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I'm not sure whether this should be placed in the suggestion or bugs section. Technically, it's not a bug, so I decided to place it here.

Starting Date: 1066
Counties: Targoviste & Calarasi (Wallachia)

The count's name is: Szilagy.
Szilagy is a Hungarian name - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szilágyi
This would make sense if the ruler was in Transylvania and was a Vlach with a Hungarian father, but there's no explanation for why a Vlach with a Hungarian name and dark skin rules in Wallachia.

As far as I know, there is no documented historical evidence with the name of the rulers at the time but it is known that the Vlachs were subjugated by Pechenegs and were allowed to rule themselves as long as they paid regular tribute.

The game did a great job with this. There are 3 Vlach rulers in 1066: one in Severin, one in Targu Jiu and Campulung and 1 in Targoviste and Calarasi (makes for a fun 3 players coop). They all start with a "subjugated" trait as well as pagan sympathy. However, since there is no documented historical evidence with the name of the rulers I assume they are random. The name of the ones from Severin and Capulung sound Romanian, but the name of the one from Calarasi is Hungarian and his skin color should be white (keep it to the context of the game).

So, instead of Szilagy, here are some noble medieval Vlach family names that you may pick from:
- Arbore
- Baleanu
- Buzescu
- Cocea
- Costin
- Dolha
- Dracu
- Dragfi
- Emilian
- Falcoianu
- Filipescu
- Florescu
- Ghica
- Golescu
- Gradisteanu
- Halga
- Herescu
- Lecca
- Lupsa
- Maracine
- Moga
- Motica
- Nacu
- Orleanu
- Petrova
- Racovita
- Ratiu

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According to Wikipedia, these are the historical references to the Vlachs:

- During the late 9th century the Hungarians invaded the Carpathian Basin, where the province of Pannonia was inhabited by the "Slavs [Sclavi], Bulgarians [Bulgarii] and Vlachs [Blachii], and the shepherds of the Romans [pastores Romanorum]" (sclauij, Bulgarij et Blachij, ac pastores romanorum) - according to the Gesta Hungarorum, written around 1200 by the anonymous chancellor of King Béla III of Hungary.

- George Kedrenos mentioned about Vlachs in 976. The Vlachs were guides and guards of Roman caravans in Balkans. Between Prespa and Kastoria they met and fought with a Bulgarian rebel named David. The Vlachs killed David in their first documented battle. Mutahhar al-Maqdisi, "They say that in the Turkic neighbourhood there are the Khazars, Russians, Slavs, Waladj, Alans, Greeks and many other peoples." Ibn al-Nadīm published in 938 the work “Kitāb al-Fihrist” mentioning “Turks, Bulgars and Vlahs” (using Blagha for Vlachs)

- Byzantine writer Kekaumenos, author of the Strategikon (1078), described a 1066 revolt against the emperor in Northern Greece led by Nicolitzas Delphinas and other Vlachs. The names Blakumen or Blökumenn is mentioned in Nordic sagas dating between the 11th–13th centuries, with respect to events that took place in either 1018 or 1019 somewhere at the northwestern part of the Black Sea and believed by some to be related to the Vlachs.

- The Russian Primary Chronicle, written in ca. 1113, wrote when the Volochi (Vlachs) attacked the Slavs of the Danube and settled among them and oppressed them, the Slavs departed and settled on the Vistula, under the name of Leshi. The Hungarians drove away the Vlachs and took the land and settled there. Traveler Benjamin of Tudela (1130–1173) of the Kingdom of Navarre was one of the first writers to use the word Vlachs for a Romance-speaking population. Byzantine historian John Kinnamos described Leon Vatatzes' military expedition along the northern Danube, where Vatatzes mentioned the participation of Vlachs in battles with the Magyars (Hungarians) in 1166. The uprising of brothers Asen and Peter was a revolt of Bulgarians and Vlachs living in the theme of Paristrion of the Byzantine Empire, caused by a tax increase. It began on 26 October 1185, the feast day of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki, and ended with the creation of the Second Bulgarian Empire, also known in its early history as the Empire of Bulgarians and Vlachs.

- In 1213 an army of Romans (Vlachs), Transylvanian Saxons, and Pechenegs, led by Ioachim of Sibiu, attacked the Bulgars and Cumans from Vidin. After this, all Hungarian battles in the Carpathian region were supported by Romance-speaking soldiers from Transylvania. At the end of the 13th century, during the reign of Ladislaus the Cuman, Simon de Kéza wrote about the Blacki people and placed them in Pannonia with the Huns. Archaeological discoveries indicate that Transylvania was gradually settled by the Magyars, and the last region defended by the Vlachs and Pechenegs (until 1200) was between the Olt River and the Carpathians. Shortly after the fall of the Olt region, a church was built at the Cârța Monastery and Catholic German-speaking settlers from Rhineland and Mosel Valley (known as Transylvanian Saxons) began to settle in the Orthodox region. In the Diploma Andreanum issued by King Andrew II of Hungary in 1224, "silva blacorum et bissenorum" was given to the settlers. The Orthodox Vlachs spread further northward along the Carpathians to Poland, Slovakia, and Moravia and were granted autonomy under Ius Vlachonicum (Walachian law). In 1285 Ladislaus the Cuman fought the Tatars and Cumans, arriving with his troops at the Moldova River. A town, Baia (near the said river), was documented in 1300 as settled by the Transylvanian Saxons (see also Foundation of Moldavia). In 1290 Ladislaus the Cuman was assassinated; the new Hungarian king allegedly drove voivode Radu Negru and his people across the Carpathians, where they formed Wallachia along with its first capital Câmpulung (see also Foundation of Wallachia).
 
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