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Romanian Americans (Romanian: ''român american'') are Americans who have Romanian ancestry. According to the 2000 US Census, 367,310 Americans indicated Romanian as their first ancestry,〔.(2000 U.S. Census, ancestry responses )〕 while 518,653 persons declared to have Romanian ancestry.〔 Other sources provide higher estimates for the numbers of Romanian Americans in the contemporary US; for example, the (Romanian-American Network Inc. ) supplies a rough estimate of 1.1 million who are fully or partially of Romanian ethnicity.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Romanian-American Community )〕 There is also a significant number of persons of Romanian Jewish ancestry, estimated at about 225,000.〔(Salute to the Romanian Jews in America and Canada, 1850-2010 By Vladimir F. Wertsman )〕 ==History== The first Romanian known to have been to what is now the United States was Samuel Damian (also spelled Domien), a priest. Samuel Damian's name appears as far back as 1748, when he placed an advertisement in the ''South Carolina Gazette'' announcing the electrical demonstrations he planned to give and inviting the public to attend. Letters written in 1753 and 1755 by Benjamin Franklin attest to the fact that the two had met and had carried on discussions concerning electricity.〔 Damian remained in the States some years living in South Carolina, then travelled on to Jamaica and disappeared from historical record.〔Wertsman, Vladimir (1975). ''The Romanians in America, 1748-1974''. New York: Oceana Publications〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Romanian Americans history )〕 There were several Romanian generals who became ranking officers in the Union Army during the Civil War, Brigadier general George Pomutz, Commander of the 15th Iowa Regiment, Captain Nicolae Dunca, who fought in the Battle of Cross Keys in Virginia. Another Romanian soldier, Eugen Teodoresco, fought in the Spanish–American War in 1898.〔 The first major wave of Romanian immigrants to the United States took place between 1895 and 1920, in which 145,000 Romanians entered the country. They came from various regions in Moldavia, Transylvania and neighboring countries such as Ukraine and Serbia with significant Romanian population. The majority of these immigrants particularly those from Transylvania and Banat that were under Austro-Hungarian rule left their native regions because of economic depression and forced assimilation, a policy practiced by Hungarian rulers. They settled mostly in the industrial centers in Pennsylvania and Delaware as well as in areas around the Great Lakes such as Cleveland, Chicago, and Detroit. The migrants from the Romanian Old Kingdom were mostly Jews, most of whom settled in New York. One of their prominent organizations was the United Rumanian Jews of America. 75,000 Romanian Jews emigrated in the period 1881–1914, mostly to the United States.〔Halevy, Mayer A. (1933), ''Contribuţiuni la istoria Evreilor in România'', București.〕 During the interwar period, the number of ethnic Romanians who migrated to the US decreased as a consequence of the economic development in Romania, but the number of Jews who migrated to the US increased, mostly after the rise of the fascist Iron Guard. After the Second World War, the number of Romanians who migrated to the United States increased again. This time, they settled mostly in California, Florida and New York and they came from throughout Romania. Over 53% of all foreign-born Romanian Americans came to the US after 1980. Some sources supply estimates of particular Romanian American community populations which are considerably higher than the most recently available U.S. census count. The estimated numbers depend on the reliability of the estimation method used and how membership of the Romanian American community is defined. In the 2000 United States census, 340,000 Americans of age 5 years and older (or 0.11% of the total US population) were identified as speakers of Romanian, ranking it 21st among languages spoken in the US. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Romanian Americans」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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