Society Farsharotu

{{Short description|Aromanian cultural organization in the United States}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}

{{Expand Romanian|date=January 2025}}

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| name = Society Farsharotu

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| logo_caption = Logo of the Society Farsharotu

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| headquarters = Trumbull, Connecticut

| founder = Nicolae Cican

| location = United States

| type = NGO

| formation = {{start date and age|1903}}

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| website = {{Official website|farsharotu.org}}

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The Society Farsharotu, officially the Aromanian Cultural Society Farsharotu,{{cite web|url=https://farsharotu.org/|title=Welcome to the Aromanian Cultural Society Farsharotu|publisher=Society Farsharotu|accessdate=28 February 2022|quote=In 2021, the Society changed the spelling of its name from 'Farsarotul' to 'Farsharotu' to reflect its pronunciation in English.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305114018/https://farsharotu.org/|archive-date=5 March 2022|url-status=live}} is an organization of Aromanians in the United States, with its headquarters at Trumbull, Connecticut.{{cite journal|title=The Balkan Vlachs/Aromanians awakening, national policies, assimilation|first=Miroslav|last=Ružica|journal=Proceedings of the Globalization, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflicts in the Balkans and Its Regional Context|year=2006|pages=28–30|s2cid=52448884}}{{cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/3804965|title=The Vlachs of Greece and their misunderstood history|first=Helen|last=Abadzi|journal=The Newsletter of the Society Farsharotu|volume=17|year=2004}} The Aromanians are a Balkan ethnic group scattered over many countries in the region. These are Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, North Macedonia, Romania and Serbia.{{cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/34296221|title=The ethnicity of Aromanians after 1990: the identity of a minority that behaves like a majority|first=Thede|last=Kahl|author-link=Thede Kahl|journal=Ethnologia Balkanica|volume=6|pages=145–169|year=2002}} The organization was formerly named the "Sperantsa Romanian Society of Help and Culture"{{cite journal|url=https://www.mcser.org/images/stories/2_journal/mjssso203september2011/28.%20motta.pdf|title=The Fight for Balkan Latinity. The Aromanians until World War I|first=Giuseppe|last=Motta|journal=Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences|volume=2|issue=3|pages=252–260|year=2011|issn=2039-2117|doi=10.5901/mjss.2011.v2n3p252|doi-access=free}} and the "Romanian Cultural and Benevolent Society Farsarotul".{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B5UMAQAAMAAJ|title=Ethnic Forum: Bulletin of Ethnic Studies and Ethnic Bibliography|publisher=Kent State University|volume=9–11|year=1989}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/286697183.pdf|title=Romanian Americans and their communities of Cleveland|first=Theodore|last=Andrica|publisher=MSL Academic Endeavors|pages=1–216|year=2020}} The Aromanians are divided into several subgroups, one of them being the Farsherots, whose name comes from the village of Frashër in Albania.{{cite thesis|url=https://dinitrandu.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/235433335-Memory-Identity-Typology-An-interdisciplinary-reconstruction-of-Vlach-ethnohistory.pdf|title=Memory, identity, typology: An interdisciplinary reconstruction of Vlach ethnohistory|first=Gheorghe|last=Bogdan|publisher=University of British Columbia|year=2011|doi=10.24124/2011/bpgub802|doi-access=free}} The Society Farsharotu publishes The Newsletter of the Society Farsharotu twice a year. It is available on the website of the association.