The Parliament building in Athens is full of original Macedonian names!

[osiris]

rtg i have been recently browsing, THE NOMADS OF
THE BALKANS

AN ACCOUNT OF LIFE AND CUSTOMS AMONG
THE VLACHS OF NORTHERN PINDUS

its online if you want, and i was struck by the extent of vlach people in modern greece and the simmilarity of their hellenisation process to that of our grkomani.

[Soldier of Macedon]

A shame about the Vlachs, they were a unique people in the areas of Epirus and Thessaly, they could have justified a state of their own in that area, they have their own language, history, culture, etc, yet their leaders and men of influence allowed them to be sucked into the vortex of this fake 'Hellenism' where all of their native traditions and customs are almost extinct - And have by some miracle turned into pure Greeks and descendants of Pluto's elbow. I don't know whether it is more sad or pathetic, or an intense combination of both.

I know one thing though, be they Macedonian or Vlach by origin, a traitor to his native kin that shares the same language, history, culture, customs and traditions, is the greatest enemy of all. I try and picture myself pretending to be a Grkoman or a Srboman or a Bugaroman, and I cannot register it. I keep thinking that even in my deepest thoughts I am still speaking to myself in Macedonian, how on earth can I pretend to be something I am not? What sick people exist among us all. Long live the people that are true to their origins.

[osiris]

som i feel exactly like you, but maybe in the 19th century ones world view was different and national identity was not as well defined and important as it is today. the vlachs are an interesting and forgotten people and i agree thessaly could have easly become a vlach nation, as it did for a short time during the ww2.

http://www.archive.org/stream/nomadsofbalkansa00wace/nomadsofbalkansa00wace_djvu.txt

here are some excerpts
this one about how disinterested the locals were in helping a greek uprising.

In 1854 the Crimean war broke out and this event naturally
affected Samarina. The Greeks taking advantage of the em-
barrassments of the Ottoman Empire brought about a rising
in Thessaly, Epirus and Southern Macedonia. Few natives
of these regions actually joined the insurgents except brigands,
and the revolutionary bands were mainly composed of volun-
teers from Greece including men who deserted from the army
for the purpose and gaolbirds liberated especially with this
object. Many of the volunteers were true patriots, natives
of the country who were living in Greece, and other Greeks
from all Greek-speaking lands. But on the whole the conduct
of the insurgents towards the christian population of the
country they wished to free was disgraceful and they plundered

and this about greek "libeartion'' tactics in vlach villages.

During the years when Greek
bands were sent into Macedonia to destroy the Roumanian
propaganda by burning schools and kilHng schoolmasters,
many of the Roumanian party at Samarina went over to the
Greek side, but no murders occurred in the village as happened
elsewhere. On one occasion after the Avdhela murders in
July 1905 O.S. the Greek band that had committed them pro-
posed to go on to Samarina to kill some of the prominent
Roumanians. A strong detachment of Turkish troops hap