Historical waves of refugees include the Armenians who fled the Ottoman Empire due to the Armenian genocide in 1915, Greeks who fled persecution after the Greek Civil War and during the Greek military junta of 1967–74, Koreans who fled the Korean War and Chileans fleeing the Military dictatorship of Chile (1973–90).
In Romania there are also small numbers of refugees from Somalia, Yemen and Venezuela (including Romanian Venezuelans) as well.
[2][3][4][5] In 2020, most asylum applicants were from Afghanistan, Syria, Bangladesh, Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Pakistan, Yemen and Eritrea.
[7] The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine that began on 24 February 2022 triggered a major refugee crisis in Europe.
By 24 March 2022, more than half a million people from Ukraine had fled to Romania.