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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 ...
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]
Several theories, in great extent mutually exclusive, address the issue of the origin of the Romanians.The Romanian language descends from the Vulgar Latin dialects spoken in the Roman provinces north of the "Jireček Line" (a proposed notional line separating the predominantly Latin-speaking territories from the Greek-speaking lands in Southeastern Europe) in Late Antiquity.
Approximately 5–7 million Muslim migrants from the Balkans (from Bulgaria 1.15 million-1.5 million; Greece 1.2 million; Romania, 400,000; Former Yugoslavia, 800,000), Russia (500,000), the Caucasus (900,000 of whom 2/3 remained the rest going to Syria, Jordan and Cyprus) and Syria (500,000 mostly as a result of the Syrian Civil War) arrived ...
The migration of the Roma through the Middle East and Northern Africa to Europe The Roma may have emerged from what is the modern Indian state of Rajasthan , migrating to the northwest (the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent ) around 250 BCE. [ 203 ]
According to DIICOT, Romania has evolved since 1990 from a country of transit for illegal migrants to a country of destination. [4] Within the European Union, the country has the second highest rate of immigration from non-EU countries (86%), just behind Slovenia (90%). [5] Most immigrants in Romania are from Europe.
[3] [4] For example, in 2007 the Council of Europe estimated that approximately 1.85 million Roma lived in Romania, [5] based on an average between the lowest estimate (1.2 to 2.2 million people [6]) and the highest estimate (1.8 to 2.5 million people [7]) available at the time. This figure is equivalent to 8.32% of the population.
According to the 2011 Romanian census, they number 621,573 people or 3.08% of the total population, being the second-largest ethnic minority in Romania after Hungarians, [22] with significant populations in Mureș (8.9%) and Călărași (7,47%) counties. There are different estimates about the size of the total population of people with Roma ...