Originally Posted by
Blondie
Definitely not.
1. Let's start with roman times. We know latins conquered Transylvania and spent 150 years in this area. After 150 years these romans have left Transylvania, after that the local population has been assimilated into foreigners who migrated there. There was intensive migration from East Europe to the Carpathian Basin for example various germanic tribes, iranic tribes, turkics, slavs, bulgars, avars etc. But even the old roman colonists had no romanian indentity (only roman) they didn't identify themselves as different latin ethnic group or something, so we cannot talk about romanian ethnicity in this time.
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