ROUMANIA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 98, 1 December 1915, Page 4

ROUMANIA.

lii ti pamphlet' recently published in Germany some interesting statistical information is given regarding the number of Roumanians in Ronmania and neighbouring countries. . According to the census of 1912 the population of the kingdom of Ronmania in round numbers was seven and a-lialf millions. This figure includes 300,000 unnationalised Jews and 200.000 subjects of other countries. The nnmber of actual Roumanians is there'fore seven millions, y A note to the article, written .in the interests *of Austria-Hungary, states, that this number i,s too: high, and, that it :also, includes something like a quarter of a million, gipsies.., In Hungary there, are. 2,900,000 Roumanians, h nttmbe; which, is probably, short 0f.,; the I {ictuajl; population in Transylvania iaud the llanat. These figures, are founded on itne results of,the cens.us of 1910, and; A the, Hungarians ary. .unsuccessful, ill their,- elfprts. at diminishing (the Roumanian increase,, we may safely put the Roumanians under the Hapsbnrg rule at three millions. In the Bukovina they number approximately 300,000. lu Russia, where the Ron-, manians are called Moldavians, they number 1,100,000. They are found in congested areas in Bessarabia as far asji the Dniester, It is ' also stated that .north of the Danube the Rou-

manians iiumher , about 11,400,000. South’of tlie Danube., in north-eastern Serbia, there is considerable, Roumanian population, which emigrated frqm tine lianat and Little in 'the 17th 18th, and 19th centuries. The Serbian officials’ place .'their present number at from 150,000 to 180,000, but it is probably not so high. In Bulgaria there are about 80,000. It is likelyi therefore, that the' nubber of these so-called Daco-Rounian-iaiis does not exceed a quarter of a million. In adition to these more or less massed populations we have a number of isolated Roumanian communities —the Aromunions, Meglinites, and others —scattered all ovei the Balkan Peninsula, hut more particularly in the Karadjovag -Mountains, north-west of Salonika. There are also the Istro-Wallachians and other minor tribes leading a pastoral life on the Piudos and, in other mountain territories. The total of these isolated communities may reach 200,000. The aggregate population cannot therefore he far short of twelve millions, of whom, as we have seen, seven millions inhabit Roumania proper.