Constantin Noe (1883 – 6 June 1939) was a Megleno-Romanian editor and professor. He was born in 1883 in the Megleno-Romanian village of Lagkadia ( in Megleno-Romanian), then in the

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and now in

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. He was one of the best students of the Romanian High School of Bitola, from which he graduated in 1903. On the same year, Noe became professor in several of the Romanian schools in the Balkans and one of the main figures of the Megleno-Romanian national movement. In 1907, he and several others of his colleagues were arrested and sentenced to four months in prison under the pretext of not using books approved by the General Directorate of Education of the

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of the Ottoman Empire in the schools they were teaching at. After being released, Noe migrated to

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and became secretary of the National Museum of Antiquities in

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from 1907 to 1911. During his stay in Bucharest, he was editor of the newspaper '' Românul de la Pind'' ("The Romanian of the Pindus") for almost two years. In 1909, Noe received a scholarship from the Faculty of Letters of the

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, graduating four years later with a degree in geography and history. In 1913, the published his French-language memorial ''Les Roumains Koutzo-Valaques. Les populations macedoniennes et la crise balkanique'' ("The Kutso-Vlach Romanians. The Macedonian Populations and the Balkan Crisis"), in which he advocated the establishment of an

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–"Romanian" (the latter referring to the

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) independent state in the

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on the federal model of

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. In 1913, Noe fought in the

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as part of the 7th Vânători Regiment of the

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. For this, he received the . Afterwards, he migrated to

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, then under

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, where he associated himself with important figures of the

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national movement of the region such as

Ștefan Cicio Pop Ștefan Cicio Pop (1 April 1865 – 16 February 1934) was a Romanian politician. Biography Born in Șigău, Sajgó, Belső-Szolnok County, Principality of Transylvania (1711–1867), Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire, Pop's matern ...

and

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, among others. In Transylvania, Noe collaborated in the newspapers ''Românul'' ("The Romanian") in Arad and ''Transilvania'' ("Transylvania") in

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, becoming in 1916 editor for the French-language ''Journal des Balkans''. Noe then emigrated to

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, then under the

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, in 1918; Noe was among the editors of the first issue of the newspaper '' România Nouă'' ("New Romania"), being also the editorial secretary of the daily ''

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'' ("Council of the Country"). Later in 1918, Bessarabia united with Romania, and Noe was given the for his pro-union and anti-

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efforts. On 10 July 1919, Noe, together with Epaminonda Balamace and Gheorghe Mecu, founded the ''Glasul Țarii'' ("Voice of the Country")

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and

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, and on 1 November 1920, he founded the daily ''Dreptatea'' ("Righteousness"), which he directed along Hr. Dăscălescu. Noe returned to Bucharest in 1924, becoming professor in the Gheorghe Lazăr National College, the , the

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and the Mihai Eminescu National College, being transferred in 1929 to be professor in the Mihai Viteazul National College. In the latter, he was appointed permanently in 1931, and Noe performed his activities in the high school until 6 June 1939, when he died. Noe was an important figure in the ambit of the Aromanians and Megleno-Romanians. He was the president of the Meglenia Cultural Society and secretary of the

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. Noe played a key role in the migration to Romania of Megleno-Romanians and also of Aromanians from villages nearby to the Megleno-Romanian settlements that took place mainly between 1923 and 1925. This was as a consequence of the various wars (the

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and

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) that ravaged the area and of the conquest of the Megleno-Romanian villages by states hostile to the Megleno-Romanian national movement, such as

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Noe, Constantin 1883 births 1939 deaths People from Exaplatanos Romanian schoolteachers 20th-century Romanian educators Romanian newspaper editors Romanian military personnel of the Second Balkan War Megleno-Romanian people Romanian people of Megleno-Romanian descent Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to Romania Members of the Macedo-Romanian Cultural Society Romanian High School of Bitola alumni University of Bucharest alumni