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As late as 2008, in remote vilages in Upper Ung valley in Transcarpathia, a previously unknown Romanian group has been discovered to have miraculously survived Russification for over 600 years. They are about 10.000 in number and the only surviving remnants of once numerous Carpathian Romanians (who used to sparsely inhabit the whole mountainous Transcarpathia before Russians came in much greater numbers around 14th century AD). They preserve our ethnic name (Romani) and they are called by their neighbors using the old-Russian name for our people (Volokh). Their language is based on Medieval Romanian and easily intelligible, but physically they have lots of Slavic admixture. Typical villagers:
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