The unpublished memoirs of Giotis (Panagiotis) Naoum about the walachs of epirus and Macedonia in the 19th c and the 1878 revolution in Macedonia
Abstract
Here are published the Memoirs (manuscript) of the Greek Walach
Giotis (Panagiotis) Naoum (1874-1966), born at Véroia and died in Bucha
rest where he had emigrated.
The text of the Memoirs is in Roumanian and was translated in Greek
by Georgios Ad. Caprinis (1895-1971), born and died in Véroia, also a Wa
lach and relative of the author.
Giotis Naoum’s Memoirs are based on narrations by people who lived
during the immigrations of the Walachs from the villages of Pindos—Avdela,
Samarina, Gramosta, Smixi, Perivoli etc.—which were the result of the per
secutions and unbearable oppression by Ali-Pasha Tepelenlis of Ioannina.
The text is very interesting and is presenting new information about the
Walachs of Pindos, displacements, history, way of life, economy etc., and
about the administration, security and other subjects concerning the Otto
man Empire during the 19th C.
The family (falkari) Badralexis is playing a leading role in all the events.
In the second part of the Memoirs, there is information about the con
tribution of the Koutsowalachs in the revolutionary movements of Macedonia
in 1878 (Litohoro, Kolindros, monastery of Aghioi Pandes). In this revolution, the contribution of Pavlos Badralexis and other Kou tsowalachs was very important and Giotis Naoum, relative of Badralexis, gives new details about the events.
The publisher of the Memoirs is considering the problems the text is
presenting and is commenting on it giving at the same time Greek and fo
reign bibliography.
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Χιονίδης Γ. Χ. (1984). The unpublished memoirs of Giotis (Panagiotis) Naoum about the walachs of epirus and Macedonia in the 19th c and the 1878 revolution in Macedonia. Makedonika, 24(1), 36–98. https://doi.org/10.12681/makedonika.261
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