as Muslims still are in Balkan villages — by Christian and Muslim alike — regardless of language or nation. In the first Byzantine records of Turks (Tourkoi) the tribes are actually Hungarians, Hungarian is from Turkish Onu-gor / ten arrows (tribes). Slovaks called themselves Hungarians before Magyar nationalism erupted. Illyrian in Napoleonic times meant Serbo-Croatian. Now Sqipetari (Albanians) style themselves Illyrian and name their sons Ilir. The Caucasian place ALBANIA in the Caucasus that we find in Ptolemys atlas has nothing to do with the Adriatic coast now so-called. Albanians in Greek and Venetian records can be Greeks, Albanians, or Serbs.
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Vlachs and Vlachs
From the Serbophobic Noel Malcolm:
http://www.farsarotul.org/nl16_1.htm
www.camo.ch/povijestbih07.htm
“...there is little sense today in saying that the Bosnian Serbs are really Vlachs. Over the centuries many ordinary members of the Serbian Orthodox Church would have crossed the Drina into Bosnia or moved north from Hercegovina; a Serb merchant class also became important in Bosnian towns in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Not all the people who were sent to populate northern Bosnia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were Vlach, and since then there have been so many influxes and exoduses in Bosnian history that we cannot possibly calculate precise percentages for the Vlach ancestry of the Bosnian Serbs. Nor did the Vlachs contribute only to the Serb population; some (mainly in Croatia) became Catholics, and quite a few were Islamicized in Bosnia.”
From
Serbia and the Bulgarian Revival (1762-1872). James F. Clarke. American Slavic and East European Review, Vol. 4, No. 3/4. (Dec., 1945), pp. 141-162.
Stable URL:
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1049-7544%28194512%294%3A3%2F4%3C141%3ASATBR%28%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S
“Serbs and Serbs, Rumanians and Bulgarians.
At the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century Bulgarians in Rumania were officially known as Sarbi.”
Secondly, Tsar Dushan himself forbade Serbs from marrying Vlachs during the Medieval era.
Yes, nations did arise in their present form during the 19th century. The Serbs themselves Serbianized the Vlachs by law in the Kingdom of Serbia by legally obligating them to change their names into Serbian ones and culturally in non-Serb lands through the Serbian Orthodox Church.
The most well known Serbianized Vlach of the 20th century was Serbian Royalist Premier Dragisa Cvetkovic aka Cincar (Vlach).
Some Catholic Vlachs were Croatianized (especially in my region).
Take a look at this map to see the names of the Vlach tribes that later would become Serbians and Croatians:
I will continue more on this theme later.