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  2. Romanian Americans - Wikipedia

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    Language. v. t. e. The language spread of Romanian in the United States according to U. S. Census 2000. Romanian Americans ( Romanian: Români Americani) are Americans who have Romanian ancestry. According to the 2017 American Community Survey, 478,278 Americans indicated Romanian as their first or second ancestry, [1] however other sources ...

  3. Brașov - Wikipedia

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    According to the 2021 census, with 237,589 inhabitants, Brașov is the 6th most populous city in Romania. [2] [6] The metropolitan area was home to 371,802 residents. [2] Brașov is located in the central part of the country, about 166 km (103 mi) north of Bucharest and 380 km (236 mi) from the Black Sea.

  4. Romani Americans - Wikipedia

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    Romani Americans ( Romani: romani-amerikani) are Americans who have full or partial Romani ancestry. It is estimated that there are one million Romani people in the United States. Though the Romani population in the United States has largely assimilated into American society, the largest concentrations are in Southern California, the Pacific ...

  5. List of Romanian Americans - Wikipedia

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    Lisa Ferraday – actress. Ana Gasteyer – actress and comedian. Joseph Gordon-Levitt – actor (part Romanian-Jewish descent) [14] Oana Gregory – actress. Dustin Hoffman – actor and filmmaker (part Romanian-Jewish descent) [15] Harvey Keitel – actor and producer (Romanian Jewish mother) Tristan Leabu – actor.

  6. Romanians - Wikipedia

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    Romanians ( Romanian: români, pronounced [roˈmɨnʲ]; dated exonym Vlachs) are a Romance-speaking [56] [57] [58] ethnic group and nation native to Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. [59] Sharing a common culture and ancestry, they speak the Romanian language and live primarily in Romania and Moldova.

  7. Catherine's Gate - Wikipedia

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    Catherine's Gate in Brașov. Catherine's Gate ( Romanian: Poarta Ecaterinei, German: Katharinentor, Hungarian: Katalin-kapu) in Brașov, Romania, was built by the Tailors’ Guild, in 1559 for defensive purposes to replace an old gate destroyed by a flood in 1526. It is named after St. Catherine 's Monastery that was situated here in former times.

  8. Brașov County - Wikipedia

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    Brașov County is one of the most prosperous regions of Romania and has a tradition of industry. During World War II, IAR 80 and towards the end of the war, Bf 109, fighter aircraft were built in Brașov. During the communist period the county was heavily industrialized, which left it with some very large industrial complexes. Some of them ...

  9. Șcheii Brașovului - Wikipedia

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    Șcheii Brașovului ( Hungarian: Bolgárszeg, German: Belgerei or more recently Obere Vorstadt; traditional Romanian name: Bulgărimea, colloquially Șchei) is the old ethnically Bulgarian and Romanian neighborhood of Brașov, a city in southeastern Transylvania, Romania. This village -like section of the town is mostly made up of small houses ...