Who are the Romanians?

[Mordid]

A mishmash of Dacians, some Romans, Slavs, Hungarians, Vlachs and some Germanics.

All in all -- a very interesting breed of people.

Agreed.

[HungAryan]

Basically, anything but Dacians, I say.
They just use it for propaganda.

[BanjaLuka]

Tabiti, Vlachs are Romanians. Iudeus_Augustus may be a revisionist but he has done his homework. Vlachs is a blanket term that covers all the people who speak romanian or a dialect of romanian. Vlach is originally an exonym (a name given to romanians by foreigners) it is of germanic origin meaning latin people.

The vlachs that you're talking about (those from Bulgaria, Macedonia, Greece and Albania) call themselves, aromanians, makidoni and vlachs but they are still part of the romanian nation.

It's interesting to see what foreigners think of your people

another interesting thing is that albanians are the first to throw mud basically at any other european nation (they hate serbs, romanians, greeks ...) who do you people like ? and who likes you ?

It is said that those Vlachs (herders) that moved all around Balkan and even to todays Czech Republic on the West are actually mix of indigenous Thracians and Illyirans with Latin Romans but they are considered as you said to be a part of Romanian nation. In Dalmatia, Istria and Bosnia&Herzegovina and Montenegro some of them have blended in with local populations while they managed to remain as ethnic minority in Serbia close to Romania (some 40.000 of them)...

[Caeruleus]

It is said that those Vlachs (herders) that moved all around Balkan and even to todays Czech Republic on the West are actually mix of indigenous Thracians and Illyirans with Latin Romans but they are considered as you said to be a part of Romanian nation. In Dalmatia, Istria and Bosnia&Herzegovina and Montenegro some of them have blended in with local populations while they managed to remain as ethnic minority in Serbia close to Romania (some 40.000 of them)...

I do not deny the fact that balkan vlachs have an identity of their own (within the romanian nation)

[HungAryan]

Those Vlachs should be rounded up and put into their places.

[arcticwolf]

I voted Latin Dacians for the lack of more realistic choice like: Dacian, Roman, with Slavic and Germanic influence. Seeing this thread was started by Hungarian and it's about Romanians this has potential to deteriorate really fast. Both nations along with the Greeks and the Scandinavians are considered Slavic friendly. Since this is about Romanians, best to you brothers!

[Skanderbeg Is God]

I voted Latin Dacians for the lack of more realistic choice like: Dacian, Roman, with Slavic and Germanic influence. Seeing this thread was started by Hungarian and it's about Romanians this has potential to deteriorate really fast. Both nations along with the Greeks and the Scandinavians are considered Slavic friendly. Since this is about Romanians, best to you brothers!

Despite fact that Romanians are slavic friendly, what is your opinion about them ??

[arcticwolf]

Positive.

[Magister Eckhart]

Latinized Dacians form the core of the "Romanian" people, but Romania is both Wallachia and Moldavia in combination, the Vlach people forming the core of their ancestry. I would ask, "who is a Vlach?"

As for the Gypsies - no Gypsie is a Romanian; they just give Romanians a bad name. I've known many Romanians they definitely get a bad reputation because of the Gypsies - a reputation they do not deserve. Romanians are European, Gypsies are not.

[Mordid]

Even thought, they are Latinized Dacians, they look heavily Slavic influence.