page_title: Megleno-Romanians
section_title: Demographic history
hierarchical_section_title: Megleno-Romanians / Demographic history
caption_attribution_description: Български: Румънски училища в Македония през 1899 година. Deutsch: Rumänische Schulen für Aromunen und Meglenorumänen im Osmanischen Reich (1886). Rumänische Schulen für Aromunen und Meglenorumänen im Osmanischen Reich (1886) als Beispiel für die Durchdringung Makedoniens durch Schulen der Nachbarländer. English: Map showing areas with Romanian schools for Aromanians and Megleno-Romanians in the European side of the Ottoman Empire (1886). Esperanto: Rumanaj lernejoj por arumano-anoj kaj meglenorumano-anoj en la Otomana Imperio (1886). Français&#160;: Carte de 1886 montrant les zones où fonctionnaient des écoles roumaines pour les aroumaines dans l'Empire ottoman. Română: Şcoli româneşti în Imperiul Otoman (1886). Русский: Школы для арумын и мегленорумын в Османской империи (1886). Türkçe: Osmanlı İmparatorluğundaki Aroman ve Megleno-romanlar (1886).
context_page_description: The Megleno-Romanians, Moglenite Vlachs or simply Meglenites or Vlachs are a small Eastern Romance people, originally inhabiting seven villages in the Moglena region spanning the Pella and Kilkis regional units of Central Macedonia, Greece, and one village, Huma, across the border in North Macedonia. These people live in an area of approximately 300 km² in size. Unlike the Aromanian Vlachs, the other Romance speaking population in the same historic region, the Meglen Vlachs are traditionally sedentary agriculturalists, and not traditionally transhumants.
  They speak a Romance language most often called by linguists Megleno-Romanian or Meglenitic in English, and βλαχομογλενίτικα or simply μογλενίτικα in Greek. The people themselves call their language vlahește, but the Megleno-Romanian diaspora in Romania also uses the term meglenoromână.
  Unlike the other Balkan Romance populations, over time Megleno-Romanians have laid aside a name for themselves which originates in the Latin Romanus, and instead have adopted the term Vlasi or Vlashi, derived from "Vlachs", a general term by which, in the Middle Ages, non-Romance peoples designated Romance peoples and shepherds.
context_section_description: The number of Megleno-Romanians was estimated by different authors as follows:
  14,000 in 1892
  21,700 in 1895
  11,960 in 1900
  20,000 in 1902
  14,720 in 1925
  In 1900, the then province of Gevgelija, which contained most of the Megleno-Romanian settlements, had a population of 49,315, of which 20,643 Slavs, 14,900 Turks, 9,400 Christian Aromanians and Megleno-Romanians, 3,500 Muslim Megleno-Romanians, 655 Gypsies, and 187 Circassians. The villages of Meglen Vlachs had in 1900 the following populations: 
  ¹Aromanian village surround by the Megleno-Romanian ones.
caption: Romanian schools for Aromanians and Megleno-Romanians in the Ottoman Empire (1886)
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