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Pejorative term for Southern Slavs, Aromanians and Albanians who self-identify as ethnic Greeks
Grecomans or Graecomans (
Greek: Γραικομάνοι,
romanized: Graikománoi;
Bulgarian: Гъркомани,
romanized: Gărkomani;
Macedonian: Гркомани,
romanized: Grkomani;
Romanian: Grecomani;
Albanian: Grekomanë;
Aromanian: Gricumanji) is a
pejorative term used in
Bulgaria,
North Macedonia,
Romania, and
Albania to characterize
Albanian-,
[1]
Aromanian-,
[2] and
Slavic-speaking
[3] people, who self-identify as ethnic
Greeks. The term generally means "pretending to be a Greek" and implies a non-Greek origin.
[4] Another meaning of the term is fanatic Greek.
[5] The term is considered highly offensive to the
Greek
people.
[6] The "Grecomans" are regarded as ethnic Greeks in
Greece, but as members of originally non-Greek, but subsequently
Hellenized minorities, in the neighboring countries.
[7]
See also
References
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Skendi 1967, p. 67.
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Kahl 2002, pp. 145–169.
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Karakasidou 1997, p. 106;
Mackridge & Yannakakis 1997, p. 148 (Note #11);
Nugent 2002, p. 181;
Cowan 2000, p. 40;
Danforth 1997, pp. 245–246;
Kalyvas 2006, p. 312 (Footnote #65);
Rossos 2008, p. 145;
Brown 2003, p. 82.
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Van Boeschoten 2006, pp. 347–377.
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"The Macedonian Affair - A Historical Review of the Attempts to Create a Counterfeit Nation (Institute of International and Strategic Studies in Athens, Greece)". Hellenic Resources Network. 1995–2009. Retrieved 12 February 2011.
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Danforth 1997, p. 221.
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Kontogiorgi 2006, pp. 233–234.
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ISBN
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ISBN
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ISBN
0-691-04356-6.
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Kahl, Thede (June 2002).
"The Ethnicity of Aromanians after 1990: The Identity of a Minority that Behaves like a Majority". Ethnologia Balkanica: 145–169.
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The Logic of Violence in Civil War. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
0-521-85409-1.
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ISBN
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ISBN
0-19-927896-2.
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Ourselves and Others: The Development of a Greek Macedonian Cultural Identity since 1912. Oxford, United Kingdom: Berg Publishers.
ISBN
1-85973-138-4.
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Locating Capitalism in Time and Space: Global Restructurings, Politics, and Identity. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
ISBN
0-8047-4238-3.
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ISBN
978-0-8179-4882-5.
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