Vlachs on the Web
· Check out Spyros Mentis’s excellent Homepage for KEFALOVRISO, a Vlach village in the district of Pogonisi, Greece, near the Albanian border. There are village photos, articles from the local newspaper (in Greek) and audio samples of the haunting clarino music the region, as well as a live recording of a Vlach wedding in 1989. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Ithaca/1473/smentis/ · The CLOISTER OF THE ...
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Community News
New Members · The Society warmly welcomes the following new members: Dumitru Suti Bridgeport, CT Elizabeth Lupu Mondschein Lake Havasu City, AZ Nicholas Mitrokostas So. Yarmouth, MA Florica Franga Bronx, NY Mihai Caragiu Pullman, WA News from Albania · ELBASAN – a small Vlach association has recently been organized to represent Elbasan’s vanishing Aromanian remnant. · ERSEKE – Care International has ...
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Nomad of the Balkans
Part I: 1998 I visited the Balkans four times in 1998. Retirement has brought many advantages. Threatened with a party to celebrate my sixtieth birthday I flew out to Albania on April 1st and spent a solitary birthday in the Hotel Dajti, Tirana. My main purpose was to find out whether Albania was safe. I ...
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Did You Know What Others Have to Say about Us?
In the early decades of the nineteenth century Greece, Serbia, and Romania emerged as independent states as a result of national revolts against Ottoman rule. These newly formed states then continued the process of nation building by cultivating a shared national identity with all the means at their disposal—the military, the civil service, and the ...
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Vlach Map of Albania
The map “Most important settlements of the Aromanians in Albania” has been graciously provided by Dr. Thede Kahl (Institut für Geographie, Universität Münster) and is based on the author’s original fieldwork in Albania 1995-6 and the following sources: Burileanu, Constantin N.: De la Românii din Albania (About the Romanians of Albania; Romanian). Bucureşti 1906. Capidan, Theodor: Românii din Albania (The Romanians of ...
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The Albanian Aromanians´Awakening: Identity Politics and Conflicts in Post-Communist Albania
Editor’s Note: This article is adapted from a paper published in March 1999 by the European Centre for Minority Issues as ECMI Working Paper # 3, and is reprinted with the kind permission of the author. All copyrights remain with the author. Over a decade ago Ernest Gellner claimed that [T]here is a very large ...
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