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
Harghita,
Covasna and
Mureș counties) and
Romani people, with a declining
German population (in
Timiș,
Sibiu,
Brașov) 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),
Serbs,
Croats,
Slovaks and
Banat Bulgarians (in
Banat),
Ukrainians (in
Maramureș and
Bukovina),
Greeks (
Brăila,
Constanța),
Jews (
Bukovina,
Bucharest),
Turks and
Tatars (in
Constanța),
Armenians,
Russians (
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.