THE PUBLICATION OF TRANSLATION FROM THE ROMANIAN LANGUAGE OF "THE HISTORY OF THE ROMANIANS" BY IOAN-AUREL POP (THE ANTIQUITY IN ROMANIA: THE EASTERN ROMANCE AND THE ROMANIAN LANGUAGE WITHIN THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT OF THE APPEARANCE OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES)

The purpose of the publication is to introduce to the scientific circle of Ukraine a translation from the Romanian language of "The History of the Romanians" by Ioan-Aurel Pop, one of the most prominent contemporary Romanian historians, Rector of Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca (2012–2020), and President of the Romanian Academy (since 2018). The proposed translation provides a well-founded scholarly perspective on the origins of the Romanian people and their language, In the article is reflected a diachronic an historico-linguistic debate as regards the problem of the origin of the Romanian people, their continuous dwelling in the Carpathian and Danube territories during a millennial large migration of people, as well as the role of substrato-superstratum factors in the forming of the Romanian language as colloquial Latin southward and north of Danube.