So I was on my Wallachia run and I was waiting for Vlad the Impaler scenario.I waited for 20 years and nothing happend. How do I get Vlad as the ruler?
Because on Wikipedia it says there aren't that many
The words all descend from the Proto-Germanic Walhaz, which meant "Roman," but later used to refer to foreign things in general. It comes from a Celtic group known as the Volcae, who lived near the speakers of Proto-Germanic. As the Celts and Romans merged (in the perspective of the Germans), all of these became "Roman," and Romance and Celtic speakers became referred to in such a way.
Some fun facts:
- "Gaul" is descended from this, and has nothing to do with either the Latin "Gallia" or "Gaelic". Just coincidences.
- Walnut just means "foreign nut."
- The Polish "WΕochy," referring to Italy, also comes from this.
- Same for the Hungarian "OlaszorszΓ‘g," which also means Italy.
- "Vlachs" is an old term that refers to Romanian speakers, but is still used to refer to some speakers of similar languages in the rest of the Balkans. Most Slavic languages use this word to refer to Romanians.
- The Romanian region of Wallachia is named after the Vlachs.
- "Welsch," is an old-fashioned German term for Romance-language speakers. Some varieties of German still use this to refer to specific groups.
- For example, "Welsch," is the Yiddish term for Sephardi Jews.
The word "Volcae" itself may be etymologically related to "Falcon."
A few days ago i asked the same about the Torbesh, it will be interesting to see how the results compare this time.
On August 10, 1913, a treaty was concluded in Bucharest between the Kingdoms of Greece, Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro and the defeated country of the Second Balkan War, Bulgaria. In the negotiations of the conference, held in Bucharest, in a struggle to define the new borders, the three countries (Greece, Serbia, Montenegro) accepted Romania's request to grant the Vlachs (Aromanians) within the borders ecclesiastical and school autonomy; at the same time, they agreed to allow the establishment of a special Romanian archdiocese with the right to be sponsored by the Romanian government under the supervision of each individual country. In particular, according to the Romanian sources, in an extract of a telegram from the Romanian Embassy in Athens, concerning the dialogue between Consul General N.N. Filodor and the Greek Prime Minister, E. Venizelos, among other things, it was mentioned that the Romanians could reopen all their churches and schools in the new Greek state, without fear of any obstacle. This action of Venizelos acknowledged the existence of a Romanian national minority in Greece by giving Romanian identity to an undetermined number of Romanians in the region.
Romanian schools in Macedonia seem to have increased in the period 1941-1943 up to about 20-23. In particular, it appears that during the period of occupation 20 Romanian primary schools operated in Macedonia: 2 schools in Veroia (boys' and girls'), Edessa (Vodena), Grammatikovo or Grammatiko, Neveska (Nymphaeum), Belkameni (Drosopigi), Grevena, Samarina, Smixi, Avdela, Perivoli, Vlachoklisura, Argos Orestiko (Hroupista), Fetitsa (Kedrona), Patitsina (Pampion), Doliani (Koumaria), Turia (Krania), Kentrovo (Kedrona), Lumnitsa (Skra), Koupa, Livezi.
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There have been efforts before: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_the_Pindus
While visiting my family in Gevgelija I got the impression that the majority of people (including the younger generations) are to greater degree pro-Yugoslav. Idk how it is in other cities so that why I'm asking.
What is Vlach Culture, is it descended from Roman perhaps?
Iβm asking this because I recently saw some travel vlogs of a Romanian couple in Albania. When they got to Sarande, many followers suggested them to speak in Romanian and surprisingly, they even filmed themselves ordering at a local restaurant in Romanian. The waiter knew Romanian pretty well and asked them whicn city in Romania they come from.
So is this just a thing in that particular town? What is the status of Vlachs there?
As I have made some posts in other subreddits (in Greek, Bulgarian and Albanian ones) my Balkan family identifies as "Aaren". They live in a village mainly of Rumelian Turks and Pomaks. With few Albanians and fewer Tatars. And they came from Greece to Turkey from population exchange from Drama region.
I come across documented occasions where Chitaks around Drama called Pomaks of the are as "Aaren", yet my family claim they are not Pomaks (makes sense, since they live in village of all those ethnicities yet not associate with any of them).
During the same research I also found out that Aromanian village of Notia/Karacaova became muslim and also migrated to Turkey and many of them also spoke Pomak language and claim to be Pomaks. This village is the only documented case of Vlachs converting EN MASSE.
En masse part is important because it is known that both south slavs and Aromanians and even some Hellenes joined Voynuk and Martolos regiments (basicaly paying jizya as military service) and gradually islamized/Turkified.
However finding documents about such cases are extremely hard.
If anybody could point me any knowledge about Pomaks and cases of Muslim Aromanians (preferably in english) or could share their knowledge (maybe heard something from your old folks) I would appreciate it. I pretty much narrowed it down to these two.
I learned from this sub that there is an independence Vlach/Aromanian movement in Iperus.
The user said: "I didn't save the sources that he gave me, but he told me some things like "Pindus is under Greek occupation" and he sent me a website written in the Vlach language. The language didn't even exist in Google translate, but I remember I understood some words since Aromanian is a Latin language and I know Italian. He told me that it was very local, so I just wished him good luck with that."
Does somebody have any info?
Hey guys, I hope everyoneβs doing fine.
I was wondering how Aromanians/Vlachs living all over the Balkans feel about Romania. Do you feel any sort of connection? Would you be interested in moving here or getting citizenship for easier acces to the EU?
