Grecomans
{{Short description|Pejorative term for Southern Slavs, Aromanians and Albanians who self-identify as ethnic Greeks}}
Grecomans or Graecomans ({{langx|el|Γραικομάνοι|Graikománoi}}; {{langx|bg|Гъркомани|Gărkomani}}; {{langx|mk|Гркомани|Grkomani}}; {{langx|ro|Grecomani}}; {{langx|sq|Grekomanë}}; {{langx|rup|Gricumanji}}) is a pejorative term used in Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Romania, and Albania to characterize Albanian-speaking,{{harvnb|Skendi|1967|pp=151, 309}}. Aromanian-speaking,{{harvnb|Kahl|2002|p=151}}. and Slavic-speaking{{harvnb|Karakasidou|1997|p=106}}; {{harvnb|Mackridge|Yannakakis|1997|p=148 (Note #11)}}; {{harvnb|Nugent|2002|p=181}}; {{harvnb|Cowan|2000|p=40}}; {{harvnb|Danforth|1997|pp=245–246}}; {{harvnb|Kalyvas|2006|p=312 (Footnote #65)}}; {{harvnb|Rossos|2008|p=145}}; {{harvnb|Brown|2003|p=82}}. people who self-identify as ethnic Greeks. In the region of Macedonia it appeared during the 19th and early 20th century nationalist propaganda campaigns and the struggle for Macedonia.{{cite book |title=The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics, |author=Ivo Banac |publisher=Cornell University Press |date=1984 |isbn=0801494931 |page=313}}{{cite book|first=Hans|last=Vermeulen|chapter=Greek cultural dominance among the Orthodox population of Macedonia during the last period of Ottoman rule|title=Cultural Dominance in the Mediterranean Area|editor1-first=Anton|editor1-last=Blok|editor2-first=Henk|editor2-last=Driessen|location=Nijmegen |publisher=Katholieke Universiteit |url=https://www.academia.edu/1603900|pages=225–255|year=1984}} The term generally means "pretending to be a Greek" and implies a non-Greek origin.{{harvnb|Van Boeschoten|2006|p=367}}. Another meaning of the term is fanatic Greeks.{{cite web|title=The Macedonian Affair - A Historical Review of the Attempts to Create a Counterfeit Nation (Institute of International and Strategic Studies in Athens, Greece)|publisher=Hellenic Resources Network|year=1995–2009|access-date=12 February 2011|url=http://www.hri.org/docs/affair.html}} The term has been also employed by ethnic Macedonians against Slavic Macedonians with a Greek identity.{{harvnb|Danforth|1997|p=221}}. The "Grecomans" are regarded as ethnic Greeks in Greece, but as members of originally non-Greek, but subsequently Hellenized minorities, in the neighboring countries.{{harvnb|Kontogiorgi|2006|pp=233–234}}.
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- {{cite book|last=Brown|first=Keith|title=The Past in Question: Modern Macedonia and the Uncertainties of Nation|location=Princeton, New Jersey|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=2003|isbn=0-691-09995-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=48NyoQdOWH0C}}
- {{cite book|last=Cowan|first=Jane K.|title=Macedonia: The Politics of Identity and Difference|location=Sterling, Virginia|publisher=Pluto Press|year=2000|isbn=0-7453-1589-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SXGd04cB59EC}}
- {{cite book|last=Danforth|first=Loring M.|title=The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World|location=Princeton, New Jersey|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=1997|isbn=0-691-04356-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZmesOn_HhfEC}}
- {{cite journal|last=Kahl|first=Thede|author-link=Thede Kahl|title=The Ethnicity of Aromanians after 1990: The Identity of a Minority that Behaves like a Majority|journal=Ethnologia Balkanica|date=June 2002|url=https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=8532}}
- {{cite book|last=Kalyvas|first=Stathis N.|title=The Logic of Violence in Civil War|location=Cambridge, United Kingdom|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2006|isbn=0-521-85409-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jaTUJZlOykkC}}
- {{cite book|last=Karakasidou|first=Anastasia N.|title=Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood: Passages to Nationhood in Greek Macedonia, 1870-1990|location=Chicago, Illinois|publisher=University of Chicago Press|year=1997|isbn=0-226-42494-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vGQ2enTZWO4C}}
- {{cite book|last=Kontogiorgi|first=Elisabeth|title=Population Exchange in Greek Macedonia: The Rural Settlement of Refugees 1922-1930|location=Oxford, United Kingdom|publisher=Clarendon Press|year=2006|isbn=0-19-927896-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_OMkAAAAYAAJ}}
- {{cite book|last1=Mackridge|first1=Peter|last2=Yannakakis|first2=Eleni|title=Ourselves and Others: The Development of a Greek Macedonian Cultural Identity since 1912|location=Oxford, United Kingdom|publisher=Berg Publishers|year=1997|isbn=1-85973-138-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AiJvm924ankC}}
- {{cite book|last=Nugent|first=David|title=Locating Capitalism in Time and Space: Global Restructurings, Politics, and Identity|location=Stanford, California|publisher=Stanford University Press|year=2002|isbn=0-8047-4238-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MEhBHOk3QPMC}}
- {{cite book|last=Rossos|first=Andrew|title=Macedonia and the Macedonians: A History|location=Stanford, California|publisher=Hoover Press (Stanford University)|year=2008|isbn=978-0-8179-4882-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hE5PxJjrI8AC}}
- {{cite book|last=Skendi|first=Stavro|title=The Albanian National Awakening, 1878-1912|location=Princeton, New Jersey|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=1967|url=https://archive.org/details/albaniannational00sken|url-access=registration}}
- {{cite journal|last=Van Boeschoten|first=Riki|title=Code-switching, Linguistic Jokes and Ethnic Identity: Reading Hidden Transcripts in a Cross-cultural Context|journal=Journal of Modern Greek Studies|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|volume=24|year=2006|pages=347–377|doi=10.1353/mgs.2006.0018}}
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{{Ethnic slurs}}
{{Aromanians}}
Category:Cultural assimilation