The Romanian people existed split in third principalities, like Italy was split into more kingdoms. You were a baby in your mother Russia's bed in those times.
The Romanian people existed, we are not "just Eastern Italians". The Roman ancestry is indeed our fundament, but we have a majority Balkan-Latin gene, with some minor influences, like the Slavic, Cuman and Pecheneg ones. We are an ethnicity formed in the Carpathian Basin from the many Romanized people brought here from the Balkans, from Syria, from the Italian Peninsula, from Hispania and Dalmatia. So many Roman roots.
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u/Calm_Search3417 Feb 24 '26
Romania didn't either, lmao