Aromanian News: Issue 5
Dr. Margaret Felis on Icon Painting An Interview with Elissa Mondschein Margaret Felis grew up in central Massachusetts. She is a 4th generation member of the Society Farsharotu and a member of the Society's Advisory Board...
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Aromanian News: Issue 4
Welcome to our friends and supporters! We enjoy heariing from you, feel free to email us with your comments and ideas for future news items. Thanks and enjoy this issue. Discovery: A Web Site for Istro-Romanian, A Disappearing Sister Language While the Latin-based languages of Western Europe (Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, and others) are widely ...
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Aromanian News: Issue 3
We created this e-newsletter to share information and news with the Aromanian community in the US and beyond. Welcome to all our friends and supporters! We would love to hear from you, please email us with your comments and ideas for future news items. Thanks — and enjoy this issue… Have You Seen Our YouTube ...
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Aromanian News: Issue 2
Welcome! We created this e-newsletter to share information and news with the Aromanian community in the US and around the world. Welcome/Ghini vinjit to all our members, friends, and supporters! We would love to hear from you, so email us with your comments and ideas for future news items. Thanks, we hope you enjoy this ...
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Michael Costulas
Michael Costulas was born in Sourpi in the Greek province of Thessaly, the son of Adam and Theodora Maze Costulas. He was one of five children. His parents farmed tobacco and bred horses. His father died when he was three years old. Young Michael Costulas was able to attend grammar school where he thoroughly learned ...
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Aromanian News: Issue 1
Welcome! We created this e-newsletter to share information and news with the Aromanian community in the US and around the world. Welcome to all our members, friends, and supporters! We would love to hear from you, so email us with your comments and ideas for future news items. Thanks — and enjoy this first issue… ...
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Connecticut Premiere of First Feature Film Ever Made in Aromanian
Connecticut Premiere of First Feature Film Ever Made in Aromanian The Society Farsarotul was proud to sponsor this event on June 7, 2014, at the Roger Ludlowe Middle School in Fairfield, CT. “I’m Not Famous, but I’m Aromanian” was created by Toma Enache, an actor and director from Romania who is of Aromanian descent. Click ...
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Community News
Just as we were going to press, we learned that Aromanian tennis prodigy Simona Halep, ranked number 19 in the world, who recently won the Open in New Haven and held on till the fourth round in the US Open, had been defeated by the Italian Flavia Pennetta. Halep is from Constantsa, Romania, and is ...
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Community News
We continue to receive interesting materials for our archives from our members. Recently Pete Costulas mailed us a letter that the Society Farsarotul sent out in December 1943 to all young men serving in the U.S. military during the war, which we reproduce here: “To our boys—wherever you may be: With pride we extend our ...
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Panhellenic Federation of Cultural Associations of Vlachs: Letter of Information to the Council of Europe
PANHELLENIC FEDERATION OF CULTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF VLACHS FOUNDED IN 1985 http://www.vlachs-popsv.gr/ e-mail: panhellenicfeder.vlachon@gmail.com Larisa 16 November 2009 Ref. No.:44 LETTER OF INFORMATION TO THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE To: The Council of Europe The Honourable Secretary-General Cc.: The Honourable President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers’ Deputies of the ...
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A Trek through Greece, Macedonia, and Albania
Bitola bus station in the rain is not the most romantic of spots, and only the most devoted of wives would have tolerated this halfway stop in our wet wild whirlwind Balkan tour. There was an hour to wait before the bus to Ohrid arrived. She had a book, and I settled down as so ...
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Community News
Efforts to preserve or at least record some of the world’s endangered languages continue to capture media attention. In a March 16, 2009 article entitled, “Preserving Languages Is About More Thank Words,” The Washington Post noted that the Irish language (also called Gaelic) was spoken by about 250,000 people when the country was founded in ...
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Creating a Virtual Museum and Cultural Center: kythera-family.net
www.kythera-family.net Imagine if a huge museum and cultural centre for the Aromanians were to be built, with room for thousands of heritage documents from Vlachs living in the region and those of Vlach descent in the Diaspora. Where all things relating to the community — interviews, important historical documents, family names, vintage family photo collections, old maps, family ...
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Community News
We are pleased to welcome the following new members: Elena Profesta Brooklyn, NY Christie Vieira Trumbull, CT An interesting article “In search of my other Greek roots” appeared in the September/October 2006 issue of Odyssey, a leading Greek magazine written in English. Writer Elena Polyzos was raised in a trilingual (Greek-Vlach-English) family in Sydney, Australia, that ...
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Vlachs
We are pleased to welcome the following new members: Corneliu Mihalexe Warren, MI Horea Hristu Bridgeport, CT We were saddened to learn of the recent passing of Spiro Vasilescu, a longtime member and past officer of the Society Farsarotul. We hope to feature a brief profile of this wonderful man in a future issue of ...
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The Vlachs of Greece and their Misunderstood History
Abstract The Vlachs speak a language that evolved from Latin. It was transmitted by Romans to many peoples and was used as an international language for centuries. Most Vlach populations live in and around the borders of modern Greece. The word ‘Vlachs’ appears in the Byzantine documents at about the 10th century, but few details are ...
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Community News
We are pleased to welcome the following new members: Nitsa Perkins-Bailey Marshfield, MA Jonathan Forsythe No.Smithfield, RI Cornel Todeasa Monroe, CT Tom Cheamitru Gambrills, MD Peter Caleshu Naples, FL Andrea Crowell Stratford, CT Alexander G. Dacey Easton, CT Anastase P. Dacey Easton, CT Bethany A. LoMonaco Mansfield, CT Sarah E. LoMonaco Mansfield, CT Joanne C. ...
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Past Presidents at the Centennial Celebration
Past Presidents of the Society being honored at our Centennial: from left, Bill Balamaci, Nick Fatse, Dina Vanghele, Bob Nicola, Andrea Colimitra, George Fatsy, & Aurel Ciufecu
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Greek Committee of the European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages
PO BOX 100, 59200 NAOUSA – GREECE TEL. ++.3850.22570, E-mail: greblul@otenet.gr INFORMATION BULLETIN, OCTOBER 2002, NUMBER 1 PRESS RELEASE On 26 January 2002 a meeting was arranged in Thessaloniki by the European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages for representatives of the linguistic minorities of Greece. This historic meeting ended with a decision to create the Greek ...
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Community News
We are pleased to welcome the following new members: Jennifer Turek Wallingford, CT James W. Conway Batavia, IL Atanasie Talabacu Middle Village, NY Mihai Talabacu Middle Village, NY Harlambie Mila Bronx, NY We were saddened to learn of the passing of Prof. Kostas Kazazis, a scholar and good friend of the Aromanian language. Excerpts from ...
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