Romania has no intention of blocking Serbia's EU candidacy status, despite what it perceives as problems with the
Vlach minority in the country.
By contrast, the presence of
Vlachs north of the Danube is attested by an eleventh-century rune-stone from the Sjonhem cemetery on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea.
Flokati rugs can trace their history back to the
Vlachs, who inhabited the northern mountain regions of Greece.
Krusevo is said to have been formed in 1467 when it was populated only by Macedonians, while the first
Vlachs came in 1769.
The book is peopled with Albanians, Bulgars, Circassians, Donmehs, Franks, Greeks, Gypsies, Macedonians, Mongols, Serbs, Tatars, Turks and
Vlachs. Traders and travellers arrived from Beirut, Genoa, Venice, Smyrna and, of course, Constantinople.
It makes it clear that this means the Macedonian Slavs, by specifically granting equal rights to "Albanians, Turks,
Vlachs, Romanies and other nationalities".