Románok (újra) Pannóniában?

Abstract

At the beginning of the 13th century the Hungarian historiographer Anonymus mentioned Romans (Romani) and the shepherds of the Romans (pastores Romanorum) having lived in Pannónia, west of the river Danube in the old times. Romanian historiography attempted to verify this contention at all costs in order to increase credence in that information of Anonymus, according to wich at the time of the Hungarian conquest Vlachi (Romanians) lived in Transylvania. In 1933 Nicolae Dráganu made an attempt by analysing personal names and toponyms to prove that Roamnians - whom he identified with the Romani of Anonymus baselessly - could be found in Pannónia from the 9th century onwards. His contentions were refuted one by one by the linguist István Kniezsa in 1935-1936. In 2001 Alexandra Madgeara placed Romanians into Pannónia again and to prove the contention of Dráganu enumerated altogether 14 personal names and toponyms from later documents originating from Hungary. In the present study the author-contending with Madgeara - proved by linguistic analysis and source-criticism that none of these names suggest the 9-14th presence of Romanians in Pannónia, and concludes that in the abovementioned period Romanians did not live there.