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| '''Grecomans''' (]: Гъркомани, ''Garkomani'', ]: Гркомани, ''Grkomani'', ]: ''Grecomani'', ]: ''Grekomanë'') is a ] term used in ], ], ] and ] for ],<ref>Trudgill (2000: 255)</ref>]<ref>Curta, Florin and Stephenson, Paul. Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250. Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN 0521815398</ref> |
'''Grecomans''' (]: Гъркомани, ''Garkomani'', ]: Гркомани, ''Grkomani'', ]: ''Grecomani'', ]: ''Grekomanë'') is a ] term used in ], ], ] and ] for ],<ref>Trudgill (2000: 255)</ref>]<ref>Curta, Florin and Stephenson, Paul. Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250. Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN 0521815398</ref> for ] speaking Greeks.<ref>Fields of wheat, hills of blood: passages to nationhood in Greek Macedonia, 1870-1990, Anastasia N. Karakasidou, University of Chicago Press, 1997, ISBN 0226424944.</ref><ref>Macedonia: the politics of identity and difference, Jane K. Cowan, Pluto Press, 2000 | ||
| ISBN 0745315895, p. 40.</ref> The term generally means "pretending to be a Greek" and implies a non-Greek origin.<ref>Van Boeschoten, Riki. 2006. "Code-switching, linguistic jokes and ethnic identity: Reading hidden transcripts in a cross-cultural context." Journal of Greek Studies 24:347-377.</ref> Another meaning of the term is ''fanatic Greek''.<ref>.</ref> It should be noted that the term is considered highly offensive.<ref name= LMDanforth>Danforth, L. M. (1995) ''The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World'', Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-04356-6, p. 221.</ref> In Greece this people are regarded to be ethnic Greeks, while in the neighbouring countries as ] minorities.<ref>].]</ref> | ISBN 0745315895, p. 40.</ref> The term generally means "pretending to be a Greek" and implies a non-Greek origin.<ref>Van Boeschoten, Riki. 2006. "Code-switching, linguistic jokes and ethnic identity: Reading hidden transcripts in a cross-cultural context." Journal of Greek Studies 24:347-377.</ref> Another meaning of the term is ''fanatic Greek''.<ref>.</ref> It should be noted that the term is considered highly offensive.<ref name= LMDanforth>Danforth, L. M. (1995) ''The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World'', Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-04356-6, p. 221.</ref> In Greece this people are regarded to be ethnic Greeks, while in the neighbouring countries as ] minorities.<ref>].]</ref> | ||
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Grecomans (Bulgarian: Гъркомани, Garkomani, Macedonian: Гркомани, Grkomani, Romanian: Grecomani, Albanian: Grekomanë) is a pejorative term used in Bulgaria, Republic of Macedonia, Romania and Albania for Arvanitika,Aromanian for Slavic language speaking Greeks. The term generally means "pretending to be a Greek" and implies a non-Greek origin. Another meaning of the term is fanatic Greek. It should be noted that the term is considered highly offensive. In Greece this people are regarded to be ethnic Greeks, while in the neighbouring countries as helleneised minorities.
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References
- Trudgill (2000: 255)
- Curta, Florin and Stephenson, Paul. Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250. Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN 0521815398
- Fields of wheat, hills of blood: passages to nationhood in Greek Macedonia, 1870-1990, Anastasia N. Karakasidou, University of Chicago Press, 1997, ISBN 0226424944.
- Macedonia: the politics of identity and difference, Jane K. Cowan, Pluto Press, 2000 ISBN 0745315895, p. 40.
- Van Boeschoten, Riki. 2006. "Code-switching, linguistic jokes and ethnic identity: Reading hidden transcripts in a cross-cultural context." Journal of Greek Studies 24:347-377.
- THE MACEDONIAN AFFAIR - A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE ATTEMPTS TO CREATE A COUNTERFEIT NATION - Institute of International and Strategic Studies. Athens, Greece.
- Danforth, L. M. (1995) The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World, Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-04356-6, p. 221.
- Population exchange in Greek Macedonia: the rural settlement of refugees 1922-193, Elisabeth Kontogiorgi, 2006, ISBN 0199278962, p. 233-234, Oxford University Press.