Romanians
Sign in to saveRomanians (, ; dated exonym Vlachs) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation native to Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Romanians share a common culture, history, ancestry and language and live primarily in Romania and Moldova. There is a debate regarding the ethnic categorisation of the Moldovans, concerning whether they constitute a subgroup of the Romanians or a completely different ethnic group. The origin of the Romanians is also fiercely debated, one theory suggests that the ancestors of Romanians are the Daco-Romans, while the other theory suggests that Romanians are ma
AI overview
Romanians are a Romance-speaking ethnic group native to Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language, with most living in Romania and Moldova. Their precise ethnic origins and the relationship between Romanians and Moldovans remain subjects of scholarly debate.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.caption
- Ethnic distribution of Romanians around the world
- Ethnic group.group
- Romanians
- Ethnic group.image
- 260x260px
- Ethnic group.population
- 22.8 million (including Romanian citizens of all ethnic groups living abroad)
- Ethnic group.popplace
- ' 19,053,815 (2022 Romanian census) ' 192,800 (2014 Moldovan census; additional 2,068,058 Moldovans)
- Ethnic group.tablehdr
- Other countries
- Ethnic group.pop1
- 1,206,938 migrants from Romania, of all ethnic groups
- Ethnic group.pop2
- 909,795-1,100,000 (2023) migrants from Romania of all ethnic groups, including a wide range of Romanian Germans as well
- Ethnic group.pop3
- 630,795 Romanian citizens (2023)-1,079,726 including naturalized and second and third generation Romanians (2022)
- Ethnic group.pop4
- 329,000-557,000 Romanian-born residents (2022)
- Ethnic group.pop5
Article
26 sectionsContents
- History
- Antiquity
- Early Middle Ages to Late Middle Ages
- Early Modern Age to Late Modern Age
- Contemporary Era
- Language
- Names for Romanians
- Etymology of the name ''Romanian'' ({{lang|ro|român}})
- Daco-Romanian
- Etymology of the term Vlach
- Romanians outside Romania
- Culture
- Contributions to contemporary culture
- Religion
- Symbols
- Customs
- Traditional costumes
- Relationship to other ethnic groups
- Genetics
- Ethnogenesis
- Demographics
- Maps
- See also
- Notes and references
- Bibliography
- External links
Romanians (, ; dated exonym Vlachs) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation native to Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Romanians share a common culture, history, ancestry and language and live primarily in Romania and Moldova. There is a debate regarding the ethnic categorisation of the Moldovans, concerning whether they constitute a subgroup of the Romanians or a completely different ethnic group. The origin of the Romanians is also fiercely debated, one theory suggests that the ancestors of Romanians are the Daco-Romans, while the other theory suggests that Romanians are mainly the Thraco-Romans and Illyro-Romans from the inner balkans, who later migrated north of the Danube.
In one interpretation of the 1989 census results in Moldova, the majority of Moldovans were counted as ethnic Romanians as well. Romanians also form an ethnic minority in several nearby countries situated in Central, Southeastern, and Eastern Europe, most notably in Hungary, Serbia (including Timok), and Ukraine.