It is these areas west of the Carpathians that contain the highest concentrations of the nation's largest ethnic minorities--Hungarians, Germans, and Serbs.
His father was a Transylvanian Saxon, and his mother was a member of the Hungarian nobility.
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Martin Fabi was born November 1, 1942 in Durrbach, Siebenbürgen (Transylvania) in a family of Transylvanian Saxons.
The step undertaken by Metropolitan Atanasie Anghel and his Holy Synod obtained for the ethnic Romanians of Transylvania (then a Principauté vasal to the Hapsburg Empire) equal rights with those of the other Transylvanian nations, which were part of the Unio Trium Nationum: (the Hungarian nobility, the Transylvanian Saxons and the Székely).
It is also unclear if Băsescu counted religious minorities such as Jews ethnic Romanis, ethnic Hungarians who are native to Northern Romania, also known as Csángó or Szeklers and Transylvanian Saxons of ethnic German origins as Romanians when he made his estimate, as well as third-generation individuals in the United States and Canada.
But the city itself was built by German settlers - later referred as Transylvanian Saxons, but actually originating from the region of Rhine and Moselle - on the territory of the Hungarian Kingdom in the second half of the 12th century and became an important city in medieval Transylvania.