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Romanians have been living on Ukrainian land since the 14th century. Back then, Vlachs from Maramureș and Southern Transylvania, who are now considered the ancestors of modern Romanians and Moldovans, began to settle in the territories of modern Zakarpattia and Bukovyna. Later, many Romanians settled in Bessarabia. Today there are over 150 thousand ethnic Romanians in Ukraine. Over 30 thousand of them are clustered in the settlements along the borderline in Zakarpattia, where they coexist with Ukrainians, Hungarians, and other ethnic minorities, speak the local dialect of Romanian, and master several languages from childhood.
