Original sentence: Some 30,000 Romanians live in this region, mostly around the southern towns of Rakhiv (Rahău) and Tiachiv (Teceu) and close to the border with Romania.Some estimates point to a number as high as 50,000 but a true count is hard to obtain as many Roma will claim to be Hungarian or Romanian when interviewed by Ukrainian authorities
Edited sentence: In the past, the number of the romanians was much higher.Ist is supposed that the shepherds who setteled in the polish Carpathians and Moravian Wallachia are Romanians from Transcarpathia.See also the Vlach shepherds migration in Poland.See map.Some 30,000 Romanians live in this region, mostly around the southern towns of Rakhiv (Rahău) and Tiachiv (Teceu) and close to the border with Romania along the Tisa-River.Some estimates point to a number as high as 50,000.They lived also along the rivers Borzava, Rika, Tereblja and Teresva.Those shepherds were called "vlachs".Up to the 15.th century, ukrainians have setteled in the lower Regions of southern Transcarpathia (Máramaros county), assimilated most of the Romanians and outnumbered them