Meglenoromanians
Megleno-romanians (Megleno Romani) | |
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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 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 ).
Web links
- Meglena, îngropată (Romanian)
- The Megleno-Romanian settlement area in Greece and Macedonia
- Megleno-Romanian folk costumes
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.
- ↑ http://www.kroraina.com/knigi/en/av/av_10_2.htm
- ↑ 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.