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  2. Romanians in Italy - Wikipedia

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    Romanians. Romanians in Italy ( Romanian: românii din Italia; Italian: romeni in Italia or rumeni in Italia) became a significant population after 1999, due to a large wave of emigration known in Romania as Fenomenul migrației către UE (the phenomenon of migration toward the European Union ). A large part of Romanian emigrants went to Spain ...

  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. Romania in World War I - Wikipedia

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    Romania in World War I. Romanian troops at Mărășești battlefield in 1917. The Kingdom of Romania was neutral for the first two years of World War I, entering on the side of the Allied powers from 27 August 1916 until Central Power occupation led to the Treaty of Bucharest in May 1918, before reentering the war on 10 November 1918.

  5. Romani people in Italy - Wikipedia

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    In 2015 in Italy there are at about 150,000 (70,000 Italian citizens) of Romani people origins. The three cities with most number of Romanis are: Rome, Milan and Naples. Life in Italy. According to a May 2008 poll, 68% of Italians wanted to see all of the country's approximately 150,000 Gypsies, many of whom were Italian citizens, expelled.

  6. Battle of Transylvania - Wikipedia

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    200,000 civilians internally displaced. The Battle of Transylvania was the first major operation of Romania during World War I, beginning on 27 August 1916. It started as an attempt by the Romanian Army to seize Transylvania, and potentially knock Austria-Hungary out of the war.

  7. Italians in Romania - Wikipedia

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    The number of Italian emigrants in Romania went from 830 in 1871 to more than 8,000 in 1901, according to estimates by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. [9] After 1880, Italians from Friuli and Veneto settled in Greci, Cataloi and Măcin in Northern Dobruja. Most of them worked in granite quarries in the Măcin Mountains, some became farmers ...

  8. Romanian diaspora - Wikipedia

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    Size of the Romanian diaspora Italy is the most common destination for Romanian emigrants, with over one million Romanians living there.. In 2006, the Romanian diaspora was estimated at about 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 ...

  9. Origin of the Romanians - Wikipedia

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    Poggio Bracciolini, an Italian scholar was the first to write (around 1450) that the Romanians' ancestors had been Roman colonists settled in Dacia Traiana. [92] [93] In 1458, Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini stated in his work De Europa (1458) that the Vlachs were a genus Italicum ("an Italian race") [94] and were named after one Pomponius Flaccus ...