Zinzares
Name “tsintsars” to indicate Aroumains, in Serbia, must be put in connection with the frequency of the sound “ts” in Aroumain. The Serb ones would have called them thus, suggests a version circulating especially among Aroumains, because they saw in them the children of the tsar, of the emperor (of Rome).
According to François Lenormant, “one calls them zinzares or “mosquitos” because of their whistling pronunciation, that the Greeks, with the medium of which they live, compare with the buzz insects ( Eastern and American Revue , v. IX-1865, p. 243). It is under this name that Aroumains appear in the New universal Geography (the Earth and the Men, volume 1, Paris, 1876, p. 64,175,183-184) of Elisee Reclus.
The Serbo-croatian writer of language Borislav Pekić their devoted a novel in seven volumes reconstituting their epopee, the Golden Fleece , of which three were translated into French. In the postface of the first volume (http://www.lekti-ecriture.com/contrefeux/Des-Aroumains-aux-Tsintsares.html), Nicolas Trifon gives a progress report on the place of Tsintsars (alias Zinzares or Aroumains) at the same time in the romantic saga of Pekić and the Serb company these the last two centuries.
Synonym of “miserly” or of “petty and rough tradesman to the profit” in Serbia, the word tsintsar is thus a not very flattering exonyme. Population originating in Macedonia, Thessalie and Epire Aroumains which was established in Serbia starting from the beginning of the XIXe century played a key part in the rise of capitalism in this country.
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