Romanians of Serbia
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Romanians
( or "Rumânii din Sârbie", or Румуни) are a recognised national minority in Serbia
. The total number of declared Romanians in the 2002 Serbian census was 34,576, while 40,054 people declared themselves Vlachs; there are differing views among some of the Vlachs over they should be regarded as Romanians or as members of a distinctive nationality. In a Romania
n-Yugoslav agreement of November 4, 2002, the Yugoslav authorities agreed to recognize the Romanian identity of the Vlach population in Central Serbia, but the agreement was not implemented. In April 2005, many deputies from the Council of Europe
protested against Serbia's threatment of this population. In August 2007, they were officially recognized as a national minority, and their language was recognized as Romanian. Declared Romanians are mostly concentrated in the autonomous province of Vojvodina
, while declared Vlachs are mostly concentrated in north-eastern parts of Central Serbia
.
, while Vlachs of Central Serbia are mostly concentrated in north-eastern parts of Central Serbia. The largest concentration of Romanians in Vojvodina could be found in the municipalities of Alibunar
(26.47%) and Vršac
(10.87%). The Vlach population is concentrated mostly in the region limited by Morava River (west), Danube River (north) and Timok River
(south-east).
, the Treaty of Versailles
, which defined the borders between Romania
and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, left a Romanian minority of 75,223 people (1910 census in Vojvodina) inside the borders of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. In the 1921 census in Vojvodina
, Romanian-speakers numbered 65,197 people.
According to the 1991 census, there were 42,331 Romanians
in Yugoslavia
, of whom 38,832 lived in Vojvodina
(1.93% of the entire population of Vojvodina
).
(also called the Empire of Vlachs and Bulgars) of the Asens, suggesting their continuity in the area. In addition a Vlach population in the regions around Braničevo (near the ancient Roman city of Viminacium) is attested by 15th century Ottoman defters (tax records). The modern Vlachs occupy the same area where in antiquity the Romans had a strong presence for many centuries: Viminacium and Felix Romuliana.
However, some of the Vlachs of north-eastern parts of Central Serbia
were settled there from regions north of the Danube by the Habsburgs at the beginning of the 18th century. The origins of these Vlachs are indicated by their own self-designations: "Ungureani (Ungureni)" (serb.
Ungurjani), i.e. those who came from Hungary (that is, Banat and Transylvania
) and "Ţărani" (serb. Carani), who are either an autochthonic population of the region (their name means "people of the country" or "countrymen"), either they came from Wallachia
( - "Romanian State").
The area roughly defined by the Morava, the Danube and the Timok rivers where most of the Vlachs live became part of modern Serbia. Until 1833 the eastern Serbian boder was the Homolje
-Mountains (the slopes of the Serbian Carpathians) and the state had no common border with Walachia. Prior to that, the land was part of the Ottoman Empire
(Pashaluk of Vidin and Pashaluk of Smederevo
) and Habsburg Empire (Governorate of Serbia
).
The second wave of Vlachs from present-day Romania came in the middle of the 19th century. In 1835 feudalism was fully abolished in the Principality of Serbia and smaller groups from Wallachia came there to enjoy the status of free peasants. (1856: 104,343 Romanians lived in Serbia, 1859: 122,593 Romanians)
According to the Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine from 1919, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes annexed from Bulgaria also a small section along the Timok River
in the municipality and District of Zaječar
, composed by 8 localities (7 populated by Romanians and 1 populated by Bulgarians
).
As Romance-speakers the Vlachs can relate to the Roman ruins (forts, roads, palaces, graves, baths, aqueducts, mines, half-buried cities, etc. ) that are scattered in NE Serbia, as indeed
they are throughout the entire Balkan Peninsula. Following Roman withdrawal from Dacia in the third century, much of what is now Serbia and Bulgaria was renamed Dacia Aureliana, and an undetermined number of Romanized Dacians was settled there. Strong Roman presence in the region persisted through the end of Justinian's reign in the 6th century.
The Vlach region of NE Serbia was part of the 12th-14th century Second Bulgarian Kingdom, who are considered Vlach by some historians. Serbian documents from the 13th and 14th century mention Vlachs. Fourteenth and fifteenth century Romanian (Valachian) rulers built churches in NE Serbia. Fifteenth century Turkish tax records (defters) list Vlachs in the region of Branicevo in NE Serbia, near the ancient Roman municipium of Viminacium. The 16th-17th century warlord Baba Novac (Starina Novak), who served as Michael the Brave's general, was born in NE Serbia. Thus the modern descendants of all these people can be held to originate south of the Danube.
Starting in the early 18th century NE Serbia was settled by Romanians (then known by their international exonym as Vlachs) from Banat, parts of Transylvania, and Oltenia. These are the Ungureni (Ungurjani), Munteni (Munćani) and Bufeni (Bufani). Today their descendants form about three quarters of the Vlach population. In the 19th century other groups of Romanians, originating in Oltenia, also settled south of the Danube. These are the Ţărani (Carani), who form some 25% of the modern population. It should be noted that from the 15th through the 18th centuries large numbers of Serbs also migrated across the Danube, but in the opposite direction. Significant migration ended with the establishment of the kingdoms of Serbia and Rumania, respectively, in the second half of the 19th century.
The lack of records and the linguistic effects of the Ungureni and Ţărani on the entire Vlach population make it difficult to determine what fraction of the present Vlachs can trace their origins directly to the ancient south-of-the-Danube Vlachs. However it is likely that they are in the minority.
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Number of declared Romanians or declared speakers of Romanian language in various censuses in Vojvodina (censuses from 1880 to 1931 recorded speakers of Romanian language, while censuses from 1948 to 2002 recorded Romanians as ethnic group):
es:
By some Romanian and Western European organizations, in eastern Serbia live around 250,000 - 400,000 people of Romanian(vlach) origin.
enjoys the status of official language and Romanians in this province receive a wide range of minority rights, including access to state-funded media and education in their native language. Most of the Romanians and Vlachs of Serbia are Eastern Orthodox by faith, belonging to the Romanian Orthodox Church
(Romanians in Vojvodina) and Serbian Orthodox Church
(Vlachs of Central Serbia). The relative isolation of the Vlachs has permitted the survival of various pre-Christian religious rites that are frowned upon by the Orthodox Church. Like the Serbs
, Vlachs celebrate the 'slava', though its meaning is chtonic (related to the house and farmland) rather than familial.
The language spoken by one major group of Vlachs is similar to the Oltenian variety spoken in Romania
while that of the other major group is similar to the Romanian variety of Banat.
Vlachs also live in other places with majority Serb or mixed Serb/Vlach population, such as the Zaječar
, Negotin
, Bor
, Kladovo
, Majdanpek
, Požarevac
, Smederevo
, Velika Plana
, Jabukovac
, etc.
Of these, the Ungureni of Homolje are related to the Romanians of Banat
and Transylvania
, since Ungureni (compare with the word "Hungarians") is a term used by the Romanians of Wallachia
to describe their kin who once lived in provinces formerly part of the Kingdom of Hungary
. The connection is evident in the similarities of dialectal phonology and folk music motifs as well as in sayings such as "Ducă-se pe Mureş
" (May the Mureş take it away), a reference to the Transylvanian river.
The Ţărani of the Bor
, Negotin
and Zaječar
regions are closer to Oltenia
(Lesser Walachia) in their speech and music. The Ţăran saying "Nu dau un leu pe el" (He's not worth even a leu
) show their Romanian origin since the leu is a Romanian monetary unit. But the "leu" is the currency in Romania only after 1867. So, this speech can possibly show a trade connection between Ţărani and the Romanian population that lives just across the Danube
.
There has been considerable intermixing between the Ungureni and Ţărani so that a dialect has evolved sharing peculiarities of both regions.
The Bufani are immigrants from Lesser Walachia (Oltenia).
There is also a population of vlachophone (Vlach speaking) Roma centered around the village of Lukovo, as well as a few Aromanian
families who live in Knjaževac
, but they form a tiny migrant group.
Romanians
The Romanians are an ethnic group native to Romania, who speak Romanian; they are the majority inhabitants of Romania....
( or "Rumânii din Sârbie", or Румуни) are a recognised national minority in Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
. The total number of declared Romanians in the 2002 Serbian census was 34,576, while 40,054 people declared themselves Vlachs; there are differing views among some of the Vlachs over they should be regarded as Romanians or as members of a distinctive nationality. In a Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
n-Yugoslav agreement of November 4, 2002, the Yugoslav authorities agreed to recognize the Romanian identity of the Vlach population in Central Serbia, but the agreement was not implemented. In April 2005, many deputies from the Council of Europe
Council of Europe
The Council of Europe is an international organisation promoting co-operation between all countries of Europe in the areas of legal standards, human rights, democratic development, the rule of law and cultural co-operation...
protested against Serbia's threatment of this population. In August 2007, they were officially recognized as a national minority, and their language was recognized as Romanian. Declared Romanians are mostly concentrated in the autonomous province of Vojvodina
Vojvodina
Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...
, while declared Vlachs are mostly concentrated in north-eastern parts of Central Serbia
Central Serbia
Central Serbia , also referred to as Serbia proper , was the region of Serbia from 1945 to 2009. It included central parts of Serbia outside of the autonomous provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina. The region of Central Serbia was not an administrative division of Serbia as such; it was under the...
.
Geography
Of the total number of 34,576 declared Romanians in 2002 census, 30,419 live in Vojvodina and 4,157 live in Central Serbia. Of the total number of 40,054 declared Vlachs in 2002 census, 39,953 live in Central Serbia, and 101 in Vojvodina. The Romanians of Vojvodina are mostly concentrated in eastern and central parts of the Serbian BanatBanat
The Banat is a geographical and historical region in Central Europe currently divided between three countries: the eastern part lies in western Romania , the western part in northeastern Serbia , and a small...
, while Vlachs of Central Serbia are mostly concentrated in north-eastern parts of Central Serbia. The largest concentration of Romanians in Vojvodina could be found in the municipalities of Alibunar
Alibunar
Alibunar is a town and municipality in South Banat District of Vojvodina, Serbia. Alibunar town has a population of 3,402, and Alibunar municipality 22,856.-Name:...
(26.47%) and Vršac
Vršac
Vršac is a town and municipality located in Serbia. In 2002 the town's total population was 36,623, while Vršac municipality had 54,369 inhabitants. Vršac is located in the Banat region, in the Vojvodina province of Serbia. It is part of the South Banat District.-Name:The name Vršac is of Serbian...
(10.87%). The Vlach population is concentrated mostly in the region limited by Morava River (west), Danube River (north) and Timok River
Timok River
The Timok is a river in eastern Serbia and for the last 15 km of its run a border between eastern Serbia and western Bulgaria.It derives the names in all these from the name it had in antiquity, Latin: Timacus....
(south-east).
Vojvodina
After World War IWorld War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
, the Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The other Central Powers on the German side of...
, which defined the borders between Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, left a Romanian minority of 75,223 people (1910 census in Vojvodina) inside the borders of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. In the 1921 census in Vojvodina
Vojvodina
Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...
, Romanian-speakers numbered 65,197 people.
According to the 1991 census, there were 42,331 Romanians
Romanians
The Romanians are an ethnic group native to Romania, who speak Romanian; they are the majority inhabitants of Romania....
in Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
, of whom 38,832 lived in Vojvodina
Vojvodina
Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...
(1.93% of the entire population of Vojvodina
Vojvodina
Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...
).
Central Serbia
It is likely that a part of the vlachs can trace their ancient roots to this region. The present geographic location of the Vlachs is near a former location in the medieval Second Bulgarian EmpireSecond Bulgarian Empire
The Second Bulgarian Empire was a medieval Bulgarian state which existed between 1185 and 1396 . A successor of the First Bulgarian Empire, it reached the peak of its power under Kaloyan and Ivan Asen II before gradually being conquered by the Ottomans in the late 14th-early 15th century...
(also called the Empire of Vlachs and Bulgars) of the Asens, suggesting their continuity in the area. In addition a Vlach population in the regions around Braničevo (near the ancient Roman city of Viminacium) is attested by 15th century Ottoman defters (tax records). The modern Vlachs occupy the same area where in antiquity the Romans had a strong presence for many centuries: Viminacium and Felix Romuliana.
However, some of the Vlachs of north-eastern parts of Central Serbia
Central Serbia
Central Serbia , also referred to as Serbia proper , was the region of Serbia from 1945 to 2009. It included central parts of Serbia outside of the autonomous provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina. The region of Central Serbia was not an administrative division of Serbia as such; it was under the...
were settled there from regions north of the Danube by the Habsburgs at the beginning of the 18th century. The origins of these Vlachs are indicated by their own self-designations: "Ungureani (Ungureni)" (serb.
Serbian language
Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....
Ungurjani), i.e. those who came from Hungary (that is, Banat and Transylvania
Transylvania
Transylvania is a historical region in the central part of Romania. Bounded on the east and south by the Carpathian mountain range, historical Transylvania extended in the west to the Apuseni Mountains; however, the term sometimes encompasses not only Transylvania proper, but also the historical...
) and "Ţărani" (serb. Carani), who are either an autochthonic population of the region (their name means "people of the country" or "countrymen"), either they came from Wallachia
Wallachia
Wallachia or Walachia is a historical and geographical region of Romania. It is situated north of the Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians...
( - "Romanian State").
The area roughly defined by the Morava, the Danube and the Timok rivers where most of the Vlachs live became part of modern Serbia. Until 1833 the eastern Serbian boder was the Homolje
Homolje
Homolje is a region in east Serbia south of the Danube river. It is centered around the town of Žagubica, with smaller parts belonging to municipalities of Kučevo, Majdanpek and Petrovac...
-Mountains (the slopes of the Serbian Carpathians) and the state had no common border with Walachia. Prior to that, the land was part of the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...
(Pashaluk of Vidin and Pashaluk of Smederevo
Sanjak of Smederevo
The Sanjak of Smederevo , also known as the Pashaluk of Belgrade , was an Ottoman administrative unit , that existed between the 15th and the outset of the 19th centuries...
) and Habsburg Empire (Governorate of Serbia
Serbia (1718-1739)
Kingdom of Serbia was a province of the Habsburg Monarchy from 1718 to 1739. It was formed from the territories in the south of the rivers Sava and Danube that Habsburg Monarchy conquered from Ottoman Empire in 1718, but it was abolished and returned to Ottoman Empire in 1739.The Habsburg Serbian...
).
The second wave of Vlachs from present-day Romania came in the middle of the 19th century. In 1835 feudalism was fully abolished in the Principality of Serbia and smaller groups from Wallachia came there to enjoy the status of free peasants. (1856: 104,343 Romanians lived in Serbia, 1859: 122,593 Romanians)
According to the Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine from 1919, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes annexed from Bulgaria also a small section along the Timok River
Timok River
The Timok is a river in eastern Serbia and for the last 15 km of its run a border between eastern Serbia and western Bulgaria.It derives the names in all these from the name it had in antiquity, Latin: Timacus....
in the municipality and District of Zaječar
Zajecar District
Zaječar District is a district of Serbia. It expands in the eastern part of Serbia. It has a population of 118,295 . The Seat of the District is in the city of Zaječar.-Municipalities:It encompasses the municipalities of:*Boljevac...
, composed by 8 localities (7 populated by Romanians and 1 populated by Bulgarians
Bulgarians
The Bulgarians are a South Slavic nation and ethnic group native to Bulgaria and neighbouring regions. Emigration has resulted in immigrant communities in a number of other countries.-History and ethnogenesis:...
).
Origins of Vlachs/Romanians of Northeast Serbia
The origins of the Vlachs/Romanians of northeast Serbia are not well known to most Vlachs, principally because nothing is taught about the subject in Serbian schools.As Romance-speakers the Vlachs can relate to the Roman ruins (forts, roads, palaces, graves, baths, aqueducts, mines, half-buried cities, etc. ) that are scattered in NE Serbia, as indeed
they are throughout the entire Balkan Peninsula. Following Roman withdrawal from Dacia in the third century, much of what is now Serbia and Bulgaria was renamed Dacia Aureliana, and an undetermined number of Romanized Dacians was settled there. Strong Roman presence in the region persisted through the end of Justinian's reign in the 6th century.
The Vlach region of NE Serbia was part of the 12th-14th century Second Bulgarian Kingdom, who are considered Vlach by some historians. Serbian documents from the 13th and 14th century mention Vlachs. Fourteenth and fifteenth century Romanian (Valachian) rulers built churches in NE Serbia. Fifteenth century Turkish tax records (defters) list Vlachs in the region of Branicevo in NE Serbia, near the ancient Roman municipium of Viminacium. The 16th-17th century warlord Baba Novac (Starina Novak), who served as Michael the Brave's general, was born in NE Serbia. Thus the modern descendants of all these people can be held to originate south of the Danube.
Starting in the early 18th century NE Serbia was settled by Romanians (then known by their international exonym as Vlachs) from Banat, parts of Transylvania, and Oltenia. These are the Ungureni (Ungurjani), Munteni (Munćani) and Bufeni (Bufani). Today their descendants form about three quarters of the Vlach population. In the 19th century other groups of Romanians, originating in Oltenia, also settled south of the Danube. These are the Ţărani (Carani), who form some 25% of the modern population. It should be noted that from the 15th through the 18th centuries large numbers of Serbs also migrated across the Danube, but in the opposite direction. Significant migration ended with the establishment of the kingdoms of Serbia and Rumania, respectively, in the second half of the 19th century.
The lack of records and the linguistic effects of the Ungureni and Ţărani on the entire Vlach population make it difficult to determine what fraction of the present Vlachs can trace their origins directly to the ancient south-of-the-Danube Vlachs. However it is likely that they are in the minority.
Historical population
Vojvodina
- 1880: 69,668
- 1890: 73,492
- 1900: 74,718
- 1910: 75,223
- 1921: 65,197
- 1931: 78,000
- 1948: 59,263
- 1953: 57,218
- 1961: 57,259
- 1971: 52,987
- 1981: 47,289
- 1991: 38,832
- 2002: 30,419
Central Serbia
The following numbers reflect on the possible number of Vlachs in the censusCensus
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...
es:
- 1816: 97,215 Romanians (10% of Serbia's population.)
- 1856: 104,343 Romanians
- 1859: 122,593 Romanians
- 1866: 127,545 Romanians (10,5 % of Serbia's population)
- 1884: 149,713 Romanians
- 1890: 143,684 Romanians
- 1895: 159,000 Romanians (6,4 % of Serbia's population)
- 1921: 159,549 Romanian-speakers in Serbia (Vojvodina is not included)
- 1931: 57,000 Romanian/CincarAromanian languageAromanian , also known as Macedo-Romanian, Arumanian or Vlach is an Eastern Romance language spoken in Southeastern Europe...
speakers were recorded in Eastern Serbia (52,635 in the Morava BanovinaMorava BanovinaThe Morava Banovina or Morava Banate was a province of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia between 1929 and 1941. This province consisted of parts of present-day Central Serbia and it was named for the Morava Rivers...
and the rest in southern parts of Danube BanovinaDanube BanovinaThe Danube Banovina or Danube Banate was a province of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia between 1929 and 1941. This province consisted of the geographical regions of Syrmia, Bačka, Banat, Baranja, Šumadija, and Braničevo. The capital city of the Danube Banovina was Novi Sad...
south of the DanubeDanubeThe Danube is a river in the Central Europe and the Europe's second longest river after the Volga. It is classified as an international waterway....
) - 1953: 198,793 Vlach-speakers in central Serbia (169,670 declared as Serbs, 29,000 as Vlachs)
- 1961: 1,330 Vlachs
- 1981: 135,000 people declared VlachEastern Romance languagesThe Eastern Romance languages in their narrow conception, sometimes known as the Vlach languages, are a group of Romance languages that developed in Southeastern Europe from the local eastern variant of Vulgar Latin. Some classifications include the Italo-Dalmatian languages; when Italian is...
as their mother language (population figure given for the Socialist Federal Republic of YugoslaviaSocialist Federal Republic of YugoslaviaThe Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the Yugoslav state that existed from the abolition of the Yugoslav monarchy until it was dissolved in 1992 amid the Yugoslav Wars. It was a socialist state and a federation made up of six socialist republics: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,...
) - 1991: 71,536 Vlach-speakers in Serbia (of those 53,721 Serbs, 16,539 Vlachs, 42 Romanians; out of the 17,807 declared Vlachs, 677 Serbo-Croat-speakers)
- 2002: 40,054 declared Vlachs, 54,818 people declared Vlach as their mother language (population figures given for entire SerbiaSerbiaSerbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
) or 39,953 declared Vlachs, 54,726 people declared Vlach as their mother language (population figures given for Central SerbiaCentral SerbiaCentral Serbia , also referred to as Serbia proper , was the region of Serbia from 1945 to 2009. It included central parts of Serbia outside of the autonomous provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina. The region of Central Serbia was not an administrative division of Serbia as such; it was under the...
only)
By some Romanian and Western European organizations, in eastern Serbia live around 250,000 - 400,000 people of Romanian(vlach) origin.
Language and religion
In Vojvodina, RomanianRomanian language
Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...
enjoys the status of official language and Romanians in this province receive a wide range of minority rights, including access to state-funded media and education in their native language. Most of the Romanians and Vlachs of Serbia are Eastern Orthodox by faith, belonging to the Romanian Orthodox Church
Romanian Orthodox Church
The Romanian Orthodox Church is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church. It is in full communion with other Eastern Orthodox churches, and is ranked seventh in order of precedence. The Primate of the church has the title of Patriarch...
(Romanians in Vojvodina) and Serbian Orthodox Church
Serbian Orthodox Church
The Serbian Orthodox Church is one of the autocephalous Orthodox Christian churches, ranking sixth in order of seniority after Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, and Russia...
(Vlachs of Central Serbia). The relative isolation of the Vlachs has permitted the survival of various pre-Christian religious rites that are frowned upon by the Orthodox Church. Like the Serbs
Serbs
The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...
, Vlachs celebrate the 'slava', though its meaning is chtonic (related to the house and farmland) rather than familial.
The language spoken by one major group of Vlachs is similar to the Oltenian variety spoken in Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
while that of the other major group is similar to the Romanian variety of Banat.
Vojvodina
Settlements in the Serbian Banat with a Romanian majority or plurality are (2002 census data):- UzdinUzdinUzdin is a village located in the Kovačica municipality, in the South Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the autonomous province of Vojvodina. The village has a Romanian ethnic majority and its population is 2,467 . At the turn of the 20th century, its population was about 7,000...
(KovačicaKovacicaKovačica is a town and municipality located in the South Banat District of Vojvodina, Serbia. According to 2002 census, the town has a population of 6,764, while Kovačica municipality has 27,890 inhabitants...
municipality), - Jankov MostJankov MostJankov Most is a village in Serbia. It is located in the Zrenjanin municipality, in the Central Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Romanian ethnic majority and its population numbering 636 people .-History:First time mentioned in 1221. under name Iancahid Jankov Most...
(ZrenjaninZrenjaninZrenjanin is a city and municipality located in the eastern part of Serbian province of Vojvodina. It is the administrative centre of the Central Banat District of Serbia...
municipality), - Torak (ŽitišteŽitišteŽitište is a town and municipality in Central Banat District of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a population of 3,236, while Žitište municipality has 20,144 inhabitants.-Name:...
municipality), - LokveLokveLokve is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Alibunar municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province...
(AlibunarAlibunarAlibunar is a town and municipality in South Banat District of Vojvodina, Serbia. Alibunar town has a population of 3,402, and Alibunar municipality 22,856.-Name:...
municipality), - NikolinciNikolinciNikolinci is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Alibunar municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Romanian ethnic majority and its population is 1,240 ....
(AlibunarAlibunarAlibunar is a town and municipality in South Banat District of Vojvodina, Serbia. Alibunar town has a population of 3,402, and Alibunar municipality 22,856.-Name:...
municipality), - SeleušSeleušSeleuš or Seleuş is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Alibunar municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province...
(AlibunarAlibunarAlibunar is a town and municipality in South Banat District of Vojvodina, Serbia. Alibunar town has a population of 3,402, and Alibunar municipality 22,856.-Name:...
municipality), - GrebenacGrebenacGrebenac is a village in Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated in the Bela Crkva municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Romanian ethnic majority and its population is 1,017 .-External links:*...
(Bela CrkvaBela Crkva (Vojvodina)Bela Crkva is a town and municipality in the South Banat District of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a population of 10,638, while the Bela Crkva municipality has 20,275 inhabitants....
municipality), - BariceBariceBarice is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Plandište municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Romanian ethnic majority and its population numbering 598 people .-See also:...
(PlandištePlandištePlandište is a village and municipality in South Banat District of Vojvodina, Serbia. The village has a population of 4,248, while Plandište municipality has 13,355 inhabitants...
municipality), - StražaStražaStraža may refer to:* Straža, Bosnia and Herzegovina* Straža, a village in Lipkovo municipality, Republic of Macedonia* Straža, a village near Vršac, Vojvodina, Serbia* Straža, a hamlet in Kosovo, Serbia...
(VršacVršacVršac is a town and municipality located in Serbia. In 2002 the town's total population was 36,623, while Vršac municipality had 54,369 inhabitants. Vršac is located in the Banat region, in the Vojvodina province of Serbia. It is part of the South Banat District.-Name:The name Vršac is of Serbian...
municipality), - OrešacOrešacOrešac or Oreşaţ is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Vršac municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village is ethnically mixed and its population numbering 356 people .-Ethnic groups :...
(VršacVršacVršac is a town and municipality located in Serbia. In 2002 the town's total population was 36,623, while Vršac municipality had 54,369 inhabitants. Vršac is located in the Banat region, in the Vojvodina province of Serbia. It is part of the South Banat District.-Name:The name Vršac is of Serbian...
municipality), - VojvodinciVojvodinciVojvodinci , , ) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Vršac municipality, South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Romanian ethnic majority and its population numbering 328 people .-See also:...
(VršacVršacVršac is a town and municipality located in Serbia. In 2002 the town's total population was 36,623, while Vršac municipality had 54,369 inhabitants. Vršac is located in the Banat region, in the Vojvodina province of Serbia. It is part of the South Banat District.-Name:The name Vršac is of Serbian...
municipality), - KuštiljKuštiljKuštilj is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Vršac municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Romanian ethnic majority and its population numbering 664 people ....
(VršacVršacVršac is a town and municipality located in Serbia. In 2002 the town's total population was 36,623, while Vršac municipality had 54,369 inhabitants. Vršac is located in the Banat region, in the Vojvodina province of Serbia. It is part of the South Banat District.-Name:The name Vršac is of Serbian...
municipality), - JablankaJablankaJablanka is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Vršac municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Romanian ethnic majority and its population numbering 247 people ....
(VršacVršacVršac is a town and municipality located in Serbia. In 2002 the town's total population was 36,623, while Vršac municipality had 54,369 inhabitants. Vršac is located in the Banat region, in the Vojvodina province of Serbia. It is part of the South Banat District.-Name:The name Vršac is of Serbian...
municipality), - SočicaSocicaSočica is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Vršac municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Romanian ethnic majority and its population numbering 124 people .-See also:...
(VršacVršacVršac is a town and municipality located in Serbia. In 2002 the town's total population was 36,623, while Vršac municipality had 54,369 inhabitants. Vršac is located in the Banat region, in the Vojvodina province of Serbia. It is part of the South Banat District.-Name:The name Vršac is of Serbian...
municipality), - MesićMesicMesic may refer to:* Mesic, North Carolina, a town in the United States* Mesic habitat, a type of habitat...
(VršacVršacVršac is a town and municipality located in Serbia. In 2002 the town's total population was 36,623, while Vršac municipality had 54,369 inhabitants. Vršac is located in the Banat region, in the Vojvodina province of Serbia. It is part of the South Banat District.-Name:The name Vršac is of Serbian...
municipality), - MarkovacMarkovacMarkovac or Marcovăţ is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Vršac municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province...
(VršacVršacVršac is a town and municipality located in Serbia. In 2002 the town's total population was 36,623, while Vršac municipality had 54,369 inhabitants. Vršac is located in the Banat region, in the Vojvodina province of Serbia. It is part of the South Banat District.-Name:The name Vršac is of Serbian...
municipality), - Mali ŽamMali ŽamMali Žam is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Vršac municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Romanian ethnic majority and its population numbering 279 people .-Name:...
(VršacVršacVršac is a town and municipality located in Serbia. In 2002 the town's total population was 36,623, while Vršac municipality had 54,369 inhabitants. Vršac is located in the Banat region, in the Vojvodina province of Serbia. It is part of the South Banat District.-Name:The name Vršac is of Serbian...
municipality), - Malo SredišteMalo SredišteMalo Središte is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Vršac municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Romanian ethnic majority and its population numbering 78 people .-See also:*List of places in Serbia*List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina...
(VršacVršacVršac is a town and municipality located in Serbia. In 2002 the town's total population was 36,623, while Vršac municipality had 54,369 inhabitants. Vršac is located in the Banat region, in the Vojvodina province of Serbia. It is part of the South Banat District.-Name:The name Vršac is of Serbian...
municipality), - RitiševoRitiševoRitiševo is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Vršac municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Romanian ethnic majority and its population numbering 496 people ....
(VršacVršacVršac is a town and municipality located in Serbia. In 2002 the town's total population was 36,623, while Vršac municipality had 54,369 inhabitants. Vršac is located in the Banat region, in the Vojvodina province of Serbia. It is part of the South Banat District.-Name:The name Vršac is of Serbian...
municipality).
Central Serbia
Settlements in Central Serbia with a Vlach majority or plurality are (2002 census data):- BučjeBučje-Croatia:*Bučje , a village near Pleternica in Požega-Slavonia County, Croatia*Bučje , a village near Pakrac in Požega-Slavonia County, Croatia-Serbia:*Bučje *Bučje *Bučje *Bučje *Ravno Bučje...
(BorBor, SerbiaBor is a town and municipality located in eastern Serbia, with one of the largest copper mines in Europe and it has been a mining centre since 1904, when a French company began operations there. It is the administrative center of the Bor District of Serbia...
municipality). - GornjaneGornjaneGornjane is a village in the municipality of Bor, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 1114 people.Gornjane has unofficial web site at http://www.gornjane.bravehost.com/ .-References:...
(BorBor, SerbiaBor is a town and municipality located in eastern Serbia, with one of the largest copper mines in Europe and it has been a mining centre since 1904, when a French company began operations there. It is the administrative center of the Bor District of Serbia...
municipality). - KriveljKriveljKrivelj is a village in the municipality of Bor, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 1316 people.-References:...
(BorBor, SerbiaBor is a town and municipality located in eastern Serbia, with one of the largest copper mines in Europe and it has been a mining centre since 1904, when a French company began operations there. It is the administrative center of the Bor District of Serbia...
municipality). - LukaLuka (Bor)Luka is a village in the municipality of Bor, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 612 people.-References:...
(BorBor, SerbiaBor is a town and municipality located in eastern Serbia, with one of the largest copper mines in Europe and it has been a mining centre since 1904, when a French company began operations there. It is the administrative center of the Bor District of Serbia...
municipality). - MetovnicaMetovnicaMetovnica is a village in the municipality of Bor, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 1331 people.-References:...
(BorBor, SerbiaBor is a town and municipality located in eastern Serbia, with one of the largest copper mines in Europe and it has been a mining centre since 1904, when a French company began operations there. It is the administrative center of the Bor District of Serbia...
municipality). - SlatinaSlatina (Bor)Slatina is a village in the municipality of Bor, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 921 people.-References:...
(BorBor, SerbiaBor is a town and municipality located in eastern Serbia, with one of the largest copper mines in Europe and it has been a mining centre since 1904, when a French company began operations there. It is the administrative center of the Bor District of Serbia...
municipality). - TandaTanda (Bor)Tanda is a village in the municipality of Bor, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 350 people.-References:...
(BorBor, SerbiaBor is a town and municipality located in eastern Serbia, with one of the largest copper mines in Europe and it has been a mining centre since 1904, when a French company began operations there. It is the administrative center of the Bor District of Serbia...
municipality). - ToplaTopla (Bor)Topla is a village in the municipality of Bor, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 100 people.-References:...
(BorBor, SerbiaBor is a town and municipality located in eastern Serbia, with one of the largest copper mines in Europe and it has been a mining centre since 1904, when a French company began operations there. It is the administrative center of the Bor District of Serbia...
municipality). - Šarbanovac (BorBor, SerbiaBor is a town and municipality located in eastern Serbia, with one of the largest copper mines in Europe and it has been a mining centre since 1904, when a French company began operations there. It is the administrative center of the Bor District of Serbia...
municipality). - VlaoleVlaoleVlaole is a village in the municipality of Majdanpek, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 767 people....
(MajdanpekMajdanpekMajdanpek is a town and municipality in Bor District of Serbia. According to 2011 census, the municipality of Majdanpek has a population of 18,179 people, while the town of Majdanpek has a population of 7,367....
municipality). - JasikovoJasikovoJasikovo is a village in the municipality of Majdanpek, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 717 people....
(MajdanpekMajdanpekMajdanpek is a town and municipality in Bor District of Serbia. According to 2011 census, the municipality of Majdanpek has a population of 18,179 people, while the town of Majdanpek has a population of 7,367....
municipality). - AleksandrovacAleksandrovac (Negotin)Aleksandrovac is a village in the municipality of Negotin, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 588 people.-References:...
(NegotinNegotinNegotin is a town and municipality in the Bor District of north-eastern Central Serbia. It is situated near the borders between Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria. It is the judicial center of the Bor District. The population of the town is 16,716 while municipality has 36,879.-Name:The etymology of the...
municipality). - KovilovoKovilovo (Negotin)Kovilovo is a village in the municipality of Negotin, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 411 people....
(NegotinNegotinNegotin is a town and municipality in the Bor District of north-eastern Central Serbia. It is situated near the borders between Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria. It is the judicial center of the Bor District. The population of the town is 16,716 while municipality has 36,879.-Name:The etymology of the...
municipality). - BačevicaBačevicaBačevica is a village in the municipality of Boljevac, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 409 people....
(BoljevacBoljevacBoljevac is a town and municipality located in the Zaječar District of Serbia. According to 2011 census, the population of the town is 3,332, while population of the municipality is 12,865....
municipality). - ValakonjeValakonjeValakonje is a village in the municipality of Boljevac, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 1378 people....
(BoljevacBoljevacBoljevac is a town and municipality located in the Zaječar District of Serbia. According to 2011 census, the population of the town is 3,332, while population of the municipality is 12,865....
municipality). - OsnićOsnićOsnić is a village in the municipality of Boljevac, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 1340 people.-References:...
(BoljevacBoljevacBoljevac is a town and municipality located in the Zaječar District of Serbia. According to 2011 census, the population of the town is 3,332, while population of the municipality is 12,865....
municipality). - PodgoracPodgoracPodgorač is a municipality in Osijek-Baranja County, Croatia. There are 3,314 inhabitants, 79% of whom are Croats ....
(BoljevacBoljevacBoljevac is a town and municipality located in the Zaječar District of Serbia. According to 2011 census, the population of the town is 3,332, while population of the municipality is 12,865....
municipality). - GlogovicaGlogovicaGlogovica is a village in the municipality of Doboj, Bosnia and Herzegovina.-References:...
(ZaječarZajecarZaječar is a city and municipality in the eastern part of Serbia. According to the 2011 census the town has a population of 36,830, and its coordinates are 43.91° North, 22.30° East...
municipality). - DubočaneDubočaneDubočane is a village in the municipality of Zaječar, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 455 people.-References:...
(ZaječarZajecarZaječar is a city and municipality in the eastern part of Serbia. According to the 2011 census the town has a population of 36,830, and its coordinates are 43.91° North, 22.30° East...
municipality). - Mala JasikovaMala JasikovaMala Jasikova is a village in the municipality of Zaječar, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 332 people....
(ZaječarZajecarZaječar is a city and municipality in the eastern part of Serbia. According to the 2011 census the town has a population of 36,830, and its coordinates are 43.91° North, 22.30° East...
municipality). - ŠipikovoŠipikovoŠipikovo is a village in the municipality of Zaječar, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 511 people.-References:...
(ZaječarZajecarZaječar is a city and municipality in the eastern part of Serbia. According to the 2011 census the town has a population of 36,830, and its coordinates are 43.91° North, 22.30° East...
municipality). - DvorišteDvorišteDvorišće is a village in Croatia. Between 1931 and 1991, it was referred to as Dvorište....
(GolubacGolubacGolubac is a village and municipality in north-eastern Serbia, on the right side of the Danube river. It is bordered by Romania to the east, Veliko Gradište to the west and Kučevo to the south...
municipality). - KrivačaKrivačaKrivača is a village in the municipality of Bileća, Bosnia and Herzegovina....
(GolubacGolubacGolubac is a village and municipality in north-eastern Serbia, on the right side of the Danube river. It is bordered by Romania to the east, Veliko Gradište to the west and Kučevo to the south...
municipality). - BreznicaBreznica (Žagubica)Breznica is a village in the municipality of Žagubica, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 211 people....
(ŽagubicaŽagubicaŽagubica is a village and municipality located in the Braničevo District of Serbia. In 2011, the population of the village is 2,584, while population of the municipality is 12,484.-Name:...
municipality). - LaznicaLaznicaLaznica or Lazniţa is a large highland village in Serbia. It is located in the municipality of Žagubica, Braničevo District. The village has a Vlach ethnic majority and its population numbering 2,063 people...
(ŽagubicaŽagubicaŽagubica is a village and municipality located in the Braničevo District of Serbia. In 2011, the population of the village is 2,584, while population of the municipality is 12,484.-Name:...
municipality). - OsanicaOsanicaOsanica is a suburb in the city of Goražde, Bosnia and Herzegovina.-References:...
(ŽagubicaŽagubicaŽagubica is a village and municipality located in the Braničevo District of Serbia. In 2011, the population of the village is 2,584, while population of the municipality is 12,484.-Name:...
municipality). - SigeSigeSige is a village in the municipality of Žagubica, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 704 people....
(ŽagubicaŽagubicaŽagubica is a village and municipality located in the Braničevo District of Serbia. In 2011, the population of the village is 2,584, while population of the municipality is 12,484.-Name:...
municipality). - BrodicaBrodicaBrodica is a village in the municipality of Kučevo, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 468 people....
(KučevoKucevoKučevo is a town and municipality located in the Braničevo District of Serbia. In 2011, the population of the town is 3,950, while population of the municipality is 15,490....
municipality). - BukovskaBukovskaBukovska is a village in the municipality of Kučevo, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 503 people....
(KučevoKucevoKučevo is a town and municipality located in the Braničevo District of Serbia. In 2011, the population of the town is 3,950, while population of the municipality is 15,490....
municipality). - VukovićVukovićVuković is a village in the municipality of Kučevo, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 301 people....
(KučevoKucevoKučevo is a town and municipality located in the Braničevo District of Serbia. In 2011, the population of the town is 3,950, while population of the municipality is 15,490....
municipality). - MustapićMustapićMustapić is a village in the municipality of Kučevo, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 740 people....
(KučevoKucevoKučevo is a town and municipality located in the Braničevo District of Serbia. In 2011, the population of the town is 3,950, while population of the municipality is 15,490....
municipality). - NeresnicaNeresnicaNeresnica is a small town in the municipality of Kučevo, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the town has a population of 2365 people....
(KučevoKucevoKučevo is a town and municipality located in the Braničevo District of Serbia. In 2011, the population of the town is 3,950, while population of the municipality is 15,490....
municipality). - RadenkaRadenkaRadenka is a village in the municipality of Kučevo, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 803 people....
(KučevoKucevoKučevo is a town and municipality located in the Braničevo District of Serbia. In 2011, the population of the town is 3,950, while population of the municipality is 15,490....
municipality). - Rakova BaraRakova BaraRakova Bara is a village in the municipality of Kučevo, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 464 people....
(KučevoKucevoKučevo is a town and municipality located in the Braničevo District of Serbia. In 2011, the population of the town is 3,950, while population of the municipality is 15,490....
municipality). - BusurBusurBusur is a village situated in Petrovac na Mlavi municipality in Serbia....
(PetrovacPetrovacPetrovac can refer to:* Petrovac , town and municipality in Serbia* Petrovac , town in municipality of Budva, Montenegro* Petrovac , municipality in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina...
municipality). - VitovnicaVitovnicaVitovnica is a village situated in Petrovac na Mlavi municipality in Serbia....
(PetrovacPetrovacPetrovac can refer to:* Petrovac , town and municipality in Serbia* Petrovac , town in municipality of Budva, Montenegro* Petrovac , municipality in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina...
municipality). - KladurovoKladurovoKladurovo is a village situated in Petrovac na Mlavi municipality in Serbia....
(PetrovacPetrovacPetrovac can refer to:* Petrovac , town and municipality in Serbia* Petrovac , town in municipality of Budva, Montenegro* Petrovac , municipality in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina...
municipality). - Manastirica (PetrovacPetrovacPetrovac can refer to:* Petrovac , town and municipality in Serbia* Petrovac , town in municipality of Budva, Montenegro* Petrovac , municipality in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina...
municipality). - MelnicaMelnica (Petrovac)Melnica is a village situated in Petrovac na Mlavi municipality in Serbia....
(PetrovacPetrovacPetrovac can refer to:* Petrovac , town and municipality in Serbia* Petrovac , town in municipality of Budva, Montenegro* Petrovac , municipality in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina...
municipality). - StarčevoStarčevo (Petrovac)Starčevo is a village situated in Petrovac na Mlavi municipality in Serbia....
(PetrovacPetrovacPetrovac can refer to:* Petrovac , town and municipality in Serbia* Petrovac , town in municipality of Budva, Montenegro* Petrovac , municipality in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina...
municipality). - BigrenicaBigrenicaBigrenica is a village in the municipality of Ćuprija, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 979 people....
(ĆuprijaCuprijaĆuprija is a town and administrative district in Serbia, at 43.93° North, 21.38° East...
municipality). - IsakovoIsakovoIsakovo is a village in the municipality of Ćuprija, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 646 people....
(ĆuprijaCuprijaĆuprija is a town and administrative district in Serbia, at 43.93° North, 21.38° East...
municipality).
Vlachs also live in other places with majority Serb or mixed Serb/Vlach population, such as the Zaječar
Zajecar
Zaječar is a city and municipality in the eastern part of Serbia. According to the 2011 census the town has a population of 36,830, and its coordinates are 43.91° North, 22.30° East...
, Negotin
Negotin
Negotin is a town and municipality in the Bor District of north-eastern Central Serbia. It is situated near the borders between Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria. It is the judicial center of the Bor District. The population of the town is 16,716 while municipality has 36,879.-Name:The etymology of the...
, Bor
Bor, Serbia
Bor is a town and municipality located in eastern Serbia, with one of the largest copper mines in Europe and it has been a mining centre since 1904, when a French company began operations there. It is the administrative center of the Bor District of Serbia...
, Kladovo
Kladovo
Kladovo is a town and municipality in the Bor District of eastern Serbia. It is situated on the right bank of the Danube river...
, Majdanpek
Majdanpek
Majdanpek is a town and municipality in Bor District of Serbia. According to 2011 census, the municipality of Majdanpek has a population of 18,179 people, while the town of Majdanpek has a population of 7,367....
, Požarevac
Požarevac
Požarevac is a city and municipality in eastern Serbia. It is the administrative center of the Braničevo District of Serbia...
, Smederevo
Smederevo
Smederevo is a city and municipality in Serbia, on the right bank of the Danube, about 40 km downstream of the capital Belgrade. According to official results of the 2011 census, the city has a population of 107,528...
, Velika Plana
Velika Plana
Velika Plana , is a town and municipality located in the Podunavlje District of Serbia. In 2011, the population of the municipality is 40,578 . It is estimated that about 5,500-6,500 IDP's from Kosovo & Metohija also live in Velika Plana but are unregistered...
, Jabukovac
Jabukovac
Jabukovac is a village in Serbia. It is located in the municipality of Negotin, in the Bor District, near the borders between Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria.-History:...
, etc.
Subgroups
Vlachs are divided into several groups, each speaking their own language variant:- the Ţărani (Serbian: Carani)
- the UngureniUngureniUngureni is a placename given to the villages founded by Transylvanian shepherds, especially in Muntenia. It may refer to several places in Romania:* Ungureni, Bacău, a commune in Bacău County* Ungureni, Botoşani, a commune in Botoşani County...
or Ungureani (Serbian: Ungurjani) - * Ungureni Munteni (Serbian: Ungurjani-Munćani), meaning: "the ungureni from the mountains"
- Bufani (Bufeni)
Of these, the Ungureni of Homolje are related to the Romanians of Banat
Banat
The Banat is a geographical and historical region in Central Europe currently divided between three countries: the eastern part lies in western Romania , the western part in northeastern Serbia , and a small...
and Transylvania
Transylvania
Transylvania is a historical region in the central part of Romania. Bounded on the east and south by the Carpathian mountain range, historical Transylvania extended in the west to the Apuseni Mountains; however, the term sometimes encompasses not only Transylvania proper, but also the historical...
, since Ungureni (compare with the word "Hungarians") is a term used by the Romanians of Wallachia
Wallachia
Wallachia or Walachia is a historical and geographical region of Romania. It is situated north of the Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians...
to describe their kin who once lived in provinces formerly part of the Kingdom of Hungary
Kingdom of Hungary
The Kingdom of Hungary comprised present-day Hungary, Slovakia and Croatia , Transylvania , Carpatho Ruthenia , Vojvodina , Burgenland , and other smaller territories surrounding present-day Hungary's borders...
. The connection is evident in the similarities of dialectal phonology and folk music motifs as well as in sayings such as "Ducă-se pe Mureş
Mures River
The Mureș is an approximately 761 km long river in Eastern Europe. It originates in the Hășmașu Mare Range in the Eastern Carpathian Mountains, Romania, and joins the Tisza river at Szeged in southeastern Hungary....
" (May the Mureş take it away), a reference to the Transylvanian river.
The Ţărani of the Bor
Bor, Serbia
Bor is a town and municipality located in eastern Serbia, with one of the largest copper mines in Europe and it has been a mining centre since 1904, when a French company began operations there. It is the administrative center of the Bor District of Serbia...
, Negotin
Negotin
Negotin is a town and municipality in the Bor District of north-eastern Central Serbia. It is situated near the borders between Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria. It is the judicial center of the Bor District. The population of the town is 16,716 while municipality has 36,879.-Name:The etymology of the...
and Zaječar
Zajecar
Zaječar is a city and municipality in the eastern part of Serbia. According to the 2011 census the town has a population of 36,830, and its coordinates are 43.91° North, 22.30° East...
regions are closer to Oltenia
Oltenia
Oltenia is a historical province and geographical region of Romania, in western Wallachia. It is situated between the Danube, the Southern Carpathians and the Olt river ....
(Lesser Walachia) in their speech and music. The Ţăran saying "Nu dau un leu pe el" (He's not worth even a leu
Romanian leu
The leu is the currency of Romania. It is subdivided into 100 bani . The name of the currency means "lion". On 1 July 2005, Romania underwent a currency reform, switching from the previous leu to a new leu . 1 RON is equal to 10,000 ROL...
) show their Romanian origin since the leu is a Romanian monetary unit. But the "leu" is the currency in Romania only after 1867. So, this speech can possibly show a trade connection between Ţărani and the Romanian population that lives just across the Danube
Danube
The Danube is a river in the Central Europe and the Europe's second longest river after the Volga. It is classified as an international waterway....
.
There has been considerable intermixing between the Ungureni and Ţărani so that a dialect has evolved sharing peculiarities of both regions.
The Bufani are immigrants from Lesser Walachia (Oltenia).
There is also a population of vlachophone (Vlach speaking) Roma centered around the village of Lukovo, as well as a few Aromanian
Aromanians
Aromanians are a Latin people native throughout the southern Balkans, especially in northern Greece, Albania, the Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, and as an emigrant community in Serbia and Romania . An older term is Macedo-Romanians...
families who live in Knjaževac
Knjaževac
Knjaževac is a town and municipality situated in the eastern part of Serbia bordering the Republic of Bulgaria and is part of Timočka Krajina region. It is found between the latitudes of 43°20' and 43°45' north and between the longitudes 22°11' and 22°41' east. The town is situated between three...
, but they form a tiny migrant group.
Famous Romanians/Vlachs from Serbia
- Vasko PopaVasko Popa- Biography :Popa was born in the village of Grebenac , Vojvodina, Serbia. After finishing high school, he enrolled as a student of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy. He continued his studies at the University of Bucharest and in Vienna...
(1922–1991), a Serbian poet of Romanian descent. - Emil PetroviciEmil PetroviciEmil Petrovici was a Romanian linguist, who studied both Romanian and the Slavic languages. His studies included Romanian phonetics, phonology, and Romanian and Slavic dialectology....
(1899–1958), a Romanian linguist. - Slavco Almăjan (b. 1940), poet
- Ionel Stoiţ (b. 1952), poet
- Bojan AleksandrovićBojan AleksandrovicBojan Aleksandrović is the Romanian priest who in 2004 successfully defied the authorities to build the first Romanian Orthodox Church in eastern Serbia in two centuries. He has since established at least four other sites for future churches...
(b. 1977), protopresbyter of Dacia Ripensis - Zoran LilićZoran LilicZoran Lilić is a Serbian. He served as President of the National Assembly of Serbia in 1993 and as President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1993 to 1997....
(b. 1953), possibly the best known Vlach from Serbia was the president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia between 1993 and 1997
See also
- Official status of Romanian language in VojvodinaOfficial status of Romanian language in VojvodinaThe Romanian language is one of six official languages in the Serbian province of Vojvodina. The official use of the Romanian language is determined in Vojvodina by the law, and established at the provincial level in the bodies of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, as well at local level in 8...
- Vlachs of Serbia
- RomaniansRomaniansThe Romanians are an ethnic group native to Romania, who speak Romanian; they are the majority inhabitants of Romania....
- Romanians in BulgariaRomanians in BulgariaThe Romanian minority in Bulgaria is concentrated in the northwestern part of the country, in the Provinces of: Vidin, Vratsa and Pleven. They speak the Oltenian variety of the Romanian language...
- Ethnic groups of VojvodinaEthnic groups of VojvodinaThere are many ethnic groups in Vojvodina.-Serbs:*Serbs – Serbs constitute an absolute majority of people in Vojvodina. According to the 2002 census, there were 1,321,807 Serbs in Vojvodina or 65.05% of the population...
- Romania–Serbia relationsRomania–Serbia relationsRomanian-Serbian relations are foreign relations between Romania and Serbia. Both countries established diplomatic relations on April 19, 1841....
- Serbs in RomaniaSerbs in RomaniaThe Romanian Serbs are an ethnic minority in Romania. According to the 2002 census, there were 22,518 Serbs in Romania or 0.1% of the population...
- History of the term VlachHistory of the term VlachVlach is a Slavic-derived term , which is used to designate the Romance speaking peoples of South-Eastern Europe: Romanians, Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians and Istro-Romanians....
- Thraco-RomanThraco-RomanThe terms Thraco-Roman and Daco-Roman refer to the culture and language of the Thracian and Dacian peoples who were incorporated into the Roman Empire and ultimately fell under the Roman and Latin sphere of influence.-Meaning and usage:...
- Eastern Romance substratumEastern Romance substratumThe Eastern Romance languages developed from the Proto-Romanian language, which in turn developed from the Vulgar Latin spoken in a region of the Balkans which has not yet been exactly determined, but is generally agreed to have been a region north of the Jireček Line.That there was...
- Romanian languageRomanian languageRomanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...
- Origin of the Romanians
- Legacy of the Roman EmpireLegacy of the Roman EmpireThe legacy of the Roman Empire refers to the set of cultural values, religious beliefs, as well as technological and other achievements of Ancient Rome which were passed on after the demise of the empire itself and continued to shape other civilizations, a process which continues to this day.-...
General references
- Popi, Gligor. (2003) "Românii din Banatul sârbesc", Magazin IstoricMagazin Istoric- Overview :Magazin Istoric has been publishing since April 1967. The monthly magazine contains articles and pictures about Romanian history and world history...
, no. 8/2003.
External links
- The Romanian Community in Serbia
- The Romanians in Vojvodina
- The Romanians in Serbia
- Romanians in Serbia
- Respect for the rights of the Timok Romanians (Eastern Serbia)
- The Vlach (Roumanian) Federation of Serbia
- MP3 recordings of Vlach speech
- Maps of Vlachs in north-east Serbia
- The Vlachs in Yugoslavia and their magic
- Report on the State of Human Rights of Rumanians and Vlachs in Serbia
- Românii din Serbia, Ion Florentin Dobrescu