As for the names we have adopted: "Moldavian and Multan lands", it is based on the fact that (and this is, in any case, the most important proof) the Romanians themselves distinguish the northern from the southern parts of their country, designating the former by the words: Moldova, or terra moldoYćnesca, and the latter by: Muntenia or terra muntenescśl. And this nomenclature is neither accidental ■•). nor new, is evidenced primarily by the fact that the Italian Bonlinio, who spent almost his entire life in Hungary *), and therefore, as a historiographer and friend of King Matthias Corvinus, could know exactly everything that was happening and said in the neighboring countries, in his work on the subject, Rerum Ungaricarum libri XLV, Yiennae, 1744, p. 21 speaks about this matter as follows: "Ad Tibiscum usque spatiatur, quod Montanae Daciae caput est, quam Ripensem plerique dixerunt et nunc Montanam Yalachiam appellant. Altera vero Yalachia, cui Moldaviae nomen est, inter Istrum et Tyram, ab Hierasso, Montanae Yalachiae termino, ad Euxinum usque "Pontum extenditur". The same is also confirmed by these documents, in which, starting from 1407, the phrase is constantly repeated: "It's sweet for them to be in heaven and Braszewsky". This is further confirmed by Marcin Kromer, who in his work De origine et rebus gestis Polonorum, Basileae, 1568, pag. 213'), speaking about the division of the Vlachs into two parts: those living to the east and north, he calls Moldavians, and those living south of the Transylvanian Mountains, he calls Multans and adds: "Muntani *) a nostris, a caeteris vero Transalpinenses yocentur". The same, also in the work, Polonia, sive de situ regni Poloniae, in Mizler's Historiarum Poloniae collectio magna, Varsoviae, 17G1, pag. 118, having noticed that there are two hospodars, one of whom is appointed in Latin by Transalpinensis and the other by Moldavicus, Marcin Kromer testifies most clearly that the latter is called by the Poles the Wallachian hospodar and the first the Multan hospodar: "quorum hic a nostratibus peculiater Yalachiae palatinus dicitur, ille vero Multanicus". The historian also comes to the same conclusion
') The name of Moldova comes from, as Samuel Twardowski rightly noted in his work, King Władysław IV, Leszno, 1650, p. 53, "from the small Moldava River" running through the country from the north-west and flowing into the Seret, on the side of the Danube; the name Multan, or more precisely Muntan, after Rum. Muntenia, from rum. words muti, wow. montes, mountains. Multans therefore mean as much as half of the Wallachian (i.e. Romanian) mountainous country.
^) He was born in 1427 and died in 1502, as Hazdeu testifies, in Istoria critica a Romaniloril, Buouresci, 1875, I. 51.
") Therefore, it can be seen that the Slavs (in this case Poles and Ruthenians) did not speak Multany or Multany in the past, but Muntany, Romanian: Muntenia.
') In the Polish translation by Błażowski (in the Warsaw Collection of Polish History), p. 360.
') On the transfer of sound n to 1 (or ł) object. Chavee-go Lexicologie indo - europeenne, Paris, 1849, pag. 156.
Marcin (or Joachim) Bielski ^) in the Chronicle, published in the Collection of Polish historians, Warsaw, 1767, p. 196-197 and followed by the Italian Gwagnin, who in the Description of Sarmatia, published in the same Collection of Histories, translated by Paszkowski (the first edition of this translation appeared in K^raków in 1611, and the first edition of the original in IO'aków in 1578) literally says as follows on page 642: "Vołosza is divided into two, and now it has two voivodes, the Multanian and the Wallachian, although previously it was under one; the part that touches the Transylvanian land is today the Multanian one, and the part that touches us, i.e. the Poles, the Wallachian (sic!) land, and finally, a native Moldavian, distinguished in his time, when he presented his songs "*) to the king. Jan III Sobieski, he calls them clearly: Description of the lands of Moldavia and Mltan, and his instructions ") on the offices and dignities of Wallachia: The order of senatorial and land offices of the lands of Moldavia and Mltan.