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the Albania Macedo-romanians:
etno-Demographic Identity Issues
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Albania is the second land for romanians, after that of pindus and
thessaly (from Greece). Currently, the Aromanians are spread in towns
and villages from many Albania’s regions.
Most of the Albania’s Macedo-romanians are called “Fărşeroţi”.
As they used to be in the past, in majority, shepherds and even seminomads,
fărşeroţii didn’t always have stable places to live in. Many of
them permanently settled in the plain Muzachiei, wintering places near
the Adriatic sea, and they were called muzachiari. Fârşeroţii can be met
in Malacastra region, placed in the south of Muzachiei field and tomori
(tomorit) Mountain, the highest in Albania (2417 m). the Macedoromanians
are more numerous to the south-east, at south of ohrid and
prespa lakes, near the town of Korça, as well as in the west of Gramos
around permeti town. leaving their lands of origin, major groups of
fărşeroţi have been established in Aegean Macedonia from Greece or in the
Macedonia republic. Some have remained permanently in the wintering
areas from epirus, Acarnania, etolia and tesalia.
After the destruction of Moscopole town at the end of the eighteenth
century, the Moscopoleans scattered in Greece and the republic of
Macedonia, few of them staying in their native places in Albania, in several
settlements located between the towns of pogradec and Korça. Most of
them were established in Albania’s towns (tirana, Durres, etc.), settling
also in many cities of the former Austro-hungarian empire and founding
communities in Vienna and Budapest.
estimations over the number of Albanian Macedo-romanian
population were diverse. Since Albania was not for long a state entity of its
own, and because of territorial changes that took place, the first assessment