Das mag unbefriedigend sein, doch angesichts der spärlichen Quellenlage - sowohl archäologisch als auch schriftlich - verbietet sich jede rasche Entscheidung für die Migrations- oder Kontinuitätshypothese.
Es wird nirgendwo für das 5.-10. Jhd erwähnt von Walachen in den heutigen Gebieten Rumäniens nördlich der Donau, aber südlich und westlich davon.
Many Latin inscriptions confirm the persistence of the vulgar Latin tongue in the Balkans until the end of the
fifth century. The occupation of the peninsula by the Slavs, almost completed by the end of the
seventh century, caused part of the Daco-Roman and Thraco-Roman elements to
seek refuge in the mountains (Haemus, Rhodope, Pindus, Epirus), their descendants later to be called Wallachs or Blachs.
The name of Blachernae, a suburb of Constantinople, which, according to a tenth-century chronicle, was derived from that of a Scythian Duke Blachernos, killed at Constantinople, might, according to Popa-Lisseanu, be connected with the term Blach, Wallach (
Blacernoi, descendant or son of Wallach).
In the
eighth century the Rinchinii and Blachorinchinii are mentioned as attacking the monastery of Castamonitu.
In
976 the Byzantine author, Kedrenos, tells us that the brother of the Bulgarian king Samuel was killed by Wallach wagoners between Castoria and Prespa in Macedonia.
In
980 Basil II, the Bulgaroktonos, conferred the domination over the Wallachs of Thessalia on one Nicoulitza (
Nikoulitzai).
In
1014 King Samuel was defeated between Serres and Melnik in the hills of
Kimbaloggoi, a Latin name like the Campulung of Wallachia,
mentioned in
1300.
According to Cecaumenos (
Strategicon, in
1066), the Wallachs of Epirus, Thessalia, etc., all came from the north, and were descended from the Dacians and Bessi (Thracians) who dwelt north of the Danube and along the Sava. It is interesting to note that here, also, the chronicler mentions the
north-south movement postulated by Hungarian historians,
adverse to the Roman continuity in Dacia.
In
1019 an edict of Emperor Basil II (the Bulgaroktonos) puts the Wallachs of Bulgaria (
Blacoi), which had been supposed as an independent state, under the archbishopric of Ochrida.
Und genau diese administrativ-religiöese Zugehörigkeit hat die Romanität der Sprache erhalten. Eine biologische Abstammung von den Römern oder Daziern muss damit nicht verbunden sein.