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== Population == | == Population == | ||
In the year A.D. 200, Romania may have had 800,000 inhabitants. In 1200, there were a million inhabitants. Despite major losses from the Black Death in the 1400s, the population of what is now Romania reached two million in the first quarter of the 1500s. Between 1700 and 1800 the population increased from 2.5 million to 5.5 million people. By 1880 the population had reached 10 million. In 1977 there were 21.6 million, in 1997 there were 24.1 million, and in 2010 there were nearly 20.25 million people. The largest city is Bucharest with 1.9 million inhabitants in 2010. The next highest populations are in Braşov (276,914 in 2010), Constanța (301,221 in 2010), Cluj-Napoca (305,636 in 2010), Timişoara (311,428 in 2010), Iaşi (309,631 in 2010), Galați (290,593 in 2010), and Craiova (298,740 in 2010). | |||
Boundary changes in Romania caused the influx and exodus of ethnic groups to surrounding countries as well as emigration | Boundary changes in Romania caused the influx and exodus of ethnic groups to surrounding countries as well as emigration west. Occasionally emigrants took some of their records with them. Records left behind may have been preserved by the new authorities. The whereabouts of others remains unknown. | ||
== Minorities | == Minorities == | ||
The area of Romania has long been a land of ethnic diversity. In many areas of Wallachia and Moldavia the population was 100 percent Romanian. Nevertheless both had many areas of diversity, especially Moldavia. As early as the beginning of the eighteenth century, Moldovan prince and scholar Dimitrie Cantemir observed that he "didn't believe that there [existed] a single country of the size of Moldova in which so many and such diverse peoples meet." Dobruja had, and still has, many ethnic groups. The ethnic Romanian population of Dobrudja has always been under 50 percent; other groups include Bulgarians, Tatars, Russians, and Turks. Historically the most ethnically diverse areas of Romania have been the former Hungarian territories of Transylvania and the Banat. This has been a multi-ethnic region with Hungarian, Romanian, German, and Serbian inhabitants since medieval times. | The area of Romania has long been a land of ethnic diversity. In many areas of Wallachia and Moldavia the population was 100 percent Romanian. Nevertheless both had many areas of diversity, especially Moldavia. As early as the beginning of the eighteenth century, Moldovan prince and scholar Dimitrie Cantemir observed that he "didn't believe that there [existed] a single country of the size of Moldova in which so many and such diverse peoples meet." Dobruja had, and still has, many ethnic groups. The ethnic Romanian population of Dobrudja has always been under 50 percent; other groups include Bulgarians, Tatars, Russians, and Turks. Historically the most ethnically diverse areas of Romania have been the former Hungarian territories of Transylvania and the Banat. This has been a multi-ethnic region with Hungarian, Romanian, German, and Serbian inhabitants since medieval times. | ||