March 2021

Aromanian Language and differentiated geographic varieties: A teaching approach, problems and propositions by Evegenia Ntasiou ABSTRACT: This contribution discusses a project to strengthen Aromanian. Aromanian or Vlach is an Eastern Romance language spoken in South-eastern Europe. Its speakers are called Aromanians or Vlachs. Aromanian has three main dialects; Pindean, Fãrshãrot and Gramustean. It is spoken …

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By Thede Kahl   Abstract: Similar styles of multipart singing are common among the Albanians, Greeks and Aromanians in the south of Albania and the northwest of Greece. The Aromanians – called Vlachs by their neighbors – live as minorities throughout the southern Balkans, especially in northern Greece, southern Albania and the Republic of Macedonia. …

Florin Curta Department of History, University of Florida Abstract: The chroniclers of the Fourth Crusade (Geoffroi de Villehardouin, Henri de Valenciennes, and Robert de Clari) have much to say about the Vlachs. Much of that information results from direct contact with the Vlachs, particularly in the case of Villehardouin and Henri de Valenciennes. However, several …

Vjeran Kursar   abstract: Following the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans, the Vlachs, still a largely nomadic and semi-nomadic population, made special arrangements with the conquerors. They served as a colonising force in newly conquered areas, manning auxiliary military units such as voynuks and martoloses, etc. In exchange, the Ottomans granted the Vlachs wide exemptions …

JOUKO LINDSTEDT (UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI) Introduction: The Balkan Sprachbund was the first linguistic area discovered by modern scholarship. According to Kopitarís (1829: 86) famous statement about Albanian, Wallachian, and Bulgarian (in modern terms: Albanian, Balkan Romance, and Balkan Slavic), in the Balkans ìnur eine Sprachform herrscht, aber mit dreyerley Sprachmaterieî. The main features of the …

ȘTEFAN PETRESCU (Institute for South-East European Studies, Bucharest) Abstract Grigore Tocilescu, professor of Ancient History of University of Bucharest, organized a student trip to Greece in 1901. This travel took place in the context of re-established Greek- Romanian diplomatic relations. Around 300 people – students, professors, doctors, journalists, lawyers – visited the most important archaeological …

Octavian CIOBANU Abstract The paper deals with some activities and traditions of Vlachs connected to the emergence of necropolises with impressive tombstones and petroglyphs in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in surrounding countries like Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro. The paper approaches the traces of the Vlach transhumance in the Western Balkans and the connection between transhumance …

BASIL C. GOUNARIS Abstract Despite many recent postmodernist approaches ‘historicity’ as a quality of state rights in the Balkans was not dismissed. Ethnicity, in its historic dimension, is still considered almost unanimously as the fundamental ingredient of any attempt to understand the Macedonian Question; be it for strengthening or for weakening state or minority arguments. …

Basil G. Gounaris Thessaloniki   Introduction In early summer 1992 a lavish monograph was published in Skopje entitled Macedonia on old Maps. In the first chapter of the book, which is called ‘A History without a Geography,’ Ilija Petrushevski states that: These maps present the undeniable historical and scientific facts about the distinctness of the …