The origin of the Romanians, that is the formation of the Romanian people and the venue thereof, has been for centuries subject to scholarly debate, often driven by political bias. Two basic theories can be differentiated (the theory of the Daco-Romanian continuity and the immigrationist theory), but interim views also exist. Scholars of the first school argue that the Romanians primarily descended from the Daco-Romans, a people emerging through the cohabitation of the native Dacians and the Latin-speaking colonists in the one-time Roman province of Dacia north of the river Danube. Accordingly, they suggest that a significant part of the territory of modern Romania has continuously been inhabited by the Romanians' ancestors. Followers of the opposite view argue that the Romanians' ethnogenesis commenced in Moesia and other provinces south of the Danube. Consequently, they propose a northward migration of the Romanians across the river which began in the 1100s at the earliest.
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