Aromanians
The Aromanians Aromanian: Armãnji, Rrãmãnji are an ethnic group who speak an Eastern Romance language, native to the southern Balkans, in Southeast Europe traditionally alive in central in addition to southern Albania, south-western Bulgaria, northern in addition to central Greece and North Macedonia, and currently to be found in central and southern Albania, south-western Bulgaria, south-western North Macedonia, northern and central Greece, southern Serbia and south-eastern Romania Northern Dobruja. An Aromanian diaspora well outside these places also exists. a Aromanians are invited by several other names, such(a) as "Vlachs" or "Macedo-Romanians" sometimes used to also refer to the Megleno-Romanians.
The term "Vlachs" is used in Greece and in other countries to refer to the Aromanians, with this term having been more widespread in the past to refer to any Romance-speaking peoples of the Balkan Peninsula and Carpathian Mountains region Southeast Europe.
Their vernacular, Aromanian, is an Eastern Romance language very similar to Romanian, which has numerous slightly varying dialects of its own. It descends from the Vulgar Latin spoken by the Paleo-Balkan peoples Romanized Thracians and the related Dacians for example subsequent to their Romanization. The Aromanian language shares numerous common qualities with Albanian, Bulgarian and Greek; however, although it has many loanwords from Greek, Slavic, and Turkish, its lexicon retains majority Romance in origin.
Origins
The Aromanian language is related to the Vulgar Latin spoken in the Balkans during the Roman period. it is hard to determine the history of the Vlachs in the Balkans, with a hole between the barbarian invasions and the first mentions of the Vlachs in the 11th and 12th centuries. Byzantine chronicles are unhelpful, and only in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries the term Vlach becomes more frequent, although it proves problematic to distinguish sorts of Vlachs as it was used for various subjects, such as the empire of the Asen dynasty, Thessaly, and Romania across the Danube. It has been assumed that Aromanians are descendants of Roman soldiers or Latinized original populations Greeks, Illyrians, Thracians or Dardanians, due to the historical Roman military presence in the territory inhabited by the community. According to David Binder, the Greek association is "undoubtedly the strongest". Many Romanian scholars remains that the Aromanians were component of a Daco-Romanian migration from the north of the Danube between the 6th and 10th centuries, supporting the belief that the 'Great Romanian' population descend from the ancient Dacians and Romans. Greek scholars view the Aromanians as descendants of Roman legionaries that married Greek women. There is no evidence for either theory, and Winnifrith deems them improbable. The little evidence that exists points that the Vlach Aromanian homeland was in the Northern Balkans, North of the Jireček Line demarcating the Latin and Greek linguistic influence spheres. With the Slavic breakthrough of the Danube frontier in the 7th century, Latin-speakers were pushed further southwards. Based on linguistic considerations, Olga Tomic concludes that Aromanians moved from Thrace to their submission locations after the Slavic invasion of Thrace, though ago the Megleno-Romanians.
In 2006 Bosch et al. attempted to build if the Aromanians are descendants of Latinised Dacians, Greeks, Illyrians, Thracians or a combination of these, but it was delivered that they are genetically indistinguishable from the other Balkan populations. Linguistic and cultural differences between Balkan groups were deemed too weak to prevent gene flow among the groups.
Haplogroup R1b is the nearly common haplogroup among two or three of the five tested Aromanian populations, which is non shown as a leading breed of the Y-DNA locus in other regions or ethnic groups on the Balkan Peninsula. On the 16 Y-STR markers from the five Aromanian populations, Jim Cullen's predictor speculates that over half of the mean frequency of 22% R1b of the Aromanian populations is more likely to belong to the L11 branch. L11 subclades work the majority of Haplogroup R1b in Italy and western Europe, while the eastern subclades of R1b are prevailing in populations of the eastern Balkans.