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The PeopleRomania has 22 million people, 89.5% of whom are Romanian, 6.6% Hungarian, 2.5% Roma or Gypsy, .3% Germans, .3% Ukrainians, .3% Turks, .2% Russians and .3% all others. Religions represented here are: Eastern Orthodox 87%, Protestant 6.8%, Catholic 5.6%, other (mostly Muslim) 0.4%. The country has a very high 98.4% literacy rate.
The Romanians The Minorities Hungarians (Madyars) 1.4 million - the largest minority - reside mainly in Transylvania, especially in Cluj, Miercuria Ciuc, Oradea and northwestern border towns for centuries. Romania gained control of the region after World War I. Germans 66,000, The first Saxon colonists came to Transylvania in the 12th century and built many beautiful cities such as Sibiu, Sighisoara, Brasov. In the late 18th century Swabian Germans from southern Germany settled the southwestern Banat region when Transylvania and Banat were still part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Unfortunately, most fled back to Germany to escape Communism or left after the borders reopened in 1989. Turkish 56,700 in Dobrogea province near the Black Sea coast; mostly Roumelian Turks (from former Ottoman territories in the Balkans) and Tatars (from the Crimea). The majority live in Constanta. Ukrainians 64,000, live in the northernmost region of Romania, near its border with Ukraine; reknown for elaborately painted Easter eggs. Russians 36,600, called "Lipoveni" (from Leipzig), live mainly in the Danube Delta; traditionally fishermen, and masters of the intricate maze of canals in the Delta. Serbs 23,000, in Banat province, in and around Arad and Timisoara. Roma (also called Tsigani and Gypsies) 500,000 live throughout Romania and have representation in Romanian Parliament, but still have their own Emperor and King
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