20-24 septembrie 2009 - Biblioteca Metropolitana Bucuresti

770 Adina Berciu-Drăghicescuaround the Pind spread from north-west of Berat, in Albania, towards thesouth in Epir and beyond Kardiţa, in Thesalia spreading out towards east inMacedonia and towards south-west in Acarnania and Aspropotam regions.The Aromanians group of the vilayet of Thessaloniki, Xeres, Xante andMonastir was formed by other groups coming from Gramos Mount,Moscopole and Pind, and through the lands of Meglena in Albania and inMacedonia there were localities lived only by Romanians 9 .Regarding this issue, in 1936 along with the welcome speech in theRomanian Academy, Th. Capidan noted with satisfaction: Today, anyonewho watches the ethnographic map of the Balkan Peninsula remains amazedby their extraordinary spreading (the Romanians – our note), especiallyin the South parts, where these populations show themselves under afragmented form towards the unitary and indivisible block of Romanism inthe north of the Danube. The first expression that emerges from this issue,almost unique in the history of a people, is that no matter how scatteredthese people appear the entire Balkans, their origin must be sought not onlyin the Carpatho-Danubian lands, but also in Pind. 10In the zones and their localities will be set up schools and churchesthroughout the efforts of the local communities, but especially throughoutthe aid granted by the Romanian state, as it can be noticed from thedocuments of this volume.Toponymy is also an undisputed evidence of the presence andmaintenance of the Romanian element in the Balkan Peninsula. There are9Ibidem, 9.10Theodor Capidan 1936, The Balkan Romania, discourse held on the May 26 th ,1936 at the solemn meeting of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Extract, 53; At thislocalization we should add the one pretty recent met in the paper of Max Demeter Peyfus,The Aromanian issue: "In Greece the main part of the Aromanians lives on Pindus valleys.In some localities in Thessaly and at the foot of Olympus, in the mountain region ofBermion and the region between Filorma (Phlorina today), Kastoria (Kezriye today) andKozana (Kozane today). In Albania we find them in great number in Myzeqeja region,as well as in districts Priemetiş Kolice (today Korcea), in Yugoslavia in several villagesbetween Ohrida (Ohrido today) and Monastir (today Bitolia), then Kruşevo near Perlepe,several villages near Struga and smallersettlements on Pljackavica, in eastern Macedonia.Most of Aromanians from Bulgaria were removed in 1940 in Romania, however, therestill is – except those in cities – settlements of Aromanians in Pirinska Makedonja andRhodope Mountains. Finally, in Romania many Aromanians settled in Dobrogea (inlocalities Cobadin, Ovid at Mihail Kogălniceanu and towards north), others aroundBucharest and in Banat. In the past there were Aromanian colonies in Asian Turkey andLebanon" – M.D. Peyfuss, The Aromanian issue . Its evolution since the beginning tothe Bucharest peace (1913) and the Austro-Hungary’s stand, translation by N. ŞerbanTanaşoca 1994, Bucharest: the Encyclopedical Publishing House, 13-14.