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"In modern Greece, Macedonia, and Bulgaria there are nomadic peoples speaking a Latin language similar to Romanian, but separate to the Romanian of the northern Vlachs. These southern Balkan Vlachs call themselves Aromani (meaning Romans). Serbs and Albanians use the term Tsintsars from the sound of the Armani speech. The term Wallach, from the Germanic for stranger, occurs in many languages. This gives us Slavic term Vlach and the Greek Kutsovlakhi or just Vlakhi. But to add to the confusion the term Vlach can be used for any non Slav and Vlakhi can mean any shepherd. Without any substantiated evidence we could describe the Vlachs as slight build; white skin or Latin complexion as compared with Greeks or Slavs. Hair is usually dark brown, but sometimes fair, especially in youth.
Unlike other nations with shepherds the whole of the Vlach people are nomadic and have long been shepherds and muleteers. The Vlachs are not the only surviving nomadic people, the Sarakasani are Greek speaking peoples living in northern Greece and southern Bulgaria. The Sarakasani are either a native tribe that adopted the Greek language, in the same way the Vlachs adopted Latin, or they are one of the earliest Greek speaking tribes that entered the Balkans in the early Bronze age."

Semmi köze a románokhoz. A Bizánciak önmagukat is rhómaiosz-nak, rómainak nevezték. Ezt vették át a törökök (Rumélia), amit a térkép készitője átvett - rosszul (Rumalia) - majd visszalatinositott - Romania.

Az aromunok létező kisebbség (nagyon kevés), a románok hallani sem akarnak róluk, mert élő bizonyitékai annak, hogy a románok nem a dákok leszármazottai, hanem a balkáni hegyekbe menekült egykori őslakók albánokkal keveredett utódai.....

Hivatalos nevük: aromun