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One who has a love of Ancient Rome.
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Coerced British workers had to have built the grand buildings and roads that so impressed later Romanophiles.
A Romanophile, the Greek historian Polybius intended his History to explain Rome's dominance over the civilized world.
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One who has a love of Romania.
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Its first prelate was the Ukrainian-born Bukovinian Romanophile and avid promoter of all things Romanian, Metropolitan Nectari Kotlearciuc […]
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One who has a love of the Roma people.
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George Borrow (1803-1881) has stood as the acknowledged source of inspiration for countless Romanophiles (as well as Romanophobes) ever since his literary heyday in the 19th century; in fact Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald saw himself as quite "unfashionable" (1944:x) because he was one of the few who didn't make his "first acquaintance with [Gypsies] in the pages of George Borrow".