Aromanian literature

In the 18th century, the first authors who wrote and published their works in the Aromanian language appeared in Moscopole,[1] an important Aromanian-inhabited commercial and industrial center during the 18th-century Ottoman Empire.

[3] Some authors, including the Romanian Aromanian historian Stoica Lascu, have referred to this period in the second half of the 18th century as the "first Aromanian renaissance", which would have taken place due to the influence of the ideas of the Age of Enlightenment and the assumption of an ethnic and linguistic identity other than the Greek one by these early authors.

[4] The verses of the inscription of the Simota Vase represent the first known poem in Aromanian,[5] being dated to the 18th century.

[11] In 1922, the Romanian Aromanian folklorist and linguist Tache Papahagi published his Antologie aromânească ("Aromanian Anthology"), an anthology featuring a selection of Aromanian folk literary texts (proverbs, riddles, lyrical poems, ballads, legends, stories, traditions and fairy tales), cultured literature (extracts from works by Araia, Batzaria, Belimace, Beza, Leon Boga, Tache Caciona, Ceara, Ion Foti, Murnu, Tulliu, Velo and others), folk music and a glossary.

[15] The founder of this literary trend was Boga with his epic poem of 150 sonnets Voshopolea ("Moscopole"), with other Aromanian writers who wrote on Moscopole including Batzaria,[16] Nicolae Caratană [bg; ro; rup], Foti, Kira Mantsu and Velo.