Grecomans

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Grecomans (Bulgarian: гъркомани, Macedonian: гркомани, Romanian: grecomani, Albanian: grekomanë) is a pejorative term used in Bulgaria, Republic of Macedonia, Romania and Albania"[1] for Greeks of real or perceived Arvanitic,[2] Aromanian[3] or Slavic[4] origin from the regions of Epirus,[5] Thrace[6] and Macedonia.[7] The term generally means "pretending to be a Greek"[8] and implies a non-Greek origin. They self-identify as Greeks and are predominantly Greek Orthodox Christians. Their former bilingualism in their native non-Greek languages and Greek has in recent decades been gradually replaced by monolingualism in the national language. Another meaning of the term is fanatic Greek. [9]

It should be noted that this term is considered highly offensive by Slavophone Greeks when used by Macedonian Slav nationalists both in the Republic of Macedonia as well as in transnational communities (e.g. in Australia and Canada) to refer to the indigenous people from the wider geographical Macedonia region as well as Macedonia in Greece with a Greek national and ethnic identity "in a variety of uncomplementary [sic] names".[10]

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  1. ^ Histori dhe Kulture KЛRKESAT E KONGRESIT Tл PARЛ Tл SMSH “JANAR 1991”Qл I DЛRGON QEVERISЛ
  2. ^ MARSHIM MADHËSHTOR I MBI 6000 ÇAMËVE DREJT QAFËBOTËS
  3. ^ Aromanism versus romanism?!
  4. ^ DILEMMAS AND ORIENTATIONS OF GREEK POLICY IN MACEDONIA: 1878-1886 by Evangelos Kofos
  5. ^ Aromanian Vlachs: The Vanishing Tribes
  6. ^ Българското духовно-национално движение в Одринска Тракия Илия Тодев
  7. ^ Радев, Симеон: Спомени от Македония и Цариград. Ранни спомени. София, 1967.
  8. ^ Aromanii au fost si sunt romani.Gheorghe ZBUCHEA.Anul XL Nr. 10 (475) October 2006
  9. ^ THE MACEDONIAN AFFAIR - A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE ATTEMPTS TO CREATE A COUNTERFEIT NATION - published by the Institute of International and Strategic Studies in Athens, Greece. [1]
  10. ^ Danforth, L. M. (1995) The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World, Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-04356-6, p. 221