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- Title
Kleine Geschichte der Ethnonyme Rumäne ( Rumänien) und Walache ( Walachei) (II).
- Authors
POP, IOAN-AUREL
- Abstract
As the modern Romanian state came into being fairly late and its official name, Romania, was adopted only in the second part of the 19th century, many foreign authors were confused by the dual usage of names such as Wallachia/Romania and Wallachian/Romanian. Since the Middle Ages, the Romanians had two names: one given to them by foreigners (following the contact with the "other,: the neighbor), a name they never used for themselves and whose very existence they often ignored, and another, chosen and used by the Romanians themselves (an expression of their self-awareness). The first name mentioned here is that of vlah (Wallachian), with its variants (valah, valach, voloh, blac, oláh, vlas, ilac, ulah etc.), while the second is that of rumân/român (Romanian), which in its turn had some variants, but fewer than the former.
- Publication
Transylvanian Review, 2014, Vol 23, Issue 3, p80
- ISSN
1221-1249
- Publication type
Article