The Vlachs of Samarina (Greece)

The Great Dance: At the time of Christ, the Vlachs were shepherds, isolated from everything, living in almost complete self-sufficiency; they occupied the mountains of northern Greece. They were organized into close-knit clans and driven by a great desire to develop.
They acquired new power by becoming Roman citizens, were able to expatriate and adapt to the point of becoming indispensable. They became brewers in Hamburg, jewelers in Vienna, furriers in Budapest, flour millers in Alexandria, financiers in New York, teachers in Athens... without really having lost the spirit of the clan.
“La Grande Danse” is the story of a man who lives today in the montages of his ancestors. Once a year, his village organizes the Great Dance which brings together all the Vlachs, on the evening of August 15, in the highlands of Samarina.
Director: Despina PANTAZIS

[@dggmn2109]

As a roman/vlach ie latin speaking Greek/Romios thank you commentators for informing me that apparently I am Albanian, Serb, Bulgarian, Skopian, Romanian etc apparently my ancestors got their Greek ethnicity wrong because did not have youtubers to correct them.

[@user-cl2hq1ks5o]

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[@xmanxxx2000]

Good evening from New York, stop lying yourself and others we know the truth and the real truth is under their skin mate.

[@stanciuflorin5328]

VALAH,walahia ,România...

[@dggmn2109]

We know that Romanians are latin dacians like aromanians/ vlach are Latin speaking Greeks.

[@sinjarialbana]

My grandmother from mother line always said we are Sarakacans understand.Hello my lost brothers of lost holy Roman Empire

[@vera_val]

If they are greeks, why in Greece the term 'vlach' has a derogatory meaning?

[@cosmomusa]

used to mean the differentiation between city dwellers and country people, with a negative sign on the latter due to lack of education

[@johnavlakiotis]

the most fanatic GREEKS in Greece

[@HUNVeasnaRural]

Strange views❤❤❤

[@vera_val]

In public, greeks tear their clothes about how much greek the vlachs are, but in private conversations they claim the opposite. In fact, the greeks consider vlachs to be romanians.

[@dggmn2109]

Ya right and Hungarians consider the Romanians gipsies

[@nicolaefurtuna3906]

Iar românii îi considera pe unguri drept Mongolia.. 😅​@@dggmn2109

[@user-ez5ts3tr9x]

Καστοριά το λένε Βλάκα Αλβανε

[@Sofia-0001]

@@dggmn2109 You mean the Asian Mongols frame Carpathian Dacian majority as the 3% Indian minority?

[@dggmn2109]

@@Sofia-0001 No I mean the Eskimo albanians

[@southepirote7676]

Arta 🇦🇱 Preveza 🇦🇱 Janina 🇦🇱 Kosturi 🇦🇱 Florina 🇦🇱 Margalleci 🇦🇱 Peloponesi 🇦🇱. Te çlirome Çamerine qe tani! 🇦🇱🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

[@user-qn3my6ts1x]

Comment expliquez vous le nom de Valachie, etat constitue' au nord du Danube depuis 11-ieme siecle a. H., habite par VALAQUES, lequel au prezent fait partie de la Roumanie ?

[@miodragjordacijevic4525]

des valachies existere 2, valachia ripinis et valachia mediteranea, et les Roumans sont desandants des valques, autrement apple aussi le cincars,beaucoups ete au service de la 5eme legion de cesar d' ou cinci

[@user-qn3my6ts1x]

Meci, thank you for the answer. It is total correct. Then why they call them "latin speaking greeks"???

[@miodragjordacijevic4525]

La Walachie ripinis été du Danube à Nisus ou Niš d'aujourd'hui et la Walachie méditerranéen de Nisus à laTace c'est à dire le nord-est de la Grèce d'aujourd'hui tandis que la Roumanie d'aujourd'hui s'appellé la Dace ou Dachia ,le territoire de la Macédoine d'aujourd'hui été plutôt la Trace ou la Trachia et l'Albanie d'aujourd'hui n'a jamais existe sous le nom ALBANIE c'était une province Trace appelé Raban ALBANIE à eu le nom Albu ce que veut dire Blanc et c'est typique car les habitants portent un chapeau blanc le quetsche en tunique blanche ,le nord de la Grèce d'aujourd'hui été peuplé par des Grèce pendant la fin de l'empire Otmane il habité tous en Asie l'échange à eu à l'effondrement de l'empire Otmane, regardez dans les anales d'histoire vous allez trouver, et le terroir ou les Valaques habité il me semble l'avoir acheté une deuxième fois au Otmans auparavant il avez le droit valache déjà depuis le temps de Kostanin pour proliférer la religion chrétienne etc etc............

[@dibran_1]

Është shqip vlla kemi një gjak

[@Sofia-0001]

They invent Greek identities for the former real east Romans of Latin language, to assimilate them into Greeks.

[@Barkovsky251]

😳😳🌸

[@GrecoByzantine1821]

Greeks speaking a latin dialect with a lot of Greek words included! 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷

[@mickeymouse1697]

VLACHS ARE THE BIGGEST PATRIOTS IN GREECE AND THE GREATEST BENEFACTORS IN GREECE

[@Sofia-0001]

Except that they are not recognized as an ethnic minority and don't benefit from education in mother tongue, a totally different language than Greek.

[@Gerico9008]

@@Sofia-0001thanks to the greek chauvinism

[@dggmn2109]

@@Sofia-0001 We vlachs always used two languages to communicate, on every day interaction we used latin for written word we used Greek, in your case why do you speak the language of the roman invader that destroyed your culture, customs, way of life and adopted Greek and latin names and culture why you do not speak and write Dacian? Why romania does not recognize the Dacian ethic minority and does not educate dacians in their mother tongue a totally different language than romance?

[@MrQ454]

@@dggmn2109 Until the Dacians you will lost your language and traditions and become some Greek.

[@user-yf9yz5jj9j]

@@Sofia-0001 They do not want to be recognised as a minority, they feell and are Greek. Besides as wich ethnic minority should they be recognised, since they are a linguistic group only? Does Romania recognise a Vlach-minority?

[@terryeustice5399]

Not even sub titles. 🥲

[@Senoncifossimonoi.....]

Sembra certa gente dell' interno della Barbagia

[@Sofia-0001]

They can only tell you what they were told to tell, because their forefathers suffered dearly for claiming their own ethnic identity.

[@odysseasntalias5950]

Vlachs exist in Greece, if not always, at least 1000 years. They consider themselves greek , they were great patriots and benefactors of the greek state , they participated in all wars and national fights and in WW2 they participated in the resistance and rejected the nazi and romanian propaganda and ostracized a few vlach collaborators who expected benefits and power. This is the exact truth. All the other is malevolent propaganda of suspicious motivation!!! Even in albania , skopje and elsewhere in balkans vlachs were asking to be registered as greeks!!!

[@miodragjordacijevic4525]

D'ailleur ils exprime en Grec pas en Aroman

[@danielburlacu4621]

With the interviewer they speak greak. Between them, I hear them speaking aromanian.

[@dggmn2109]

I speak as a latin speaking aroman/roman/greek the only difference between me and a Greek speaking romios/roman/Greek is that the romios/Greek kept the Greek language whereas the aroman/Greek used Latin as well both we are Greek in every shape and form. Romanians are latinised Dacians to say that Latin speaking Greeks are Romanians is like saying that navajo Indians are the same as Australians because both speak english.

[@southepirote7676]

Golden dawn has really brainwashed you hard 🤣

[@dggmn2109]

@@southepirote7676 ya like albanians are brainwashed to believe that Dures and pogradec and apolonia etc are albanian cities that happen to have Greek and slav names.

[@mickeymouse1697]

@@southepirote7676 turko albanian muslim you can not hide

[@Sofia-0001]

@@dggmn2109 Chech historical documents and find out that Durres, Duraci was all the time in history, until 19 century, a majority Orthodox Vlach port. They had nothing to do with Greeks.

[@dggmn2109]

@@Sofia-0001 I know that the port of dures was inhabited by Aroman/Roman/Vlach/Greeks why do you think we gave a Greek name to the city of Dures to Moscopole/Voscopole etc?

[@mariadoloresalvaromanuel6321]

No está doblado al español, 🤷

[@Sofia-0001]

Indoctrination that Romance speaking east Romans of Balkans are somehow.. Greeks.

[@wardafournello]

Étymologie. Ελληνική Δωρική διάλεκτος "βλᾱχά," =Grec Doric dialekt '"vlaha" = bêler En grec moderne βλάχος-βλάχα =vlachos-vlacha Tribu Dorique du Pinde. Ils parlaient un dialecte latin comme les Aroumains. L'étymologie de l'allemand "Walachen " n'est pas correcte puisque les Allemands définissaient les Celtes, Wells,Welsch par le nom "Walachen ".

[@Sofia-0001]

Vlach = Pelag

[@LikeICare155]

Those are Serbs

[@alexandrutita4850]

Serbs? Ha ha, they are vlachs, they are like romanians. They speak a neo-latin language not a slavic one.

[@e.h97]

Ooooooomg you again?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@LikeICare155]

@@e.h97 not albanian bot

[@LikeICare155]

@@alexandrutita4850 you wish

[@LikeICare155]

@@e.h97 hello Berber

[@chrisapost5409]

They are orthodox christians they are Greeks

[@Sofia-0001]

Orthodoxy was adopted in 451 AD by the Latin Roman empire, specifically against the Monophysite Greeks. Greeks adopted Orthodoxy in 682 AD, after many Orthodox martyrs, specially during Monophysite Heraclid dynasty.

[@chrisapost5409]

@@Sofia-0001 Greece is the motherland of Orthodox Christianity to which the teaching of Christianity was directly transferred by the apostles of Jesus

[@Sofia-0001]

@@chrisapost5409 Forget this crap lies, Orthodoxy was implemented in the Roman empire at the Council of Calchedon, in 451 AD, by the Pope Leo I and empress Pulcheria, expressly AGAINST the Monophysite Greeks, led by then ex empress Eudokia, of Greek ethnicity. Was Roman Constantinople and Rome against Greek Alexandria and Antioch, demoted from equal status after that ecumenical council. Moreover the Orthodox suffererd dearly when the Monophysite Greeks came to power in 610 AD and between the Orthodox martylrs were Pope Martin and one of the most prolific Orthodox theologians Maxim the Confessor. The Greeks accepted Orthodoxy only after the mostly Greek regions of north west Africa and costal Levant fell to Arabs and the majority population left in the Balkans and around Constantinople were Orthodox Romans. That was the 4th ecumenical council in Constantinople, in 682 AD. Meanwhile most LATIN Romans were Orthodox since 451 AD.

[@nikravdos5723]

They are clearly Lithunians

[@dggmn2109]

Good point but I think they are navajo Indians

[@nikravdos5723]

@@dggmn2109 could be, amongst the blue eyed people I saw some dark skin faces as well...good point, thanks for mentioning

[@dggmn2109]

@@nikravdos5723 no worries

[@Sofia-0001]

lol They speak east Romance, like Romanians, you funny guys.

[@nikravdos5723]

@@Sofia-0001 yeah clearly Lithuania Romanians from Laponia

[@georgegeorgakopoulos5956]

One third of the population in Greece are turks,one third are gypsys,and one third are albanians(not the forced workers).

[@spyridonnotidis3392]

Greeks invented the wheelbarrow and the Albanians supplied the power to use it.

[@georgefakkas9797]

There is another 1/3,they are payed gay troll as you

[@stefanonorberti7933]

Cette massacre de moutons est horrible, atroce, barbare.

[@dimitriosvlissides5781]

Ma's pour la Paque tu ne mange pa's l agnieau.?

[@spyridonnotidis3392]

It seems that when the Roman Empire collapsed these people the Vlachis or most of them held their positions up on the mountains with their families and herds every five miles apart each family to serve the Romans it was the fastest way for passing messages along the Empire and being a watching dog The Vlachis who happened to be on the Greek land spoke Greek and Latin the ones who watched the Roumanian border spoke Greek and Latin that went on through different countries. nevertheless, all of them have Greek roots Kαι οπου φυσα ο ανεμος Αγαπαμε τους βλαχους μας

[@enikurti9005]

They are albanian.

[@troyscott9362]

The old man in 27:28 disagrees with you

[@kostasfpspro1706]

🤣

[@nikravdos5723]

can you stop trolling and accept how little you are inside historical time.

[@odysseasntalias5950]

In every video about balkans an albanian will "pop up like a fart" and start spreading the nonsense he learned from albanian tiktok scholars.... You forgot to write that jesus, Aristotle, Alexander the great, Julius Caesar, Napoleon , Einstein etc are albanians. So ridiculous sqiptar 😅😅😅😅

[@dggmn2109]

Ya they are albanian like the eskimos

[@user-vq6qi4kh8g]

Kasturi et non kostoria..Les Albanais expoulsse par les grecs...Haxhisemalis...Il parler Albanais et vous devez dire.. Arrête de manipuler l histoire...

[@georgegaitanidis2161]

Εισαι βλακας ? Αντε γαμισου εσυ και η αλβανια . Για την βορειο ηπειρο ?

[@miodragjordacijevic4525]

je suis cincar de cote de mon ariere grand pere mais d'ou je ne sais pas

[@miodragjordacijevic4525]

l'isoire est deja manipule depuis long temps pas maintenant

[@georgegaitanidis2161]

@@miodragjordacijevic4525 Να ρωτησης την μητερα σου , ποιος ειναι ο μπαμπα σου . Βλακα αλβανε

[@gathenien]

Les meilleirs grecs de la Crece moderne etaient des Donnateurs Valaques .La langue ne donne pas la nationalite , les francophone Africans ne son't pas des francais .Arrettez dire des betises surtout ceux des pays voisins qui veulemt voler par l histoire glorieuse de la Grece que tour le monde admire! qui n ont aucune histoire culturelle

[@southepirote7676]

Yeah, they are latinized Albanians eventually assimilated to Greek by the oppressive right wing Greek government led by Miqotaki

[@kostasfpspro1706]

They are VLACHS with GREEK consciousness. So they are Greek people. Cry more about it. Samarina is a greek village of Grevena. My one origin is from Grevena too from a village which is called Monachiti.

[@topg4717]

@@kostasfpspro1706I am vlach from Albania and we came from voskopoli

[@dggmn2109]

No they are angisized Chinese from North pole

[@dggmn2109]

​​@@topg4717tsi fatsi frate eu hiou di ameru

[@user-ez5ts3tr9x]

Albanian junk