The name "Vlachs" refers to the old Balkan ethnic group whose members are descendants of romanized and grecized Paleo-Balkan and Indo-European populations: Illyrians and Thracians. Also, the Vlachs are a recent ethnic substratum in northeast Serbia formed by Romanians and Romanized Slav immigrants from Romania.
Vlach Gypsies are one branch of the Romany-speaking Gypsies who lived for several hundred years in Romania until they began migrating to other parts of the world in the middle of the nineteenth century. The majority of Vlach Gypsies now live in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Romania.
A list of Balkan peoples today would include Greeks, Albanians, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Romanians, Serbs, Montenegrins, and Bosnian Muslims. Other smaller groups of people are also found in the Balkans such as the Vlachs and the Roma (Gypsies), neither of whom have a national state anywhere.
The Dacian people, one of the major indigenous peoples of southeast Europe, are one of the predecessors of the Proto-Romanians. It is believed that a mixture of Dacians, Romans, Slavs, and Illyrians are the predecessors of the modern Romanians, Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians, and Istro-Romanians.
Romania is quite ethnically homogenous, with various sources estimating roughly 83-89% of the population are ethnic Romanian (Români). According to the 2011 census, ethnic Hungarians are the largest minority ethnic group (6.5%), with the Roma community constituting the second largest (3.3%).
Serbia
| Republic of Serbia Република Србија (Serbian) Republika Srbija (Serbian) |
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| • Principality of Serbia | 1815 |
| • Independence recognized | 1878 |
| • Kingdom of Serbia | 1882 |
| • Yugoslavia | 1918 |
Aromanian language
| Aromanian |
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| Native to | Greece, Albania, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia |
| Region | Balkans |
| Ethnicity | Aromanians |
| Native speakers | estimated 250,000 (1997) |
The Serbo-Croatian term in its singular form is Morlak; its plural form is Morlaci [mor-latsi]. The direct translation of the name Morovlasi in Serbo-Croatian would mean Black Vlachs. It was considered that "black" referred to their clothes of brown cloth.
The Wallachian dialect (subdialectul / graiul muntean / muntenesc) is one of the several dialects of the Romanian language (Daco-Romanian).
Origins. Romanian Dobruja was the Latin-speaking Roman Province of Scythia Minor for about 400 years. Aromanians can be found in Greece, Bulgaria, Albania and the Republic of Macedonia, while Romanians in Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Serbia and Hungary.
In the mid-19th century, Johann Georg von Hahn estimated their number in Greece between 173,000 and 200,000. The last official census figures available come from 1951. Since then, estimates of the numbers of Arvanites has ranged from 25,000 to 200,000.
According to another estimate, there are about 34 million people worldwide who can speak Romanian, of whom 30 million speak it as a native language. It is an official and national language of both Romania and Moldova and is one of the official languages of the European Union.
Aromanian is a mix of Latin and post-Big Migrations domestic language with additional influences from other surrounding languages of the Balkans, mainly Greek, Albanian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian. Tune in. We're also on SoundCloud.
