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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 to characterize 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.

See also

• Minorities in Greece
• Cultural assimilation
• Daniel Mоscopolites
• Bulgarophiles
• Serbomans

References

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2. The ethnicity of Aromanians after 1990: The identity of a minority that behaves like a majority, Publication: Ethnologia Balkanica (06/2002), Kahl Thede; Language: English, Subject: Anthropology, Issue: 06/2002.
3. Fields of wheat, hills of blood: passages to nationhood in Greek Macedonia, 1870-1990, Anastasia N. Karakasidou, University of Chicago Press, 1997, ISBN 0226424944, p. 106.
4. Ourselves and others: the development of a Greek Macedonian cultural identity since 1912, Peter A.Mackridge, Eleni Yannakakis, Helenē Giannakakē Berg Publishers, 1997, ISBN 1859731384, p. 148.
5. Locating capitalism in time and space: global restructurings, politics, and identity, David Nugent, Stanford University Press, 2002, ISBN 0804742383, p. 181.
6. Macedonia: the politics of identity and difference, Jane K. Cowan, Pluto Press, 2000, ISBN 0745315895, p. 40.
7. The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World, Loring M. Danforth, Princeton University Press, 1997, ISBN 0691043566, pp. 245-246.
8. The logic of violence in civil war, Stathis N. Kalyvas, Cambridge University Press, 2006, p. 312, ISBN 0521854091
9. Macedonia and the Macedonians: A History, Andrew Rossos, Hoover Press, 2008, ISBN 0817948821, p. 145.
10. The past in question: modern Macedonia and the uncertainties of nation, Keith Brown, Princeton University Press, 2003, ISBN 0691099952, p. 82.
11. 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.
12. THE MACEDONIAN AFFAIR - A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE ATTEMPTS TO CREATE A COUNTERFEIT NATION - Institute of International and Strategic Studies. Athens, Greece.
13. Danforth, L. M. (1995) The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World, Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-04356-6, p. 221.
14. Population exchange in Greek Macedonia: the rural settlement of refugees 1922-193, Elisabeth Kontogiorgi, 2006, ISBN 0199278962, p. 233-234, Oxford University Press.

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