Vlachs in the Lowland Areas: Between the Bükk Mountains and the Tisza River in the 15th Century
by Jarosław Buniowski Abstract Although mountains and submontane areas were the main territories of development for the Wallachian colonization, the Vlachs would also appear in the lowland areas, situated further away from the mountains. The presence of Vlachs in the valley between the Bükk Mountains and the Tisza River in the 15th c. is an ...
Read More →
Representation Structures of Aromanian Communities at the Beginning of the 20th Century – Communities and Ephorates
by Emanuil Ineoan As early as the end of the 19th century, Romania had become a significant player in Balkan geopolitics. This was also fueled by the interest that the Kingdom of Romania showed towards to the Aromanian communities since the second half of the 19th century. The Romanian state, to be noted, at the ...
Read More →
An Unpublished Demographic Survey Regarding the Aromanian Communities in Greece during the Second World War
by Emanuil Ineoan Abstract: Within the manuscript section of the Romanian Academy Library, there is a document bearing a challenging title for the researcher interested in the Balkan Romanity: “Some Statistical Data on the Number of the Macedo-Romanian/Aromanian Population of Greece (Macedonia, Epirus and Thessaly).” The manuscript was donated in 1963 by the author’s wife, ...
Read More →
The coexistence of separation and integration rites in the Nuptial Repertoire of the Cipan Aromanians in Dobruja
by Mirela Kozlovsky Keywords: ethnomusicology, folklore, wedding songs, traditions, threnody Abstract: Dobruja hosts the most numerous Aromanian community in Romania. In her book Dodecalog al aromânilor (Dodecalogue of the Aromanians), philologist Matilda Caragiu Marioţeanu defines Aromanians as having always been South-Danubian and being the descendants of the populations of South-Eastern Europe either Romanised or colonized ...
Read More →
Manners of maintaining the cultural identity of the Greeks, Aromanians, Lipovans and Dobrogean Tatars and their effects in musical practice
by Mirela KOZLOVSKY Abstract: This study presents the mutual conditioning between the social dynamics and the traditions of the ethnic communities of Dobrogea, as well as the ways of maintaining the cultural identity of the Greeks, Aromanians, Lipovans and Tatars in the full era of globalization. For a clearer understanding, we will highlight how the ...
Read More →
Aromanian Vlach and Greek: Shifting Identities
by Alex De Lusignan Fan-Moniz Abstract In modern times, with Greek being the only language of instruction and communication in the wider society (Chomsky, 1971), Aromanian’s linguistic and cultural shift has been so profound that this language is now endangered (Dinas et al., 2011) in Greece. Aromanian (Weigand, 1895) is an oral Eastern-Romance language spoken by ...
Read More →
Elements of Aromanian Phraseology
by Dumitru Carabas Abstract The phraseological material that I will present shows that contemporary Aromanian has a tremendous wealth of meaning, incorporating and being able to convey emotions, feelings, moods, irony, life experiences. The phrasemes appear as genuine diamonds, arising from the compression process of experiences, thoughts, feelings, fears, joys and ironies in synthetic expressions ...
Read More →
AGNOMENS AND NICKNAMES IN AROMANIAN ONOMASTICS
by Dumitru CARABAŞ Abstract The onomastic material that I will present shows us the richness, diversity and specificity of Aromanian anthroponymy. The agnomen is the most distinctive feature of Aromanian anthroponymy. Nicknames are spontaneous creations, relatively fortuitous, not caused by objective reasons. They are part of the precious human spirituality, are the proof of the ...
Read More →