Medieval name and ethnicity: Serbs and Vlachs
Ştefan Stareţu
This article is aimed at showing the existence of a medieval aristocracy in north-eastern Hungary, characterized connection to certain elements Serbian identity. The noble families from Maramuresh region are often identified by their Orthodox It linked them church organization and aristocracy, contrast with peasants mostly represented Vlachs. migration Vlachs within this zone probably was generated influx Serbia especially during period, when Stefan Vladislav influenced actively Hungarian politics 13-14th century. In I show, that social ethnic processes were determined wider context connections between Hungary presence church. Catholic accepted its autonomy ecclesiastical independence. That why there possible integrate elites nobility arrange kind dual identity region. On other side, long-term perspective, branches became rustic, living villages nobles who impoverished. Only Magyarized groups able remain high aristocracy.
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