Vlachs (Olahs or Walahs) is a blanket term covering several modern Latin peoples descending from the Latinised population in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. English variations on the name include: Vallachians, Wallachians, Wlachs, Wallachs, Vlahs, Olahs or Ulahs; Groups that have historically been called Vlachs include: modern-day Romanians or Daco-Romanians, Aromanians, Morlachs, Megleno-Romanians and Istro-Romanians. Since the creation of the Romanian state, the term in English has mostly been used for those living outside Romania. So who are they? They are descendants of today's Romanians, it must be remembered that the Vlachs never identified themselves as Vlachs but as Rumanii. In reality the term Vlach is an exonym generally used to identify a population that speaks a Romance language, Hungarians even today refer to Italy in their language as: Olaszország Olasz(Roman) Ország(country)

With the formation of the modern Romanian state, some Vlachs, in order to differentiate themselves from the Romanians who lived in Romania, began to adopt the name Vlachs especially in the name of their associations.

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