romanians, sometimes also known as Vlachs (or historically as Macedo-Romanians), are speakers of Eastern Romance language varieties living across the Balkan peninsula from Romania to Greece. They identify variously, including some as descending from ancient Macedonians or Romans, and others as part of different national groups. By 1918, in the wake of the Ottoman Empire's collapse, Aromanians had became a marginalized minority within Greece, Bulgaria, Albania, and what became Yugoslavia. Significant numbers of Aromanians reached the U.S. between 1900 and 1920, with many settling in Manhattan and others in the Bronx (around 175th and Washington), and there was even a short-lived Aromanian newspaper in New York called Curierul Roman. Today, Society Farsarotul in Connecticut serves as one community institution. According to one community member, most Aromanians in the city now live dispersed among New York’s Albanian, Greek, and Romanian communities in western Queens.