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The factual accuracy of this map or the file name is disputed. Reason: None of this maps are invented, all are consistent with the sources Nicolae Iorga's History of Romanians and Eastern Romanity, University of Bucharest, 1945; Cornelia Bodea, Ștefan Pascu, Liviu Constantinescu's Romania: Atlas Istorico-geografic, Romanian Academy 1996, (ISBN 973-27-0500-0); Ion Barnea and Ștefan Ștefănescu's Byzantines, Romanians and Bulgarians on the Lower Danube, Romanian Academy, Bucharest 1971, OCLC 1113905; Victor Spinei's Great Migrations in the East and South East of Europe from the Ninth to the Thirteenth Century, Bucharest 2003 (ISBN 973-85894-5-2) and The Romanians and the Turkic Nomads North of the Danube Delta from the Tenth to the Mid-Thirteenth century, Koninklijke Brill NV, Bucharest 2009 (ISBN 978-90-04-17536-5); Alexandru Avram, Mircea Babeş, Lucian Badea, Mircea Petrescu-Dîmboviţa and Alexandru Vulpe's (dir.), Istoria românilor: moştenirea timpurilor îndepărtate (“History of the Romanians: the heritage of ancient times”) vol.1, ed. Enciclopedică, Bucharest 2001 (ISBN 973-45-0382-0); Stelian Brezeanu's, Romanitatea Orientalǎ în Evul Mediu, Editura All Educational, Bucharest 1999, p. 229-246. But anachronistic and nationalist interpretations understand the adjective romanesti as referring exclusively to the modern nation-state, not the Roman-speaking population, and want to see this representation of the historic political formations located in the territories of current Romania and neighboring countries, as national romanian states in the modern sense of the term (romanian nationalist PoV), or as Romanian irredentist claims (hungarian or russian nationalist PoV). This interpretations claim that all the cited authors are irrelevant because they are Romanian. But it's wrong: in one hand, the past does not belong exclusively to any modern state: it is a collective heritage, shared between several current countries; on the other hand, Romania has no territorial claims. Wanting to limit the history of the Romanians only to the existence and territory of the modern Romanian state is like pretending that the Italians have no history and did not exist before the Italian Unity (Risorgimento).

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