hu, Magyarországi románok , flag = , flag_caption = , image = , image_caption = , population = 35,641 , genealogy = , regions = , region1 = , pop1 = 6,189 , ref1 = , region2 = , pop2 = 5,137 , ref2 = , region3 = , pop3 = 4,000 , ref3 = , region4 = , pop4 = 2,000 , ref4 = , region5 = , pop5 = 1,500 , ref5 = , region6 = , pop6 = 500 , ref6 = , region7 = , pop7 = 500 , ref7 = , languages = Hungarian,

Romanian Romanian may refer to: *anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania **Romanians, an ethnic group **Romanian language, a Romance language *** Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language ** Romanian cuisine, tradition ...

, religions =

Romanian Orthodox Church The Romanian Orthodox Church (ROC; ro, Biserica Ortodoxă Română, ), or Patriarchate of Romania, is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church in full communion with other Eastern Orthodox Christian churches, and one of the nine patriarchates ...

, Roman Catholicism,

Lutheranism Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Catholic Church launched th ...

, related_groups =

Romanians The Romanians ( ro, români, ; dated exonym '' Vlachs'') are a Romance-speaking ethnic group. Sharing a common Romanian culture and ancestry, and speaking the Romanian language, they live primarily in Romania and Moldova. The 2011 Roman ...

, footnotes = The Romanians in Hungary ( ro, Românii din Ungaria, hu, Magyarországi románok) constituted a small minority. According to the most recent Hungarian census of 2011 (based on self-determination), the population of

was 35,641 or 0.3%, a significant increase from 8,482 or 0.1% of 2001. The community is concentrated in towns and villages close to the Romanian border, such as

Battonya Battonya ( ro, Bătania; sr, Батања, Batanja) is a town in Békés County, in the Southern Great Plain region of south-east Hungary. Residents are Magyars, with minority of Serbs and Romanians. Geography It covers an area of 145.77 km ...

Elek Elek (, ) is a town in Békés County, in the Southern Great Plain region of south-east Hungary. Jews lived in the city as early as the 19th century and in 1944 many of them were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust. Geography The town cover ...

Kétegyháza Kétegyháza (; ro, Chitighaz) is a large village in Békés County, in the Southern Great Plain region of south-east Hungary. It is one of the main centres of Hungary's Romanian minority. Jews lived in the village in the 19th century and in 1 ...

Pusztaottlaka Pusztaottlaka (''Puszta-Ott·lak·a''; ro, Otlaca-Pustă) is a village in Békés County, in the Southern Great Plain region of south-east Hungary. Geography It covers an area of 18.88 km² and has a population of 471 people (2002). Popul ...

and Méhkerék, and in the city of Gyula. Romanians also live in the Hungarian capital,

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...

. As of 2011, Romanians constitute one of the largest foreign communities in the country.

History

Walachians_(Romanians)_in_Hungary,_census_1890

Historically, a significant part of modern day

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

was part of the

Kingdom of Hungary The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from the Middle Ages into the 20th century. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the coronation of the first king Stephen ...

. The oldest extant documents from Transylvania make reference to

Vlachs "Vlach" ( or ), also "Wallachian" (and many other variants), is a historical term and exonym used from the Middle Ages until the Modern Era to designate mainly Romanians but also Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians, Istro-Romanians and other Easter ...

too. Regardless of the subject of

presence/non-presence in

Transylvania Transylvania ( ro, Ardeal or ; hu, Erdély; german: Siebenbürgen) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and south its natural border is the Carpathian Mountains, and to the west the Ap ...

prior to the Hungarian conquest (See

Origin of the Romanians Several theories address the issue of the origin of the Romanians. The Romanian language descends from the Vulgar Latin dialects spoken in the Roman provinces north of the "Jireček Line" (a proposed notional line separating the predominantly ...

), the first written sources about Romanian settlements derive from the 13th century, record was written about Olahteluk village in Bihar county from 1283. The 'land of Romanians', Terram Blacorum (1222,1280)Tamás Kis, Magyar nyelvjárások, Volumes 18-21, Nyelvtudományi Intézet, Kossuth Lajos Tudományegyetem (University of Kossuth Lajos). Magyar Nyelvtudományi Tanszék, 1972, p. 8

/ref> showed up in Făgăraş, Fogaras and this area was mentioned under different name (Olachi) in 1285. The first appearance of a supposed Romanian name 'Ola' in Hungary derives from a charter (1258). They were significant population in

Banat Banat (, ; hu, Bánság; sr, Банат, Banat) is a geographical and historical region that straddles Central and Eastern Europe and which is currently divided among three countries: the eastern part lies in western Romania (the counties of T ...

, Máramaros (Maramureș) and

Partium Partium (from Latin '' partium'', the genitive of ''pars'' "part, portion") or ''Részek'' (in Hungarian) was a historical and geographical region in the Kingdom of Hungary during the early modern and modern periods. It consisted of the eastern a ...

. In 1881, Romanian-majority settlements projected to the present-day territory of Hungary were: Bedő, Csengerújfalu,

, Körösszakál,

Magyarcsanád Magyarcsanád ( ro, Cenadul Unguresc; sr, Чанад, Čanad) is a multi-ethnic village located in Csongrád-Csanád County, southeastern Hungary, near the Mureș () River. The Maros is a border-river here between southern Hungary and northern ...

, Méhkerék, Mezőpeterd,

and Vekerd. Important communities lived in

, Körösszegapáti,

Létavértes Létavértes ( ro, Leta Mare) is a town in Hajdú-Bihar county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. Geography It covers an area of and has a population Population typically refers to the number of people in a single a ...

Nyíradony Nyíradony ( ro, Nir-AdonGazeta Transilvan ...

Pocsaj Pocsaj () is a village in Hajdú-Bihar county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. Geography It covers an area of and has a population Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it b ...

, Sarkadkeresztúr, and Zsáka. After the 1920

Treaty of Trianon The Treaty of Trianon (french: Traité de Trianon, hu, Trianoni békeszerződés, it, Trattato del Trianon) was prepared at the Paris Peace Conference and was signed in the Grand Trianon château in Versailles on 4 June 1920. It forma ...

, Hungary came close to ethnic homogeneity, with only 10.4% minorities, of which 6.9% were

Germans , native_name_lang = de , region1 = , pop1 = 72,650,269 , region2 = , pop2 = 534,000 , region3 = , pop3 = 157,000 3,322,405 , region4 = , pop4 = ...

, and Romanians constituted about 0.3%. The numbers of Romanians in Hungary increased briefly with the onset of

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

when Hungary annexed parts of Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Yugoslavia. These annexations were affirmed under the

Munich Agreement The Munich Agreement ( cs, Mnichovská dohoda; sk, Mníchovská dohoda; german: Münchner Abkommen) was an agreement concluded at Munich on 30 September 1938, by Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy. It provided "cession to Germany ...

(1938), two Vienna Awards ( 1938 and 1940). In particular, the population of Northern Transylvania, according to the Hungarian census from 1941 counted 53.5%

Hungarians Hungarians, also known as Magyars ( ; hu, magyarok ), are a nation and ethnic group native to Hungary () and historical Hungarian lands who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language. The Hungarian language belongs to the Urali ...

and 39.1%

.Károly Kocsis, Eszter Kocsisné Hodosi, Ethnic Geography of the Hungarian Minorities in the Carpathian Basin, Simon Publications LLC, 1998, p. 116-15

In 1950, '' Foaia Românească'' ("The Romanian Sheet"; then known by another name) was founded in Gyula. It was the first newspaper of the Romanian minority in modern Hungary and currently is the one with longest and widest level of circulation within the country.

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