Colonizarea aromânilor în Cadrilater
The Colonization of the Macedo-Romanians in Cadrilater

Summary/Abstract: After WWI, in Southern Dobrudja, which had just become a Romanian territory, the government started an ambitious project aiming at the Romanisation of those territories, inhabited mostly by a Turkish-Tattarian population, followed, in number, by the Bulgarian ethnics. This project was not singular in this part of Europe, each of the Balkanic states carrying on similar actions in their new territories, acquired after the abolition of the Ottoman power in Europe. In the colonization project, there were involved both Romanians from other parts of the country and Macedo-Romanians from the Balkans, which were facing severe economic and social hardships. The vision of the authorities from Bucharest was to create a protection belt at the Bulgarian border, both for preventing the attacks of the Bulgarian insurgent gangs and for turning the Romanian minority from the area into a majority. Tens of thousands of colonists would come, but facing many problems in adaptation. Presented during those days either as a success, either as a failure, the colonisation of the Macedo-Romanians didn’t accomplish its objective, unlike the case of other Balkanic countries, which were more successful in their similar attempts.

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