"Rumania's actual Latin origins are somewhat obscure, for the region was virtually lost to recorded history for a millennium between the end of Roman and the onset of Turkish dominion."
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Donald Kirk, Not So Liberal Rumania, p. 8, in Worldview Magazine (Carnegie Council), Volume 22, No. 4, April 1979
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