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...The Aromanians become main actors on the historical scene when, in 1186, they rebel against a tax increase imposed by the Byzantine Emperor. The leaders of the uprising were two Vlachs, Peter and Asan, and one of their goals was also the creation of an independent Aromanian kingdom in the southern region of modern-day Bulgaria and around Thessalonika in Greece. They were successful in defeating the Byzantine armies and maintaining an independent kingdom until the rise of the Vlach Empire or the Second Bulgarian Empire during the fourth crusade of 1204. The next two hundred and fifty years are the height of the Aromanian struggle for independence and their moment of glory. There are numerous mentions of them, not only in Byzantine records, but also in Serbian and Bulgarian ones as well. The briefly flourishing Vlach kingdom in the death throes on the Byzantine Empire created a factor of relative authority in the Balkans. The Aromanians population must have been fairly compact and numerous at that time since the region around Thessaly came to be known as Vlachia (or Wallachia).......
The 'Second Bulgarian Empire.' Its Origin and History to 1204
R. Wolff
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When, after more than a century, the fourth uprising did take place in 1186, it was under the auspices of two local chieftains, Peter and Asen, whom all the sources, Byzantine and western, agree in calling Vlachs, and who lived in the Balkan mountains. [37] The most elaborate theories have been resorted to by Bul-
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garian historians to prove that the word 'Vlach' had by 1185 come to mean a 'Bulgar from the northwest part of the country.' They explain this phenomenon as the result of a conspiracy of silence on the part of Byzantine writers, who, they argue, were trying to avoid the use of the word 'Bulgar' and to substitute 'Vlach.' In fact, however, it can be demonstrated that Byzantine writers use the word 'Bulgar' quite freely when they are talking about Bulgars, and use 'Vlach' only to refer to Vlachs. It has long been realized that any other interpretation involves the twisting of the sources until they bear no relationship to the ascertainable facts about the origin and development of the ‘second Bulgarian Empire.’ [38] ........
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INTERESTING:
...The Aromanians become main actors on the historical scene when, in 1186, they rebel against a tax increase imposed by the Byzantine Emperor. The leaders of the uprising were two Vlachs, Peter and Asan, and one of their goals was also the creation of an independent Aromanian kingdom in the southern region of modern-day Bulgaria and around Thessalonika in Greece. They were successful in defeating the Byzantine armies and maintaining an independent kingdom until the rise of the Vlach Empire or the Second Bulgarian Empire during the fourth crusade of 1204. The next two hundred and fifty years are the height of the Aromanian struggle for independence and their moment of glory. There are numerous mentions of them, not only in Byzantine records, but also in Serbian and Bulgarian ones as well. The briefly flourishing Vlach kingdom in the death throes on the Byzantine Empire created a factor of relative authority in the Balkans. The Aromanians population must have been fairly compact and numerous at that time since the region around Thessaly came to be known as Vlachia (or Wallachia).......
Veliko Tarnovo is in the southern region of Bulgaria.....near Thessaloniki....in "the region around Thessaly"....[:)][:)][:)]
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