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Cneaz
A ''knez'' or ''kenez'' ( ro, cnez or ; hu, kenéz; la, kenezius) was the hereditary leader of the Vlach (Romanian) communities, primarily in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary. Terminology Official documents, written in Latin, applied multiple terms when they mentioned the Vlach leaders (or chiefs) in the Kingdom of Hungary in the 13th and 14th centuries. The most widely used terms''kenezius'' and its variantsderived from the Slavic ''knyaz'' ("ruler"). The office was closely associated with communities living according to the "Vlach law", thus the term ''knez'' was replaced by the term ''scultetus'' in the northeastern regions, where German law prevailed. A territory subjected to the authority of a ''knez'' was known as ''keneziatus'' (or ''keneziate''). Several ''keneziates'' formed a ''voivodate'', which was subjected to a higher official, the ''voivode''. See also * ''Knyaz , or ( Old Church Slavonic: Кнѧзь) is a historical Slavic title, used both as a royal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vlachs
"Vlach" ( or ), also "Wallachian" (and many other variants), is a historical term and exonym used from the Middle Ages until the Modern Era to designate mainly Romanians but also Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians, Istro-Romanians and other Eastern Romance-speaking subgroups of Central and Eastern Europe. As a contemporary term, in the English language, the Vlachs are the Balkan Romance-speaking peoples who live south of the Danube in what are now southern Albania, Bulgaria, northern Greece, North Macedonia, and eastern Serbia as native ethnic groups, such as the Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians and the Timok Romanians. The term also became a synonym in the Balkans for the social category of shepherds, and was also used for non-Romance-speaking peoples, in recent times in the western Balkans derogatively. The term is also used to refer to the ethnographic group of Moravian Vlachs who speak a Slavic language but originate from Romanians. "Vlachs" were initially identified and des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
