Religion
The religion of the Vlachs is predominantly Eastern Orthodox Christianity, but in some regions they are Catholics and Protestants (mainly in Transylvania) and around 500 Megleno-Romanians from Greece who converted to Islam and have been living in Turkey since the 1923 exchange of populations. The Istro-Romanians are mainly Roman Catholic.
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