Romanization (cultural)
Romanization or Latinization (Romanisation or Latinisation), in the historical and cultural meanings of both terms, indicate different historical processes, such as acculturation, integration and assimilation of newly incorporated and peripheral populations by the Roman Republic and the later Roman Empire. The terms were used in ancient Roman historiography and traditional Italian historiography until the Fascist period, when the various processes were called the "civilizing of barbarians".
For other uses, see Romanization (disambiguation).De-Romanization[edit]
The regions of Levant and Mesopotamia were re-Semiticized by the Arab conquests of the Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphates and into the Abbasid Caliphate after centuries of Roman rule. The conquests reversed the Romanization and Hellenization of the native Semitic peoples.
Slavic migrations to Southeastern Europe is another event that contributed to the de-romanization of the Balkans where the rapid demographic spread of the Slavs was followed by a population exchange, mixing and language shift to and from Slavic.