Implications for the development

„Lecturi vizuale” etnologice la aromâ-
nii din Albania – Sarandë și Gjirokastër
. Memorie, tradiție, patrimoniu (Societatea de Cultură 
Macedo-Română), București: Editura Etnologică, 2016,144 p.; ill., map.
In the specialized studies, few in number, the information about the group of Aromanians 
from the Saranda – Arghirocastro area, which represents an important part of the total number 
of Aromanians in this area, known as 
rămăńi/migidońi
and 
culuńiaţ
, named after the place of 
origin (Megidei, today the town of Kefalovrysto in Greece, and the Kolonia region of Albania), 
are stoning, insufficient and little clarified on the current socio-cultural and life context. Settled 
in the urban centers, such as Saranda and Arghirocastro (the Aromanian dialect name of the 
city of Gjirokastër), the sedentary Aromanians are engaged in commercial, craft and liberal ac-
tivities, continuing on the one hand an old tradition of their professionalization, like merchants, 
silversmiths, bankers, builders of secular and ecclesiastical buildings, owners of inns, etc. On the 
other hand, they have adapted to the demands and challenges of a labor market imposed by the 
changes in post-communist Albanian society. Originally, Farsherots and from Moscopole who 
practiced transhumant pastoralism for centuries, the urbanized Aromanians from the works pre-
sented in the album’s pages “are exposed to a slow, sure, why not, natural acculturation, being 
incorporated into the social texture of the Albanian majority”. In the historical destiny of the 
group, the installation of the communist regime of Enver Hogea “diverted the existential mean-
ing of the peaceful groups of Aromanians that oscillated between the fertile pastures of the works 
in Corcea, in the summer season, and the warm shores of the Adriatic Sea. In the eight of the 
new communist society, the Aromanians from the Saranda – Arghirocastro region were forced 
to settle down, the herds were confiscated, and the labor force capitalized in the new agricultural 
cooperative structures”
5
.
4
Ibidem, p. 4.
5
Iulia Wisoșenschi, Emil Țîrcomnicu, Cătălin Alexa, 
„Lecturi vizuale” etnologice la aromânii din Alba-
nia – Sarandë și Gjirokastër. Memorie, tradiție, patrimoniu
(Societatea de Cultură Macedo-Română), 
București: Editura Etnologică, 2016, p. 4-5.

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Patrimoniul cultural de ieri: implicații în dezvoltarea societății durabile de mâine
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Nistor Bardu, Emil Țîrcomnicu, 
„Lecturi vizuale” etnologice la aromânii din Albania – Gramsh, 
Elbasan, Pogradec
. Memorie, tradiție, patrimoniu (Societatea de Cultură Macedo-Română), 
București: Editura Etnologică, 2017, 164 p.; ill., map.
Between September 25 and October 6, 2017, the regions surveyed were: Gramsh (Gr
ắ
nşi), 
with the town of Gramsh and the village of Grabovë e Sipërme (
Greava
), Elbasan (city), Pogradec 
(
Pogradeţ
), the town with this name and the village of Llëngë (
Lunca
), with their surroundings. 
The three rural localities considered, Greava, Lunca and Nicea, are arranged in a triangle, like 
the legs of a noose (
pirostrii
), around the Valamare massif (Valea Mare), whose highest peak, 
Maja e Valamarës, reaches 2,373 m. These settlements are the last in the constellation of localities 
consisting of Moscopole, Linotope, Şipsca, Gramostea, etc., which reached the peak of flourish-
ing and civilization two and a half centuries ago. “Being inhabited only by Aromanians, they 
are true treasures for ethnologists and linguists, due to their historical importance, the tangible 
and intangible heritage they hold and the native languages they speak. If in Lunca there are 6 
more families, and in Nicea about 20, we found that Greava still has demographic and material 
resources, and this is due to the quality of the people who insisted on staying and carrying on the 
cultural heritage of this village, once a famous city. All the people from Greava met in Albanian 
cities, businessmen or craftsmen of all kinds, look with nostalgia at Greava, and the place where 
their ancestors lived and where some of them spent their childhood”
6
.
Nistor Bardu, Stoica Lascu, Emil Țîrcomnicu, Cătălin Alexa, Ioana Iancu,