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• Title:
  The Valachian way of life in stories about domestic origins in the Hungarian medieval chronicles
• Creator:
  Grzesik, Ryszard
• Description:
  In the paper I analyze the description of the way of life of the Hungarians and the local inhabitants of the Carpathian Basin during the Hungarian Conquest in the Hungarian chronicles: Gesta Hungarorum of the Anonymous Notary of King Béla (III) and Gesta Hungarorum of Master Simon of Kéza. The originally homeland of the Hungarians, called Scythia, was described as a rich land full of pastures and rivers inhabited by happy nomadic people. They left their land because of a fame and found on Tisza and Danube a similar country. According to the chroniclers they met between others the Vlachs who were characterised in a pastoral context by them. They lived in the same semi-nomadic way of life, as the former Hungarians, however, they occurred in Transylvania only in the 12th century, when the Hungarians changed their semi-nomadism to sedentarism. Therefore the semi-nomadic way of the Valachian life was noted as their identification factor by the high-medieval chroniclers.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2017 Ryszard Grzesik
• Date:
  2017.01.26
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Balcanica Posnaniensia. Acta et studia; Vol. 23 (2016); 167-174;
  Balcanica Posnaniensia Acta et studia; Tom 23 (2016); 167-174;
  2450-3177;
  0239-4278
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/bp/article/view/6320/7139
• Subject:
  Vlachs;
  Hungarians;
  Hungarian medieval chronicles;
  Hungarian Conquest of the Land;
  primary homeland of the Hungarians;
  Pannonia
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/bp/article/view/6320
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text