Cele mai multe dintre sursele literare privind originea românilor au fost interpretate în diverse moduri de către adepții diferitelor teoriilor științifice[1]. Lucrări pe acest subiect au fost modificate pe considerente politice, deoarece etnogeneza românilor (care împărtășesc exonimulvlah cu alte popoare care vorbesc o limbă romanică de est)[2] a fost obiectul unei controverse însuflețite.
Aurelius Victor - Bird, H. W. : De Cæsaribus; Liverpool University Press, 1994; ISBN 978-0-85323-218-6
Cecaumeno - Signes Codoñer, Juan : Consejos de un aristócrata Bizantino /A Byzantine Nobleman’s Advice/; Alianza Editorial, 2000, Madrid; ISBN 84-206-3594-4
Choniatēs, Niketas - Magoulias, Harry J. : O City of Byzantium - Annals of Niketas Choniatēs; Wayne State University Press; ISBN 978-0-8143-1764-8
Clari, Robert of – McNeal, Edgar Holmes : The Conquest of Constantinople; Medieval Academy of America, 1999; ISBN 0-8020-7823-0
Comnena, Anna - Sewter, E. R. A.: The Alexiad; Penquin Group, 2003, London; ISBN 978-0-14-044958-7
Constantine Porphyrogenitus - Moravcsik, Gyula - Jenkins, Romilly J. H. : De Administrando Imperio (On Administering the Empire); Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, 1967; ISBN 978-0-88402-343-2
Fazlullah, Rashiduddin - Thackston, Wheeler M. : Rashiduddin Fazlullah’s Jami‘u’t-tawarikh: Compendium of Chronicles - A History of the Mongols; Harvard University, 1998
Hatto, A. T. : The Nibelungenlied; Penquin Group, 1965, Harmondsworth; ISBN 978-0-14-044137-6
Hewsen, Robert H.: The Geography of Ananias of Širak: Asxarhacoyc, the long and the short recensions (Beihefte zum Tubinger Atlas des Borderen Orients); Reichert, 1992; ISBN 3-88226-485-3
Kéza, Simon of - Shaer, Frank : The Deeds of the Hungarians; Central European University Press, 1999, Budapest; ISBN 963-9116-31-9
Rubruck, William of - Jackson, Peter : The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck: His Journey to the Court of Great Khan Möngke, 1253-1255; Hakluyt Society, 1990; ISBN 978-0-904180-29-9
Sturluson, Snorri - Hollander, Lee Milton : Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway; University of Texas Press, 1964; ISBN 978-0-292-73061-8
Szádeczky-Kardoss, Samu - Farkas, Csaba: Az Avar történelem forrásai 557-től 806-ig - Die Quellen der Awarengeschichte von 557 bis 806 /The Sources for the History of the Avars/; Balassi Kiadó, 1998, Budapest; ISBN 963-506-237-0
Villehardouin, Geoffrey of ' - Shaw, Margaret R. B. : The Conquest of Constantinople; in: Joinville and Villehardouin - Chronicles of the Crusades; Penguin Classics, 1963; ISBN 978-0-14-044124-6
Tudela, Benjamin of - Adler, Marcus Nathan : The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela; Hard Press, 2006; ISBN 1-4069-1326-X
Walsh, P. G. : The Poems of St. Paulinus of Nola; Paulist Press, 1975, New York, N. Y.; ISBN 0-8091-0197-1
Whitby, Michael - Whitby, Mary : The History of Theophylact Simocatta: An English Translation with Introduction; Oxford University Press, 1986; ISBN 978-0-19-822799-1
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Brezeanu, Stelian: The Lower Danube Frontier during the 4th-7th Centuries. An ambiguous Notion; in: Annuario 5; Istituto Romano di cultura e ricerca romanistica, 2003 (în engleză: [1])
Cooper, Jean C.: Dictionary of Christianity; Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1996, Chicago; ISBN 1-884964-49-4
Curta, Florin: Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages - 500-1250; Cambridge University Press, 2006, Cambridge; ISBN 978-0-521-89452-4
Curta, Florin: The Making of the Slavs: History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube Region c. 500-700; Cambridge University Press, 2007, Cambridge and New York; ISBN 978-0-521-03615-3
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Fine, John V. A., Jr.: The Early Medieval Balkans – A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century; The University of Michigan Press, 2008, Ann Arbor; ISBN 978-0-472-08149-3
Frend, W. H. C.: The Rise of Christianity; Fortress Press, 1984, Philadelphia; ISBN 0-8006-1931-5
Iliescu, Vladimir: Die Räumung Dakiens im Lichte der Schriftquellen; in: Dacoromania N. F. 1.; Publishing House of the Roman Academy, 1973
Illyés, Elemér: Ethnic Continuity in the Carpatho-Danubian Area; East European Monographs, Boulder (distributed by Columbia University Press), 1988, New York; ISBN 0-88033-146-1
Klepper, Nicolae: Romania: An Illustrated History; Hippocrene Books, Inc, 2005, New York, NY; ISBN 0-7818-0935-5
Korobeinikov, Dimitri: A Broken Mirror: The Kipçak World in the Thirteenth Century; in: Curta, Florin (Editor) - Kovalev, Roman (Assistant Editor): The Other Europe in the Middle Ages - Avars, Bulgars, Khazars, and Cumans; Koninklijke Brill NV, 2008, Leiden & Boston; ISBN 978-90-04-16389-8
Kristó, Gyula: Early Transylvania (895-1324); Lucidus Kiadó, 2003, Budapest; ISBN 963-9465-12-7
Köpeczi, Béla (General Editor) - Barta, Gábor; Bóna, Istán; Makkai, László; Miskolczy, Ambrus; Mócsy, András; Péter, Katalin; Szász, Zoltán; Tóth, Endre; Trócsányi, Zsolt; Várkonyi R., Ágnes; Vékony, Gábor (Editors): Histoire de la Transylvanie (History of Transylvania); Akadémiai Kiadó, 1992, Budapest; ISBN 963-05-5901-3 (French: [2]; German: [3])
Köpeczi, Béla (General Editor) - Makkai, László; Mócsy, András; Szász, Zoltán (Editors) - Barta, Gábor (Assistant Editor): History of Transylvania; Akadémiai Kiadó, 1994, Budapest; ISBN 963-05-6703-2 (English: [4])
László, Gyula: The Magyars - Their Life and Civilisation; Corvina, 1996, Gyula; ISBN 963-13-4226-3
Macartney, C. A.: The Medieval Hungarian Historians: A Critical and Analytical Guide; Cambridge University Press, 2008; ISBN 978-0-521-08051-4
Minorsky, Vladimir Fedorovich: Hudud al’-Alam: The Regions of the World - A Persian Geography, 327 AH - 982 AD; in: The Geographical Journal, 90/2; 1937, London
Pohl, Walter: Telling the difference: Signs of Ethnic Identity; in: Pohl, Walter - Reimitz, Helmut: Strategies of Distinction: The Construction of Ethnic Communities; Brill, 1998; ISBN 978-90-04-10846-2
Pop, Ioan Aurel: Romanians and Romania: A Brief History; Columbia University Press, 1999, New York; ISBN 0-88033-440-1.
Scholz, Bernhard Walter - Rogers, Barbara (Translators): Carolingian Chronicles - Royal Frankish Annals and Nithard’s Histories; The University of Michigan Press, 2006, Ann Arbor; ISBN 0-472-06186-0
Schramm, Gottfried: Frühe Schiksale der Rumänen. Acht Thesen zur Lokalisierung der lateinischen Kontinuität in Südosteuropa /Early History of the Romanians - Eight Theses for Determining the Place of Continuity of the Latin in South-Eastern Europe/; in: Zeitschrift für Balkanologie (Nr. 21/2, 23/1, 22/1), 1985-1987, Wiesbaden
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Trout, Dennis. E.: Paulinus of Nola: Life, Letters, and Poems; University of California Press, 1999, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California; ISBN 0-520-21709-8
Vásáry, István: Cumans and Tatars - Oriental Military in the Pre-Ottoman Balkans, 1185-1365; Cambridge University Press, 2005, Cambridge; ISBN 0-521-83756-1
Vékony, Gábor: Dacians, Romans, Romanians; 2000, Toronto-Buffalo; ISBN 1-882785-13-4 (English:[5])
Wolfram, Herwig: The Roman Empire and its Germanic Peoples; University of California Press, 1997; 978-0-520-08511-4
