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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 1905410" data-attributes="member: 7240">Actually, Romanian has a very high number of Slavic loan words. The majority of the Romanian population is understood to be of Slavic ethnicity/origin but adopted the language of the coastal Latin minority. The same is true of Bulgaria -- a predominantly Slavic population that has adopted the language of an already part-Slavic group of Turkic invaders. Also, depending on your historical era, Slavic-speaking Europe was larger than today. During the 7th century, Eastern Germany, Northern and Western Greece, and present-day Romania and Bulgaria all had Slavic-speaking majorities. But let's take an inventory of the peoples of the region today in terms of language groups: Turkic: Hungary, BulgariaRomance: Romania, MoldaviaSlavic: Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Slovakia, Czecho, Ukraine, Russia, Byelorussia, Lithuania, PolandGreek: GreeceBothno-Ugric: EstoniaSlavo-Turkic interaction with Orthodox Christianity is very much the story of the cultures that formed in Eastern Europe; in the early Middle Ages, that common interaction did give rise to much commonality amongst the peoples of the region. While it is true that there was much diversity and difference, an understanding of Slavic history and culture is useful regardless of what region of Eastern Europe one is examining.Before you generalize about who lived in Transylvania, you need to ask when. If we're talking about the 8th century, the region is dominated by the Avars, for instance.</blockquote>

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