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The Serbs are an ethnic minority in Romania. According to the 2002 census, there were 22,518 Serbs in Romania or 0.1% of the population (the 1992 census recorded 29,408 Serbs, or 0.1% of the population). [1] Serbs mostly live in western Romania, in the Romanian part of the Banat region, where they constitute absolute majority in two communes and relative majority in one other.

Location
Most of the Serbs in Romania are Orthodox Christians; the vast majority belong to Serbian Orthodox Church Eparchy of Timişoara, while those living in the Sviniţa are Old Believers. [5]

Religion

Banat, Pomorišje and Transylvania
Ottoman pressure traditionally forced members of several South Slavic communities to seek refuge in Wallachia - although under Ottoman rule as well, the latter was always subject to less requirements than regions to south of the Danube.
These groups are, however, hard to distinguish one from another in early Wallachian references, as the term "Serbs" is regularly applied to all Southern Slavs, no matter where they might have originated. This only changed in the 19th century, through a transition made clear by an official statistic of 1830, which reads "census of how many Serbs are resident here in the town of Ploieşti, all of them Bulgarians" (Giurescu, p.269).
Serbs-proper probably constituted the vast majority of mercenary troops known as seimeni, given that their nucleus is attested to have been formed by "Serb seimeni" (as it was during their revolt in 1655), and that the rule of Prince Matei Basarab had witnessed the arrival of a large group of Serb refugees.

Wallachia
List of Serbian Orthodox monasteries in Romania:

Sveti Đorđe monastery (Манастир светог Ђорђа / Manastir svetog Đorđa). According to the legend, it was founded in 1485 by the Serbian despot, Jovan Branković. It was rebuilt in the 18th century.
Šemljug monastery (Манастир Шемљуг / Manastir Šemljug). It was founded in the 15th century.
Sveti Simeon monastery (Манастир светог Симеона / Manastir svetog Simeona).
Bazjaš monastery (Манастир Базјаш / Manastir Bazjaš).
Bezdin monastery (Манастир Бездин / Manastir Bezdin).
Zlatica monastery (Манастир Златица / Manastir Zlatica).
Kusić monastery (Манастир Кусић / Manastir Kusić).
Sveti Đurađ monastery (Манастир свети Ђурађ / Manastir sveti Đurađ). Serbian monasteries in Romania

Notable people

Jovan Nenad (?-1527), self-proclaimed "emperor", ruler of Bačka, northern Banat, and a part of Srem, born in Lipova (northern Banat).
Dositej Obradović (1742-1811), writer and translator, born in Ciacova (Banat).
Sava Tekelija (1761-1842), politician and public worker, born in Arad.
Ivan Tabaković (1898-1977), painter, born in Arad.
Milan Tabaković, architect, born in Arad. Serbs born on present-day Romanian territory

Miodrag Belodedić (b.1964), football player, played for Romanian national team, Steaua Bucharest and Red Star Belgrade, born in Socol. Krashovani

Minorities of Romania
Raci
Serbs of Vojvodina