Nicolae C. Velo (1882–1924) was an Aromanian poet and diplomat in Romania.
He was born in 1882 in Malovište (Aromanian: Mulovishti), then in the Ottoman Empire and now in North Macedonia.
[1] His most important works are the epic poems of Moscopolea ("Moscopole") and Șana și-ardirea a Gramostil'ei ("Șana and the Burning of Gramos"), written in a mixture of the Gramostean, Farsherot and Pindean dialects of the Aromanian language and with influences from the Romanian poet George Coșbuc.
[1] In Moscopolea, he refers to the former metropolis of Moscopole today in Albania, which was mostly Aromanian-inhabited, as the "Third Rome", lamenting its destruction.
[2] Velo was also an editor of the Aromanian newspaper Românul de la Pind ("The Romanian of the Pindus").