Currently, more than one million Romanians ( around one tenth of them being Roma ) are officially registered as living in Italy, representing thus the most important individual country of origin, followed by Albanians and Moroccans with about 500, 000 people each.

About 89. 4 % of the people of Romania are ethnic Romanians, whose language, Romanian, is an Eastern Romance language, descended primarily from Latin with some Bulgarian, Serbian, German, Greek, Hungarian and Turkish borrowings.

Approximately 96. 6 % of the population of Bucharest are Romanians.

Today, many Eastern Europeans ( especially Ukrainians, Moldovans, Romanians and Russians ), as well as Brazilians, are making Portugal their home.

The majority of the population ( 89. 23 %) are Romanians.

Vast and easily accessible by foot or by car, the mountains are inhabited by an ancient population of Romanians, called pǎdureni ( woodlanders ).

Genetically, modern Bulgarians are more closely related to other neighbouring Balkan populations ( Macedonians, Serbs, Romanians, Greeks and Albanians ) than to the rest of the Europeans.

Six Romanians of Iași are credited with saving around one hundred Jews ( see Righteous Among the Nations ).

The south side of the county, closer to the mountains was mainly inhabited by Romanians ( Mărginimea Sibiului ), and the north side of the country-the Transylvanian Plateau was inhabited evenly by Germans and Romanians, but most Saxon villages are now deserted.

The Székely of Harghita are mostly Roman Catholic, with Reformed and Unitarian minorities, while the ethnic Romanians are primarily Orthodox.

There are also several ethnic minorities in the region, including Hungarians ( 10. 21 % of the population ), Romanians, Slovaks, Bulgarians, Macedonians, Roma people, and others.

It has 10, 215 inhabitants, of which 99. 0 % are Romanians.

Only a few hundred Romanians and Aromanians are left in the region to this day.

From an ethnic point of view it has the following structure: 86. 62 % are Romanians, 3. 19 % Hungarians, 9. 35 % Roma, 0. 11 % Germans, 0. 21 % Ukrainians and 0. 1 % are of other or undeclared nationalities.

The Romanians ( dated: Rumanians or Roumanians ; in or — historically, but now a seldom-used regionalism — rumâni ; dated exonym: Vlachs ) are an ethnic group native to Romania, who speak Romanian ; they are the majority inhabitants of Romania.

In one interpretation of the census results in Moldova, Moldovans are counted as Romanians, which would mean that the latter form part of the majority in that country as well.

Romanians are also an ethnic minority in several nearby countries.

The Romanians are descended from local populations: Dacians ( Getae, Thracians ) and Roman legionnaires and colonists.

The 23. 5 million, however, represent only speakers of Romanian, not all of whom are necessarily ethnic Romanians.

The most common surnames are Popa (" the priest ")— almost 200, 000 Romanians have this surname — Popescu (" son of the priest ") — almost 150, 000 have this name — and Ionescu (" John's ( Ion's ) son ").

According to recent figures, of an estimated four million POWs taken by the Soviets, including Germans, Japanese, Hungarians, Romanians and others, some 580, 000 never returned, presumably victims of privation or the Gulags.

The Hertza region was initially not requested by the USSR but was later occupied by force after the Romanians agreed to the initial soviet demands.

Map of the Balkan s with regions inhabited by Romanians / Vlachs highlighted

Briefly, during his reign the three principalities largely inhabited by Romanians were for the first time united under a single rule.

Territories inhabited by Romanians before WWI

In October 1918, Romania joined the war again and by the end of the war, the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires had disintegrated ; governing bodies created by the Romanians of Transylvania, Bessarabia and Bukovina chose union with the Kingdom of Romania, resulting in Greater Romania.

The Deputies of the Romanians from Transylvania voted to unite their region by the Proclamation of Union of Alba Iulia.

The country also had significant populations of Hungarians, Roma, Bulgarians, Ethnic Macedonians, Romanians and other eastern Romance peoples ( including Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians and Vlachs ), plus dozens of other Slavic peoples, namely Bosniaks, Croats, Bunjevci, Šokci, Goranci, Janjevci, Rusins, Slovaks, Muslims by nationality and Yugoslavs.

In the chaos brought by the Russian revolution of October 1917, a National Council ( Sfatul Ţării ) was established in Bessarabia, with 120 members elected from Bessarabia by some political and professional organizations and 10 elected from Transnistria ( the left bank of the Dniester River where Moldovans and Romanians accounted for less than a third and the majority of the population was Ukrainian.

The two provinces had an area of, and were inhabited by about 3. 75 million people, half of them Romanians, according to official Romanian sources.

In September 1940 with the return of Southern Dobruja ( the Cadrilater ) by Romania to Bulgaria under the Treaty of Craiova, 80, 000 Romanians were compelled to move north of the border, while 65, 000 Bulgarians living in Northern Dobruja were forced to move into Bulgaria.

Although there had been exceptions like the outlandish Ford V8 specials created by the Romanians for the 1936 Monte Carlo Rally, rallies before World War II had tended to be for standard or near-standard production cars, a rule supported by manufacturers because it created a relatively even playing field.

In December 1989, Timișoara witnessed a series of mass street protests by Romanians, Hungarians and Serbs, in what was to become the Romanian Revolution of 1989.

Anamoose was established along the main line of the Soo Line Railroad in 1898 by Romanians who had come from Saskatchewan, Canada.

In the Carpathian regions inhabited by Romanians, the boyar () class emerged from the chiefs ( named cneaz (" leader ") or jude (" judge ") in the areas north of the Danube and celnic south of the river ) of rural communities in the early Middle Ages, initially elected, who later made their judicial and administrative attributions hereditary and gradually expanded them upon other communities.

Once Brașov became a German colony, Romanians were denied several privileges by the new German settlers.

In the 17th and 19th centuries, the Romanians in Șchei campaigned for national, political, and cultural rights, and were supported in their efforts by Romanians from all other provinces, as well as by the local Greek merchant community.

These, from a juridical point of view, had an inferior status than the states of Seneslau ( east of the Olt river ) and Litovoi ( west of the Olt River ), cnezats which continued to belong to the Romanians ( quam Olacis relinquimus prout iidem hactenus tenuerant ), " like they held them so far ".

During the period of Austro-Hungarian rule in Transylvania, and Ottoman suzerainty over Wallachia and Moldavia, most Romanians were in the situation of being second-class citizens ( or even non-citizens ) in a territory where they formed the majority of the population.

TV is the medium of choice for most Romanians.

An atypical figure among Holocaust perpetrators, Antonescu enforced policies independently responsible for the deaths of as many as 400, 000 people, most of them Bessarabian, Ukrainian and Romanian Jews, as well as Romani Romanians.

The population consists of a majority of Romanians, with Roma, Hungarians and Germans as the most important minorities.

Romania extends citizenship to all ethnic Romanians living beyond its borders, most notably to the large population of ethnic Romanians in Moldova.

Romanians, and Ukrainians arrived during the 1990s and most of them reside in immigrant ghettos in El Centro ( downtown ) of the city.

The primary Hungarian group, the Székely ( Szeklers, Secui in Romanian ), form the majority of the population in most of the county's municipalities, with Romanians concentrated in the northern and eastern part of the county ( particularly Topliţa and Bălan ), as well as in the enclave of Voşlăbeni.

During the period of Austro-Hungarian rule in Transylvania and Ottoman suzerainty over Wallachia and Moldavia, most Romanians were treated as second-class citizens ( or even non-citizens ) in their country.

Contradicting the Romantic nationalist tradition, Iorga also agreed with younger historians that, for most of their history, Romanians in Moldavia, Wallachia and Transylvania were more justifiably attached to their polities than to national awakening ideals.

Sima stated that he did not regret the act, noting that Iorga the scholar had had a long enough career, and arguing, counterfactually, that the revenge was saluted by most Romanians.

Iorga has enjoyed posthumous popularity in the decades since the Romanian Revolution of 1989: present at the top of " most important Romanians " polls in the 1990s, he was voted in at No. 17 in the 100 greatest Romanians televised poll.

From the 9th century it was known by the Turks as Pangalia, by the Romanians as Tomisovara, and by the Greeks as Panglicara, and it was one of the most important ports on the west coast of the Black Sea.

He also frequented La Bibliothèque Roumaine (" The Romanian Library "), while affiliating to the Freemasonry and joining the Lodge known as L ' Athénée des Étrangers (" Foreigners ' Atheneum "), as did most other reform-minded Romanians in Paris.

However, not all Romanians agreed with this conversion, leading to the movement of the Romanian Orthodox population that advocated for freedom of worship for all the Transylvanian population, most notably being the movements led by Visarion Sarai, Nicolae Oprea Miclăuş and Sofronie of Cioara, under the dominant Serbian Church influence.

As most of the political leaders present at te meeting approved of the change in policy, Carp gave a short speech in which he refused to back Ferdinand's decision and wished " for Your Majesty's armies to be defeated ", although commenting that he would " give Your Majesty my four sons, because Romanians are brave in the military ".

Having been the largest entity to bear the name of Romania, the frontiers were marked with the intent of uniting most territories inhabited by ethnic Romanians into a single country ; and it is now a rallying cry for Romanian nationalists.

His views are often seen as undermining a Romanian national identity, mainly because of his expressing doubts on the scientific accuracy of most historic research done in Romania since the unification of 1918, and putting forward controversial hypotheses concerning the origin of the Romanians, such as advancing the theory that the vast majority of the nobility in the medieval states that made up the territory of modern-day Romania was of Cuman origin.

Bălcescu's most important work is Românii supt Mihai-Voievod Viteazul (" Romanians under the Rule of Michael the Brave "), which he wrote in exile in 1849-first published by Alexandru Odobescu in 1860.