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The Aromanians in Greece (Aromanian: Armãnji tu Gãrtsii; Greek: Βλάχοι/Αρμάνοι στην Ελλάδα) are an Aromanian ethno-linguistic group native in Epirus, Thessaly and Western and Central Macedonia, in Greece.[2]

In the country, they are commonly known as "Vlachs" (Βλάχοι, Vláchoi) and referred to as "Vlachophone Greeks"[3][4] or "Vlach-speaking Greeks",[5] because most Aromanians in Greece have a Greek identity and identify themselves with the Greek nation and culture.[6]

Culture

The Aromanians of Greece count with the Panhellenic Federation of Cultural Associations of Vlachs, a cultural organization of Aromanians.[7][8]

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 from modern Greece

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. ^ Kahl 2002, p. 153.
  2. ^ Mackridge, Peter (2 April 2009). Language and National Identity in Greece, 1766-1976. OUP Oxford. ISBN 9780199214426.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ 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 [...]
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^ History and culture of South Eastern Europe. Vol. 5. Slavica Verlag Dr. A. Kovač. 2003. p. 212.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Kahl, Thede (2002). "The ethnicity of Aromanians after 1990: the identity of a minority that behaves like a majority". Ethnologia Balkanica. 6: 145–169.