Промяната на етническите модели на идентичност при българските армъни (власи) и нейните последствия
Change of the Ethnic Models of Identity of the Bulgarian Aromanians (Wallachians) and Its Aftereffects

Summary/Abstract: The object of study in the article is the community of Aromanians (also referred to as “Wallachians”, Kutsowallachians”, “Macedonian Romanian”), who moved into Bulgarian from Epirus and Macedonia between the end of the 18th and the early 20th century. The study focusses on reconstruction of the models of identity of Aromanians from the time of their migration to the present time, when they are becoming adapted and oriented to the nationalities of the Balkan states where they have lastingly settled. After a short historical review of the inception and evolution of a specific Aromanian “national” self-awareness in the 18th-19th centuries, different trends have taken shape in the community: with pro-Romanian, pro-Greek and “national” (i.e. their own, Aromanian) orientation, under the infuence of the nationalistic policies of the Balkan states. The author has presented his observations on the ethnic identity as a personal manifestation and as an institutionalised form of self-organisation of the Aromanians now living in Bulgaria, as well as on the emergence of a dual self-awareness and identity.

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