Romanians in Italy

The Romanians in Italy make up the largest ethnic minority in the country with more than one million people (alongside the Albanians and Moroccans ).

According to the National Institute for Statistics (ISTAT), around 1.2 million Romanian nationals lived in Italy on January 1, 2016. In 2015, around 660,000 women and 490,000 men with Romanian citizenship lived in Italy.

Geographical distribution

The areas with the largest Romanian population in Italy are Lazio , Lombardy , Veneto , Emilia-Romagna , Tuscany , Sicily and Campania . According to the National Statistics Institute, 230,000 people of Romanian descent lived in Lazio alone. In addition, 160,000 Romanians live in Lombardy. After a Romanian Roma assaulted and fatally injured an Italian woman in 2007, several Romanians were victims of violence.

Well-known Romanians in Italy

• Roman Vlad , musician and composer
• Virginia Zeani , musician

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} http://www.tuttitalia.it/statistiche/cittadini-stranieri/romania/
2. ↑ http://www.tuttitalia.it/statistiche/cittadini-stranieri/albania/
3. ↑ http://www.tuttitalia.it/statistiche/cittadini-stranieri/marocco/
4. ↑ http://www.stern.de/politik/ausland/rumaenen-in-italien--wir-haben-eure-koepfe-durchsieben--3225962.html