Who are the Vlachs? (Vlahi Wallahiens Wolosi)

[@ipiklog]

my name is Emanuele Morlacci, my great-grandfather Giuseppe Morlacci was the founder of a village in italy región Abruzzo known as a “Bagno di Ripa”, for years my family has been trying to rebuild their descendants, as if we had always known about our past, only today with the advent of the internet we have been able to reconstruct our history. thanks for this nice documentary. Tankyou so much

[@razvanbarascu4007]

Salve Emanuele! I know Morlacii were the vlachs with black caps who used to live in the balkans mainly in Montenegro or Maurovlachia/Black Walachia which gives the name today as The Black Mountain. They were semi nomadic shepherds who were practicing transhumance, they were forming caravans to move goods(cheese/salt/leather etc.) and military services across the balkans. What I want to ask you is what is ‘ripa’ meaning from Bagno di Ripa?

[@isissophieandandreea]

There is a village I know in Transylvania, Romania called Morlaca. I heard the dialect you speak in Abruzzo, and is very similar to old Romanian. Much love to you!🇷🇴♥️

[@bluesloverdelux5010]

@@isissophieandandreea Hi,I live in Croatia ad here my wife comes from asmall village called Končul.(konchul).I guess it is vlach old village(at least 400 years old).Can you connect it with some romanian word?

[@cafta]

@@bluesloverdelux5010 conchul means "the headress" ( for women when they arange their hair in that japanese style)we call that conci in Transilvania.

[@nestingherit7012]

@@bluesloverdelux5010 Caciula (head covering)

[@whatdidido3838]

I’m Albanian from Kosova and we have huge respect for VLLAH people 💪🏻👐🏻🙏🏻👋🏻

[@romania1918]

Im a Romanian Respect Albania 🇷🇴❤️🇦🇱

[@metabolismofindominable8219]

We are called Armăn ("Ă" is a schwa). Daima Armăn!

[@romania1918]

You are aromanian?

[@metabolismofindominable8219]

@@romania1918 Indeed almost 100% with a hint of Greek Minor Asian and Arvanite. My mother was hakd *Karagkouna* a tribe of Arvanito-Vlachs and my father was Aromanian.

[@romania1918]

You are my vlach brother ❤️

[@michalmazur6806]

Nice. Polish highlanders are largely of vlach origin too. Many of our customs were unknown for Slavs, and still you can see some differences between mountain folk and slavic populations, though most of them have slavic family names. As for me, I prefer being more Vlach than Slav :) even though I live in Poland

[@vladpopescu9986]

Really? I didnt even know that there were vlach în poland.

[@razvangeamanu4800]

@@vladpopescu9986 vlachs are Anywhere in Europe because they were sheep hearders and they moved with them all over europe

[@yantar1279]

I am polish higlander too and i claim to be mostly of vlach orgin.

[@eltoro10-v5t]

orthodox people in krajina region, lika and dalmatia are descended from orthodox vlachs. they were a nomadic people who originally spoke an eastern latin language whose original homeland is in the pindus mountain region of northern greece. they still exist there today in greece. they are called aromanians. a branch of these people migrated to croatia via albania and montenegro who were called morlachs. another branch of aromanians migrated to todays romania and adopted the language of these people. serbian orthodox church was forced on these orthodox vlachs in croatia because the serbian orthodox church had strong influence over the occupiers ( austro-hungarians, ottomans), and supressed the establishment of a croatian orthodox church or a morlach orthodox church. serbian assimilation was aggressive upon them. thats why serbs are the majority amongst the orthodox faithful in croatia. there is still alot that didnt accept this serbianisation, and these souls must be counted. dont label people serb just because they are orthodox. this is not the truth and it is discrimination. orthodox not equal to serb. orthodox can be croat , vlach, albanian, romanian, bulgarian, greek, macedonian aswell as serb

[@nichiforalbu9035]

@@razvangeamanu4800 not Anywhere Just From Silesia To Peloponess )))

[@SacaluBrasov]

The Vlach languages, also called the Eastern Romance languages, have a common origin from the Proto-Romanian language. Over the centuries, the Vlachs split into various Vlach groups (see Romania in the Dark Ages) and mixed with neighbouring populations: South Slavs, Greeks, Albanians, Bulgars, and others.

[@jebaitedmitsaras8854]

Unfortunately

[@salar1586]

I love vlachs they fought for my country Macedonia

[@Greensanctuary-c4w]

Not true, those are just romanized Serbs

[@SacaluBrasov]

@@Greensanctuary-c4w there is no such thing. Also, serbs are migrants, as all slavs! you came here in 7th century

[@jubasa40]

Romania did not exist in the dark ages

[@randomromanianperson737]

So we Romanians are the most successful branch of the vlachs, being the only branch to have a country of their own

[@blu9371]

Wow....At least we are somthing in present, cuz we re still one of the poorest countries of EU but...We at least kept our traditions and culture..

[@cafta]

Moldovians also have their own country😇

[@InAeternumRomaMater]

@@cafta Moldovans are Vlachs. Their country is called Moldavia from the Moldov river given from Dragoș Vodă who was a Vlach as well as the population. The idea of Moldavian identity is made up.

[@cafta]

@@InAeternumRomaMater Dragoș was from Maramureș but still Vlach ! Everything you wrote I already knew since I am from Cluj and I know my own people.

[@venomvenom9926]

@@cafta wich vlah illirians you dreaming fuctard dacia was formed by getodahae scityians celtic and vizigot austrians your vlach illirians was pushed by greek in bucharest called valachia by cumans kazar and gypsy avars and pecenegs tatars nogay from dobrogea bloody idiot in 1200 house of basarab draculesti clans

[@ThracianForever]

By the way the names Vlach,valach,wolosi,vlahoi are names given to the latin and in special to eastern latin thet is the romanian family tree and aromanian are a part of thet tree

[@chefjbr]

I am proud Albanian with Vlach origin. My ancestors lived in Greece before moving to Albania 300- 400 years ago. There is quiet a few people of Vlach origin in Albania and some still speak the language, my grandmother spoke it. Vlachs have lived all over ballkan there is a lot of them in Greece But the Greek propaganda erased their origin and told them you are Greek just like they did with all the Albanians and Bullgarians and every other race in Greece. Vlachs are from what is now Romania and probably Thracians.

[@alegsandru]

jorgji shkurti it looks like Albania did same to vlachs like Greece if only your grandma spoke the language. Just different countries.

[@-Ro-Man-]

+jorgji shkurti hello, salut :) please can you record someone who still speak the language and post video on youtube?.

[@chefjbr]

+Ro Man hello, I live in U.S. now so it will be hard to find a vlach - albanian that speaks vlach, my grandma passed away and my dad just knows a few words.But why do you ask me to post a video with someone speaking vlach?

[@Βαςπαπ]

+jorgji shkurti Almost all the albanian heroes were Vlachs! Fan S Noli, Vaso Pashko, Papa Kristo Negovani, papa Petro Liruashi, Naum Veqilargi, mother Teresa, Odesi Paskal, The first king of Albania wilhelm of vint, the medieval dynasty of duke gjin and many many more! The Albanians deny the vlach origin of their heroes. The propaganda is stronger in Albania.

[@chefjbr]

+Βας παπ That's interesting, I have never heard anything about them being vlach. Not even about Fan Noli and he very popular , you would think someone would mention something. I know that they fought a lot to keep the Albanian language alive. Kristo Negovani was killed by Greeks because he taught in Albanian. By the way do you have any links ? specially about Fan Noli having vlach origin.

[@justinvlach7573]

I am A Vlach Because I am A Vlach This is my family name I was researching family history and what I learned so far after this video makes no sense to me most of my family were farmers and warriors peaceful clan we were tough people when need be and to this day I can say the same thanks for the video but I still hold my thoughts

[@lossuns6786]

justin vlach on the elders sticks there is to be found a wolf with snake tail .. that is the dacian simbol . ps: a vlach from romania

[@y.kuzugiu7087]

I am from Turkey. Our ancesters are coming from Greece origine Vallahades community who mostly were living Grevena and Kozani. Because of population exchange we were transfered to Turkey in 1923. Some villages in Istanbul, in Denizli, in Bursa, in Aydın and in Nigde Vlach origin, elderly people speak broken greek called Rumeyka mixed with Turkish, Arabic elements within.

[@mariodezert]

I am a brazilian fascinated with the history of Romania.

[@roxana6875]

Hola! Thank you for your interest, as you can see we are fascinating as well.. we are still trying to understand something 😂😂😂

[@mariodezert]

@@Georgesspierre Ok mind to explain to us, the origins of the vlachs?

[@mariodezert]

@@Georgesspierre I get it. The wallachs south of the danube became slavs. Is it the reason why there are languages around there like Istro romaninan and Aromanian? Language descendents of latin?

[@mariodezert]

@@Georgesspierre I plan to visit Romania next year for one month! I really want to explore the country.

[@mariodezert]

@@Georgesspierre i’m sure the women are beautiful and so are the guys. 🙂Thanks for the history lesson.

[@brandenmclarty2689]

Our family has known our vlach side for many years. And you can only get a vivid picture of what it's truly like.

[@AleksRockZilla]

Idiots fight , smart people enjoy the video !!!

[@jebaitedmitsaras8854]

........ No. You will fight because you have to, some people DO know the actual truth

[@vukasintomic7039]

I'am a vlah. I live in east Serbia. We have a very pagan culture. We speak wlachian but we can write becouse there we dont have letters ...

[@smiljanic65]

Vukasin Tomic Вукашин Томић ми баш не звучи влашки.

[@floringhergu3354]

Дe чe спꙋĭ къ нꙋ авeцĭ літeрe ? Aveți litere pentru limba voastră , aveți și alfabetul chirilic фoлoсiт ꙟн Валахia ꙟнainte de 1860 , aveți și alfabetul latin folosit după 1860 .

[@OctopusH2O]

Vukasin Tomic i am also vlach from central serbia,my family is orthodox christian but i am not,i am pagan

[@TarebossT]

Salut Florin Ghergu! De unde ai fontul chirilic, exista un font de acest fel in format "ttf"care se poate instala?

[@toni9782]

Vlahs are white, Romanians are more dark colored and have dark hair... We also are very taller and bigger than them, Romanians are shorter and skinny.

[@G6600]

You can see in all documents of the medieval Bosnia and Serbia that they have allowed to Vlahs as merchants to to trade in Bosnia and Serbia freely. Just see "Povelja Kulina Bana, Povelja Mateja Ninoslava, Dušanov zakonik".

[@reneeworringer4699]

I would like to know if I could use the photo in this video of the Vlach shepherd with his flock in a history textbook on Ottoman history. Would you give me permission to reproduce that photo? Please let me know - I talk about the Vlachs in Ottoman times and the photo of the shepherd with his sheep is really useful. Please contact me to let me know.

[@cristidinu9752]

taiask neamul meu de Vlahi

[@mrsluter1]

all Romanians are Vlachs. 1/3 of Romanian territory is caling Vlachia, Vlaška. So think about it.

[@spaceggboysami9678]

I'm doing reserach about this nation, i heard some people in bulgaria says they are gipsy roma ?is that true

[@mihaelac2472]

@@spaceggboysami9678 the Romanian take their name from Rome, as roman citizens. Their ancestors were Romance-speakers that proudly asserted their rights as Roman citizens. Even the Eastern Roman empire (Byzantium) called itself Romania. So, as more and more Slavs and other people migrated into the area, they differentiated themselves from them by this name. Vlach is an exonim by which other people call Romance- speaking people. They are all Europeans. Gypsies call themselves Romani, which in their language is something like men/people. They are of Indian descent, brought into Europe as slaves by Persian and Ottoman empire. The people in Bulgaria that you heard know those things, but some hate Romania because it was never an Ottoman governorate, just Ottoman vassals, and even now is wealthier. Their Vlach speaking population has been slavicised.

[@trakuraul5370]

@@spaceggboysami9678 rroma population have nothing to do with Roman Empire !!!

[@mihaelac2472]

@Fatin Marwat not most Romanians, just a vocal online minority.

[@ionbrad6753]

Not only 1/3. Moldova also was named Wallachia / Great Wallachia / Little Wallachia / Black (northern) Wallachia / MoldoWallachia. Stephen the Great, for example naming it MoldoVlahia: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4qlkp13qJ2aaK8

[@SacaluBrasov]

Besides the separation of some groups(Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians) during the Age of Migration,many other Vlachs could be found all over the Balkans,as far north as Poland and as far west as the regions of Moravia (part of the modern Czech Republic),and the present-day Croatia where the Morlachs gradually disappeared,while the Catholic and Orthodox Vlachs took Croat and Serb national identity.They reached these regions in search of better pastures, and were called "Wallachians" "Vlasi; Valaši"

[@spelapetelin8434]

There are still some villages in Istria (Susnjevica and Zejane) where people still call themselves Vlahi and maintain some cultural traits and language that s a kind of mix of vlaški (latin origin) and some croatian words.

[@cafta]

@@spelapetelin8434 they call themselves Istro-romanians

[@Comrade2face]

i am from the balkans and i am proud of its ethnic diversity so many tribes live there

[@Comrade2face]

@PEPAJ yeah whatever dude

[@Comrade2face]

@PEPAJ i have montenegrin,serb and bosnian blood

[@Comrade2face]

@Alex C who you swearing at?

[@Comrade2face]

@PEPAJ probably illyrian somewhere in my dna

[@Comrade2face]

@PEPAJ than we are brothers, i have dark hair and dark beard and mustache like the man in your profile picture

[@jamboree5019]

Vlachs are called "Uneducated Greeks" in Greece, "Serbs" in Serbia, "Bulgarians" in Bulgaria and so on excepting maybe Romania, as they encourage their music and customs and recognizes their contribution to modern Romania.

[@mabeSc]

Really, uneducated Greeks? I did know that Greece is trying very aggressively to assimilate/hellenise them but did not know about this. In Romania Vlachs founded the country itself, Wallachia (lands of the Vlachs), Transylvania (big population of Vlachs and Orthodox Latin People - noted in many documents that they made >50% population) and Moldova. While Romanians speak a Latin language and have their own culture, this was heavily influenced by Slavic people as well, both in language and culture.

[@jamboree5019]

@@mabeSc Really, I got this from an authentic Greek. Unfortunately, they say something similar about Macedonians, typical attitude of vanishing nations...

[@jamboree5019]

@WanDEreR Spreading this kind of trash will do nothing but accelerate the decline of once great Greek nation, nowadays populated by 10 million, 1/3 of them Vlachs, Albanians and Macedonians, all Thracian and Balkan natives when Greeks first showed up in Balkan Peninsula 1300 years BC coming from Middle East.

[@jamboree5019]

@WanDEreR It seems like I overrated your both education and intelligence and I regret it...

[@Userius1]

TheDorian1979 Ah, Vlach is Vlach. Greek is Greek. Vlachs are Thraikian not Hellen. Greeks did not know mountain life like the Thraikes. Vlachs are all the way from Croatia and Bulgaria to Slovakia and Poland, even the Lithuanians are shown to have some connection. Like Herodotus himself said, from the Baltic to the Black Sea.

[@Userius1]

Vlachs from Romania also moved to Slovakia, Ukraine, Czech Republic, and Poland since at least the 14th century, so I think you're the one who doesn't know shit. And no, you're not a Vlach. And weeb isn't a real insult lol. Plus you watch Pyrocynical. That invalidates anything you say.

[@Userius1]

+Kosta Σ Yes Vlachs are the Latinized people. Which is why they include the Illyrians and Thracians, as well as the Macedonians (who probably account for the Vlachs of Greece). Supposedly the Vlachs are not one uniform ethnicity, but so many parallels in many things are similar to Vlachs everywhere, even in the DNA. Even if it does not make them all of the same origin, it does suggest that most of the Balkanic (including Greek) and Carpathian stock were of close relation to each other.

[@Userius1]

+Dorian Hellene Yeah, they were so "Greek". First of all, Greek or Hellenic identity was more of a confederation than anything else. By the time of the Persian Wars there were already several tribal presences, including Dorian (Epirotan, Spartan, Macedonian), Ionian (Athens and some other coastal dudes off of Anatolia), Arcadians (supposedly Pelasgian), Achaeans (supposedly Mycenaean), as well as some other minor groups and Minoans (who I'm not sure would be represented by any specific region during that time period). These groups all brought elements of their own pantheon and influenced each other, ultimately being united under the Attic and Koine dialects. These Greeks or Hellenes, rather (as Greece is a modern name), would then continue to be involved with each other and influence in a variety of ways, especially warfare. On the Thracian side, where do you see such influence? Did any Hellenic tribe use the curved sica blade? Did any ever utilize a rhomphaia? No. Not any such presence can be attested to with them in any work of writing. The Thracian customs were deliberately described by Herodotus and other writers after him. Their kinship is far closer to the Illyrians and even moreso to the northern Dacians, neither of which could be considered Greek, although there was Hellenic influence that spread to them. The only Thracians that were in any way Greek were the Odrysians, since they were a confederation of tribes that formed a capital and used the Greek "polis" method of city management as a base for their newfound kingdom. Other individual tribes such as the Dii who slaughtered a whole Greek village during the Peloponnesian War or Triballi and Agrianes that Alexander used in Asia were of a separate stock. To call everything in Balkan antiquity "Greek" is a faulty act by modern Greeks who don't realize that by doing so they are making the same twist of history that the "Macedonians" *ahem* Vardarskans do.

[@JosephHeller-el8zo]

This music is amazing!

[@VyckTube]

romanie rapsodie by Ciprian porumbescu

[@P1389S]

yep true, love from Serbia :)

[@themartian4879]

FUCK SERBIA

[@ANTIPATREA-K]

@@themartian4879 🙏

[@ivai5587]

Vallachia is also a region in Morava in Czech Republic. this are the people who were send there from Romania in some century.

[@Greensanctuary-c4w]

Those are Serbs

[@larevederez8288]

Vlachs are not only Romanians. keep in mind that the word "vlach" is a Slavic word to describe latin speaking people including Italians French ect.

[@thesecretlibrary890]

When will people realize that "Vlachs" aren't a single ethnicity and entity?

[@felician2632]

It is a germanic word not a slavic one but whatever...

[@isissophieandandreea]

It comes from the Romanian Province Wallachia, look it up. It’s not a slavic word.

[@Tudor.Cautisanu]

@@isissophieandandreea It is a german word given to us by the german tribes durin the migrations of the medieval era. It means "latin speaker". Eventualy we adopted this term and called ourselves vlachs as other peopels adopted names given by other unrelated groups (germans for example, their name was given to them by the romans, so were the britons, etc.)

[@mariomario-lz6vt]

Dute dracu prostule with your slavs

[@G6600]

Nestor also mentiones that Balcan was destroyed through Goths and Langobards before the Slavs came. And that there were only few towns left mainly on the Adriatic coast Pola, Spalatium, Senia, Neum, Bari, Budva, Ulcinum, Dioclea in Dalmatia and Naissus and Singidunum in Maesia. And that Roman Emperor Dioclecian built Salonae and settled many people from Rom there and in Dioclea and all the towns of the Balcan and they were army of the roman empire and people of theBalcan were their descendants.

[@nestingherit7012]

It could be the Carpii, a eastern Dacian tribe from the land of present day Romanian Moldavia. Carpii Wikipedia. They were atacking even newly established Roman Dacia and many Roman towns south of Danube. After their defeat in around 250 ad some were moved to different parts of the empire. They did contributed to " The third Century Crisis" and collapse of Roman empire. The moldavian idiom is veri similar to aromanian. There are town in Greece like Karpenissi ( called Karpu' by the Aromanians) and surprisingly another Karpi at the megleno Romanians .

[@SacaluBrasov]

Almost all modern nations in Central and SE Europe have native Vlach minorities: Hungary, Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, Albania, Greece and Bulgaria. In other countries, the native Vlach population have been completely assimilated by the Slavic population and therefore ceased to exist: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bosnia and Montenegro. Only in Romania and the Republic of Moldova, the Vlach (Dacoromanian or Romanian proper) population consist an ethnic majority today.

[@cafta]

In Poland they lost their language but they are aware they are Vlachs because their culture is still the same and they even have an pro independency movement in Zakopane .

[@SacaluBrasov]

Aromanians (speaking the Aromanian language) up to 2,000,000, live in: Greece - up to 700,000, mainly in the Pindus Mountains (the Greek government does not recognise any ethnic divisions, so there are no exact statistics and most Aromanian speakers of Greece self-identify as Greeks. See Demographics of Greece) Albania - up to 400,000. Romania - 100,000 Republic of Macedonia - 80,000

[@bobifetski]

We Bulgarians are of Thracian descend too!

[@floringhergu3354]

+Боян Петров The chronological order is Thracians, then Latinized Thracians, followed by Thracians slavicized and finally (after arriving by Asparuh Bulgarians, who in turn were slavicized) modern Bulgarians. In our case, we were not slavicized.

[@SimeontheGreat]

Yeah, Bulgarians are THRACIANS, with a bit of Spartan Greeks! Therefore we are bravest people in Balkans!

[@floringhergu3354]

Greeks are brave, as well as Serbs, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Bosnians or Albanians. However, the only ones who were not conquered by the Ottoman Empire, are Romanians (ie Vlachs who live north of the river).Thracian Spartan

[@SimeontheGreat]

Florin Ghergu Sorry but didn't Romania come under Turkish rule like us until 1878?

[@ingnavar]

Mr fake nation just to let you know that walchia is northern Bulgaria and you little friend have been vassals for the last 1500 years so stfu

[@DinaricUbermensch]

Vlachs were originally Albanian, Vlachs tested positive for J2b2 L283, PH2967 which is also common in Albos

[@thebrocialist8300]

Wasn’t this the term initially used to describe the highland celticized tribes of Illyria?

[@Greensanctuary-c4w]

Yes Serbian romanized tribes

[@veljkojovanovic9558]

It has been variously hypothesized that Vlachs are descendants of Roman soldiers, Thracians, diaspora Romanians, or Latinized Greeks. However, the ethnic makeup of the empires that ruled the Balkans and the use of the language as a lingua franca suggest that the Vlachs do not have one single origin

[@SacaluBrasov]

THEY ARE VLACHS : Daco-Romanians (Romanians proper) up to 33,500,000 including Moldovans),speaking the Romanian language (Daco-Romanian), known by that name due to their location in the territory of ancient Dacia, who live in: Romania - 20 million Moldova - 3.5 million Ukraine - 459,000; in southern Bessarabia and northern Bukovina Serbia - 79,000 Hungary - 15,000 Bulgaria - 10,500 persons counted as Vlachs and 1088 as Romanians, this figure may include Aromanians.

[@CANADASOCCERMAN13]

Czech Republic - 350 000 Moravian Wallachians

[@allpeopletogether2189]

Croatia , Greece and Germana also

[@cafta]

@@CANADASOCCERMAN13 Poland about half a milion Gorals who identify themselves as Vlachs but lost the language.The culture is still there btw.

[@borzmir9326]

​@@cafta not all highlanders in Poland are od vlach origin. vlachs migrated to Poland after the Slavs celts and germanic

[@cafta]

@@borzmir9326 there is no source to indicate that .. but they inhabit all the mountains and no one wrote about their migration.

[@tahmkenchusta5852]

Wow, this was uploaded twelve years ago. Weird...

[@50jamboree]

I'm not sure what's with this stupid question "who are the Vlachs" when all Southern Romania were called Vlachia until 20th century...

[@hebanker3372]

Thessaly in central Greece was known as Great Vlahia(Μεγάλη Βλαχία)in the Middle Ages.Vlachs can be found in all the Balkans,not Romania exclusively.

[@mariaboghean3280]

@@hebanker3372 but the language ,what about this? It is old romanian

[@hebanker3372]

@@mariaboghean3280 No it's not old Romanian.It's a latin based language with Slavic,Greek and a few Turkish elements.At least that's how it's here(Thessaly).

[@mariaboghean3280]

Ο Τραπεζίτης/Τhe Banker seriously? I dont believe you because I know my history and romanian is the single latin language in balkans, and these other are dialects of romanian like aromanian,megleno-romanian and istro-romanian search on wikipedia to see their origin especially aromanian is romanian from 1500 years when a group of romanian moved there and normally that they have some words from greek and albanian or turkish but they resisted and kept the language so we understand aromanian and you must to know that vlahi dont exist in Romania here everybody is called romanian but the vlahi(this name is for romanians in 1500 years) and for this you know them like vlahi why their language like archaic romanian? and the name!? you must to know that romanian language is from latin and aromanian ,megleno-romanian and istro-romanian are from romanian so you must to search more informations on internet

[@hebanker3372]

@@mariaboghean3280 The Vlachs in antiquity were simply either Roman settlers or Romanized Thracians and Dacians from what is NOW Romania.Our name is Aromuni,obviously a corruption of ''ab Romanum'' which means ''from the Romans''or ''from the land of the Romans''. During the 3rd century AD,Roman authority in north of the Danube collapsed and empreror Aurelian evacuated the province of Dacia.It's inhabitants were then scattered in the Balkans while a lot of them stayed.They learned to be nomadic shepherds and were illiterate, giving birth in various dialects according to the region and the civilizations they had relationships with.The Vlachs of Greece for example never had any writing language,they wrote with Greek letters.And there is no record of these people untill the 6th century. All the Vlachs decent from the Roman province of Dacia, noone denies that.But each branch followed it's own ways and evolved differently.If Vlachs are something,they're Romans.Modern Romania is the result of 19th century nationalism and history has proven that Vlachs weren't people of any nationality. I don't care if you believe me or not and history of the Vlachs or ROMANS as they call themselves isn't only yours.

[@MrNull96]

i dont know anything about serbia only that:you are like a brother because we defended europe in history and they make us gypsy...

[@MrNull96]

vlachs was named the romanians from south (of actually romania) and moldovians the romanians from north-east(of actually romania)

[@FicatIon-d5n]

We all went, we went to Wallachia, after Wallachia, Moldova and Transylvania

[@sigmaalpha8698]

Aromanians are descendants of Latinized Greeks who are native to Macedonia and Epirus and Thracians.

[@ΘανοςΠετρέλαιο]

Nope we definitely aren't actually in fact descendants of any Latinized Greeks, that's your unstable Greek propaganda you are actually in fact the most illiterate illogical. No Thracians were actually in fact literally not Greeks, what expired drugs you smoked again?

[@sigmaalpha8698]

Θανος Πετρέλαιο Lmao you’re calling me illiterate yet your goofy ass can’t write for shit. You’re sitting there and telling me that “Aromanians are not Greek” yet you have a Greek name. Aromanians are descendants of Latinized Greeks, Thracians, and other indigenous Balkan tribes. READ HISTORY!!!

[@jamboree5019]

1.Greeks always considered their tongue "superior", how they got latinized? 2.What about Vlachs from Croatia, Serbia, Poland, Czechia, Ukraine ? Were they Greeks too? 3. Why the closest to their language is Romanian, not Greek, Latin or Italian??

[@alpidistra]

It is still a great mystery how this "latinization" actually took place. Historically, latinised people were city dwellers, usually part of the upper and middle class of educated merchants. Latinization is also strongly tied to religion and is usually confined to Roman Catholic populations. It is a mystery how Dacia, which was only briefly under Roman rule, adopted the Latin language. How did a largely illiterate pastoral people living in the mountains lose their native language?

[@isissophieandandreea]

It did not happen, this is the truth. Latin comes from proto-Romanian language. Emperor Trajan when we came to battle the Dacians said, I return to the land of my forefathers. All this Roman Empire ballony and latinization will soon come to an end. It was meant to create an aura of greatness for thieves and attackers, instead of praising the civilizations that never sought any wars. When we stop glorifying the villains, turth will come out.

[@Tallborn5]

Because The Dacians were already speaking vulgar latin. Simple

[@predacorneliu]

Strong nation this Vlachs. They occupaid the Dacians Kingdom and after 1000 years they became Kingdom of România.

[@thesecretlibrary890]

Romanians are really a fearless warrior race but they still have to unlock this. Look at that territory tho, very strong.

[@apollon6870]

what?lol

[@huszekler2705]

Vlachs, Albanians, Romanians, Aromanians...all of them are related.

[@andreipop5805]

The vlachs and aromanians are romanians and we are related to the albanians because of daco-illyrian brothership.

[@brianhammer5107]

Albanians are not related to Romanians/their kin - Albanian is a standalone IE language not related to Romanian, which is a Romance language. If - and it is a rather big "if" - the Vlachs are somehow descended from the Dacians/Getae in blood and not just in language, then they occupied a different area of Europe than the Albanians of today did. And loanwords do not mean that languages are related. It just means people assimilate what they hear and deal with on a constant basis.

[@delagrazia]

@VitezBogdan So what does the study say after all?I thought Thtakians was a big group that divided in smaller subgrups like Getes Dacians,in the North, and that in the South had mixed with Pelasgoi and Doriis forming another subgrup , because if i remember well is said that in Alexanders the Great army they spoke 4 languages and i guessed this could be a Thrakik dialect/Illyrian and Greek,and another. If in the area were Illyrians Greek /Hellenes and Thraks then GetoDacians was a separate group?

[@FicatIon-d5n]

Yes, the Geto-Dacians, they were a separate group, but part of Thrace

[@HungarianHistory2]

vlchos nomadic sepherd in greek a slavo-alanian cumanized uzicised nation who gave latin language glagolit alphabet orthodox (non rom,an) religion in byzant.

[@dylanvlahos8466]

Hi so my family originated from Byzantium then they moved to Romania then Northern Greece and they changed the last name we had to Vlahos which means Vlach in Greek so does anyone have anything information that I might come from the Vlach people?

[@ThracianForever]

In essence the aromanians are romanian, romanians are aromanians the aromanian lenguage may replace the standard romanian language of the state the both languages a dialects of the same common language with evolved separate on their own in other words aromanian is a romanian dialect and romanian is aromanian dialect

[@ΘανοςΠετρέλαιο]

Aromanians aren't actually Romanian. Romanians are Dacians and Thracians with a hint of Slavic. Aromanians are Thraco-Illyrians, Bulgarians are Thrace-Slavs and Albanians are Illyrians with Thracians in the northwestern region. I think some Aromanians descending in Greece must have mixed with Greeks that's why some look swarthy. But we are mainly Thraco-Illyrians. The Greek admixtures are easy to spot they are miserable, frail, weak and obedient to women.

[@ThracianForever]

@@ΘανοςΠετρέλαιο I never said there wasen't a Greek mix of Aromanians with Greeks but the Aromanians are more Romanian then Greek this is seen in their language syntax and vocabulary

[@ΘανοςΠετρέλαιο]

@@ThracianForever Yeah I mean, we literally aren't Grecos

[@timoceanul]

@georgikamakedonu la ce anume popoare te mai referi ca s-ar trage din Traci

[@csabaszucs9327]

Nice video! I just don't understand why Transylvanian village and names have Hungarian origin if they always lived there: Árpás (Hungarian meaning: barley + "s" as an adjective suffix) ⭢ Alsóárpás (Lower Árpás) ⭢ Arpașu de Jos (Romanian version) Főldoar / Földvár (Hungarian meaning: motte) ⭢ Feldioara (Romanian version) Szombatfalva (Hungarian meaning: saturday-village) ⭢ Alsószombatfalva (Lower saturday-village) ⭢ Sâmbăta de Jos (Romanian version) Fogros / Fogaras (Hungarian meaning: old-Hungarian name variant of partridge + "s" as an adjective suffix. Old version: fogor. Fogor + "s" became Fog(o)ros. Modern Hungarian: Fogaras) ⭢ Fagaras (Romanian version) Sarcam / Sárkány (Hungarian meaning: dragon) ⭢ Șercaia (Romanian name version) '''(Romanian version) Erdőd (Hungarian meaning: your forest) ⭢Ardud (Romanian version) Egres (Hungarian meaning: gooseberry) ⭢ Agruș (Romanian version) Egyed (Old-Hungarian male name) ⭢ Adjud (Romanian version) Esküllő (Hungarian "eskü" means oath) ⭢ Așchileu (Romanian version) Erdőfalva (Hungarian meaning: forest village) ⭢ Ardeova (Romanian version) Enyed (Different version of the old-hungarian name "Egyed") ⭢ Aiud (Romanian version) Erdély (Hungarian meaning: beyond the Forest) ⭢ Ardeal (Romanian version)

[@csabaszucs9327]

@cafta 260126 I think because the Vlachs were shepherds, and they lived mostly on the mountainous areas to find enough fields on their flock.

[@felician2632]

@@csabaszucs9327 Yeah

[@oresama93]

the hungarian overlords changed them

[@nestingherit7012]

But you say ,szombat'( Saturday) from romanian ,sambata' Also Fagaras means ,little honeycomb" fagure/honeycomb or latin ,fag'( beech)/ latin Fagus. You mostly make up hungarian etymologies. Erdely from Ardeal ( high land) see Ardus or even Ardeness ( the forested hills) Ardelle a name. You hungarized Satu Mare ( big village) into ...Szatmar Etc

[@cardenmanning2455]

It's because there is a thing called assimilation. For example why Vlachs from Serbia speak Romanian and yet they have Slavisised Serbian names ? This is why many old Vlach villages from Transilvania have Hungarian names.

[@Greensanctuary-c4w]

Vlas means hair in Serbian. They depended on sheep's wool and believed in Veles which beard grew as grass from the earth.

[@luicaluica8262]

Vallah = Romanians (Daco-romanians, Aromanians, Melgleno-romanians, Istro-romanians) and that's it!!!

[@cassiusquintilianustiberiu6889]

@bubibuLo13 yes latins

[@agpaok0704]

Vlach =Greek

[@agpaok0704]

@Alex C yes lol

[@agpaok0704]

@Alex C there were dacians (romanians) too, but the vlachs yes they were and are Greek.

[@agpaok0704]

@Alex C Latin are Greek. Balkans conquered by Romans just like Greek people. Vlachs are Greek

[@alucard5055]

I'm from West Herzegowina, I think my dad looks vlah or part vlah. He got red tan skin, curly Dark hair. Simply looks Roman Italian mixed to me. My mom looks more Slavic. I assume I am part vlah. I'd like to learn more about my origins. I got some research to do.

[@kartoffeljager7609]

In wich region you live in Bosnia?Some parts of Bosnia have vlachs too

[@alucard5055]

@@kartoffeljager7609 did a dna test, just generally like dna science, says I'm Croatian. I got 29 % Mediterranean. I think vlachs are roman / Mediterranean. It's not uncommon to be brownish in south croatia / Bosnia or shall we say Dalmatia / Herzegowina. He's not that brown. But just I don't know, more like southern then eastern. I look a bit eastern. At least people in Germany think I'm polish.

[@alucard5055]

@@kartoffeljager7609 I think we all got vlach admixture. Vlachs are probably just romans.

[@kartoffeljager7609]

@@alucard5055 Yeah, we are a enigma:D There are a lot of theories about our origins but still, how Dacians (ancestors of vlachs and modern day romanians) managed to change their language and traditions in only 165 years of Roman rule when only 14% of Dacia was conquered and the rest was free. And England was ruled for 450 years with all their territory conquered but did not adopt Roman language or mixed with them

[@blockie9706]

Not all Vlachs (Vllahs) are from the same ancestry, they're descendants of the Romanized Paleo-Balkanic people (Illyrians, Hellens, Dacians, Thracians). Btw i think the name "Vllah" is derived from Albanian (Illyrian) word "Vlla" (Vella) which means Brother.

[@SacaluBrasov]

@unfukkkmee Transylvania (or Ardeal), Transylvanian vlachs mentioned in Middle Ages chronicles; Wallachia and Bulgaria - between the Danube and the Balkan mountains; Second Bulgarian Empire Great Wallachia (Μεγάλη Βλαχία, Megáli vlahía) - in Thessaly Principality of the Pindus Hutsul Republic.

[@delagrazia]

haha .."they were called by other ppl:Vlahi, Valasi Valahi Vlehe Volohi Vilese,Vlasi" "and by the turkish..... "Ulahlar" !

[@inhumanhyena]

love the choice of music, what's that song, and whose it by?

[@mihaliprefti2507]

That song has absolutely nothing to do with vlach music; this is Roumanian classic music; while the Vlach traditional music is galaxies different from the Roumania music.

[@VyckTube]

they are :) not as the Huns from Mongolia

[@G6600]

In the Nestor's Chronicle writes that in todays Hungary and Romania lived Slavs and Romans lived under the Danube river. Once Romans went across the Danube and took some slavic women and then Slavs came for the first time over the Danube to revenge their women and killed and plunder Romans and went back to their land. Then Roman Emperor send Roman army on the Slavs and hunted them to the river Visla to the north. And other Slavs went through Dobruja to the south to Constantinopel.

[@flexxten]

According to Mr. Danny, the Vlach from eastern part of Serbia, Homolj, descend from Roman colonists. Thers Vlach sleng is the same as an old Roman dialect used today by older population of Roma

[@cafta]

@@jebaitedmitsaras8854 we have the biggest nation in Eastern Europe. All the mountains inhabited by us but only managed to create two countries of our own.Romania and Moldova.

[@jebaitedmitsaras8854]

@@cafta Yes man we're related, romania is a shame of existence

[@cafta]

@@jebaitedmitsaras8854 neah ! Its not a shame .. its the biggest economy in eastern Europe and will be a regional superpower shortly!

[@cardenmanning2455]

@@jebaitedmitsaras8854 Your comment is a shame to humanity. Shame on you, you - proto-Romanian who forgot where you're coming from.

[@jebaitedmitsaras8854]

@@cafta Bro, you're not similar to vlachs anymore, neither they're between... Our old nation was low IQ enough to not practice endogamy, we could have been related and indeed thrive

[@alinutza24]

i ask a single question if the dacians were colonized how come we speak romanian all over romania of today,how come there are villages today in countries surrounding romania where they still speak romanian and have the same traditions although they were cut off romania for a long time??

[@bestopinion9257]

@Janos Musatic There is a large list of Romanian words inherited by Dacians. Second DNA test shows the linkage between bronze era people at location Costisa (Romania) and actual Romanians. We have DNA proves now, stop spreading shit. Btw, DNA also show that the Hungarians and Mongols are linked. LOL

[@bestopinion9257]

@Janos Musatic Hungarians DNA has found in west and central Europe because you absorbed many populations. But also your DNA is linked with Asia. Hungarians went from Asia. It can't be DNA from ancient Hungarians in Europe, lol, you can be smarter than that. The DNA that links Hungarians with Europe is from those absorbed populations. As opposite, we were always here. Vlachs were shepherds. Dacians were shapherds. Those Dacian/Romanian words descripe a shepherd life. You want proves but you ignore the proof because did not fit your theory. You say Vlachs went from Albania in 13 th century but your fuckin' Gesta Hungarorum shows that Arpad asked Gelu (Vlach) for land. And then you make maps of that era putting only Bulgarians in the zone. And as you said, we did not become Hungarians just because they conquered the land from shepherds. We did not become Hungarians just because Austrian Hungarian empire made administration in Transylvania. We shepherds Dacians (Vlachs) were always been here but with no leaders and no army. But as always we were many. And when we managed to make leaders and armies we get back the leadership in the zone. Those from Albania are Aromanians. Still Romanians but with other dialect. Dude, other dialect, aka other people. You speak only from Aromanians as all Romanians are Aromanians. You blatantly ignore facts. As long as you clearly went from Asia shut the fuck of. About us is at most debatable (just because of you, no other country believe what you say) but for you is CLEAR, you went here from another distant place.

[@bestopinion9257]

@Janos Musatic My English has nothing to do with the facts. Read your fuckin' Gesta Hungarorum dude. So Romanians were shepherds as Dacians and Hungarians shot arrows from a horse... Yup, "no" mongol at all.

[@bestopinion9257]

@Janos Musatic when you are telling to me "shit head" then you issue the certificate about your arrogant primitive stupidity. Everyone who read your comment can see immediately who is the shit guy. ROFL

[@bestopinion9257]

@Janos Musatic ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiongnu#/media/Fi%C8%99ier:Hsiung-nu-Empire.png No mongol my ass.

[@walachiavlahserbia3433]

Wallachia Vlah from Serbia

[@jebaitedmitsaras8854]

Vlachs are Hellenes man. Are you Vlach?

[@hijaemaleve4400]

@@jebaitedmitsaras8854 what? I thought vlachs are mixture of illyrians, thracians and italics.

[@bogdanstanescu4509]

Do you offend the Romanians?

[@MrFefefofo]

As the movie starts you immidiately anware for the questions. The wlach are highland sheepherds from the balkan As pecially the area south of Sava-Danube rivers. That are many settlements, hills, mountains river names has wlach origin from before the X century. Romanians origin name can not be found in other place from that time.

[@bestopinion9257]

DNA test at Costisa (Romania) links Romanians by bronze era people at that location. So the ancestors of Romanians are in Romania area. Implicitly, if Romanians have nothing to do with Dacians, then they lived together for centuries without noticing LOL

[@MrNull96]

please say some words in aromanian:)

[@mihaliprefti2507]

Oclliu -eye; ureaclli-ear; imnu-walk; pirpadi-on foot; agru-field; voiu-want/love; amintu-I grow/ win/ develop/ progress; luñinâ-light; fucurinâ-fireplace; aducu-bring; cântu-sing; mutrescu-watch; vedu-see; capu-head; dzeadzitu-finger; mânâ-hand; dzinuclliu-knee; anduplicu-bend; …

[@rogersmith7525]

Im Greek and we have some Vlachs here that migrated from Wallachia and Moldavia through the ottoman empire, even though there are some jokes about them they are still respected as good shepherds.

[@mihaliprefti2507]

You know nothing about the Vlachs.

[@rogersmith7525]

@@mihaliprefti2507 I can learn more

[@sadiksulejmanovic3026]

I'm vlach with illyrian root ! More of the vlach in banat or another teritorrity has pure illyrian root like the albanian. The pure latin language are in the time of the great alexander ! Please romania stop compare with us !! We are just brothers like Albania . We Call the modern day romania as = country of our children. Wee see you as my kids or descendants !!! Even the old romanian people know , we are the oldest people in the Balkans. Dacia was founded in honor of the great Alexander !!! Only the vlach natives know why the country dacia was founded The great Alxander = Illyrian/thracian Illyria/Thracia= Dacia The vlachs in albania , bulgaria , macedonia and greece has more thracian influence ! Im a kara vlach who means black but no ! We are northern -vlach who has more illyrian influence .

[@alpidistra]

@CristoofRomania It is considered a mystery because the province of Dacia was under Roman rule for a very short period of time and yet today Romania is a latinized country. Other regions which were under Roman rule for a centuries, much more than Dacia, today there is no trace of Latin influence in these places. Two main theories exist for this fact. One, that Latin speaking peoples from other regions migrated to Dacia recently, especially after the fall of Constantinople by the Turks.

[@olgaath1511]

Vlachs are Romanians, end of story...same language!

[@petsetaful]

***** nope! Ημιμαθή!

[@olgaath1511]

εγκεφαλοκλείδωμα εξελληνισμένοι Ρουμάνοι...

[@petsetaful]

***** Θα ίσχυε αν μόνο στην Ελλάδα μιλούσαν αυτή τη γλώσσα.

[@stamenailic7163]

***** Really ??? then Greek is Turk end story Greetings from Serbia !! one Vlahc woman !

[@olgaath1511]

Stamena Ilic you must be joking, hehe!

[@lolalilalo3348]

...i am vlach of my mothers side, of generation to generation they all tall people,white skinned and blue or light green eyed ppl ...so how come the south european origin ?

[@devilslayerthesaintofkille1317]

The Vlachs were simply a Romanized Thraco Illyrian tribe and the ancestors of modern day Romanians!

[@vinnskman7489]

Thracians invented romanization...

[@andreipop5805]

* Thraco Dacian

[@cassiusquintilianustiberiu6889]

@@vinnskman7489 not!

[@SacaluBrasov]

The term Vlach is originally an exonym. All the Vlach groups used various words derived from romanus to refer to themselves: Români, Rumâni, Rumâri, Aromâni, Arumâni etc. (note: the Megleno-Romanians nowadays call themselves "Vlaşi", but historically called themselves "Rămâni"; The Istro-Romanians also have adopted the names Vlaşi, but still use Rumâni and Rumâri to refer to themselves).

[@andreast2168]

It is clear, for someone that has done his homework, that Vlachs are Thracians. Not Greeks or Shqipetars(Albanians). As for Romanians, we have a 90% common language, that is true, but that does not make a Vlach Romanian, but a Romanian is partially Vlach. Furthermore, the reason why our language is so close to Latin is because, the fact that Vlachs were mostly doing the job of the sheperd, made them the best warriors, as they were familiar with killing and hard work, so they were Roman Warriors, that's why you will find Vlachs all over the Ancient Roman territory. For example in Italian when you want to say ''Good Evening'' you say ''Buona sera'', while we, Vlachs say ''Siare Bune''.As for Sqipetars(or Albanians), you will find Vlachs in the Toskic side of Albania, on the southern part( Moscopole or Voskopoje, Vithkuqi, Argirokastron or Gjirokastr and many more, which means that Vlachs stayed where they were since they moved to that place, which is proved by the fact that Vlachs never payed the Turks in Greece as they ( Turks) needed them to show them the paths around the mountains. As for Greeks, whatever you say about Vlachs or Arvanites ( Arberor) in Greece, is called PROPAGANDA. Of course the last person in Greece that could be called Greek is the Vlach. The fact that i am Vlach does not bring me to the position of admitting something false, like the superiority of the Vlach ''tribe''. Vlachs can so easilly adapt, that you never realize that a Vlach speaks a different language than where he lives and he speaks both fluently. Proud to be Vlach and Proud for my ancestors that have contributed to the maximum to create Greece (Averof, Zappas, Arsakis, Tositsas etc.) and call it the new home after losing Great Vlachia. Herodotus first told that a nation is the one where it's citizens have : same blood, same language, same ethics, same religion. I'm afraid all the bonds are broken. Vlachs are everywhere, Vlachs are everything.

[@Decebal1906]

+Andreas Toris Vlahii sunt Romani, este acelasi lucru, este un sinonim. Sper ca intelegi Limba Noastra pe care o scriu, Dacica

[@andreast2168]

+gabriel ion Omnie dit Romani sunt Vlehi, nu him noj Romani. Because Vlachia pre-existed Romania. Vlahi nu sunt Grec, nu sunt Albanez, nu sunt Romani, Vlahi sunt Vlahi, sunt Remenj. Dzua bune s'aj.

[@Decebal1906]

Andreas Toris Nu prea ne intelegem. valahi este acelasi lucru cu termenul de român, S-a încetățenit obiceiul de a folosi Valahi pentru a desemna Românii înainte de 1859. Numele de Valah a fost dat în evul mediu românilor din stânga și din dreapta Dunării de către alte popoare. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Valaques-Vlachs.jpg

[@Decebal1906]

Andreas Toris ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limba_rom%C3%A2n%C4%83

[@andreast2168]

+gabriel ion Can you please say it in English, because i don't understand most of this. Thank you.

[@ravenalbj]

The Huns were Romanian ancestors whose original name was OUZI. The city of HUNEDOARA in Romania means "city of the Huns". VLAHI got their name from Attila's brother VLEDA or BLEDA who was killed by Attila. After Attila's death the Vlahi, Vleda's men were not hated as the rest of the Huns and didn't suffer the defeat Attila's Huns did. The Huns recovered and became the latter Avars. After the Franks defeated the Avars in 800, the Avars retreated in the mountainous area called Banat.

[@TheDorian1979]

Vlachs are Dorians, a genuine Greek race. The only relationship with Romania is that they have many Latin words in their speech. I am Vlach, or better I say A-romanian... Buna noapte!

[@G6600]

@unomnacajit11 We can obviously see cultural and linguistical link between Greeks­­-Macedonians­­-Thracians­­-Phrygians and on east all people to Armenians including them. I also think that today Albanians tend to be apart of this group rather than of Illyrians. Those people Thracian less and Illyrian more were romanized and build let me say one roman nation and even today they call themselves Roman or Aroman and Slavs call them Vlah or Voloh depending on the slavic dialects.

[@danbratu46]

Mother Teresa was Wlach

[@Dukagjina]

Mother Teresa was Albanian

[@malusdacus5418]

Theresa was a Hungaro-Austrian Queen.

[@smiljanic65]

Many Albanains have Vlach origin

[@SimeontheGreat]

Lol she is Indo-Albanian.

[@adrianacupsa4575]

Vlahs are good shepherds, no matter where they live. Their spirit is old, wise and focused on what is essential and eternal in this life.....

[@hxisy6394]

is the language similiar to latin or romanian?

[@korndead100]

HXISY OMG It's similar to romanian, with a different words borrowed depending on where they live.

[@cassiusquintilianustiberiu6889]

Is latin (romanian)

[@mihaliprefti2507]

Closer to Latin than Rumanian is.

[@nickcohen4900]

Vlahi are dacii and thracii . They were never latinised . Their language and latin were similar from tha indo evropean family .The apelative romanians is fake .Was invented by the Vatican kabal to make them believe they are roman subjects .

[@floringhergu3354]

+Nick Cohen Citeste ,,Hronicul vechimei a romano-moldo-vlahilor'' ,dupa aceea mai schimbam pareri pe acest subiect . Apropo , vezi ca aceasta lucrare a fost scrisa de unul ,pe numele lui Dimitrie Cantemir , pe la inceputul anilor 1700 .

[@nickcohen4900]

Florin Ghergu ..Nu conteaza cine l-a scris . Probabil a fost influentat . Romanii nu se trag din Roma ci sunt daci .

[@floringhergu3354]

Nick Cohen Daca noi amfi Daci ,am vorbi o limba dacica ( evoluata in timp bineinteles ) , insa noi vorbimo latina evoluata intimp ( si amestecata cu ceva alte influente ) .

[@nickcohen4900]

Florin Ghergu ....Vaticanul a lansat vrajeala asta ca am fi latini . Noi acum vorbim limba daca evoluata si amestecata cum ai zis ....Romanii si dacii comunicau fara translatori deoarece limbile lor erau inrudite

[@floringhergu3354]

Nick Cohen ai aflat cumva de vreun text scris in limba dacilor ca sa facem o comparatie ?

[@andrej89634]

Is Perni a Vlach surname?

[@quakieee]

IT IS NOT a Slavic name ...it is a slavic nick name , the origin of the vlach words is from Germany!

[@MrFefefofo]

@RomaniaTricolor You are here on this land from that time the earth was hot. But you do not have one settlements on the area of "modern" Romanian, they have romanian origi names and they are before the X-XII period. You ave a lot from south of Sava-Danube line on the balkan. Can you explain this? If yo lieve on the present places for 75 centuries how can it be that the toponimes do not support this?

[@mikpatmeh]

Vlachs are the remnants of latinized thracians like romanians and albanians but then again there is no absolute evidence on what the true origins of the vlachs are but in my opinion the vlachs where descended from romanized thracians

[@SacaluBrasov]

Megleno-Romanians (speaking the Megleno-Romanian language),living in the region of Macedonia, specifically Greece and the Republic of Macedonia-20,000. Istro-Romanians (speaking the Istro-Romanian language) living in Croatia, with a population of 1,200, but with fewer than 200 acknowledged native speakers. Morlachs-in the 1991 Croatian census 22 people declared themselves Morlachs. Hutsuls-Slavic-speaking Vlachs in Ukraine

[@aleccch]

traiesti intr-o lume a ta!aproape toata peninsula Balcanica pana in Polonia si chiar Palestina au existat TRACII(geto-dacii sunt o ramura a tracilor).Tracii sunt urmasii Pelasgilor.Grecii au fost dupa traci in pen Balcanica si numeric si cronologic.In Bistrita,taietori de lemne folosesc inca semne pelasge(litere din alfabetul pelasg)desi le cunosc drept simboluri si nu litere.La Sinaia s-au gasist 500 de placi de aur cu istoria geto-dacilor,ulterior turnate in plumb,dovedind genealogia romanilor

[@naruto1999sakura]

You owned Him congrats :D

[@zyraxesdac7583]

BIG QUESTION ; if the first write trace of vlah are from 536 it s evident that they are down of danube earlier. some pretend that the macedonian of alexandre are in fact vlah and speak the same kind of language, they don t speak ancient greek. So if this is true, we can imagine that vlah are in fact the last living entity of the prehistoric pelasgian invasion ... I can t say that is true & i can t say that is totally false, the truth are somewhere between PROUD TO BE AFGIAT FROM VERIA

[@floringhergu3354]

Zyraxes Dac What does the word AFGIAT ?

[@zyraxesdac7583]

Aromanii se impart in 3 grupuri, afgiatii din grecia, farsilotii din macedonia si cipanii din albania. Toti au aceas limba dar cu obiceiuri leger diferite

[@florinpavel7517]

Zyraxes Dac si istroromani din crotia sa nu uitam de ei ca sunt pe cale de disparitie

[@zyraxesdac7583]

Au fost si urme de valahi in panonia polonia si tchehia

[@Alexandru_Presa]

FarsiRotii sunt din Grecia, Albania sau Macedonia , Cipanii/Gramustenii din Grecia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turcia

[@MrFefefofo]

@RomaniaTricolor No. I speak about that settlements in Transilvania they have romanian origin name from before the XIV century.

[@stamenailic7163]

NO ROMAN ! NO SERB ! I AM VLACH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@floringhergu3354]

Stamena Ilic celimbavorbesti tu ?

[@andreast2168]

+Stamena Ilic I would say better, No Romanian, No Greek, No Serb, I AM VLACH. But in Greece Vlachs were not allowed to speak their language of course, so that is why today most of young Vlachs know nothing about their language.

[@floringhergu3354]

+Andreas Toris Andreas is a difference between Vlachs in Serbia and Vlachs in Greece. Vlachs in Greece (as those in FYROM or in Albania) speak Aromanian (zburasca armaneashti). Vlachs in Serbia, speak Romanian. All speakers neolatin were appointed appellation Vlach.

[@andreast2168]

+Florin Ghergu Yeah probably you are right, i didn't know this. Thank you.

[@floringhergu3354]

However, Vlachs (Aromanians) from Greece, Macedonia and Albania have language similar to Romanian. A Aromanians in Greece, Romania can handle thankful if you talk Aromanian. the urmaurmei if I as novel understand half of what he's talking more portions of a Greek aromân believe that the converse is possible :). Andreas Toris

[@asianhordes]

I dont understand when some people try to use mongolian as a negative thing. Why? Maybe now mongolia is not the richest country but mongolians already have left significant historical and cultural legacy before. Mongolian empire, one of golden ages of china by mongoian origined emperors etc. But what the hell have the romanians done which is similar to that???? Bocskoros koborlo kecskepasztorok. Personaly for me mongolian is a very positive word. Any connection with them just make me proud.

[@RomaniaTricolor]

What about the vlachs from Baluchistan?...Bactria... :) Who had "latinised" them? Or "germanised" them? :) Valahii, Getii, Dacii, (S)Arimii, all these names means the same thing: WOLFS! From Western Atlantic Europe, to China, from Scandinavia to N-Africa, we have countless tribes an nations with these names, all having a more or less Carpathian legacy from Starcevo-koros/Cris Culture from 7500 years ago.

[@IanHunedoara8]

The SachsenGemeinde of Siebenburgen never assimilated into Romanian mainstream.

[@MESAROS95]

Vlahs are romanians. I am romanian and the southern part, historical region of romania was called valachia

[@cristianradu9406]

if the romanians are vlachs, ilarians or anything else how its possible the ROMANIAN LANGUAGE IS 87 PROCENTS THE SAME WITH ITALIAN LANGUAGE (root of the words), almost 30% with spanish and french???

[@ThracianForever]

Where did I lie Greeks are Greeks and Latins are Latins there is a big difference "I’m not famous but I’m Aromanian" by Toma Enache its a comedy,drama, romantic move not a documentary. Not all things are invented by Greeks, even Greeks took from others like writing and other things. 2000yr ago the Greeks didn't have a common identity and different languages. It is true History can't be changed not even by Greeks... with their lies which befits their own propaganda.

[@stergiosbozinis6744]

The Greeks have the same language since 800 bC. Written language. ! 2800 years written lang..!

[@ThoraThoraThoraThora2012]

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[@vasarelly37]

The vlachs have albano-macedonian roots, they have nothing to do with Dacia. The romanization of the "romanians"(vlachs) took place in the Byzantine Empire they had also a state ther called Great(=old)-Valachia.

[@soimularhanghel7485]

Hi! A good day to you! Tell me please what mean the word TATA in your language?Why the great ruler St. Stephen called the bishop Deodatus TATA?Let me tell you something else: 1256 and 1262 and two documents with the same content.Belonged to the Hungarian chancellery. Content: king Bela consecrated again officially the right of Esztergom bishopric, to charge the Romanians and Székely, from the area of her....AS HAD BEEN ENSHRINED FROM THE TIME OF ST.STEPHEN! So you see they knew about our existence in PANNONIA along with Szekels...who live there with us and pay taxes.

[@soimularhanghel7485]

By the way, Valah, Vlach mean in fact ROMANIAN! ANd Great Valachia means ROMANIA... or this name, is in fact the name of Roman Empire!?! Was de real name used by all! The barbarians, aka. Germans called the empire Valachia and his citizens, free men Valachians. If you want to know more go please on KZbin and search this "Romania a history of the name". I have a bad info for you. Is finished the best study about a county from Romania with the most modern tools. Is called ArcheoGIS. Was finished in 2010 for TIMIS COUNTY and the result is very interesting. They discover at least 300(!) places in Timis County, and most of them have Dacian artifacts, roman and post-roman era after 275, and also vestiges from the Dark Age (V-XI,XII cent.)

[@soimularhanghel7485]

Another info. Dacians were not massacred after the final war (106 BC). Even from the time of the first war 101-102, Dacians were enlisted in Roman army. After 106 a lot of them have the same "luck". They appears in a military diploma from 126 BC and from another from 152BC, when they were discharged. We knew a lot about them what they do every day and how they fight and ranks. They were regarded as great warriors and and are sent in the most important areas of the Romania. Along the roman history we know 20(!) Dacian units from Roman Army. I will make soon a well documented clip about this problem of Dacians after 106 BC.

[@soimularhanghel7485]

And what you say:..."The romanization of the "romanians"(vlachs) took place in the Byzantine Empire"...is strange for a simple reason. After you will read what i say to you, in my first part...you will deny the existence of Romania, the name of Roman empire and also Latin culture in Byzantine Empire...but doing so you will contradict your self! Read again what you say...about our and were, so called "romanization"...This dilema is easy to solve: we live in actual Romania a part of the old Romania! By the way in time of Constantine the Great, Dacia was recaptured by this emperor, otherwise I do not understand why there were three stone bridges(!) built over the Danube during his time (latest discovered in 2012!). With respect, SA.

[@korndead100]

Csaba Bálint And who taught us latin? lmao

[@G6600]

@unomnacajit11 I think that we both know which part of the Balcan peninsula was called Thracia. In my oppinion Thrakians are closer to Phrigians than to Illyrians. Some would say that Illyrians and Dacians were Thracians too. But that is really only some subjectively political motivated theory which is as you people from Balcans like to say "propaganda" and its goal is to show on some way "who has more historical rights on a particular territory".

[@HungarianHistory2]

@HungarianHistory2 albanian sorry alanians are we Dulos :D

[@G6600]

@unomnacajit11 Please read carefully! I have naver said that Dacians were Slavic. But I said that Dacians were teutonic, thus of the same origin as Gets and Goths. But I will research more about them. But let me asked you a question how can you explain so many slavic river names and names of the cities and words of slavic origin in today Romania? And on the other hand Slavs in the Balcans have rivers with Latin names.

[@Greensanctuary-c4w]

Gete are Serbs , dude.

[@arberkrasniqi5793]

Vlachs from Albania,Greece,Fyrom and Dalmatia(Morlachs) are Albanians.

[@floringhergu3354]

not all Vlachs all the countries mentioned you speak Albanian, but all those Vlachs, speak the Aromanian dialect of Romanian language.

[@cunmula8492]

Florin Ghergu Before the Hellenization, Romanization and Slavization, Albanians and Aromunains were the same People. Anthropologically as genetically are both related to each other.

[@sigmaalpha8698]

Arbër Krasniqi Yeah in your wet dreams you stupid Chechen.

[@davidh.2159]

For all uneducated people … im an original Vlah my blood is older than 1000 years and my roots go back to 750 BCE... i dont give a fuck about what you guys think what or who we are ... stop Talking bullshit stop spreding false Information .. the vlahs are the dacians our first area was between Romania and Hungary which was about 700 BCE. About 960 we had our first State until 1245 then we were spred into 2 Nations the Wallachia and Severine Banate and this until 1354 - From 1354 we were unter the Rep.of Venice and we were put together as Wallachia until 1860 and then the Name was changed into Romania 1870 i think . So the only truth is that the Romanians today are Vlahs and some of the Hungaryan people also. We dont have Nothing absolutly Nothing to do with Albanians, Serbs, Greeks , or or or STOP THAS WRONG DISINFORMATION ! WE ARE ONE OF THE OLDEST PEOPLE ON EARTH AND WE DONT HAVE NOTHING COMMON WITH THE SLAVICS OR GREEKS OR ALBANIANS.

[@agpaok0704]

You are not vlach

[@marincalmic2630]

Vlachs of course are ROMANIANS, the only extant Eastern-Romance people. SOME FACTS (that some people of states with Romanian ethnic minorities don't like to recognize and are trying to distort, to deny or, at least, to diminuish): The Romanians ('Vlachs') are the single Romance people-nation who preserved their ancestors' [true] name. The cradle of the Romanians ('Vlachs') was situated and still is preserved on both banks of the Danube river. 'Vlachs' is the foreign name given by [neigbouring] strangers to the Romanians. The Romanians call/called themselves [in Romanian language] as 'Români/Rumâni', i.e. Romans. It is an indisputable fact, attested in written internal & external sources, that the Romanians used this name ('Români/Rumâni') long before creation of Romanian nation-state (1859). Doesn't matter that some [small] parts of Vlachs weren't born in Romania, anyway, it is pretty clear, they still are ethnically and linguistically Romanians, because the ethnicity can not be defined on what passport you have got or what country was you born or are you living in...for example, Albanians not born in Albania are Albanians too(e.g. in Kosovo, Greece, Italy), Bulgarians not born in Bulgaria are Bulgarians too (e.g. in Ukraine, Greece, Macedonia), Hungarians not born in Hungary are Hungarians too (e.g. in Slovakia, Ukraine, Serbia), Germans not born in Germany are Germans too (e.g. in France, Romania, Hungary), Russians not born in Russia are Russians too (e.g. in Estonia, Kazakhstan, Romania), Geeks not born in Greece are Greeks too (e.g. in Turkey, Georgia, Italy). It's very simply! Otherwise, many peoples can not be recognized as beeing of some ethnicity before the creation of their [unitary] state-nation. According to this 'theory', for example never existed Germans before the creation of Germany (1871), never existed Italians before the creation of Italy (1861), or never existed Russians before the creation of Russia (ca. 1721), or never existed Greeks before the creation of Greece (1830), or never existed Albanians before the creation of Albania (1913), etc., wich would be a stupid affirmation. So, of course, so-called [by their neigbours] 'Vlachs' are nothing else but ROMANIANS!!!

[@stergiosbozinis6744]

HE TRI LIGARI!. NU AI S MULTU MIDI. LISSORU UOMU. NOI ARMUNI DI PINDU HIM GRECII. CU DAU LIMPAS. GRECII SH ARMUNESTII. TINI HI RUMANU. GIPSYROMA.

[@walachiavlahserbia3433]

Wallachia+ Moldova+Transilvania= Romania anul 1886?

[@stergiosbozinis6744]

@Vlad The Impaler My fried Vlahs are not a nation! There are languages with similarities because of the latinization. If you live in south Albania, Iperus or in Monastiri, Krussevo area you are Greek. Moglenians were not Greeks but they speak vlahs! Today they speak also Greeks! dacoromanians don t speak vlahs but romanians! They are Romanians. If you speak the words of LEXICON you are ...Greek

[@cassiusquintilianustiberiu6889]

@@stergiosbozinis6744 ce vrei idiotule a spune?

[@HunGyilok]

1:39 'is not' germanic but hungarian and english [maybe celtic because the hun similar to ancient celtic] walk to walk b=v; g=k; ballag=to walk slowly like the shepperd lets go in that way---> tha hungarians are scythian nomads the vlachs are shepherds too the thracians and scythians are the same - see Eusthatius and Stephanus of Byzantium who say 'the scythians are thracians who previously were called Nomaeos' so the huns are steppe nomads the vlachs are mountain nomads.