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Minorities of Romania
Officially, 10.5% of Romania's population is represented by minorities (the rest of 89.5 eing Romanians). The principal minorities in Romania are Hungarians (Szeklers and Magyars; see Hungarians in Romania) (especially in HarghitaCovasna and Mureș counties) and Romani people, with a declining German population (in TimișSibiuBrașov) and smaller numbers of Poles in Bucovina (Austria-Hungary attracted Polish miners, who settled there from the Kraków region in Poland in the 19th century), SerbsCroatsSlovaks and Banat Bulgarians (in Banat), Ukrainians (in Maramureș and Bukovina), Greeks (BrăilaConstanța), Jews (BukovinaBucharest), Turks and Tatars (in Constanța), ArmeniansRussians (Lippovans, in Tulcea) and others. Minority populations are greatest in Transylvania and the Banat, areas in the north and west, which were possessions of Hungary (since 1867 the as part of Austria-Hungary) until World War I.

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