20-24 septembrie 2009 - Biblioteca Metropolitana Bucuresti

780 Adina Berciu-Drăghicescupupils, led by I.D. Hondrosom and a Romanian collegiate boarding schoolled by N. Papahagi, which had, in 1908, 20 students with scholarships.In the school year 1908-1909, 99 Romanian primary schools operatedin the Ottoman Empire, distributed as follows: 25 in Bitolia district, 15 inCoriţa- Elbasan district, 15 in Grebena-Elasona district, 9 in Ianina district,17 in Thessaloniki district, 9 in Veria district and 9 in Kosovo district. Alsoin 43 localities the service was officiated in Romanian language 37 .Concerning the salaries of priests, owe to the fight between Greek andRomanian religious propaganda, the parishioners were used not to paypriests for the ceremonies, they succeeded in supporting themselves onlyby the subsidy received from the Romanian state 38 .The events in Turkey determined the endorsement after 1910 of a newmanagement form of schools throughout school Forumi.Despite the difficulties encountered by the Ottoman authorities whodelayed the granting of operation permits for Romanian schools, under thepressure and influence of the Greeks, with all religious persecutions, as wellas due to the conflicts that existed between the members of the Aromaniancommunities, mainly instigated by the Greek people, Romanian schoolsand churches continued to exist and operate in the first two decades of thetwentieth century. Therefore, in the eve of the Balkan wars (1912-1913) inthe European Turkey were 92 primary schools, 6 secondary schools, witha number of 3,850 pupils.The Peace Treaty of Bucharest, which was signed on the 28 th ofJuly/10 th of August 1913, established a new political reality in the BalkanPeninsula. The three Balkan countries Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia obligedthemselves, through an exchange of letters made with the Prime Ministerof Romania Titu Maiorescu, to grant autonomy to schools and churchesfor the Romanians in their countries, which could be subsidized under thesupervision of the governments of the states in question and to acknowledgea different bishopric for Romanians.All Balkan states acknowledged after 1913 the existence of theAromanian schools, except for Serbia that considered the Treaty of Bucharestas being obsolete to it, rejecting the acknowledgement of the autonomy ofschools and churches in Serbian Macedonia where were closed all primaryschools for boys and girls, a high school, a normal school and 10 churches.In Greece, however, the situation was better, especially underdemocratic governments after 1913. Bilateral cultural agreement concludedwith the Greek state relative to the autonomy of the Romanian primary and37A.N.I.C., Ministry of Public Instruction fund, file 2944/1908, f. 73-106.38Ibidem, f. 34.