Romanian ethnic Vlachs. Dafydd Ellis. A Welsh soldier, a medical orderly, in World War I, deserted and apparently lived among the Vlachs, a group identified with Romanian gypsies at the time, and currently. He and friends had been known to frequent a shepherd community, perhaps that Romanian "Gypsy", and ultimately is believed to have continued to live but in Macedonia.
Dafydd Ellis: In 1918, he went missing from Salonika, where he was stationed at a quiet field hospital far from any fighting, a teacher, a poet, a pacifist, who found that he was likely to be confronted with orders to serve with a combat unit, despite earlier military promises contrary. See The Forgotten Story of Dafydd Ellis, at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.news.macedonia/_2Gl4IjKQyg and http://www.farsarotul.org/nl21_6.htm.
A film of this experience would educate and enrich many. Carpathian origins now spread to Texas, see http://www.txczgs.org/dna.html
Adding to fine galleries: See Romania. http://www.pbase.com/bauer/romania&page=all.
Dafydd Ellis: In 1918, he went missing from Salonika, where he was stationed at a quiet field hospital far from any fighting, a teacher, a poet, a pacifist, who found that he was likely to be confronted with orders to serve with a combat unit, despite earlier military promises contrary. See The Forgotten Story of Dafydd Ellis, at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.news.macedonia/_2Gl4IjKQyg and http://www.farsarotul.org/nl21_6.htm.
A film of this experience would educate and enrich many. Carpathian origins now spread to Texas, see http://www.txczgs.org/dna.html
- The migratory Vlachs historically survived assimilation and spread their areas in ways surprising for a culture with few books in their language, although it is a Romance-rooted language, and peaceable culture. Now, however, they are under cultural siege, another human resource being decimated by fast communications, see this overview of Balkan, Greek, Romanian Vlachs, at http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/albania/balkan-vlachs-born-assimilate Areas of trade routes and herding necessarily mix ethnic groups from other lands, as well as local. The history of the Vlachs, see http://www.eliznik.org.uk/RomaniaHistory/Vlach-north.htm/, and www.eliznik.org.uk/RomaniaHistory/vlach-south/.showVlachs extending through many countries, including Greece (Macedonia), Albania and Bulgaria.
Adding to fine galleries: See Romania. http://www.pbase.com/bauer/romania&page=all.
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