The Society Farsharotu[1] (Aromanian: Sutsata Fãrshãrotu; Romanian: Societatea Fărșârotul), officially the Aromanian Cultural Society Farsharotu,[1] is an organization of Aromanians in the United States, with its headquarters at Trumbull, Connecticut.[2][3] The Aromanians are a Balkan ethnic group scattered over many countries in the region. These are Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, North Macedonia, Romania and Serbia.[4] The organization's former full name used to be "Romanian Cultural and Benevolent Society Farsarotul".[5]
| Sutsata Fãrshãrotu Societatea Fărșârotul | |
 Logo of the Society Farsharotu | |
| Formation | 1903 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Nicolae Cican |
| Type | NGO |
| Headquarters | Trumbull, Connecticut |
| Location | |
| Website | Official website |
The Society Farsharotu was the first Aromanian association in the United States and it was founded in 1903 by Nicolae Cican and other Aromanian emigrants from Albania, the north of Greece and Serbia.[6][7] The Aromanians are divided into several subgroups, one of them being the Farsherots, whose name comes from the village of Frashër in Albania.[8] The Society Farsharotu publishes The Newsletter of the Society Farsharotu twice a year. It is available on the website of the association.[4]
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edit- ^ a b "Welcome to the Aromanian Cultural Society Farsharotu". Society Farsharotu. Archived from the original on 5 March 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
In 2021, the Society changed the spelling of its name from 'Farsarotul' to 'Farsharotu' to reflect its pronunciation in English.
- ^ Ružica, Miroslav (2006). "The Balkan Vlachs/Aromanians awakening, national policies, assimilation". Proceedings of the Globalization, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflicts in the Balkans and Its Regional Context: 28–30. S2CID 52448884.
- ^ Abadzi, Helen (2004). "The Vlachs of Greece and their misunderstood history". The Newsletter of the Society Farsharotu. 17.
- ^ a b Kahl, Thede (2002). "The ethnicity of Aromanians after 1990: the identity of a minority that behaves like a majority". Ethnologia Balkanica. 6: 145–169.
- ^ Ethnic Forum: Bulletin of Ethnic Studies and Ethnic Bibliography. Vol. 9–11. Kent State University. 1989.
- ^ Andrica, Theodore (2020). "Romanian Americans and their communities of Cleveland" (PDF). MSL Academic Endeavors. pp. 1–216.
- ^ Motta, Giuseppe (2011). "The Fight for Balkan Latinity. The Aromanians until World War I" (PDF). Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences. 2 (3): 252–260. doi:10.5901/mjss.2011.v2n3p252. ISSN 2039-2117.
- ^ Bogdan, Gheorghe (2011). Memory, identity, typology: An interdisciplinary reconstruction of Vlach ethnohistory (PDF) (Thesis). University of British Columbia. doi:10.24124/2011/bpgub802.