ИЗГУБЕНАТА ВЛАХИЈА
THE LOST WALLACHIA

Summary/Abstract: This study examines the “Aromanian question” during the protracted negotiations between Greece and the Ottoman Empire for the new border in Thessaly (1878-1881), as well as the behavior of certain Aromanian groups during the Greco-Turkish war (1897). The medieval “Great Wallachia”, or Thessaly Wallachia, was the historical foundation on which some Aromanian circles based their claims for an autonomous Aromanian state in the Balkans. The vague call of the Congress of Berlin (1878) for a border rectification between Greece and the Ottoman Empire immediately prompted a strong reaction from the above mentioned circles. Faced with the possibility to lose Thessaly to Greece, Apostol Margarit and his collaborators started a series of diplomatic and field activities to prove the Aromanian, or at least the non-Greek character of the region. All their attempts proved futile. In 1881 most of Thessaly was transferred to Greece, so the “Aromanian question” was destined to play a peripheral role within the “Macedonian question”.

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