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Vlachs had no collective identity of their own. That's partly why they so readily assimilated into surrounding nations. Thus, a Hellenised 'Vlach' is simply a Greek. He has no other idenitity to speak of.
The Vlachs to which I am referring here are not Romanians, who developed an identity of their own, but the various other Romance speakers that lived throughout the peninsula.
It would be more accurate to say that the Balkan Vlachs (except the Romanians) were not interested in forming separate states of their own. Individually plenty of Balkan Vlachs came to leadership positions in the various states that were formed by the Greeks, the Slavs and the Albanians.