THE PRIMARY RUSSIAN CHRONICLE ABOUT THE ROMANIANS
THE PRIMARY RUSSIAN CHRONICLE ABOUT THE ROMANIANS

Summary/Abstract: The subject analyzed here are the ethnonyms or politonyms Volsh-, Volkh-, or Volokhi in the Primary Russian Chronicle. Two of the paragraphs in the chronicle reveal the mentioned population in two historical moments, one related to the conviviality with the Slavs, and the other, again in the company of the Slavs, at the arrival of the Hungarians. Revisiting the text of the original manuscript, now available online, in the opinion of the author, the mentioned paragraphs can’t refer to an external political power, such as the Frankish kingdom, which only temporary and inconclusively reached Pannonia. Internal and general historical arguments demonstrate that the two paragraphs of the chronicle refer to a local population, of an important demographical consistence in the area, since it switches power and land with the Slavic population. Therefore, the analyzed fragments would rather refer to a well constituted local Romance population, the ancestors of the Romanians, in Pannonia and Transylvania before the arrival of the Hungarians.

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