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Nicolae Velo

Nicolae Velo

Aromanian poet and diplomat

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. After studying at the school in his hometown, Velo entered the Romanian Lyceum of Bitola [bg], still in the Ottoman Empire, and later the now defunct Higher School of State Sciences of Bucharest, Romania, after which he became part of the Romanian diplomatic corps.[1]

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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").[3] He died in 1924.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    Mladin, Constantin Ioan (2014). "Contacte macedo-române – rememorări, completări, rectificări". Annales Universitatis Apulensis. Series Philologica (in Romanian). 15 (1): 37–48.
  2. [2]
    Hangeara, Thanas (July 2010). "MINDUERURI (OPINIONURI) – Ti poema "Moscopolea" scriata di Nicolae Velo" (PDF). Fârshârotu (in Aromanian). Vol. 33. pp. 14–16.
  3. [3]
    Petcu, Marian (2016). Istoria jurnalismului din România în date: enciclopedie cronologică (in Romanian). Elefant Online. p. 1915. ISBN 9789734638543.
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