Re-latinization of Romanian
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The re-latinization of Romanian was the reinforcement of the Romance features of the Romanian language that happened in the 18th and 19th centuries. Romanian adopted a Latin-based alphabet to replace
August Treboniu Laurian, the leader of the Latinist current in the 1870s
Origin of the Romanians
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Several theories, in great extent mutually exclusive, address the issue of the origin of the Romanians. The Romanian language descends from the Vulgar Latin dialects spoken in the Roman provinces nort
Re-latinization of Romanian
…northern Transylvania, Maramureș and Banat, and a southern dialect in Wallachia, but transitional variants also exist in Oltenia and Transylvania. The origin of the Romanians is still subject to scholarly debates. The core of the debate is the continuous presence of the Romanians in the lands now forming Romania north of the…
The evolution of the Eastern Romance languages and territories between 6th–16th centuries according to those who accept the continuity theory
Trajan's Column in Rome
First page of the Gesta Hungarorum
Letter of Kaloyan, "tsar of Bulgaria and Vlachia" to Pope Innocent III