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The largest Romanian American community is in the state of New York. [15] Map of North America highlighting the OCA Romanian Episcopate. The states with the largest estimated Romanian American populations are: [16] New York (161,900) California (128,133) Florida (121,015) Michigan (119,624) Pennsylvania (114,529) Illinois (106,017) Ohio (83,228 ...
Many Romani people also came from Cuba, Canada, Mexico or South America, from where it was easier to immigrate to the United States. [ 46 ] Early Romani immigrants reported a wide range of occupations to census officials, including farmer, laborer, showman, animal trainer, horse trader, musician, and coppersmith, among others.
Nick Denes (1906–1975) – American football and basketball coach; Eric Ghiaciuc (born 1981) – American football player; John Ghindia (1925–2012) – American football player and coach; Bill Goldberg (born 1966) – American football player and undefeated wrestler (Romanian-Jewish descent). [32] Hroniss Grasu (born 1991) – American ...
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 ...
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.
However, some non-specialist organisations have produced estimates which are considerably higher: a 2002 study by the Romanian-American Network Inc. mentions an estimated figure of 1,200,000 [46] for the number of Romanian Americans. Which makes the United States home to the largest Romanian community outside Romania.
This regulation affects many aspects of life and is applied to actions, people and things: parts of the human body are considered impure, the genital organs (because they produce emissions) and the rest of the lower body. Clothes for the lower body, as well as the clothes of menstruating women, are washed separately. Items used for eating are ...
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]