Romanians

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Romance peoples ethnic group

Romanians are a Romance-language ethnic group native to Eastern Europe, primarily inhabiting Romania and Moldova, with cultural and historical ties to the broader Balkan region.

Aliases (4)

Statements (69)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Romance peoples → ethnic group →
ancestralComponent	Roman colonists → Romanized Dacians → Slavic populations → other Balkan peoples →
autonym	români →
citizenshipMajority	Romanian citizenship →
culturalSphere	Balkan cultural area → Eastern Orthodox world → Romance-speaking world →
demonymOf	Romania →
diaspora	Australia → Canada → France → Germany → Israel → Italy → Spain → United Kingdom → United States →
ethnicMinorityStatusIn	Bulgaria → Croatia → Greece → Hungary → Serbia → Ukraine →
ethnonymOf	Romanian people →
historicalLanguageInfluence	German → Greek → Hungarian → Latin → Slavic languages → Turkish →
historicalRegion	Banat → Crișana → Dobruja → Maramureș → Moldavia → Transylvania → Wallachia →
language	Romanian language →
languageBranch	Eastern Romance languages →
languageFamily	Romance languages →
nationalLanguageStandardizedIn	19th century →
nativeTo	Eastern Europe →
populationMajorityIn	Moldova → Romania →
primaryChurch	Romanian Orthodox Church →
primaryPopulationIn	Romania →
relatedToRegion	Balkans →
religionMajority	Eastern Orthodoxy →
religionMinority	Agnosticism → Atheism → Greek Catholicism → Protestantism → Roman Catholicism →
significantPopulationIn	Moldova →
stateFormationKeyEvent	Great Union of 1918 → Union of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia →
traditionalCuisineItem	ciorbă → mămăligă → sarmale →
traditionalDance	hora → sârba →
traditionalHoliday	Dragobete → Mărțișor →
traditionalMusic	doina →
writingSystem	Latin alphabet →

Referenced by (22)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Autonomous Province of Vojvodina → Elena Ceaușescu → Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej → Ion Antonescu → Kingdom of Hungary → Nicolae Ceaușescu → Transylvania →	ethnicGroup
Balkans → Balkans ("Vlachs") →	hasEthnicGroup
Cumans →	assimilatedInto
Romania ("Romanian") →	demonym
Austrian Habsburg Monarchy →	ethnicComposition
Danubian Principalities →	ethnicMajority
Romanians ("Romanian people") →	ethnonymOf
Western Ukraine →	hasMinority
Bukovina →	historicalEthnicGroup
Dobruja →	historicallyInhabitedBy
Great Union Day ("Romanian diaspora") →	observedBy
Military Frontier (former Habsburg Monarchy) →	population
Romanian Orthodox Church ("Romanian diaspora") →	primaryTerritory
Vlach (Aromanian people) →	relatedEthnicGroup
Vlach of Istria →	relatedEthnicity