pre-slav

Updated: May 20, 2025

They are known as Morlachs, that is Sea Vlachs, and historically are in all probability descendants of the pre-Slav native population which, together with the Roman colonists, fled coast ward before the inrush of the Slav invaders of the seventh century. Latin culture clung along the coast and was reinforced later by the Venetians.

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle