Historically, they were an isolated group who focused on preserving their culture, language and identity and on nomadic pastoralism.
However, from the second half of the 20th century, the Serbian Aromanians would begin to put aside this practice and migrate to the cities, where they would be subject to assimilation.
Upon arriving, the Aromanians started being called Tsintsars by the Serbs, name that they ended up adopting and the one that they insist that it be used to refer to them today.
[3] Today, the Aromanians in Serbia do not conform compact communities anywhere in the country and live scattered throughout it, living mostly in Serbian cities such as in Knjaževac, Pančevo, Smederevo and, specially, Belgrade and Niš.
[2] They reached this threshold in the 2022 census, in which 327 persons declared Aromanian ethnicity.