Are Romanians more Slavic or Turkish looking

[TheForeigner]

Well Stefan Dusan has allready pointed out that Wallachia and Moldavia were never quite conquered or fully incorporated into the Ottoman Empire. They were tributary principalities with internal autonomy and never settled by Turks. There is no Romanian Muslim minority either because of this. Only small areas near the border were annexed by Turkish Empire and Dobruja which had not been ruled by Romanians during most of Middlle Ages. In Dobruja there is a small Turko-Tatar minority, but because of religious differences there was very little intermarriage. Romanians here come from other parts of the country, since this was multiethnic region with small Romanian community before annexation by newly independent Romania in 1878. Otherwise there is some minor overlap with Turks, but only with the more swarthy and exotic Romanians and especially those with recent and substantial Gypsy admixture.

[StonyArabia]

They look like other Balkan people

[TheForeigner]

I'd say in general Romanians look like Albanians and South Slavs and even East Slavs,Greeks and Italians a bit. Diverse ethnic origins equals diverse phenotypes.

[special]

Slavic

[Ianus]

Between Balkanic and East European look, with some gypsoid features.

[TheForeigner]

Between Balkanic and East European look, with some gypsoid features.

Some Romanians have Gypsy ancestry and features, but not most.

[Antimage]

what is slavic looking? Slavic looking like poles? like russians? or croats? serbs? etc define what "slavic looking" means

[Antimage]

They look like other Balkan people

I think they look different than croatians

[Nurzat]

Corvus would pass in Romania as Turk rather than Slav, especially in the North.

[Cristiano viejo]

what is slavic looking? Slavic looking like poles? like russians? or croats? serbs? etc define what "slavic looking" means

That is the point. Definitely Romanians dont look like Poles or Russians, and that is the Slavic look to me.