20-24 septembrie 2009 - Biblioteca Metropolitana Bucuresti

The evolution of the city of Moscopole. Rise and decay 803contacts they had in the Italian universities they attended with the Latinlanguage and the Roman history. The economic development and theirspiritual connections with western Europe led to the start of a process ofnational rediscovery.Theodor Anastasie CavaliotiThe scholars in Moscopole in the 18 th century were divided intotwo trends. Some of them believed that the Aromanians had to learn andhave their education in Greek, while others supported the developmentof the Aromanian culture. Theodor Anastasie Cavalioti and Daniil fromMoscopole were among the first group, while Constantin Ucuta and otherAromanian scholars and translators belonged to the latter. The Germanwriter J. Thunmann and Greek historians such as Zaviras, Sathas or Vretoswrote about the life of Cavalioti.Daniil from MoscopoleBorn in Moscopole, Daniil from Moscopole ( Mihai Adam Hagi fromMoscopole) was the author of the “Introductory Teaching”. It comprisedinformation on applied sciences (mathematics, physics), the epistolarystyle, as well as a lexicon in four languages: Aromanian, Greek, Albanian,and Bulgarian. It was printed in Venice in 1794 and reprinted in Venice in1802.Constantin UcutaThe traditions, keeping the faith of the ancestors and the language areall proves that the Aromanians managed to keep their national identity. TheAromanians kept their national identity even after the Turks occupied theBalkan Peninsula and in spite of the great influence of the Greek cultureThe Latin PeriodThe national movement of the Aromanians became manifest at the endof the 18 th century within a larger process of national movements of all thenations in the Balkans. It is the period when the scholars of Moscopolewere active, the authors of the first works in Aromanian. Their books werestudied by western scholars starting with the 18 th century and thus theymade contact with the Latin nation of the Balkans and continued their workin harsh conditions hundreds of kilometres away from their birth places.XVI. Religious LifeEvidenceThroughout the centuries the Aromanians managed to keep theirOrthodox faith in spite of the political events that took place in the Balkan