MEDIEVAL BULGARIAN ANTHROPONYMS AND TOPONYMS OF ROMANCE ORIGIN. THE PROBLEM OF LANGUAGE IDENTITY OF THE WALLACHIAN POPULATION IN MEDIEVAL BULGARIA.

The present article appears to be a continuation of several previous publications where I regarded a big number of medieval Bulgarian anthroponyms, toponyms, loanwords of obvious Romance origin and words of "unknown origin" preserved in Middle Bulgarian sources. On the basis of linguistic analysis, I concluded that in the Medieval period Old Slavonic (Bulgarian) and Middle Bulgarian were in contact with two different Romance speaking population groups. The first one was the group of Protoromanians, while the second included communities whose dialects stemmed from the variant of Latin recorded in the Late Latin inscriptions from Bulgarian lands. In the present study I regard new anthroponyms and toponyms of Romance (Non-Protoromanian) origin and present additional arguments in favor of this hypothesis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]