Vlachs
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Vlach, also Wallachian and many other variants, is a term and exonym used from the Middle Ages until the Modern Era to designate speakers of Eastern Romance languages living in Southeast Europe—south
Théodore Valerio, 1852: Pâtre valaque de Zabalcz ("Wallachian Shepherd from Zăbalț")
Transhumance ways of the Vlach shepherds in the 18th and 19th centuries. Vlachs engaged in both transhumant pastoralism and sedentary agriculture.
Théodore Valerio, Paysans valaques des environs de Lugos. Vlach/Romanian peasants from around Lugoj, 1851.
Vlach shepherd of Banat (Auguste Raffet, c. 1837)
Aromanians
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The Aromanians are an ethnic group native to the southern Balkans who speak Aromanian, an Eastern Romance language. They traditionally live in central and southern Albania, south-western Bulgaria, nor
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…who live south of the Danube, in Albania, Bulgaria, northern Greece, North Macedonia and eastern Serbia. These people include the ethnic groups of the Aromanians, the Megleno-Romanians and, in Serbia, the Timok Vlachs. The term also became a synonym in the Balkans for the social category of shepherds, and was…
Moscopole, once the cultural and commercial centre of the Aromanians, in 1742
St. Sotir Church in Korçë
Metsovone, Aromanian cheese from Metsovo