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While an ancient Germanic presence on the territory of present-day Romania can be traced back to late antiquity and is represented by such migratory peoples as the Buri, Vandals, Goths (more specifically Visigoths), or the Gepids, the first waves of ethnic Germans on the territory of modern Romania came during the High Middle Ages, firstly to Transylvania (then part of the Kingdom of Hungary ...
Ethnic Germans in Central Europe. The German diaspora (German: Deutschstämmige) consists of German people and their descendants who live outside of Germany. The term is used in particular to refer to the aspects of migration of German speakers from Central Europe to different countries around the world. This definition describes the "German ...
Romania is one of the least urbanised countries in Europe. Just a slight majority, 56.4 percent, lives in urban areas (12,546,212 people in total). The remainder, 43.6 percent, lives in rural areas (9,695,506 people in total). [45] urban population: 54% of total population (2018) rate of urbanization: −0.38% annual rate of change (2015–20 est.)
Pages in category "Ethnic German groups in Romania" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The fortress Ordensburg Marienburg in Malbork, founded in 1274, the world's largest brick castle and the Teutonic Order's headquarters on the river Nogat.. The medieval German Ostsiedlung (literally Settling eastwards), also known as the German eastward expansion or East colonization refers to the expansion of German culture, language, states, and settlements to vast regions of Northeastern ...
The Zipser Germans, Zipser Saxons, or, simply, just Zipsers (German: Zipser [1] or Zipser Deutsche, Romanian: Țipțeri, Hungarian: Cipszer, Slovak: Spišskí Nemci) are a German-speaking (more specifically Zipser German-speaking as native dialect) sub-ethnic group in Central-Eastern Europe and national minority in both Slovakia and Romania (there are also Zipser German settlements in the ...
The isolation of the German from countries in which German has been standardised (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland) has caused many obscure German dialects to continue to exist in Slovakia, but many are in danger of extinction. In the Upper and Lower Zips regions (and later in Romania), the Zipser Germans spoke Zipserisch.
This category refers to people of German ethnicity or ancestry who were or are citizens of Romania; it includes members of the Transylvanian Saxon communities and other established ones on the present-day territory of Romania only to the measure were these were also Romanian nationals.