Mégléno-Roumanians

The Mégléno-Rumanian (In Mégléno-Rumanian: Vlashi , in Greek: Βλαχομογλενίτες; Vlachomoglenítes ) is people which lives six villages in the area of Moglená, including/understanding the prefectures of Pella and Kilkis of the Macedonia, in Greece, and also an insolated village along the border of the République of Macedonia.

This name is a Exonyme.

They speak a Romance language called Mégléno-Rumanian or meglenitic by the Western linguists and βλαχομογλενίτικα ( Vlachomoglenítika ) or simply μογλενίτικα ( Moglenítika ) in Greek. In their own language, it name it Rumanian Vlaheshte , or megleno-româneşte in . This language is also spoken at certain places in Dobroudja, an area of the Romania where some Mégléno-Rumanian was established in first half of the 20th century and adopted the neologism mégléno-Rumanian promoted by the Romanian authorities.

Their number is estimated between 12.000 and 20.000.

It is remarkable that, unlike all the other romanized populations of Balkans, resulting from the Romans of the Romania antique, or the Vlahs which succeeded to them, they do not use the name Autonyme derived from Roman to indicate themselves, but employ directly the term of Vlashi .

The majority are Christian orthodoxe; some are Moslem. Moslem mégléno-Rumanian of Greece was explusés at the beginning of the 20th century towards the Turkey, like currency of exchange.

In 1926, nearly 450 families of Mégléno-Rumanian of Greece left for the Romania, and were established in Dobroudja south ( Quadrilatère ). When this area was transferred to Bulgaria, Mégléno-Rumanian moved towards other areas of Romania, much of them found itself in the village of Cerna in the Judeţ de Tulcea, in which nearly 1.200 continue to speak mégléno-Rumanian. Others emigrated in Romania and worms of other countries during the Second world war and the Greek Civil war, because of the violent ones engagements who were held in the area of Moglená.

In 1996, there was nearly 820 families which claimed themselves of mégléno-Rumanian origin in Romania.

External bonds

  • Megleno-Romanii, by Prof Emil Tarcovnicu
  • Mégléna buried
  • Vlachs of Greece and their misunderstood history, by Helen Abadzi
  • Study on Vlachs by Asterios Koukoudis
  • Report/ratio on Vlachs (term used collectively to refer to the Eastern Romance populations)

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