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Emigrarea aromânilor in perioada interbelică
Emigration of aromanians in the interwar period

Author(s): Natalia Vasilica Sabou
Subject(s): Governance, Social history, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: Aromanians; migration; colonization; Greek; Romania;

Summary/Abstract: During the interwar period, a massive immigration of the Aromanians was organized. This massive emigration of Aromanians to Romania has several causes. A first cause is the nationalist pressures of the stall to which they belonged: Greece, Serbia, Albania, Bulgaria. The leaders of the Aromanians are the ones who suffer the most in the process, they are educated in Romanian schools. Which means that the schools established by these are Romanian, which did not help to integrate the Aromanians into the states in which they lived. There is a tendency to accuse Balkan states, for not acknowledging the diplomacy of Romanian schools, but were they not right? If we think about it, only the alphabet that the Balkan states use, we could say that Romanian education in that context was ineffective. And the Aromanians couldn't make the most of their studies. A second cause would be the exchange of Turkish and Greek tooth population. The fact that the Greeks were colonized in the regionsinhabited by the Aromanians forced them to restrict their main activity, namely shepherding. The establishment of new territories and the redistribution of lands limited the possibility of the transhumance of the Aromanians from Macedonia. The availability of Aromanian emigration was to the benefit of Romania, because it wanted to fortify its southern border of Dobroga. An emigration committee was formed in Greece to negotiate with the Bucharest government the conditions for the colonization of the Aromanians. They hoped for a better life in Romania, based on the promises of the Romanian state.

  • Issue Year: LIX/2020
  • Issue No: LIX, 2
  • Page Range: 217-223
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian