Meglenoromanians

Megleno-romanians (Megleno Romani)


Total population	at most 20,000
Settlement areas	Greece , North Macedonia , Romania , Turkey
language	Megleno-Romanian
religion	christian (mostly orthodox )

The Megleno- Romanians , also Meglenic Wallachians , are a Romance, Megleno- Romanian- speaking population group in northern Greece and in southern North Macedonia .

The megalomanian settlement area in Macedonia and Greece

Romanian schools for Aromanians and Meglenoromanians in the Ottoman Empire (1886)

The language area of the Megleno-Romanians is partially surrounded by that of the Romance Aromanians , but the two peoples can be distinguished because of their different histories and the idioms spoken.

The ancestors of the Megleno-Romanians probably immigrated to what is today in the 14th century, and it is believed that they came from southern Wallachia . That's why they have more in common with the Dakor Romanians . What is striking about the Megleno-Romanians is that they (unlike the Dakor-Romanians, Aromanians and Istrian Romanians ) even call themselves “ Wallachians ” in their mother tongue ( Meglenoromanian : “vlaşi” ).

While with the Vlachs in their language happen Greek influences, the Megleno-Vlachs have a Slavic character. Some scholars consider the Megleno-Romanians to be part of the Romanian people and Megleno-Romanian to be a Romanian dialect. The Meglenoromanians mostly belong to the Christian Orthodox Church . A small Muslim group emigrated to Turkey (mainly Eastern Thrace ) at the beginning of the 20th century (Karadjaovalides). In 1926 450 families emigrated from the places: Osani, Liumnita, Cupa, Lundzini, Birislav and Livezi to the Romanian Dobrudscha (today they mainly live in the municipality of Cerna in the Tulcea district ).

The distribution area of the 4 Balkan Romance (Wallachian) languages. In the areas outside of Romania and Moldova, the Romansh-speaking population is often less numerous than the non-Romansh majority population

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Individual evidence

↑ Thede Kahl: Ethnicity and spatial distribution of the Aromanians in southern Europe (= Münstersche Geographische Arbeit 43, ISSN 0176-1064 ). Self-published by the Institute for Geography of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster 1999.

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↑ Thede Kahl: Ethnicity and spatial distribution of the Aromanians in southern Europe (= Münstersche Geographische Arbeit 43, ISSN 0176-1064 ). Self-published by the Institute for Geography of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster 1999.

[1] Thede Kahl: Ethnicity and spatial distribution of the Aromanians in southern Europe (= Münstersche Geographische Arbeit 43, ISSN 0176-1064 ). Self-published by the Institute for Geography of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster 1999.

[2] ttp://www.kroraina.com/knigi/en/av/av_10_2.htm

[3] Thede Kahl: Ethnicity and spatial distribution of the Aromanians in southern Europe (= Münstersche Geographische Arbeit 43, ISSN 0176-1064 ). Self-published by the Institute for Geography of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster 1999.