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Often, Romania is wrongly identified as the place of origin of the Roma because of the similar name Roma/Romani and Romanians. Romanians derive their name from the Latin romanus, meaning "Roman", [232] referencing the Roman conquest of Dacia. (The Dacians were a sub-group of the Thracians.)
The history of their arrival in Romania, around 1370, is presented below. The linguistic evidence has indisputably shown that roots of Romani language lie in India: the language has grammatical characteristics of Indian languages and shares with them a big part of the basic lexicon, for example, body parts or daily routines. [ 16 ]
According to traditional Romanian historiography, as well as to several non-Romanian scholars, the Carpi were a people of the Dacian tongue and culture [34] Heather, who supports this view, suggests that the Carpi name was adopted as the collective name of the Free Dacian tribes when they achieved a degree of political unification in the early ...
Romania was a multiethnic country, with ethnic minorities making up about 30% of the population, but the new constitution declared it a unitary national state in 1923. [125] [128] [129] Although minorities could establish their own schools, Romanian language, history and geography could only be taught in Romanian. [130]
The word cigány can also be used to mean Roma culture in a neutral manner, rather than Romani people (cigányzene), this meaning is embraced by most Hungarian Roma. The name originates with Byzantine Greek ἀτσίγγανοι ( atsinganoi , Latin adsincani ) or ἀθίγγανοι ( athinganoi , literally "untouchables"), a term applied to ...
Pages in category "Ancient tribes in Romania" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Aedi;
The code can be summarised in pillars; the main pillar representing the polar ideas of baxt (pronounced, bah-kht) meaning 'honour' and ladž (or laʒ, pronounced, lah-j) meaning 'shame'. [45] It is honourable, in some Romani cultures, to celebrate baxt by being generous and displaying your success to the public. The focus on generosity means ...
The Romanian expression România Mare (Great or Greater Romania) refers to the Romanian state in the interwar period and to the territory Romania covered at the time. At that time, Romania achieved its greatest territorial extent, almost 300,000 km 2 or 120,000 sq mi [ 266 ] ), including all of the historic Romanian lands.