FORGOTTEN VOICES: AROMANIANS IN MACEDONIA (1900-1941)*
by Nikola Minov Abstract: This study examines the demographic and cultural transformations of the Aromanian pop- ulation in Macedonia from the early 20th century through the interwar period. It explores how the Aromanians navigated their complex identity amidst the pressures of Greek and Romanian influence while adapting to the changing political landscape. The research also ...
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Linguistic Profiling of Heritage Speakers of an Endangered Language: The Case of Vlach Aromanian–Greek Bilinguals
by: Alexandra Prentza and Maria Kaltsa Abstract: This is the first attempt to profile the heritage speakers of an endangered spoken-only variety of Vlach Aromanian in Greece. Neither the variety nor its speakers has been investigated before; hence, the study also aims at evaluating the exact state of endangerment of the Sirrako variety, as this ...
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Wedding Traditions and Customs of the Aromanians of Dobrogea
by Luciana Maria C Ficea Abstract: Traditions and customs are a set of conceptions, traditions, and beliefs that remain throughout history within both social and national groups and that are transmitted by word of mouth from father to son, constituting for each social group its specific feature. Each habit presents valuable charges and deep meanings ...
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A Vlach Nun and Her Thirteenth-Century Monastery
author: Sofia Pitouli Abstract: This thesis examines the destroyed thirteenth-century monastery of Lykousada, located at Loxada, in Thessaly and founded by the nun Hypomone. A surviving chrysobull issued by Andronikos II in 1289 mentions Hypomone exclusively in terms of her monastic foundation. An analysis of the lands belonging to the monastery place Lykousada within thirteenth- ...
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The Macedo-Romanians in America, by Father Hategan
Note: *The Society reprints this article solely for its historical interest to the Aromanian community in the U.S. We do not endorse the views expressed in the article that we are Romanians or “Macedo-Romanians” – we are simply Aromanians whose national allegiance is to the United States. This article appeared in the Romanian Heritage Society ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Transhumants and Rural Change in Northern Greece Throughout the Nineteenth Century
This article examines the sedentarization of transhumants in northern Greece within the context of the political, legal, social, and economic transformation of the region that occurred throughout the nineteenth century. Based on a wide range of primary sources, this research conducts a chronological survey of the local actors, events, and institutions with reference to a ...
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Ethnic Identity of Aromanians/Vlachs in the 21st Century
This article traces various forms of Aromanian’s identity, an ethnic group/nation of the Balkan region. It considers disputes and discussions around the desired directions of community development, political and cultural strategies. It highlights different ways of expressing the sense of ethnic bonds – relationships between Aromanians as an ethnic group, the ways of setting the ...
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The Vlachs in Macedonia in the 19th and 20th Centuries
THE VLACHS IN MACEDONIA IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES* By Nikola MiNov ABSTRACT: This article summarizes the known data about the localization and numerical distribution of various Vlach groups in Macedonia in the 19th and 20th centuries. Each Vlach group’s (Moscopolitan; Grammoustian; Farsherot and Moglenite Vlachs) migrations are analyzed separately, following them from their ...
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The Ethnic Composition of Medieval Epirus
The Ethnic Composition of Medieval Epirus by Brendan Osswald ABSTRACT Medieval Epirus was the melting pot of many migratory influxes, whether Slav, Vlach, Jewish, Albanian or Italian. Some Greek refugees also found asylum in this province during hard times. The best documented period is that from 1200 onwards. During the last three centuries of the ...
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Aromanian Zoonymica from Kleisoura (prefecture of Kastoria)
Aromanian Zoonymica from Kleisoura (prefecture of Kastoria) by Nikolaos Siokis The animal denominations of Kleisoura remained uninvestigated up till the present times and we should seek the causes of that in the difficult rendering from the Aromanian language that is spoken in the townlet even today. We should also seek causes in the weakness of ...
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The Vanishing Aromanian by Eugene Matzota
Page Numbers: 330 Publication Date: 2018 Publication Name: The Vanishing Aromanian Aromanian […]is spoken by half a million people, mainly in parts of northern Greece, Albania, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and Bulgaria.” , said Martin Maiden . The Aromanian Question, as Max Dreysuss said in his book , is not new, but has ...
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The Memoirs of Cola Nicea: A Case-Study on the Discursive Identity Construction of the Aromanian Armatoles in Early 20th Century Macedonia
The Memoirs of Cola Nicea by Vladimir Creţulescu ABSTRACT: The article begins with a general presentation of Cola Nicea’s Memoirs – the document which is to be investigated using methods drawn from Critical Discource Analysis. The paper continues with a study of the ethnonyms used by Nicea throughout his account, which leads into a discussion ...
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