It Is about this time when Rumanians started to infiltrate through the Carpathian Mountains from south and east as shepherds. using the unoccupied mountain pastures with their sheep flocks. However. except In two countries. Rumanian mass immigration began only in the 16th and 17th centuries when Rumanians from the Danubian principalities of Moldavia and Valachia fled into Transylvania in the wake of Turkish raids. incessant civil wars. and cruel taxation by their Fanariot princes. The high altitudes and dense forests of the Carpathians provided a secure refuge for them. and the westernized state system offered a more humane and civilized life. Transylvania. however. failed to escape the Turkish wars either.
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