Constantin Noe

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 Ottoman Empire and now in Greece. 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 Salonica vilayet of the Ottoman Empire in the schools they were teaching at.

After being released, Noe migrated to Romania and became secretary of the National Museum of Antiquities in Bucharest 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 University of Bucharest, 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 Albanian–"Romanian" (the latter referring to the Aromanians) independent state in the Balkans on the federal model of Switzerland.