MODERN ROMANS COLONIZED IN ROMANIA – THE AROMANIANS

• Main Author: Ionel Călin MICLE
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Editura Universitatii din Oradea 2013-12-01
• Series: Analele Universităţii din Oradea: Seria Geografie
• Subjects: adaptability; colonization; quadrilateral; integration
• Online Access: http://geografie-uoradea.ro/Reviste/Anale/Art/2013-2/AUOG_612_Micle.pdf

Aromanians were colonized in Quadrilateral and then in Old Dobrudja, in an environment completely different from their own. Their great adaptability, beeing accustomed for centuries to political changes and multiethnic coexistence, proved that they can adapt to the new conditions better than Bulgarians or Romanians, resulting to be brilliant farmers. About their specific socio-economic or patriarchal society, organized in fălcări, endogamy and specific pastoral activities, many researches have been done since the time of the Byzantine chroniclers. It is interesting that this mountainous-shepherd people could adapt to the flat land of Dobrudja and to the new global economy of 21th century and knew how to keep their own ethnic identity. Thanks to the affinities with the Romanians, they are well integrated into the socio-economic life Romania and especially of Dobrudja, where most of them live, being on the top of the social pyramide, especially in trade and tourism, unlike the other ethnicities, employed especially in the primary sector. It can be said that today Aromanians have key roles in the economic life of the Dobrudja region, forming in this regard, with the Romanians, the upper stratum of the society.