Aromanians in Greece

The Aromanians in Greece (Aromanian: Armãnji tu Gãrtsia; Greek: Βλάχοι/Αρμάνοι στην Ελλάδα) are an Aromanian ethno-linguistic group native in Epirus, Thessaly and Western and Central Macedonia, in Greece.[1]

Aromanians in Greece
Armãnji/Rrãmãnji tu Gãrtsii
Βλάχοι/Αρμάνοι στην Ελλάδα
Area with Aromanian population and dialects
Total population
39,855 (1951 census); unofficial estimates count up to 200,000
Regions with significant populations
Attica, Epirus, Thessaly, Western Macedonia, Central Macedonia
Languages
Aromanian (native), Greek
Religion
Predominantly Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Related ethnic groups
Aromanians, Vlachs, Romanians,

In the country, they are commonly known as Vlachs (Βλάχοι, Vláchoi) and referred to as Vlachophone Greeks[2][3] or Vlach-speaking Greeks.[4] In Greece the belief exists that the Aromanians are not a different ethnic group, but that they are ethnic Greeks who adopted a Romance language as a result of Romanization by the Roman Empire, which is a disputed view.

Culture

The Aromanians of Greece count with the Panhellenic Federation of Cultural Associations of Vlachs, a cultural organization of Aromanians.[5][6]

Music
Main articles: Aromanian music and Polyphonic song of Epirus

Cuisine
See also: Balkan cuisine
Metsovone, Aromanian cheese from Metsovo


List of settlements
Panorama of the town of Metsovo
Epirus

Macedonia

Thessaly and Mount Olympus

Aetolia-Acarnania

Notable Aromanians
Yanaki and Milton Manaki
George Averoff, oil painting by Pavlos Prosalentis the younger (1857-1894)
Evangelos Zappas

Academics

Art and literature

Military

Philanthropy

Politics

Religion

Science

See also

References
  1. Mackridge, Peter (2 April 2009). Language and National Identity in Greece, 1766-1976. OUP Oxford. ISBN 9780199214426.
  2. "World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples - Greece : Vlachs". United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. May 2018. Archived from the original on 15 September 2013. Vlachs, or Vlachophone Greeks, are traditionally mountain pastoralists.
  3. Official Report of Debates. Council of Europe. 1 July 1996. p. 907. ISBN 978-92-871-2983-3. The Vlachs or Macedo-Romanians, also called Aromanians or Vlachophone Greeks by others [...]
  4. "World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples - Greece : Vlachs". United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. May 2018. Archived from the original on 15 September 2013. In August 2003 the Greek Federation of Cultural Associations of Vlachs objected to the direct or indirect characterization of the Vlach-speaking Greeks as an ethnic, linguistic or other type of minority, a position expressed in a subsequent report issued by the American organization Freedom House. The Federation asserted that Vlach-speaking Greeks never asked to be recognized as a minority by the Greek state as both historically and culturally they were, and still are an integral part of Hellenism.
  5. Droukas, Evangelou; Bezos, Sofoklis (2004). Μελέτη σχετικά με την ιστορία τη ζωή και τον πολιτισμό των βλάχων (Thesis) (in Greek). Mytilene: University of the Aegean. pp. 1–207.
  6. Kahl, Thede (2002). "The ethnicity of Aromanians after 1990: the identity of a minority that behaves like a majority". Ethnologia Balkanica. 6: 145–169.
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