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Here are some additional testimonies regarding the presence of Vlachs / Romance elements in the Peloponnese/Morea (and nearby Attica region).
1) Deutsche Rundschau - Volume 30, Parts 3-4 - Page 208, Year 1904.
Page 208:
"Down to Cape Matapan and even to Crete, reach the Vlach Colonies."
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2) Philosophische Untersuchungen über die Griechen, By Cornelius De Pauw, Year 1789.
Page 36:
- "Die itzt im attischen Gebiete zerstreuten Walachen faminen eigentlich von den römuischen Kolonien ab, die Trajan nach Dacien versetzte."
- "The Vlachs, now scattered in the Attica region, were actually descended from the Roman colonies which Trajan transferred to Dacia."
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3) Türkisches Reich - Wechsler, Year 1864.
Page 765:
"... Wallachian states were formed in Macedonia, in Thessaly, which was called the Great or Black Wallachia (which coincided with that in Macedonia), in Serbia and Croatia, in Epirus and Albania and in Morea."
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4) Ludewig Albrecht Gebhardi Geschichte des Reichs Hungarn und der ..., Volume 4, Ludwig Albrecht Gebhardi / Die Geschichte der mit Hungarn verbundenen Staaten älterer und ..., Year 1782.
Page 273:
"... and a sixth (Wallachia) in Morea, in the land of the ancient Lacedaemonians, which latter under the name of the state of the Mainots has made itself almost independent since the failed Turkish siege of the city of Maina in 1770."
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5) Armanoi hoi Vlachoi, 2001.
Page 57:
"Therefore, it is a false impression that in the Peloponnese the so-called Vlachs were exclusively Greek-speaking shepherds and should not be confused with the Latin-speaking Vlachs who "never existed there". In 1894, however, the German Weigand, ... , published a Vlach song that preserved the memory of establishment of Vlachs from Epirus to Morea much earlier."
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6) "... The Maniates, who still retain the memory of a Geto-Thracian invasion, by designating all the Peloponnesians both those who live beyond Sparta, and those who extend to Calamata, under the name of Vlachs."
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