The paper presents and analyses the opinions of Grigore Ureche and Miron Costin regarding the unity of Romanians from the Carpatho-Danubian-Pontic space
and their Latinity, interpreted in a double perspective: from the point of view of Romanian historians, regarding the notions of „neam” (the word cannot be properly
translated into English; „folks” represents just an approximation) and „nation”; from
the point of view of the ”perennialist” historiographical school regarding the nation.
The last part of the analysis starts from the fact that the ”perennialist” school claims
that the nation and national consciousness appeared before the Modern Age.
