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V.A. Urechia – a Well Known Personality... 267
V.A. urechia improved himself in the unionist period that of modern
romania, which generated the strong patriotic current for the national
reawaken of Vlachs from european turkey. V.A. urechia was known as a
remarkable action man, he thought that the Aromanian thing was something
special for his national ideal: the romanian unit from everywhere. he
worked with remarkable personalities of that time for this thing.
his presence among Aromanian can be noticed since 1860, when
the Aromanian Committee was founded, in Bucharest and it was the
first Aromanian’s organizational structure in romania and upon which
romanian country began the programme of the national and cultural
movement in Balkan peninsula by founding schools and churches for
Aromanian people. 1 In this context the term Macedo-romanian is officially
introduced for the first time to name the Vlachs from Balkan peninsula.
In this context the term Macedo-romanian is officially introduced for
the first time to name the Vlachs from Balkan peninsula.
We can say that V.A. urechia was the right man in the right place
because he knew to take this opportunity being director and minister of
Cults and public education and having different jobs beginning with 1860
during M. Kogălniceanu’s government till 1881 during the governments of
Titu Maiorescu and i.c. Brătianu. he put into practice his greatest projects
to found and support the romanian education in the Aromanian counties
from european turkey. he also tried to attract material resources to found
the first schools and churches, for teachers’s buildings, for printing books
in dialect and romanian and also for young Macedonian to ensure them
conditions to study in romania.
the committee’s heads of initiative wanted to achieve the ideal in
Macedo-romanian problem and they realized that they have to establish
special schools, even in romania, for training young Aromanian people,
which were destined to teach in Balcanian’s schools. So a Macedoromanian’s
school has been opened in houses attached to holy Apostles
Church, from Bucharest, who regularly worked between 1865 and 1871.
1 It was initially formed by representatives of the Aromanians established in
romania, Dimitrie Cazacovici was the president (originated from Amniciu, epir) and in
1863 there are the romanian intellectuals d. Bolintineanu, d. Brătianu, c. A. rosetti,
cezar Bolliac, M. Kogălniceanu, ion Ghica, and V. A. urechia. The proclamation to the
Aromanians from Albania, epir, tesalia and Macedonia appeared in the publication of
Cezar Bolliac, “Buciumul”, nr. 3, 1863, p. 10, published in romanian and Greek. See
also BrezeAnu, Stelian and zBuGheA, Gheorghe (eds.), Românii de la sud de
Dunăre: Documente (Bucureşti: Arhivele Naţionale ale româniei, 1997): 155; BErciudrăGhicEscu,
Adina, Românii din Balcani. Cultura şi spiritualitate (Bucureşti:
Globus, 1996) 40.