СЛИЧНОСТИ У СВАДБЕНОМ ОБИЧАЈУ КАРАШЕВАКА И РУМУНСКИХ АЛМАЖАНА — ДОКАЗ О КАРАШЕВСКО-АЛМАШКОМ СУЖИВОТУ У ПРОШЛОСТИ
SIMILARITIES IN THE KARASHOVEAN AND ROMANIAN ALMAJAN WEDDING CUSTOMS – EVIDENCE OF KARASHOVEAN-ALMAJAN COEXISTENCE IN THE PAST

Summary/Abstract: Two studies represent the starting point for the wedding customs analysis at the Romanians from Almaj valley – the first belongs to the author of this paper and it’s about the Karashoveans wedding customs (doctoral dissertation about the Karashoveans life cycle customs which is to be published soon) and the other belongs to a famous Romanian slavist Emil Petrovici, Folklore from the Almaj valley (Bucharest, 1935), which describes in detail the wedding customs from Almaj. I have personally collected part of the material from a settlement in the Almaj valley – Dalboset. The paper compares and analyzes in detail the two wedding customs mentioned above, even wedding terminology, and points out particularly the similarities between them. Starting with the history and ethnic structure of the Almaj valley population in the past and noting important similarities between Serbian Karashovean and Romanian Almaj wedding customs, the author concludes that these similarities are the result of the Karashovean coexistence with the Almaj Romanians from today during the Middle Ages, the ultimate result was that of Karashoveans were assimilated by the Romanian population in the Almaj Valley.

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