20-24 septembrie 2009 - Biblioteca Metropolitana Bucuresti

Romanian schools in the Balkan Peninsula during the 20 th century 769After 1945, when the Balkan Peninsula started its communist period,the situation and the history of the Romanian community in the BalkanPeninsula was characterized by silence and total disinterest. Schools, highschools and churches were abolished and their language was forbidden 6 .The situation of the Romanians abroad is considered to be “a greattragedy of the XX and XXI centuries”. Nowadays, outside borders livealmost 9-13 million Romanians, a great part of them are geographicallysituated around Romania.** *There were plenty of Romanians in the Middle Ages, in modern times andin the first decades of the 20 th century, in the Balkan Peninsula, who occupiedterritories from the Adriatic Sea to the Black Sea 7 . The provinces inhabitedby the Romanians and called vlach regions and had been the following ones:White Vlachia, Rodopi Vlachia, Trachian Vlachia, Sirmium Vlachia, on Savariver: Old Vlachia or Vlachia Old (Bosnia) 8 .In all the mountains also and in most localities from the northern partof the continental Greece were a lot of fairs and villages inhabited byRomanians. Many Romanian families still inhabited in the first decade ofthe twentieth century the Ionian Islands: Corfu, Zante and the Island ofSanta Maura.We would like to mention that the Romanian group who is located6Cristea Sandu-Timoc, op.cit., 9 and 30.7Ibidem, 5.8Mihai Virgil Cordescu 1906, The History of the Romanian schools in Turkey,Sofia and Turtucaia from Bulgaria and of Romanian language seminars from Lipsca,Viena, Berlin, Bucharest, 5-8. Romanian presence in the Balkan Peninsula at the end ofthe nineteenth century and in the first decades of the twentieth century is reported in:• Macedonia, with the main centers: Bitolia (Monastir), Magarova, Târnova,Nijopole, Gopeş, Molovişte, Cruşova, Ohrida, Iancovăţ, Beala de Sus, Beala deJos, Calive-Istoc, Vlaho-Clisura, Neveasta, Blaţa, Reşna, Belcamen , Pisodei,Negovani, Hrupiştea, Gramoştea, Moscopole, Pleasa, Calive-Jarcan,Lunca,Birislău, Oşani, Cerna-Reca, Cupa, Huma, Veria, Kokinoplo, Ramna, Turai,Porina, Piscupie, Murmuliştea etc. In the eastern part of Turkey we mention thecities Seres and Giulmani, Melnic and villages Ramna, Poroiu, Raslog.• In Epirus: Samarina, Smicsi, Avela (Avdela), Perivoli, Turia, Furca, Armatia,Breaza, Palioseli, Băiasa (Vuvusa) Cerneşti, Dobra, etc• Albania: in Valona (Avlona) district: Bunavia, Bisani, Levani, Carvunari, Cervenietc.; Musachia district and Durazzo: Origovizza, Cărbunari, Grădiştea, Soacule,Veleani, Cavaia, Gramara, Ciuca,Bedeni, Mardarei, etc• Mila, Ameru, Vetunosi, Cuţufani, Paltinu, Doliani, Damasuli etc.