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List of Vlachs
This is not a complete list (as complete as it gets) of world famous or important Vlachs (people having Aromanian descendency)
Actors
Clergy
- Andrei Şaguna , Romanian patriot, bishop, baron of Şaguna, then Metropolitan - Romanian Orthodox Church of Transylvania;
- Ioachim Mărtineanu , Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan, described martyrized Moscopole;
Commerce and business
- Darvari family , famous philantropists and Austrian Imperial bankers;
- Dumba family , famous philantropists and Austrian Imperial bankers;
- Hagi Meitani , Austrian Imperial baron, Wallachian stateman;
- Mocioni family , famous philantropists and Austrian Imperial bankers;
- Marcu Puiu , Austrian philantropist and nobleman in the 18th century;
- Simon Sina (1782-1856), Austrian financial magnate;
- Sina family , famous philantropists and Imperial bankers, also members of the Hungarian nobility;
- Hagi Moscu , Austrian Imperial baron, Wallachian stateman;
Music
- Apostolos Kaldaras , Greek composer;
Politicians
- Evangelos Averoff , former Greek minister and former leader of the New Democracy party;
- Bellu family , emigrating from martyrized Moscopole, offered several Wallachian statemen and one Romanian Prime Minister (conservative);
- George Becali, Romanian politician
- Ioan Gheorghe Caragea , Wallachian Voivode (1812-1818);
- Nicolae Caragea , Wallachian Voivode (1782-1783);
- Ghica family, Wallachian and Moldavian voivodes and Romanian Prime Ministers;
- Octavian Goga, famous Romanian author, poet and former Prime Minister of Romania;
- Ştefan Octavian Iosif , famous Romanian author;
- Georgios Karaiskakis , Greek revolutionary;
- Ioan Coletti General, obtained Greek Independence from the Ottoman Empire - as Ioannis Kolettis , Greek Prime Minister;
- Neofit Doukas , infamous as Greek politician, for he became an enemy of the Aromanian language;
- Lazar Paču , economist and politician in Kingdoms of Serbia and Yugoslavia;
- George Padioti , famous Vlach minority rights activist in Greece;
- Rigas Velestinlis-Fereos, Greek poet and revolutionaire, depicted on the Greek 10 eurocents coin;
- Aleksandar Cincar-Markovic , Serbian minister of foreign affairs 1939-1941;
- Kosta Kumanudi , Serbian minister of finances 1921-1922;
Science
- Ion Juvara , famous Romanian surgeon, professor and head of University Department;
- Dinischiotu family , several famous Romanian physicians and professors;
- Tārpa family , several famous Romanian physicians;
- Jovan Karamata , Serbian mathematician (1902-1967)
Sports
Writers
- Cavaliotti family , several famous intellectuals in the 18th century;
- Daniil family , several famous intellectuals in the 18th century;
- Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian playwright (born in an Aromanian family originally from Macedonia);
- Mateiu Caragiale, Romanian author, son of Ion Luca Caragiale;
- Matyla Ghyka , famous Romanian prince, polymath, architect, mathematician and author;
- Mitrush Kuteli , Albanian poet
- Iosipos Moisiodax , Greek author
- Branislav Nušić, Serbian novelist and playwright
- Pericle Papahagi , outstanding Romanian intellectual;
- Lasgush Poradeci , Albanian poet
- Gheorghe Constantin Roja , several famous intellectuals in the 18th century;
- Constantin Ucuţa , Moscopolitan Orthodox father, Viennese and Prussian intellectual;
- Ucuţa family , several famous intellectuals in the 18th century;
Poets
- Constantin Belimace , poet, author Dimāndarea părintească ;
- Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet (his mother was of Aromanian origin);
- Constantin Papanace , poet, author, Mica Antologie Aromānească ;
- George Murnu , poet, translator of Iliad and Odyssey;
- Gellu Naum , Romanian surrealist poet
- Pashko Vasa , Albanian poet;
Philologists
- Mihail G. Boiagi , philologist, grammarian, author, first Aromanian grammar and cultural hero;
- Tache Papahagi , linguist, and outstanding Romanian intellectual;
- Daniel Moscopolites , Greek philologist, author of famous lexicon;
Historians
Others
- Manaki Brothers (Yanaki and Milton) film and photography pioneers in the Balkans, from present day F.Y.R.O.M. Macedonia
Note that "Vlachs" is a generic ethnicon term, an ethnonyme with a long, vast, and indeed an extremely old history. Aromanians or armāni as they call themselves, are all "Vlachs", but exactly who are these ? In late Antiquity, the word "Vlach" was derived form Early Visigothsic wala (s) ch . At the dawn of the Roman Empire, in times when the whole of Europe was dominated by Early Germanic migrant (Gothic) peoples, it was applied to the whole of Romania, meaning "Imperial Latinity after the fall of the Western Roman Empire". "Vlachs" in "Blachi", and even "Blackis" variants were attested everywhere in Europe, from Eastern Romance or Byzantine Vlachs to Western Romans in Gallia, before the arrival of Frankish invaders (hence the far better known determinatives Welsch, and Welsh). The semantic situation of "Vlachs" evolved in mediaeval times, coming to connote all "Romanians". Romanians, including Daco-romanian or latinized Macedonian's some says (Transylvanians, Wallachians and Moldavians or Bessarabians), Aromanians, Megleno-romanians, Istro-romanians, and all Macedoromanians at large are nowadays identifed with modern Romania. This happens mainly because over 27 million of Romanians (and 90 % of Romanian citizens) speak Daco-romanian, aka the Romanian language of which Aromanian became in time, its south-of-Danube version. Real statistics for Aromanians in Greece, Albania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Hertzegovina, Republic of Macedonia, and Slovenia are hard to obtain because such countries do not recognize the ethnical, language and educational rights of Aromanian minorities. In the middle ages, "Rumān" was synonymous with "Orthodox Christian". Also "Vlach" was always the larger notion. In conclusion Vlachs now include Romanians-Dacians-latinized Macedonians , www.dacia.org ,
For list of Daco-Romanians see: List of Romanians
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