Pejorative term for Greek-identifying people
Grecomans or Graecomans (Greek : Γραικομάνοι , romanized : Graikománoi Bulgarian : Гъркомани , romanized : Gărkomani Macedonian : Гркомани , romanized : Grkomani Romanian : Grecomani ; Albanian : Grekomanë ; Aromanian : Gricumanji ) is a pejorative term used in Bulgaria , North Macedonia , Romania , and Albania to characterize Albanian-speaking ,[ 1] Aromanian-speaking ,[ 2] Slavic-speaking [ 3] Greeks . In the region of Macedonia it appeared during the 19th and early 20th century nationalist propaganda campaigns and the struggle for Macedonia .[ 4] [ 5] [ 6] fanatic Greeks .[ 7] Greece , but as members of originally non-Greek, but subsequently Hellenized minorities, in the neighboring countries.[ 8] rise of nationalism in the Ottoman empire they used to identify themselves as Ottoman Greeks as part of the Rum millet .[ 9]
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References
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