20-24 septembrie 2009 - Biblioteca Metropolitana Bucuresti

784 Adina Berciu-Drăghicescuteachers, 76 women school teachers, 53 priests, 1 high school, 2 commercialschools and 1 normal school for girls 45 .The outbreak of the Ist World War, less than a year after the signingof the Treaty of Bucharest, brought important changes in the southern andeastern Europe. In the Balkan states, thousand of Romanian were mobilizedand deployed on various battlefields, and their schools and churches wereagain closed. In August 1916 occupied male population of Macedonia,remained as a result of the previous mobilization, was sent to concentrationcamps or coal mines in Svistov, of which many Romanians did not comeback 46 . As a result of the military operations which deployed in Macedoniamany Romanian villages were looted or destroyed. The sheep heck wasrequisitioned and in the Aromanian schools and churches they passed to thedestruction of Romanian books, including those of cult. The immigrationphenomenon in Romania reached maximum peaks, especially after thepeace Conference in Bucharest in 1913, when all Balkan Romanians couldbecome Romanian citizens, regardless of the place where they continuedto live.At the Paris Peace Conference, along with the Romanian missions werealso sent missions of the Aromanian Culture Society, of the Romanians’Committee of the Timock Valley to whom were added representativesof the Committee for the Protection of cultural and spiritual rights ofthe Romanians, established in Vidin in March 1919. These Romanianorganizations have formed a series of memoirs that were vanquished toforumi of the Peace Conference, but they did not have great results. TheArticle no. 2 of the Peace Treaty of Sèvres, with Turkey, was the onlypositive result, throughout Greece obliged itself to grant local autonomyto Romanian communities from Pind in school and religious matters, hadbeen circumvented throughout the Treaty of Lausanne. The applicationof the provisions of the minorities’ Treaty by the states in the southerneasternEurope, which could provide terms of expression for South-DanubeRomanians, was struck by reserves and even negative reactions.During the Turkish domination, in Albania existed 17 Romanian schoolsand a secondary school in Berat, as follows: two primary schools in eachof the localities: Corcea, Pleasa, Moscopole, Berat, Elbasan and a primaryschool in each of the localities: Lunca, Nicea, Biscuchi, Şipsca, Ferica,Grabova, Luşnia-Carbunari 47. In a report issued in December 1922, Peter45Cristea Sandu Timoc, op. cit., 30.46Gheorghe Zbuchea 1999, A history of the Romanians in the Balkan Peninsula: the18 th -20 th centuries, Bucharest, 181.47A.N.I.C., fund of the Ministry of Public Instruction, file 751/1925, f. 57.