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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.
The first major wave of Romanian immigrants to the United States took place between 1895 and 1920, in which 145,000 Romanians entered the country. They came from various regions such as: Moldavia , Bukovina , Transylvania and neighboring countries such as Ukraine and Serbia with significant Romanian population. [ 12 ]
Romanian revolutionaries of 1848 waving the tricolor flag. The name Romanian is derived from Latin romanus, meaning "Roman". [140] Under regular phonetical changes that are typical to the Romanian language, the name romanus over the centuries transformed into rumân. An older form of român was still in use in some regions.
Significant Romanian diasporas developed in other European countries (especially in Italy and Spain) and in North America, Australia and Israel. [2] Romanian is closely related to three other Eastern Romance languages, Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanian, all descending from a common Proto-Romanian language. [4]
Romanians derive their name from the Latin romanus, meaning "Roman", [237] referencing the Roman conquest of Dacia. (The Dacians were a sub-group of the Thracians.) Romanian genetics show ancient Balkan ancestry (Thracian ancestry) [238] as well as Slavic ancestry [239] and not Indian ancestry like the Roma.
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 ...
How and when the Romanians came to adopt these names is not entirely clear, [ac] but one theory is the idea of Daco-Roman continuity, that the modern Romanians are descended from Daco-Romans that came about as a result of Roman colonisation following the conquest of Dacia by Trajan (r. 98–117). [165]
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 ...