''Românul de la Pind'' ("The Romanian of the

Pindus The Pindus (also Pindos or Pindhos; el, Πίνδος, Píndos; sq, Pindet; rup, Pindu) is a mountain range located in Northern Greece and Southern Albania. It is roughly 160 km (100 miles) long, with a maximum elevation of 2,637 metres ...

" in

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) was a Romanian

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. It was founded on 26 May 1903 in

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, by the Aromanian cultural activist Nicolae Constantin Batzaria, who was the director of the newspaper, in collaboration with several other Aromanian colleagues in the

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. Early issues of the newspaper carried the name ''Reforme'' ("Reforms" in Romanian), and were under the authorship of an anonymous committee. During this time, editors called for measures and reforms to take place for the protection of the supposedly

minorities south of the

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. As of issue 12, the newspaper began to be titled ''Românul de la Pind'', revealing being led by intellectuals from the Ottoman Empire. In 1904, editors of the newspaper began to sign their articles, these including Aromanian professor , Aromanian writer

Marcu Beza Marcu Beza (June 30, 1882 in Kleisoura, Ottoman Empire – May 6, 1949 in Bucharest, Romania) was a Romanian poet, writer, essayist, literary critique, publicist, folklorist, and diplomat of Aromanian origin. Beza was elected a corresponding ...

and N. C. Vello, apart of Batzaria himself. Other editors of the newspaper throughout its existence were the Aromanian poet and author of the Aromanian anthem

Constantin Belimace Constantin Belimace (July 1848 – 1932) was an Aromanian poet. He was born into an Aromanian family in Malovišta (), a village that formed part of the Ottoman Empire's Rumelia Eyalet and is now in North Macedonia. His father was Tașcu Belimace ...

and the Megleno-Romanian editor and professor Constantin Noe. In 1906, ''Revista Macedoniei'' ("Macedonia's Magazine"), newspaper in circulation from 25 September 1905 to 17 September 1906, was merged into ''Românul de la Pind''. It was a weekly newspaper operated by the Macedo-Romanian Cultural Society. For a time, N. C. Furca succeeded Batzaria as the newspaper's director. ''Românul de la Pind'' ceased its publications on 25 November 1912 with the

First Balkan War The First Balkan War ( sr, Први балкански рат, ''Prvi balkanski rat''; bg, Балканска война; el, Αʹ Βαλκανικός πόλεμος; tr, Birinci Balkan Savaşı) lasted from October 1912 to May 1913 and invo ...

. It was the longest-running newspaper by and about Aromanians until

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. Of

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character, ''Românul de la Pind'' claimed to be "for Romanians on the right side of the Danube", referring to the Aromanians and other groups, which the newspaper considered ethnic Romanian. It was a mostly political newspaper, permanently focused on the issue of the

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of the Aromanians and on the violent interethnic conflicts in the

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. ''Românul de la Pind'' had a markedly

anti-Greek Anti-Greek sentiment (also known as Hellenophobia ( el, ελληνοφοβία, translit=ellēnophobía), anti-Hellenism, ( el, ανθελληνισμός, translit=anthellinismós), mishellenism ( el, μισελληνισμός, translit=misell� ...

attitude, and it had conflicts with several

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publications. It condemned Greek actions against Aromanian institutions in Malovište (), referring to the Greeks as a "perfidious" and "inhumane" enemy. The newspaper used for a time the famous motto ''

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'' ("Beware of Greeks bearing gifts"), although it was changed to ("From us, for us") in its last years. ''Românul de la Pind'' was not subsidized by the Romanian state, so it was funded through subscriptions. If a person bought three consecutive issues, they were considered subscribed to the newspaper. Some publications appeared in

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and French so as to spread knowledge about the

Aromanian question The Aromanian question ( el, Αρωμουνικό ζήτημα, Aromounikó zítima; ro, Chestiunea aromână), also sometimes known as the "Vlach question", refers to the historical and current division of the ethnic identity of the Aromanians, m ...

throughout

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References

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