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The maps and Bulgarian statistics are no more reliable or believable than the Verković's quote itself. Besides, as you have yourself admitted they come no less than 40 years after Verković made that statement.
Are the following historical testimonies also dismissed as impossible?
1) Anonymi Descriptio Europae orientalis. Imperium Constantinopolitanum, Albania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Ruthenia, Ungaria, Polonia, Bohemia. Anno MCCCVIII exarata. Cracoviae, 1916: As per the anonymous traveler of Eastern Europe from the XIV century, it is stated that Vlachs (whom the author calls "Blasi"), are a numerous people living between Macedonia, Achaia and Salonika.
2) Johann Thunmann, Untersuchungen uber die Geschichte der ostlichen europaischen Volker, I. Leipzig, 1774: The author states that Vlachs represent half the population of Thrace, and three quarters of inhabitants of Thessaly and Macedonia.
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Somewhat unrelated to above.
3) Romans settled large groups of Italians throughout Macedonia.
4) From 1885, Vasile Maniu.
"Forgotten are even those Vlachs of Macedonia, who even in the times of the Crusades had such a power and colonized the interior of the peninsula, the "Weiles Skurta", on Mount Athos, these Vlachs are all forgotten: Morias, Romei, also Flacci or Volci..."
5) The following comes from Миленко Филиповић (Milenko Filipovic), from the book called Цинцари у Босни (Cincari/Aromanians in Bosnia).
- "natione Graeco-Valachus vulgo Czinczar"
- In Vojvodina "in the 17th century, (known) under the name of the Greeks"
In the same book, on page 74 M. Filipovic talks about the origin of the family Bokaris or Botsarić of Bosnia (which is very similar if not the same as Botsaris):
"Kao sto sam ranije izneo, u Banjoj Luci je moglo biti Cincara vec u pocetku druge polovine 18 veka. Po mom licnom saznanju, u Banjoj Luci su bili cincarskog porekla Zite, koji su izumrli u muskoj lozi. Bili su dosli od Korce, a tek ovde primili slavu sv. Djordja. Cincarskog porekla su i Petrušići ("Petrusi"), ciji je predak drzao han na Sitnici kod Banja Luke. Slusao sam da je nekada u Banjoj Luci ziveo i neki Cincarin koji je pravio ikone. Taj ikonopisac mogao bi biti, kako me je obavestio Đoko Mazalić, poznati slikar i istoricar umetnosti na tlu Bosne i Hercegovine, Atanasije Bokaris, docnije Bocarić, ciji je bio sin ili brat i poznati srpski slikar Špiro Bocarić. Bocarići su bili poreklom iz Makedonije ili Soluna: Atanasije je ucio slikanje u Solunu."
Translation:
"As I mentioned earlier, in Banja Luka, there could have been Aromanians already at the beginning of the second half of the 18th century. According to my personal knowledge, in Banja Luka Zita family were of Aromanian stock, which are extinct on paternal side. They came from Korcha (Albania), and only here they received or adopted the "slava" of St. George. Of Aromanian origin are the Petrusici ('Petrusi'), whose ancestor kept the inn on Sitnica near Banja Luka. I have heard that in Banja Luka, there lived some Aromanian, who made icons. This icon painter could have been, as Djoko Mazalić informed me, a famous painter and art historian in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Atanasije Bokaris, later Botsarić, whose son was (or brother) the famous Serbian painter Špiro Botsarić. The Botsarić family were originally from Macedonia or Solun: Atanasije studied painting in Solun."
(It is very likely that Atan. Bokaris was a Greek-speaker.)
Are the following historical testimonies also dismissed as impossible?
1) Anonymi Descriptio Europae orientalis. Imperium Constantinopolitanum, Albania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Ruthenia, Ungaria, Polonia, Bohemia. Anno MCCCVIII exarata. Cracoviae, 1916: As per the anonymous traveler of Eastern Europe from the XIV century, it is stated that Vlachs (whom the author calls "Blasi"), are a numerous people living between Macedonia, Achaia and Salonika.
2) Johann Thunmann, Untersuchungen uber die Geschichte der ostlichen europaischen Volker, I. Leipzig, 1774: The author states that Vlachs represent half the population of Thrace, and three quarters of inhabitants of Thessaly and Macedonia.
================================================== =================================================
Somewhat unrelated to above.
3) Romans settled large groups of Italians throughout Macedonia.
4) From 1885, Vasile Maniu.
"Forgotten are even those Vlachs of Macedonia, who even in the times of the Crusades had such a power and colonized the interior of the peninsula, the "Weiles Skurta", on Mount Athos, these Vlachs are all forgotten: Morias, Romei, also Flacci or Volci..."
5) The following comes from Миленко Филиповић (Milenko Filipovic), from the book called Цинцари у Босни (Cincari/Aromanians in Bosnia).
- "natione Graeco-Valachus vulgo Czinczar"
- In Vojvodina "in the 17th century, (known) under the name of the Greeks"
In the same book, on page 74 M. Filipovic talks about the origin of the family Bokaris or Botsarić of Bosnia (which is very similar if not the same as Botsaris):
"Kao sto sam ranije izneo, u Banjoj Luci je moglo biti Cincara vec u pocetku druge polovine 18 veka. Po mom licnom saznanju, u Banjoj Luci su bili cincarskog porekla Zite, koji su izumrli u muskoj lozi. Bili su dosli od Korce, a tek ovde primili slavu sv. Djordja. Cincarskog porekla su i Petrušići ("Petrusi"), ciji je predak drzao han na Sitnici kod Banja Luke. Slusao sam da je nekada u Banjoj Luci ziveo i neki Cincarin koji je pravio ikone. Taj ikonopisac mogao bi biti, kako me je obavestio Đoko Mazalić, poznati slikar i istoricar umetnosti na tlu Bosne i Hercegovine, Atanasije Bokaris, docnije Bocarić, ciji je bio sin ili brat i poznati srpski slikar Špiro Bocarić. Bocarići su bili poreklom iz Makedonije ili Soluna: Atanasije je ucio slikanje u Solunu."
Translation:
"As I mentioned earlier, in Banja Luka, there could have been Aromanians already at the beginning of the second half of the 18th century. According to my personal knowledge, in Banja Luka Zita family were of Aromanian stock, which are extinct on paternal side. They came from Korcha (Albania), and only here they received or adopted the "slava" of St. George. Of Aromanian origin are the Petrusici ('Petrusi'), whose ancestor kept the inn on Sitnica near Banja Luka. I have heard that in Banja Luka, there lived some Aromanian, who made icons. This icon painter could have been, as Djoko Mazalić informed me, a famous painter and art historian in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Atanasije Bokaris, later Botsarić, whose son was (or brother) the famous Serbian painter Špiro Botsarić. The Botsarić family were originally from Macedonia or Solun: Atanasije studied painting in Solun."
(It is very likely that Atan. Bokaris was a Greek-speaker.)
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