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Morlachs is an exonym used for a rural Christian community in Herzegovina, Lika and the Dalmatian Hinterland. The term was initially used for a bilingual Vlach pastoralist community in the mountains o
Morlach peasant from the Split region (of modern Croatia). Théodore Valerio (1819–1879), 1864.
Morlach musicians from Salona (in modern Croatia), Théodore Valerio, 1864
Morlach peasant women from around Spalato (in modern Croatia), 1864
Vlachs
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Vlach, also Wallachian and many other variants, is a term and exonym used from the Middle Ages until the Modern Era to designate speakers of Eastern Romance languages living in Southeast Europe—south
Morlachs
…from Venetian Dalmatia, regardless of their ethnic, religious or social belonging. While their name could imply some relation to the Romance-speaking Vlachs, travel accounts from the 17th and 18th century attest that the Morlachs were linguistically Slavs. The same travel accounts indicate that the Morlachs…
Théodore Valerio, 1852: Pâtre valaque de Zabalcz ("Wallachian Shepherd from Zăbalț")
Transhumance ways of the Vlach shepherds in the 18th and 19th centuries. Vlachs engaged in both transhumant pastoralism and sedentary agriculture.
Théodore Valerio, Paysans valaques des environs de Lugos. Vlach/Romanian peasants from around Lugoj, 1851.
Vlach shepherd of Banat (Auguste Raffet, c. 1837)