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The first Romanian known to have been to what is now the United States was Samuel Damian (also spelled Domien), a former priest. [9] Samuel Damian's name appears as far back as 1748, when he placed an advertisement in the South Carolina Gazette announcing the electrical demonstrations he planned to give and inviting the public to attend.
Italy is the most common destination for Romanian emigrants, with over one million Romanians living there.. In 2006, the Romanian diaspora was estimated at 8 million people by then President of Romania, Traian Băsescu, most of them living in the former USSR, Western Europe (esp. Italy, Spain, Germany, United Kingdom, France, and Austria), North America (Canada and the United States), South ...
Among these were Roma, who moved out of Romania and Moldova in the nineteenth century. They travelled through Austria-Hungary, Italy and the Balkans, to arrive in New York in 1881. [34] The Romanichal, the first Romani group to arrive in North America in large numbers, moved to America from Britain around 1850. The Rom were the second subgroup ...
There is a sizable Romani minority in Romania, known as Ţigani in Romanian and, recently, as Rromi, of 621,573 people or 3.3% of the total population (2011 census), although the Council of Europe estimates the figure to be 1.85 million people or 8.32% of the population. [127]
Laurentiu Baceanu, 20, and Alexandru Vasile, 19 — both Romanian nationals — were charged Monday with 11 felony counts of second-degree robbery and 11 felony hate crime enhancements, the ...
This is a list of notable Romanian-Americans, including both original immigrants from Romania who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants. Lists of Americans By US state
Romani people have lived and travelled throughout the state of New York. [1] Muslim Romani people from southern Yugoslavia settled in the Bronx. An increase in attacks on Romani people in eastern Europe brought growing numbers of Romani refugees to New York City during the 1990s.
Romanians derive their name from the Latin romanus, meaning "Roman", [238] referencing the Roman conquest of Dacia. (The Dacians were a sub-group of the Thracians.) Romanian genetics show ancient Balkan ancestry (Thracian ancestry) [239] as well as Slavic ancestry [240] and not Indian ancestry like the Roma.