The local population often refers to them as Vllehë, Çobenjë (from Turkish çoban, "shepherd"), Xacët or Xinxarët, Gogët, and Llacifacët.

Assimilation and identification have been and continue to be a complex issue relating to the Aromanians of Albania and the wider Balkans.

The city was razed to the ground by Ali Pasha of Ioannina in 1788, causing an exodus of Aromanian people across the Balkans.

The largest concentration of Aromanians was in the Pelister region of North Macedonia, the city of Kruševo and around the Lake Prespa.

The first wave of depopulation took place in the 17th century, when Grabova shared the fate of Moscopole and during the inter-war period, starting with 1931, many of Grabovars emigrated to Elbasan and Lushnjë.

In 1933, 15 families from the village emigrated to Romania; they initially settled in Southern Dobruja and then, in 1940, in the village of Nisipari, Constanța County, from where they moved to the larger nearby towns (Medgidia, Ovidiu, Constanța ) Another important immigration began in 1950, when communist authorities used the craftsmen from Grabova to build the industrial units in Korçë, Pogradec, Gramsh, Elbasan, and Tirana.

In Korçë (Aromanian: Curceaua, Curceauã, Curceau or Curciau), they have an Aromanian-language church named St. Sotir (Ayiu Sutir).

Aromanian-language media include the newspapers Popullorë and Ta Néa tis Omónias, both being pro-Greek.

[10] In 2004 Arno Tanner pointed out Albania as the only country where Vlachs make a relatively significant percentage of population, around 2%.

It is known as the Alliance for Equality and European Justice (ABDE), it was founded in 2011[12] and aims for the unification of all the Albanian Aromanians.