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such as Tatar Bazarjik and Philippopolis and it is noticeable that Bulgarian commercial establishments, such as the Bulgarian National Bank, recruit their staff among the boys who have been trained in the Roumanian Commercial School at Salonica. The main point of the interest of the Vlach colon}^ in Sofia is that it is the result of what might be called secondary migration. The Vlachs of Sofia have mostly come from Monastir, Krushevo and Magarova during the last thirty years, and as we have seen the bulk of the Vlachs of the Monastir district were refugees from Pindus, Gramos or MuskopoFe. The most easterly Vlach colony of which we have heard, apart from that at Constantinople, is at Sufli on the railway a little to the south of Dimotika where a band of wanderers from Laka have settled. In Servia there are Vlachs in Nish, Belgrade, Vrania and other towns and in summer a number of shepherd families are to be found close to Nish.
The
number
Vlachs in Bulgaria and Servia is not is a clear distinction between the Vlachs of the south and the Roumanians proper, some of whom Hve south of the Danube in the districts of Timok and Viddin. The two divisions overlap a little, but speaking generally one may say that north of Nish and Sofia are great
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at present at least there
Roumanians and south
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it
are Vlachs.
From the Vlachs in Servia, Bulgaria, East Macedonia and Thrace we may turn to those in the west of the peninsula, in
A few have already been noted, since the Zaghori villages are strictly speaking in Epirus, and Kortsha and MuskopoFe are more in Albania than not. All of these however are on the central line of mountains that divides the peninsula, rather than definitely west of it like the settlements that now concern us. There are some Vlachs permanently settled in Yannina, and a large part of the Greek population there is almost certainly of Vlach origin there are also a few families in Preveza and other towns but apart from these and the Zaghori villages there are no Vlachs in Epirus except the families who come there only in winter from Siraku and other Pindus villages. In Albania however there are two definite groups. A Epirus, Albania and Dalmatia on the Adriatic slope. of these
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