Welshman and Vlach? The Forgotten Story of Dafydd Ellis
Dafydd Ellis On the 15th of June 1918, a young Welsh soldier poet vanished from a British Forces camp a few miles north of Salonica. This was not the usual case of a soldier reported missing following a military encounter. On the contrary, he disappeared from the relatively tranquil surroundings of a field hospital far ...
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Community News
New Members The Society warmly welcomes the following new member: Horea Hristu………………. Bridgeport, CT Deaths The Society mourns the passing of several pillars of our community and extends its deepest sympathies to their families: —Modi Bici of Fairfield, Conn., a longtime member of the Society Farsarotul; —Aspasia Stambelu of New York, NY, another anchor of our community; ...
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Vanishing Languages
When the last speakers go, they take with them their history and culture Editor’s Note: The following text originally appeared in the Feb/March 1997 issue of Civilization, the magazine of the Library of Congress, & is reprinted with the kind permission of the author. There’s a Welsh proverb I’ve known for as long as I can remember: “Cenedl ...
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Did You Know What Others Have to Say about Us?
The road to Voskopojë climbs through sparse groves of cedar, deforested by timber smugglers after the fall of the regime. The half-muffled Mercedes labors upward, swerving around the largest rocks in the roadway, pitching and yawing like an overloaded barge in the ruts. Then as we top a rise, a green valley bisected by a ...
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The Vlachs of Greece
In writing about the small but interesting groups of Vlachs or Aromanians1 in Greece it is almost impossible to avoid discussing similar communities in other parts of the Balkans. Their past history is almost identical, their present situation very different. Under the Byzantine and Ottoman empires there were obviously large numbers of Vlachs living in what ...
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The Unwritten Places
Editor’s note: We are delighted to offer these excerpts from Tim Salmon’s extraordinary new book, The Unwritten Places, a sensitive account of his travels with Greek and Vlach shepherds. We thank Tim Salmon and his publisher John Chapple for their kind permission to reprint these sections. The book is now available through the Society’s bookstore; see ...
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