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Do you know who the Vlachs are?

Although it has also been used to name present-day Romanians, the term "Vlach" today refers primarily to speakers of the Eastern Romance languages who live south of the Danube, in Albania, Bulgaria, northern Greece, North Macedonia and eastern Serbia. These people include the ethnic groups of the Aromanians, the Megleno-Romanians and, in Serbia, the Timok Romanians. The term also became a synonym in the Balkans for the social category of shepherds, and was also used for non-Romance-speaking peoples, in recent times in the western Balkans derogatively. The term is also used to refer to the ethnographic group of Moravian Vlachs who speak a Slavic language but originate from Romanians, as well as for Morlachs and Istro-Romanians.
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Zinvalla · 26-30, FNew
Yes, but we are a pre Slavic people who are descended from the original Roman soldiers and others who lived in Roman Dacia. We are known today as farmers but we have been known as good horsemen and formed auxiliaries of the Roman Legions.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@Zinvalla My family history goes back to Draco of Greek fame 651 BCE.

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