Grecomans or Graecomans is a pejorative term used in Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Romania, and Albania to characterize Albanian-speaking, Aromanian-speaking, and Slavic-speaking people who self-identify as ethnic Greeks. In the region of Macedonia it appeared during the 19th and early 20th century nationalist propaganda campaigns and the struggle for Macedonia. The term generally means "pretending to be a Greek" and implies a non-Greek origin. Another meaning of the term is fanatic Greeks. The "Grecomans" are regarded as ethnic Greeks in Greece, but as members of originally non-Greek, but subsequently Hellenized minorities, in the neighboring countries. The historical controversy surrounding such people, stems from the fact, that during the rise of nationalism in the Ottoman empire they used to identify themselves as Ottoman Greeks as part of the Rum millet.