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This is a list of some of the most prominent Romanians. It contains historical and important contemporary figures (athletes, actors, directors etc.). Most of the people listed here are of Romanian ethnicity, whose native tongue is Romanian.
Three theories account for the ethnogenesis of the Romanian people. One, known as the Daco-Roman continuity theory, posits that they are descendants of Romans and Romanized indigenous peoples living in the Roman Province of Dacia, while the other posits that the Romanians are descendants of Romans and Romanized indigenous populations of the ...
TV show's logo Stephen the Great, commemorated on some stamps from 2004, the winner of the contest. In 2006, Romanian Television (Televiziunea Română, TVR) conducted a vote to determine whom the general public considered the 100 Greatest Romanians of all time, in a version of the British TV show 100 Greatest Britons.
Roma in Romania, commonly known by ethnic Romanians as țigani, including many subgroups defined by occupation: Argintari "silversmiths." [155] Aurari "goldsmiths." [155] Boyash, also known as Băieși, Lingurari, Ludar, Ludari, or Rudari, who coalesced in the Apuseni Mountains of Transylvania. Băieși is a Romanian word for "miners."
The Roman people was the body of Roman citizens (Latin: Rōmānī; Ancient Greek: Ῥωμαῖοι Rhōmaîoi) [a] during the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic, and the Roman Empire. This concept underwent considerable changes throughout the long history of the Roman civilisation, as its borders expanded and contracted.
The Romani flag, known as O styago le romengo in the Romani language, serves as the international emblem for the Romani community. It was designed by the General Union of the Roma of Romania in 1933 and received official recognition at the inaugural World Romani Congress, which took place in London, United Kingdom, in 1971. [98]
Illustration featuring the Romanian coat of arms and tricolor. Romania's history has been full of rebounds: the culturally productive epochs were those of stability when the people proved quite an impressive resourcefulness in the making up for less propitious periods and were able to rejoin the mainstream of European culture.
Romanian is the only Romance language which is spoken primarily in territories which were never or only for about 170 years under Roman rule. Romanians, known by the exonym Vlachs in the Middle Ages, [52] speak a language descended from the Vulgar Latin that was once spoken in south-eastern Europe.