White Wallachia

White Wallachia was a Byzantine term for the region between the Danube and the Balkan mountain.[1] It is not to be confused with the Great Wallachia or the Little Wallachia.[2] It was also referred to as Asen's Wallachia in the records of the French knights Guillaume de Rubrouquis and Geoffroy de Villehardouin.[3] It was called white to otherwise distinguish from the "Black Wallachia", which was Moldavia (or part of it).[2]

An account stated that the color in the appellation is attributed to the white sheep skin cap and cloak worn in winter.[4] Those who belong to Black Wallachia wore black cap of the same material.[4]

References
  1. Alan Campbell Reiley (1895). History for ready reference ... The C.A. Nichols Co. p. vii.
  2. James Samuelson (1888). Bulgaria Past and Present: Historical, Political, and Descriptive. Trübner & Company. p. 40. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
  3. Finkl, Charles W.; Makowski, Christopher (2017). Diversity in Coastal Marine Sciences: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Research of Geology, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Remote Sensing. Dordrecht: Springer. p. 34. ISBN 9783319575773.
  4. Conder, Josiah (1834). A dictionary of geography, ancient and modern. T. Tegg. p. 433.


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