Originally Posted by
Nurzat
in Romanian language doesn't go with genetics, language was recently imposed politically while genetically only southwest Romanians are Vlach, the others are mix of everything that were just linguistically Vlachized, and that happened very recently for many places, even as recently as a few decades ago (large chunks of Wallachia were Bulgarian speaking in the countryside, not to mention the hundreds of Slavic speaking villages across the country (Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, Slovak, Czech, Serb), or the million Germans that fled a few decades ago, or the two million Hungarians still living in Transylvania/Szeleky land/Partium etc).
a connection could have been only there where Vlachs came from, in the deep Balkans, northern Greece/Macedonia/Timok, but Vlachs don't descend from Dacians/Thracians, they descend from Levantine and Near Eastern colonists brought by the Romans to today's northern Greece/Macedonia
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