20-24 septembrie 2009 - Biblioteca Metropolitana Bucuresti

The Greek historiography about the Macedonian Romanians 865was the most important one in this field, which influenced very much thesubsequent researches.The interwar period is short and comprises few orks in this field, asGreece passed through a very difficult period after the Balkanic wars, theWorld War I and especially after the tragic Greek-Turk war between 1919-1922.The profesor Keramopoulos remains, due to his work, as an importantfigure in the landscape of the Greek historiography between the two WorldWars, who constituted a landmark and a scientific guide for the generationswhich followed him.During World War II the Macedo-Romanian problem became moredifficult, the population of Greece and even the authorities did not knowexactly what was happening and how to react to the existence of theMacedonian Romanians.At the time of the civil war in Greece (1946-1949) the lawyer andformer Member of Parliament Lampros Katafigiotis sustained in a work in1947, the following: "In the year 1078 a savage tribe of plunderers, whichhad no religion and was pagan, invaded Tessalia, where it remained. Afterdestroying the towns of Tessalia and the settlements in the plain, the tribewithdrew and established itself definitively in the Pind region and at the footof the Olympus Mountain. The members of the tribe mixed later with thenative inhabitants, Grecizated, became Christians and preserved only theirlanguage, which resembles the Romanian language". 17 The author belongstherefore by his work to the series of those who shared the immigrationisttheory.Taking into consideration the situation created in Greece after WorldWar II, the young diplomate and writer of Macedo-Romanian originEvanghelos Averof (1910-1990), the future Minister of External Affairsof Greece, published in Athens, in 1948, a very interesting socio-politicalstudy entitled "The political aspect of the Kutso-Vlach question". Theauthor presents in a concrete and simple manner the causes which led to theapparition and evolution of this serious problem, which endangered manytimes the Greek-Romanian relations. Averof mentions from the beginningthat he wrote his work in order to inform the politicians, the diplomats andall those who were interested, because he had found, from his experience,that nothing was known about this difficult matter. 1817Collective. op.cit., 34-36.18Evanghelos Averof 1987, The political aspect of the Kutso-Vlach question, 2 ndedition. Trikala.