Ethnographic Regions
Romanian traditional clothing can be classified according to seven traditional regions.These can be further subdivided by ethnografic zones, which may range between 40 and 120, depending on the criteria used.
The seven main regions are:
- Transilvania|Transilvania-Ardeal
- The western plains: Câmpia Mureșului Inferior ; Câmpia Crișurilor (Crișul Negru, Crișul Alb, Crișul Repede); Câmpia Someșului inferior (Țara Oașului)
- Banat, including Lunca Timișului and Caraș-Severin.
- Valahia, including Oltenia și Muntenia.
- The lower Danube, including Bărăgan, Dobrogea and southern Moldova.
- Moldova, including Basarabia, Bucovina and Transnistria.
- Balcans or Romanians of the Balcanic peninsula, which can be further subdivided into four areas
- The Daco-Romanians along the borders: Cadrilater (Bulgaria), Timoc (north-western Bulgaria and eastern Serbia), Voivodina/Serbian Banat and in Ukraine (especially around Cernăuți and Odesa)
- Istroromanians in Istria, Croatia
- Macedoromanians (or "aromanians") in Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia.
- Meglenoromanians in Greece and Macedonia.
Read more about this topic: Romanian Dress
Famous quotes containing the word regions:
“In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.”
—Oswald Spengler (1880–1936)