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(2008) Vol
1
Issue
1
Article 6
The Balkan Romanity in the Writings of Romanian Chroniclers and Representatives of the Enlightenment
Authors:
Stoica
Lascu
Pages:
53
-
63
Abstract:
The representatives of the Balkan Romanity alluded to in the title, the Aromanians – Ar(u)mân, Rum(â)ăn, Rămăn, as they call themselves, or Vlasis, Rëmëri, Çobani, Kutzovlachs, Tzintzars, as the peoples from the Balkan Peninsula, among whom they live, designate them, and the Megleno-Romanians (Vlasi, as they call themselves, Vlasi and Megliti respectively, as the neighboring peoples call them), constitute the southern offshoot of the Eastern Romanity, which used to extend from the northern boundary of Trajan’s Dacia (until the arrival of migratory peoples), to the mountains of North Greece, and from the Black Sea to the Adriatic. Its unity, the result of the Thracians’ Romanization, starting from the 2nd century BC, was broken by the Slavs’ settlement south of the Danube in the 7th century. As a result, north of the Balkans, there emerged the Romanian people, with a northern component (the Daco-Romanians), and a southern one (the Aromanians and the Megleno-Romanians), who were gradually pushed deeper south into the Balkan Peninsula, where they may have met, south of the Jireček line, some Romanized islands (the Istro-Romanians/Istrian Vlachs) are also descendents of Daco-Romanians. The Dacoromanians’ idiom continuously developed and enriched, and became the basis for literary Romanian in the 19th century, whereas, the Aromanian idiom, inheritor of the Eastern Romanity remained a dialect only. Starting with the 17th century, chroniclers and Romanian humanists in Wallachia and Moldavia began to include among the roots of the Romanians the peoples in the Balkan Peninsula. Later, Romanian representatives of the Enlightenment in Transylvania, the so-called Transylvanian School, integrated the history of Balkan Romanity into the Romanian one aware as they were of the ethno-linguistic community between the Dacoromanians and the Aromanians, and of the Eastern Romanity as a whole. At the same time, Aromanian intellectuals wrote scientific works that benefited the influence of Transylvanian Enlightenment.
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