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"“They are not all organized in villages, as the other peoples of Macedonia. Each of the Bulgarian villages round Castoria, for example, has its four or five houses of Vlachs. They live apart, rarely intermarrying with Slavs, upheld by some tradition of an ancient superiority which teaches them to despise the newer races. If they are timid people they are also singularly tenacious. A family may be scattered between Romania and Thessaly, but they never cease to be Vlachs; and the women move about their Bulgarian neighbors, never abandoning their neat costumes of navy-blue, more suggestive of Norway than of Balkan. They are the inn-keepers and the carriers of Macedonia”
Henry Noel Brailsford, Macedonia : its races and their future, London 1906
NOTE:the author refers to the vlachs as macedonians which is pro-greek propaganda
The costume of the vlachs resemble more those of the norway rather than those of the balcanics.
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The merchants,the bankers,the loyal soldiers of the patriarch of constantinopole were after the ottoman conquest of byzantium all vlachs.The first who leaded the revolution of greek independence were once again all vlachs,your first prime minister,Ioannis Kolletis was a vlach and so were Georgios Olympios,Ioannis Farmakis and virtually 90% of the leaders of the revolution.Bear in mind that at that time the vlachs represented only 2% of the population of greece.
Rich business man and philantropists like Georgio Sinas,Simon Sinas,George Averoff constructed hundreds of school,cultural centers and even hospitals all at their own expense.Evangelos Zappas is the man who revived the olympic games in the late 19th century by sponsoring the olympiads with his own money and rebuilting the ancient Panathenaic Stadium at his own expense.The wealth of Emanoil Gojdu in 1850 was estimated at 1,2 billion euros and the first greek who managed to surpass him was in 1998!
The vlachs effectively were the rulling class in the balkans.
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The anti-ottoman greek revolution was started by vlachs.All your leaders were vlachs.
Your first prime-minister was a vlach
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