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Vlachs (Romanians) of Serbia

The Vlachs of Serbia (endonym: Rumâni, Serbian: Власи or Vlasi) are an ethnic minority of Serbia, culturally and linguistically an ethnic subgroup of Romanians.

Vlachs mostly live in eastern Serbia, mainly in Valea Timocului region (roughly corresponding to Bor and Zaiecar districts), but also in Braničevo and Pomoravlje districts. Also a small Vlach population exists in Smederevo and Velika Plana (Podunavlje District), and in the municipalities of Aleksinac and Kruševac (Rasina District), as well as in the South Banat District in Voivodina.

The name they identify with Rumâni din Sârbie in fact means Romanians from Serbia. The Romanian(Vlach) community consider Romania as their home country. Although they are ethnographically and linguistically related to the Romanians, within the Vlach community there are divergences on whether they belong or not to the Romanian nation and whether their minority should be amalgamated with the Romanian minority in Vojvodina.

In a Romanian-Yugoslav agreement from the November 4, 2002, the Yugoslav authorities agreed to recognize the Romanian identity of the Vlach population in Central Serbia, but the agreement wasn't applied. In April 2005, many deputies from the Council of Europe protested against Serbia's treatment of this population. In March 2007, the Vlach (Romanian) organizations announced the intention to put on trial the Serbian state.

Continuation and details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlachs_of_Serbia

You can also read here the report on ”The situation of national minorities in Vojvodina and of the Romanian ethnic minority in Serbia” made by the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parlamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

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12.11.2010. 00:02

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