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Archives from the constanţa heritage service
of the national Archives
relating to the Aromanian Citizens of Albania
VIrGIl CoMAn
We should mention from the very beginning that in the present study
we aimed to present the main archives that are currently in the constanţa
heritage Service of the national Archives, from which we can know better the
development of the Albanian Aromanian established in constanţa county 1 .
Before starting our study we have to make some preliminary
clarifications. the presence of the Aromanians in the area between the
Danube and the Black Sea is documented as early as the mid-nineteenth
century 2 . In 1878, with the reintegration of Dobrudja in the romanian state,
among the first clerks of the district administration there is the Aromanian
Ion Valaori, “translator” of the prefecture 3 . Documents attest the existence
of another Aromanian in the old Tomitan town, Tănase G. dabo, born in
1849 in Gopesi, in ottoman Macedonia, the one who also holds the office
of president of Culture and Welfare Society of romanians, Macedonians
and Albanians, “the Aid” 4 .
1 In our project we also plan to investigate the documents owned by the national
Archives Service of tulcea County heritage, desiring to know if there are documents
relating to Aromanians originating from Albania who established individually, after 1878,
in this county. however, after the investigation of the list of funds and collections from
the archives of the tulcea county and the numerous inventories and records we have not
yet identified any documents related to this issue.
2 lAscu, stoica, “românii balcanici în dobrogea (Până la Primul război
Mondial)”, Omagiu istoricului Constantin Buşe (coord. horia dumitrescu) (Focşani:
pallas publishing house, 2004) p. 216; also see MAteeSCu, tudor, “Aromânii în
Dobrogea înainte de 1877”, Archive Magazine, lxx, vol. lV, no 1 (1993): 18-20.
3 lASCu, Stoica, the quoted opera, p. 222.
4 Ibidem.