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Italy is the most common destination for Romanian emigrants, with over one million Romanians living there.. In 2006, the Romanian diaspora was estimated at 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 (Canada and the United States), South ...
A Romani family travelling (1837 print) Romani people from Ivanovo Oblast. In Russian the Romani people are referred to as tzigane. The largest ethnic group of Romani people in Russia are the Ruska Roma (also known as Xaladytka Roma). They are also the largest group in Belarus. They are adherents of the Russian Orthodox faith.
The accession of Romania to the European Union in 2007 led many members of the Romani minority, the most socially disadvantaged ethnic group in Romania, to migrate en masse to various Western European countries (mostly to Spain, Italy, Austria, Germany, France, Belgium, United Kingdom, Sweden) hoping to find a better life.
In the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire the Roma also took on the identity of the ethnic religious group, the Athinganoi (Greek: Αθίγγανοι). They were a Manichaean sect [216] regarded as Judaizing heretics who lived in Phrygia and Lycaonia but were neither Hebrews nor Gentiles. They kept the Sabbath, but were not circumcised.
According to the 2011 Romanian census, 2.5% of ethnic Romanians in Romania identified themselves as Catholic (in comparison to 5% of Romania's total population, including other ethnic groups). Around 1.6% of ethnic Romanians in Romania identify themselves as Pentecostal , with the population numbering 276,678 members.
Romanian diaspora according to new sources: 00:13, 17 February 2022: 512 × 230 (767 KB) Allice Hunter: Reverted to version as of 05:48, 13 February 2022 (UTC) The map will soon be fixed and updated with better sources: 07:31, 14 February 2022: 2,192 × 1,135 (1.6 MB) Alexandru Mihai Zausila: Reverted to version as of 21:11, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
According to the 2011 Romanian census, they number 621,573 people or 3.08% of the total population, being the second-largest ethnic minority in Romania after Hungarians, [21] with significant populations in Mureș (8.9%) and Călărași (7,47%) counties. There are different estimates about the size of the total population of people with Roma ...
Romanian diaspora in Ukraine (2 C, 1 P) Romanian minorities in Europe (5 C, 7 P) Romanian-Jewish diaspora (4 C, 4 P) U. Romanian diaspora in the United States (3 C, 2 P)