Aromanians

Aromanians (also called: Vlachs or Macedo-Romanians; in Aromanian they call themselves arumâni, armâni, rămăni or aromâni) are a people living throughout the southern Balkans, especially in northern Greece, Albania and the Republic of Macedonia, and as an emigrant community in Romania (Dobruja). They speak the Aromanian language, a Romance language closely related to Romanian. Due to the common language foundations, historians believe that the language link with Romanian was interr ...

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• Aromanians - Aromanians in Greece
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• Aromanians - Aromanians in the Republic of Macedonia
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In Greece, they are not regarded as an ethnic minority, since they do not proclaim a non-Hellenic national identity, instead being considered Latin-speaking Greeks. Their origins are disputed. The Romanian hypothesis contends that Aromanians came to northern Greece from the Danube region; the opposing Greco-Aromanian theory is that they descend from the Romanised, local Greek population. Other theories on the possible origins of Greco-Aromanians describe them as: The descendants of Roman colonisers and soldiers, who would receiv ...

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Vlachs (also called Wlachs, Wallachs, Olahs) is a blanket term covering several modern Latin peoples descending from the Latinised population in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Groups that have historically been called Vlachs include modern-day Romanians, Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians and Istro-Romanians, but since the creation of the Romanian state, the term in English has mostly been use ...

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• Vlachs - Wallachia
• Vlachs - People
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• Albanians - Albanian Nationalism

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The Balkans is the historic and geographic name used to describe a region of south-eastern Europe. The region has a combined area of 728,000 km² and a population of around 53 million. The region takes its name from the Balkan mountains which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia. Balkans - Definitions and boundaries. Balkans - Balkan Peninsula. The Balkans are sometimes referred to as the "Balkan Peninsula" as they are surrounded by ...

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In 2002, it had a population of 373,174 and the population density was 78/km². 98% of the population are Romanians. The biggest minority are the Rromas (Gypsies). There are also Russians, Lipovans, Aromanians and others. ...

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Brăila County, Brăila County - Neighbours, Brăila County - Demographics, Brăila County - Geography, Brăila County - Economy, Brăila County - Tourism, Brăila County - Administrative divisions, Brăila County - Municipality, Brăila County - Towns

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In 570, Antonius Placentius said that in the valleys of Mount Sinai there was a monastery in which the monks spoke Greek, Latin, Syriac, Egyptian and Bessian. The origin of the monasteries is explained in a mediaeval hagiography written by Simeon Metaphrastes, in Vita Sancti Theodosii Coenobiarchae in which he wrote that Saint Theodorius founded on the shore of the Dead Sea a monastery with four churches, in each being spoken a different language, among which Bessan was found. The place where the monasteries were founde ...

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Bessi, Bessi - Bessian monks in the Sinai

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Main article: History of the term Vlach The word Vlach is of Germanic origin, sharing this origin with the words "Welsh" and "Walloons" in other parts of Europe. Slavic people initially used the name Vlachs when referring to Romanic people in general. Later on, the meaning got narrower or just different. For example Italy is called Włochy in Polish, and Olaszország ("Olas' country") in Hungarian. The term was originally an exonym, as the Vlachs used various words derived from romanus to refer to themselves (români, rumâni, rumâri, aromâni, arumâni etc). Only the Megleno-Romanians adopted the term < ...

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Vlachs, Vlachs - Etymology, Vlachs - Wallachia, Vlachs - People, Vlachs - Culture, Vlachs - Religion, Vlachs - History

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Roman Empire - Under Constantine 330–337 and his sons 337–361. Constantinople would serve as the capital of Constantine the Great from May 11, 330 to his death on May 22, 337. The Empire was parted again among his three surviving sons.The Western Roman Empire was divided among the eldest son Constantine II and the youngest son Constans. The Eastern Roman Empire al ...

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At the beginning of the modern era, Southern Dobruja had a mixed population of Bulgarians and Turks with several smaller minorities, including Gagauz, Crimean Tatars and Romanians. Southern Dobruja was part of the autonomous Bulgarian principality from the time of the liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule in 1878 until the Balkan Wars. After the defeat of Bulgaria in the Second Balkan War, the region was transferred to Romania under the 1913 Treaty of Bucharest. Romania ruled Southern Dobruja until 1940 settling tens of thousands of Aromanians from Macedonia and Northern Greece, as wel ...

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Southern Dobruja, Southern Dobruja - History

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Much of the vocabulary is of Latin origin and much of its phonetics and semantics is shared with Aromanian and Romanian: basilica > MR bisearică, DR biserică (church, originally "basilica") lumen > MR lumi, DR lume (world, originally "light") monumentum > MR murmint, DR mormânt (grave, originally "monument") strigis > MR strig, DR strig (I yell, originally "owl") draco & ...

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Megleno-Romanian language, Megleno-Romanian language - Classification, Megleno-Romanian language - Name, Megleno-Romanian language - Geographic distribution, Megleno-Romanian language - Phonetics, Megleno-Romanian language - Vocabulary, Megleno-Romanian language - History

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Most Romanians live in Romania and Moldova, where they constitute a majority; Romanians also constitute a minority in the countries that neighbour them. Romanians can be found in many countries as immigrants, notably in the United States, Italy, Spain, Canada, France and Germany. The contemporary total population of ethnic Romanians cannot be stated with any degree of certainty. A disparity can be observed between "official" sources (such as census counts) where they exist, and estimates which come from non-official sources and intere ...

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According to this theory, a Romanic population came from the south in the Middle Ages and settled down in present-day Romania. Origin of Romanians - Arguments for. Common words in Romanian and Albanian language which may be of Thracian or Illyrian origin (see also Origin of Albanians). However, according to a number of thracologists, the Proto-Albanian and Dacian languages were probably related and the common words could have come from the Dacian language. ^{See also:}

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Most Romanians live in Romania and Moldova, where they constitute a majority; Romanians also constitute a minority in the countries that neighbour them. Romanians can also be found in many countries as immigrants, notably in the United States, Italy, Spain, Canada, France and Germany. The contemporary total population of ethnic Romanians cannot be stated with any degree of certainty. A disparity can be observed between "official" sources (such as census counts) where they exist, and estimates which come from non-official sources and i ...

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Main article: History of the Republic of Macedonia The lands governed by the so-called "Republic of Macedonia" were part of a number of ancient states and former empires; Paionia, the kingdom of ancient Macedon (which gave its name to the whole Macedonian region), the Roman and Byzantine empires, and the medieval Bulgarian and Serbian states. In the 14th century the region was conquered by the Ottoman Empire. Following the two Balkan wars of 1912 and 1913 and the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, the wider region of Mac ...

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Although located in rather inhospitable place in the mountains between Greece and Albania, the city rose to became the most important center of the Aromanians and Orthodox Albanians. In its glory days (1760s) it is said that it had a population surpassing 60,000 and was the second city of the Balkans as population and prosperity, surpassed only by Istanbul; but this is questioned by Peyfuss. The city is said to have been inhabited almost exclusively by Vlachs/Aromanians. An 1935 analysis of the family names shows that the majority of ...

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Voskopoja, Voskopoja - History, Voskopoja - Population, Voskopoja - Geography

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In 2002, it had a population of 715,151 and the population density was 101/km². The degree of urbanization is much higher (about 75%) than the Romanian average. In recent years the demographical evolution is: 1992 748,044 1996 747,122 2000 746,988 2002 715,151 The majority of the population are Romanians. There are important communities of Turks and Tatars left since the time of the Ottoman occupation. A great number of Aromanians have migrated to Dobrogea in the last century and they consider themselves a cultural minority rather than an e ...

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History of the Balkans - Nomadic peoples. Western Huns empire stretched in 434 AD from Central Europe to the Black Sea and from the Danube river to the Baltic. The Hunnish-Bulgar association existed throughout the period between 377-453 AD - the time of the Hunnish hegemony in Central Europe. Other transient incursions were made by Goths, Gepids, Onogur, Avars. At one point the Ostrogoths and the Visigoths were Christians, but Arians. Ulfilas was the apostle to the Goths and he translated the Bible from Gr ...

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Although located in rather inhospitable place in the mountains between Greece and Albania, the city rose to became the most important center of the Aromanians. In its glory days (1760s) it is said that it had a population surpassing 60,000 and was the second city of the Balkans as population and prosperity, surpassed only by Istanbul; but this is questioned by Peyfuss. The city is said to have been inhabited almost exclusively by Vlachs/Aromanians. An 1935 analysis of the family names shows that the majority of the population were ind ...

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Voskopoja, Voskopoja - History, Voskopoja - Population, Voskopoja - Geography

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