Megleno-Romanians
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 5,000–20,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Greece
|
4,000 |
 Republic of Macedonia
|
1,000 |
 Turkey
|
4,000–5,000 |
 Romania (Dobruja) |
1,200 |
| Languages | |
| Megleno-Romanian and other languages in the areas in which they live. | |
| Religion | |
| Orthodox Christianity, Sunni Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Aromanians, Romanians | |
The Megleno-Romanians (Romanian: Meglenoromâni), Moglenite Vlachs (Greek: Βλαχομογλενίτες, Vlachomoglenítes) or simply Meglenites (Romanian: Megleniţi) or Vlachs (Megleno-Romanian: Vlași; Romanian: Vlaşi, Macedonian: Власи) are a small Eastern Romance people, originally inhabiting seven villages in the Moglena region spanning the Pella and Kilkis regional units of Central Macedonia, Greece, and one village, Huma (depopulated village), across the border in the Republic of Macedonia. This people lives in an area of approximately 300 km2 in size. Unlike the Aromanian Vlachs, the other Romance speaking population in the same historic region, the Meglen Vlachs are traditionally sedentary agriculturalists, and not traditionally transhumants.
They speak a Romance language most often called by linguists Megleno-Romanian or Meglenitic in English, and βλαχομογλενίτικα (vlachomoglenítika) or simply μογλενίτικα (moglenítika) in Greek. The people themselves call their language vlahește, but the Megleno-Romanian diaspora in Romania also uses the term meglenoromână.
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