The origins of the Romanians is controversial, because Romanian intellectuals created and kept alive the as yet unproven Daco-Roman origin and continuity theory,
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Origin_of_the_Romanians.html
Schramm, Gottfried (Germany):
1.) ”Ein Damm bricht. Die römische Donaugrenze und die Invasionen des 5-7. Jahrhunderts in Lichte der Namen und Wörter”[=A Dam Breaks: The Roman Danube frontier and the Invasions of the 5th-7th Centuries in the Light of Names and Words] (in German). R. Oldenbourg Verlag.) (1997)
2.) “Fruhe Schicksale der Romanen” Zeitschrift fur Balkanologie vol. XXI/2 (1985) pp. 223-241 (Early Fates of the Romanians: Eight Theses on the Localization of Latin continuity in Southeastern Europe
The expanded article is translated into Romanian and published in Romania as a book--“Destine timpurii ale românilor: opt teze referitoare la localizarea continuitatii latine în Europa Sud-estica.” It is also translated into Hungarian and published in Hungary.-- “Korai román történelem: nyolc tezis a Delkelet –Europai Latin kontinuitas helyenek meghatarozasahoz”
Izzo, Herbert (Canada and USA)
1.) “On the History of Romanian” in The LACUS Forum, Volume 12, Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States, Hornbeam Press, 1985, p. 144
Malcolm, Noel R. (UK)
1.) “Kosovo: A Short History” University Press. New York, N Y 1999
2.) “Bosnia: A Short History” Pan Macmillan, Oxford, U K 2002
Posner, Rebecca (UK)
1.) The Romance Languages.”Cambridge University Press., Cambridge U K 1966
Hirt, Alfred M (UK)
1.) “Dalmatians and Dacians—Forms of Belonging and Displacement in the Roman Empire” Humanities (2019), 8, 1; DOI:10.3390/h8010001
Robert Browning (UK)
1.) “Byzantium and Bulgaria A comparative study across the early medieval frontier” Temple Smith, London (1975) pp 42-43
Lang, David M. (UK)
1.) ”The Bulgarians. From pagan times to the Ottoman conquest” Thames and Hudson London (1976) pp. 24-27, 75,119
Georg Stadtmüller (Austria)
1.) “Geshichte Südosteuropas” (History of Southeastern Europe) Chapter 13 “The Albanian-Rumanian Migrations -- 11th-13th centuries --“ Von R. Oldenbourg, Munchen Wien, (1950 pp. 107-108, 1976 pp 90)
Pohl, Walter (Austria)
1.) "Conceptions of Ethnicity in Early Medieval Studies" in Little, Lester K.; Rosenwein, Barbara ”Debating the Middle Ages: Issues and Readings.” Blackwell Publishers. (1991) pp. 15–24.
George, Pierre et Tricart, Jean (France)
1.) “L'Europe Centrale” Presses Universitaires de France (1954) pp 239
White, George W. (USA)
1.) “ Nationalism and Territory Constructing Group Identity in Southeastern Europe “ Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Oxford, UK (2000). available on Amazon Amazon.com: Nationalism and Territory: Constructing Group Identity in Southeastern Europe (Geographical Perspectives on the Human Past) (9780847698097): George W. White: Books
Campbell Hart, Timothy (USA)
1.) “Beyond the River, under the Eye of Rome: Ethnographic Landscapes, Imperial Frontiers, and the Shaping of a Danubian Borderland” Doctoral Thesis, (Greek and Roman History), University of Michigan, USA (2017) pp. 211
Polome, E. C. (USA)
1.) “Balkan Languages (Illyrian, Thracian and Daco-Moesian)” in The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. III.I, Chapter 20e, pp. 866-888, 2008 (online edition)
Francis Dvornik (USA)
“The Slavs: Their Early History andCivilization” American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston (1956) pp. 186-188
Czamańska, Ilona (Poland)
1.) “Vlachs and Slavs in the Middle Ages and Modern Era” in RES HISTORICA 41, 2016, pp. 11-24 (DOI: 10.17951/rh.2016.41.1.11)
Antonijevic, Dragoslav (Serbia)
1.) “Cattle breeders’ Migrations in the Balkans Through Centuries” in “Migrations in Balkan History” Ivan Ninic ed. Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute for Balkan Studies, 1989 pp. 153
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Noteworthy is that such migrations passed through Sedmogradska (Transylvania), evidently a Slavic borrowing from the Transylvanian Saxon Siebenburgen. When the political or economic situation in the Balkans warranted it, these migrants simply did not return to the Balkans.It is said in the book that such migrations occurred in extended Vlach families of up to 300 nucleic families. With 10–12 children/woman (not uncommon today in the poor Volosi families of the Ukraine), in a few generations the number of immigrant Vlachs would be in the thousands. There were several waves of Northward Vlach migrations in the centuries beginning with the X-th and ending with the fall of Ottoman power in the Balkans in the XV-XVIII Centuries. Then the Vlachs emigrated in large numbers because their lucrative jobs in the Ottoman hierarchy ended. (Bir Osmanlı Eflakı Olmak “Being an Ottoman Vlach: On Vlach Identity (Ies), Role and Status in Western Parts of the Ottoman Balkans (15th-18th Centuries” Osmanlı Balkanlarının Batı Bölgelerinde Eflak Kimliği, Görevi ve Vaziyetine Dair (15.-18. Yüzyıllar)
Kadlec, Karel (Czechia)
1.) “Valaši a valašské právo v zemích slovanských a uherských S uvodem podavajicim prehled theorii o vzniku rumunskeho naroda” (Wallachians and Wallachian Law in the Slavic and Hungarian Countries Introducing an overview of the Theory of the Birth of the Romanian Nation) Emperor Franz Joseph Czech Academy for Sciences, Prague 1916
Zdeněk Váňa (Czechia)
1.) ”The world of the ancient Slavs” Translated from Czech Wayne State University Press (1983) pp 40-41
Georgiev, Vladimir I. (Bulgaria)
1.) “The genesis of the Balkan Peoples” in The Slavonic and East European Review 44, no. 103, (1960), pp. 285-297
2.) “Albanisch, Dakisch-Mysisch und Rumanisch. Die Herkunft der Albaner”, in Linguistique Balkanique II (1960) pp 1 ff. and pp 15 ff.
3.) “Le dace comme substrat de la langue roumaine”in Revue roumaine de linguistique, X, Bucarest, (1965), pp. 75 ff.
4.) “Thrace et illyrien”, Balkansko Ezikoznanie 6 (1963): 71–4.
Philippide, Alexandru, I. (Romania)
1.) “Originea Romanilor”(The Origin of Romanians) Vol. I “Ce spun izvoarele istorice” (What do the historical sources tell) Tipografia “Viata Romanesca,” Iasi, Romania, (1923) pp. 425-427,739-740 and 852-855.
Densusianu, Ovid (Romania)
1.) “Histoire de la langue roumaine. I,” Bucarest, (1929). 288–289
Rosetti, Alexandru and Petrovici, Emil (Romania)
1.) “Dezbateri privind etnogeneza românilor în anii ’50 de la manualul lui Roller la tratatul de istorie“ by Andrei Măgureanu, (2007)
http://www.scivajournal.ro/pdf/sciva%203-4_2007/06.pdf
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Boia, Lucian (Romania)
1. “History and Myth in the Romanian Consciousness” Chapters II (Origin) and III (Continuity) CEU Press, Budapest, Hu (2001)
These are just the XX and XXI Century sources. Sulzer and Roessler & followers published in the XIX Century
I very much liked American scholar George Watson’s book “, referenced above. “Nationalism and Territory Constructing Group Identity in Southeastern Europe “ The book is organized in five Chapters. Chapter III “European Nationalism in Its Temporal and Spatial Context” treats the rise of nationalism in Europe in the XIX Century, going into more depth, but still in general, into the topic of nationalism in Southeastern Europe (Hungary, Serbia, Romania, Croatia and Bulgaria). Detailed analyses on Hungary and Romania follow in Chapter 4 “Hungary and Hungarians” and Chapter 5 “ Romania and the Romanians.” The book gives some good, common sense advice to the feuding Romanian/Hungarian factions on the issue of Romanian’s origins.
I reviewed in some detail the sections of the book here on Quora that pertain to the roots of the conflict. That posting has since mysteriously disappeared, so I cannot post a link to it. Instead I will post it anew. . Here are some screenshots of sections of the book, that I found pertinent to the issue at hand.
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E. Key Conclusions
Territory and identity are inseparable
Belief, once ingrained, will not be altered by facts. The effects of 100 years of teaching a hypothetical history to Romanian children cannot be erased by facts. Facts won’t be believed by the average Romanian.
It is futile to argue scientifically with Nationalists.
I wish that neither side wastes time on useless polemics. I am not sure which side starts it, but I am sure that it is the Romanian side that sustains it at all costs.
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