Photo by i'elix J. Koch 

 CHEESE BOOTHS ON GRAND BAZAAR: SAEONICA 



equalities which will make them play a 

 large part in the destinies of the Pen- 

 insula.* 



THE SERBS 



It is not always easy to distinguish the 

 Serbs from the Bulgarians in Mace- 

 donia, as the two races are often inter- 

 mingled in the same districts, and their 

 languages, though different in Servia and 

 Bulgaria, become less so in Macedonia 

 (see page 1131). 



THE RUMANS OR VLACHS 



The Kutzo-Vlachs, or Rumans, of 

 Macedonia, present an interesting ethno- 

 graphic and linguistic problem. They 

 are usually admitted to be the descend- 

 ants of the aboriginal Thracians, who 

 amalgamated with the Latin colonists 

 and adopted their language and civiliza- 

 tion, and maintained their national char- 

 acteristics by retiring to the mountain 

 fastnesses of Macedonia. Latin in- 



* The Slavonic population o£ Macedonia is 

 estiniated at about 1,200,000, of whom the Bul- 

 garians form much the largest proportion. 



fluence also survived in the region north 

 of the Danube, where large military colo- 

 nies were formed. There is a strong^ 

 resemblance between the language of the 

 Macedonian Vlachs and that of the in- 

 habitants of Roumania, although there is 

 no political, and not much racial, kinship 

 between the two, and they are separated 

 from each other by a wide belt of purely 

 Slavonic country. 



The Vlachs of Macedonia are very 

 much scattered, their chief settlements 

 being on the Pindus Range and in the 

 neighborhood of Monastir, Metsovo, 

 Koritza, Krushevo, Vodena, etc. They 

 descend in winter as far as the Gulf of 

 Corinth, Avlona, and Durazzo, where 

 the word Vlach has come to be almost 

 synonymous with shepherd. 



They are an extremely intelligent, fine- 

 looking people, of considerable business 

 ability. Their towns and villages, which 

 are usually fotmd on the summit of hills, 

 are more solidly built than those of any 

 other Balkan race. Krushevo, which 

 suffered so heavily during a recent ris- 

 ing, was a notable instance. 



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