Romania

Romania  statement (  / explanation ) is a republic in southeastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea , Bulgaria , Serbia , Hungary , Ukraineand Moldova . On a territory of 238,391 square kilometers, Romania 21,729,871 (2014) people.

Hungary and Moldova after, the Roman Romania surrounded by Slavic countries. There is a great diversity of cultures and their influence, language and religion. Romania owns many unspoiled nature. The continental climate (cold winters, hot summers) and a mountain range running through Romania, the Carpathians, provide various types of landscape. In the country there are further broad sandy beaches on the Black Sea, a river, forests and plains.

The majority of the population is Romanian Orthodox, most ethnic Hungarians are Roman Catholic or Protestant (Reformed and Reformed), the ethnic Germans are mostly Lutheran. The constitution guarantees freedom of religion. The Romanian language belongs to the Romance language group and is related to the Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese. Especially in writing to discover many familiar words for the person who knows one of these languages.

The capital, Bucharest, in the interwar period known as Little Paris, is a major tourist attraction and by far the largest city in Romania. At the time of the Soviet regime Romania took a special place in the Eastern bloc with a relatively large degree of independence in foreign policy. Romania has since 2004 member of NATO since 2007 and of the European Union . The accession treaty with the EU, signed in early 2005 and implemented on January 1, 2007. Romania is the seventh largest country in population and the ninth largest country in the EU area.



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[ hide ]  *1 General  ==General [  edit ] == ===[Name  edit ] === The name Romania ( România ) comes from Român (Romanian), which comes forth from the word Romanus ("Roman") from Latin. The oldest preserved document written in Romanian comes from Campulung from 1521 (known as " Neacşu's letter from Campulung "). The letter Neacsu warns the mayor of Brasov for an imminent attack by the Turks. This letter is the first time the name "Romania" for which at the time Wallachia, Romania country - Ţara Romaneasca (Ţara <Latin Terra = country) - was called. In the following centuries there were two spellings: Român and Ruman. In the seventeenth century it was decided that the form "Ruman", which was often used for lower classes, meaning ' serf 'received while the form "român" was an ethno-linguistic meaning. After the abolition of slavery in 1746 the form began "Ruman" to fade, and the form was "Roman", "Românesc" final and correct any spelling. The name "Romania" the common name for all Romanian countries, it was, and was used for the first time in the beginning of the nineteenth century. The Romanians are the most eastern Romance people surrounded completely by non-Latin countries ("A Romance island in a Slavic Sea"). ===Flag [  edit ] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The flag of Romania is a vertical tricolor consisting of a blue, a yellow and a red tie. The colors have deep roots in Romanian history. This tricolor was adopted on December 27, 1989.
 * 1.1 Name
 * 1.2 Flag
 * 1.3 Weapon
 * 1.4 National Anthem
 * 2 History
 * 2.1 Dacia
 * 2.2 After the Roman domination
 * 2.3 Late Middle Ages
 * 2.4 Early Modern Romania
 * 2.5 From United Principalities Kingdom to Romania
 * 2.6 Romania during World War II
 * 2.7 Communist Romania
 * 2.8 Romania since 1989
 * 3 Geography
 * 3.1 Cities
 * 3.2 Nature
 * 3.3 Climate
 * 4 Administrative divisions
 * 5 Population
 * 5.1 Demographics
 * 5.2 Language
 * 5.3 Religion
 * 6 Culture
 * 6.1 Food and drink
 * 6.2 Media
 * 6.3 National holidays
 * 6.4 Festivals
 * 6.5 Music
 * 6.6 Sport
 * 7 Economics
 * 7.1 Currency
 * 7.2 Tourism
 * 8 Politics
 * 8.1 Elections
 * 8.2 Political parties
 * 9 Transport
 * 10 Education
 * 11 Famous (born) Romanians
 * 12 See also
 * 13 External links

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The current Romanian flag was designed by Petrache Poenaru, based on the French flag . After Vladimirescu's army in 1848 Bucharest entered, the flag was used for the first time.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The flag of Moldova is identical to the Romanian flag, apart from the coat of arms in the middle of the Moldovan flag. The people of Moldova parts namely the Romanians the same language and culture, though they used the Cyrillic alphabet in the period when Moldova was part of the Soviet Union. Completely identical to the Romanian flag is the flag of Chad, but that is purely coincidental. ===Weapon <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The coat of arms of Romania was on September 10 1992 approved by the Romanian Parliament . It is based on the weapon that the Kingdom of Romania between 1922 and 1947 was used.The weapon allows an eagle see with a cross in its beak and a scepter and sword in its claws. Also, the three colors of the Romanian flag can be seen in the coat of arms: blue, yellow and red.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The shield in the middle of the weapon is divided into five parts. Each share represents one historical region. The traditional symbol of the region is also there:

===Anthem <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Deşteaptă-te, române ! (Translation: Awake, Romanian!), Since 1989 the national anthem of Romania.
 * golden eagle - Principality of Wallachia (Valahia or Ţara Romaneasca)
 * aurochs - Moldova (Moldova)
 * Dolphins - Dobruja (Dobrogea)
 * Hungarian mythological Turul-bird (no eagle, but a peregrine), a sun and moon (representing the Hungarian Szeklerland) and seven castles (representing the seven Saxon vestingssteden-Transylvania (Transilvania or Ardeal or Erdély)
 * a lion and a bridge - Oltenia (Oltenia) and Banat (Banat) of Temesvár

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The text is written by Andrei Mureşanu ( 1816 - in 1863 ), poet of romantic works, journalist, translator and a popular leader from the time of the 1848 revolution . The music is composed by poet, singer and writer Anton Pann ( 1796 - 1854 ).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Since 1848 Deşteaptă-to, române a very popular song by Romanians that gave them courage at crucial moments during the War of Independence (! 1877 - 1878 ) and in both world wars.During the coup of 23 August 1944, when Romania turned away from Nazi Germany and joined the Allies , the song was broadcast on all radio stations and spontaneously sung by everyone.After the introduction of the communist dictatorship in December 30 1947 , when King Michael was forced to resign, was Deşteaptă-Te, Române! prohibited. On 22 December 1989, during the anti-communist revolution, the song echoed through the streets, where it accompanied the crowds and united. It has since become the national anthem again. ==History <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Dacia <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/513_v.Chr. 513 BC.] were south of the Danube several tribes of the Getae defeated by the Persian emperor Darius the Great during his campaign against theScythians (Herodotus IV.93). The Getae were a Thracian people . After half a millennium were the Getae (in Latin, the Daci ) led by Decebalusdefeated by the Roman Empire led by Emperor Trajan. Trajan had two campaigns to defeat the Getae, between 101 and 106 AD. Their Dacian kingdom was given the status of a Roman province of Dacia . The Gothic and Carpathian campaigns between 238 - 269 (from the beginning of the military anarchic period up to the battle of Naissus) the Roman Empire forced to create a new Roman province of Dacia, south of the Danube, in the former Moesia Superior .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Dacia reached a peak during the reign of Boerebista around [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/80_v.Chr. 80 BC.] . ===After Roman rule <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Medieval Sibiu<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Between 271 and 275 left the Roman government and the Roman army the former Dacia, where theGoths had invaded. They lived there until the fourth century with the locals. Then came a nomadic people, the Huns . The Gepids and the Avars ruled Transylvania until the eighth century, when the Bulgarians Dacia added them to their empire and ruled it until 1018 . Transylvania was from the foundation of the Hungarian Kingdom in the tenth or eleventh century to the sixteenth century Hungarian; when the principality was Transylvania formed. But the devastation and financial burden to the local population was not affected by the migrants in their way of life and their culture. The Pechenegs , Cumans and Uzen were also on Romanian grounds that evidence archaeological finds. The Romanian principalities of Wallachia(by Basarab I ) and Moldova (the Maramureşaan Dragos ) were founded between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In the Middle Ages, Romanians lived in two distinct independent Romanian principalities: Wallachia (Romanian: Ţara Romaneasca - Romanian Land) and Moldova (Romanian .: Moldova) but also controlled by the Hungarians in Transylvania. ===Late Middle Ages <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In 1475 gave Stephen the Great of Moldova ( Ştefan cel Mare ) the Turks in the Battle of Vaslui a major defeat. Other rulers in the fifteenth century as Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler), also known as ( Vlad Dracula, ruler of Wallachia) and John Hunyadi (Iancu de Hunedoara, ruler of Transylvania) had to fight against the Turks. Despite the many victories in the fifteenth century Wallachia and Moldavia came late fifteenth and early sixteenth century under suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire (1476 - Wallachia, 1514 - Moldova). As vassals they had complete internal autonomy and some external independence, which they completely got lost late eighteenth century. In 1812 the Russian Empire annexed the eastern half of Moldova (Moldova although it partially recovered after the Treaty of Paris in 1856). In 1775 Austria-Hungary annexed the northern part of Bukovina (north of Moldova) and annexed the Ottoman Empire the southeastern part of Moldova, theBudjak (Romanian: Bugeac).

Braşov, a historic town<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">One of the greatest Hungarian kings, Matthias Corvinus (known in Romanian as Matei Corvin, ruler between 1458 to 1490 - his father was a Romanian), was born in Transylvania and is claimed by the Romanians because of his Romanian father, John Hunyadi (Romanian : Iancu de Hunedoara), but is also claimed by the Hungarians because of his Hungarian mother. Later in 1541, Transylvania became officially a multi-ethnic principality under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire after the Battle of Mohács . ===<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);"><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[Early  Modern Romania <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">]  === The three principalities during Michael the Brave , Mihai Viteazul<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Michael the Brave (Romanian: Mihai Viteazul) (1558 - August 9 1601) was ruler of Wallachia (1593-1601), Transylvania (1599-1600) and Moldova (1600). During his reign were three principalities, which were largely inhabited by Romanians, for the first time united and governed by a single ruler. He is considered one of the national heroes of Romania.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">At the end of the eighteenth century conquered the Austro-Hungarian Transylvania. During the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1867-1918), the Romanians in Transylvania were oppressed by the policy of "Magyarization" by the Hungarian government.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">After centuries of Ottoman domination in Moldavia and Wallachia started Romanians there to feel more and more suppressed. For example, began in 1848 in Wallachia a nationalist revolution led by Tudor Vladimirescu, which however was brutally beaten down. Wallachia remained under Ottoman rule. ===United Principalities <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);"><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[Kingdom  to Romania <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">]  === Opening in Bucharest of the first Legislative Assembly of the United Principalities of Romania(L'Illustration, 1862)<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Wallachia and Moldavia declared their independence from the Turks in 1859 and chose the same monarch (Domnitor ), Alexander John Cuza (Romanian Alexandru Ioan Cuza), but were not recognized by Francis Joseph I of Austria . Sultan Abdülazizrecognized this is ultimately at December 23 1861, after Moldavia and Wallachia on January 24 1862 formally became one as United Principalities of Romania, also known as Little Romania, with its capital Bucharest.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The growing authoritarianism of Cuza led by means of a grand coalition of conservative and liberal radicals in 1866 to his fall. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">On March 26, 1866, Charles of Hohenzollern by the government until new monarch (Domnitor) elected the country. The representative of a legitimate dynasty ( Hohenzollern ) to bring the power hoped to offer the Greeks as a counterbalance to the surrounding states which had been until then just to dominate the Romanian grondgbied. Russia had already loudly separatist tendencies in Moldova supported by organizing demonstrations in Iasi, the capital of the former province of Moldova . On May 10, 1881 Charles and Carol I was the first king (government) crowned by Romania. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">During the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-1878 Romania fought on the Russian side; In 1878 the independent state of Romania was officially recognized by the Great Powers during the Congress of Berlin . In exchange for ceding the three southern districts of Bessarabia to Russia, which by Moldova after the Crimean War in 1852 were regained, Romania received the Dobrogea . In 1881 the principality Romania was lifted and there was a new kingdom in its place; the prince Carol I was crowned King of Romania.

Kingdom of Romania after World War I and in orange the Moldavian ASSRThe Palace of Culture in Iasi<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">During the Second Balkan War in 1913 Romania acquired the southern Dobrogea to Bulgaria in the Treaty of Bucharest .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">After two years of neutrality in the First World War, Romania declared war on the Central Powers . The Romanian campaign ended in disaster for Romania; the Central Powers occupy a large part of the country and destroyed a large part of the Romanian Army in four months. After the war, were among others the Russian Empire and Austria-Hungary, and Bessarabia ( 1917 ), Bucovina and Transylvania ( 1918 ) were added to the Romanian kingdom. The Treaty of Trianon in 1920 ensured that the regions of Banat , Crişana and Maramureş were added to Romania. The new Romania bordering on Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland ( Stanisławów Voivodeship ), the Soviet Union and Bulgaria.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">On 15 October 1922, was King Ferdinand (nephew of Carol I, King of Romania since 1914) in Alba Iulia, in the heart of Transylvania, was crowned king of the Complete Romania. ===Romania during World War II <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Just before World War II, in 1939, Romania became the largest oil supplier in Germany. In 1940 grip General Ion Antonescu with a coup in power.Antonescu acted like a dictator and worked with the Iron Guard, a fascist group.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Northern Transylvania was the second Viennese arbitral tribunal allocated by treaty to Hungary. In 1940, northern Bukovina were Bessarabia and southern Dobrogea occupied by Russian and Bulgarian troops.Carol II joined the same year in panic and was succeeded by the young Michael . The government sought help and eventually joined with Nazi Germany, Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria, Romania thus declared war on the Russians and the Allies. In the footsteps of the Germans recaptured Romania after Operation Barbarossa Bessarabia and northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union, led by General Ion Antonescu. Romania received from Nazi Germany, the region of Transnistria, a part of what is now Moldova.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">During World War II played the regime of Antonescu, that Nazi Germany was working a role in the Holocaust; The regime suppressed and killed many Jews and to a lesser extent Roma (gypsies). According to a quite controversial report by a commission in 2004, appointed by former President Ion Iliescu, was released, the Romanian authorities, one of the main perpetrators in the planning and execution of the murder of 280,000 to 380,000 Jews, mainly in the eastern areas of Romania.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">At the end of the war insisted Soviet armies in 1944 in Romania. King Michael ended the dictatorship of Antonescu and Germany declared war, but the Paris conference in 1947 recognized a role of Romania in the defeat of Nazi Germany. ===Communist Romania <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">As troops of the Red Army in the country were stationed, were held in 1946 elections; Communists got 80% of the vote, however, this was unmistakably the result of vote manipulation. King Michael was by the Communists (and the Red Army) forced to abdicate his throne. He left the country, which subsequently was promptly declared a people's republic. Communist Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej came to power.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Romania was a communist state until 1958 under direct military and economic governance of the USSR was. In this period the scarce resources were to Romania after World War II still left over, handed to (ie removed by) the Russians after a treaty, the " SovRom ": mixed Soviet-Romanian companies were the Russians of the damage in World War II make good addition "generous" reparations to the USSR. During this period there were more than two million people are often arbitrarily detained, mostly on the basis of pretended political, economic or other reasons. There were hundreds of thousands of killings, torture and abuse of political opponents and ordinary citizens. At least 200,000 people lost between 1948 and 1964 their lives because of communist expansion in Romania.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Gheorghiu-Dej charged in 1952 as a national-communist in a show trial with the rival pro-Moscow communists around Ana Pauker . In 1965 Gheorghiu-Dej died and was Nicolae Ceauşescu first secretary of the party. A new constitution was adopted and the name of the country was changed from People's Republic of Romania to the Socialist Republic of Romania. Two years later, in1967, Ceausescu was appointed head of state. He issued the decree 770 from. Under his dictatorship, Romania aspired to a more independent course within the Soviet bloc. For example, theWarsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 convicted, and the country did not wish to interfere in the conflict between the Soviet Union and China. Neither Romania submitted to theBrezhnev doctrine, which the communist Eastern bloc countries only limited sovereignty was awarded. Still, it came in 1970 to a renewal of the friendship treaty with the Soviet Union.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Domestic government Ceauşescu was characterized by increasing hardness meanwhile regarding what behavior was regarded as a dissident. Gradually the dictator lost his initial goodwill at home and abroad, including through the pursuit of power by his wife Elena, and by building a huge palace in the capital Bucharest, where whole neighborhoods were to disappear (seeSystematizatie ).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">A short period brought relative economic prosperity between the late sixties and early seventies, called by some the "golden era". This era ended gradually, first political and then economic.Some party leaders (such as Ion Iliescu , Corneliu Manescu, or Gheorghe Apostol ) proposed during the later period of the age changes, when they were relegated. Romania's public debtincreased dramatically between 1977 and 1981 : from 3 to 10 billion dollars. The influence of international financial organizations like the IMF and the World Bank grew and came into conflict with Ceauşescu's autarchic policies. Ceausescu eventually initiated a project of total reimbursement of the foreign debt in operation (completed in 1989, very shortly before his removal). To achieve this goal, he imposed policies that impoverished Romanians and exhausted the Romanian economy. He extended the police (see Securitate ) and conducted through the mass media apersonality cult to North Korean example on.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">A positive development during this period was an almost complete literacy and the development of an efficient educational system. However this was not linked to education reform industrial development and urbanization policy, so almost half of the population of Romania still live in rural areas (about 47%; see Demography of Romania ). Another development is discussed retreat of Soviet troops in Romania in 1958. This withdrawal made it possible to steer a more independent foreign currency, such as evidenced by the condemnation of the led invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union (1968) and the continuation of Romanian-Israeli diplomatic relations after the Six-Day War of 1967 (Romania was the only country in the Warsaw Pact that did), the establishment of economic (1963) and diplomatic (1967) relations with the Federal Republic of Germany, and so on. The close ties between Romania with both Israel and the Arab countries (PLO ) Romania were to play an essential role in the processes of Israel-Egypt and Israel-PLO peace.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The suppression of Ceauşescu was followed by a popular uprising in December 1989, started in Timisoara . Ceausescu was deposed and his wife Elena after a brief show trial in a courtyard inTârgovişte executed. Ion Iliescu was then directly to "savior of Romania" and later elected president. He is an ex-communist and followed a moderate course. ===Romania since 1989 <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">After the end of the Cold War in 1989, Romania has developed better ties with Western Europe. Yet many Romanians left the country after the revolution because of dissatisfaction. In May 1990 the first free elections were held, with Iliescu was elected president. At the next elections, in 1996, defeated Emil Constantinescu Ion Iliescu, but 4 years later Iliescu was again elected. Adrian Năstase became Prime Minister.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">On December 12, 2004 Traian Băsescu was elected president. His promise was to fight corruption by example all former members of the Securitate to unmask (Romanian secret police under communism). He was supported in elections by a coalition called the Alliance (DA) of Truth and Justice, which was formed by his Democratic Party and the National Liberal Party . The government was formed by a larger coalition which also includes the Humanist Party (now called Conservative Party) and included the ethnic Hungarian UDMR party. ==<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Geography  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == The Lower Danube Plain inArges <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The Carpathians divide Romania into three regions: northwest Transylvania, south Wallachia and east Moldova . Along the coast, east of the Danube, is the Dobrogea . Southern Romania is mostly plain, Campia română (Romanian Plain), the lower Danube Plain . In the middle of the country, in Transylvania there is a plateau. The far west of Romania (Crişana, Banat) also consists of plain, and called in the western Romanian Plain (Câmpia the vest).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In the north of Dobrogea will be Europe's largest delta, the Danube Delta . This delta is rich in bird and fish. The largest river of Romania is the Danube, which flows largely on the border of Bulgaria. On the Danube are also several major port cities like Galati, Braila and Tulcea. Other large rivers that are not important for the trade, the Mures, the Someş , the Olt , the Siret and Prut .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The highest point of the Carpathians is the Moldoveanu (2554 m), a mountain in the Fagaras Mountains ( Southern Carpathians and Southern Carpathians).Two other mountains in the Fagaras Mountains occupy the second and third place.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Natural disasters such as earthquakes, avalanches and floods are uncommon. The worst earthquake was the earthquake of 1977 . In 2005 and 2006 there were several flooding. Often there in the mountains, in the spring (mud) avalanches because melting snow and rainfall.

Relief Map of Romania<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Its area is 238,391 square kilometers (approximately 8x Belgium or 6x Netherlands ). The borders are a total of 3149.9 km long. Which is distributed as follows among the various neighboring countries and seas:

===<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[City  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Small Vienna, one of the most beautiful cities in Romania <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The capital is Bucharest (Romanian: Bucureşti), with 2,354,737 inhabitants (Municipality or Greater Bucharest 3.5 million). Other large cities are: <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Romania has very beautiful cultural and tourist cities, although there have gone under as many districts during the Communist regime. Timisoara has so nicknamed Small Vienna and Bucharest had in the twenties and thirties nicknamed Little Paris. The first electric street lighting in Europe was in Timisoara. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Eandismagazine_6-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6] Iasi and Cluj-Napoca and Constanta famous universities have the largest and most important port in Romania. And in Bucharest is the second largest building in the world, the Palace of Parliament. The medieval towns of Transylvania such as Sibiu, Brasov, Biertan andSighisoara should not be forgotten. ===<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Nature  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Romania is very rich in nature. There are virgin forests, and Romania, for example, the largest populations lynx, wolves and bears in Europe. Romania also has many rare or even unique species.
 * Bulgaria: 613.3 km, including 470 km across the Danube
 * Serbia: 546.4 km, of which 289.6 km in the Danube
 * Moldova: 681.3 km through the Prut
 * Ukraine: 649.4 km, of which 343.9 km with the Tisza and Danube rivers
 * Hungary: 448.0 km, of which 32.2 km from the Mures
 * Black Sea: 244 km

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The Danube Delta is rich in fish and birds, but most species live in the mountains. To protect the species, there are natural parks built.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Formerly virgin forests covered almost the whole of Romania (except the southeast). Today, forests cover 26.2% (6.366 million acres) of land. In the south, around Bucharest, there is only a small amount of residual (see Vlăsiabos ).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The first association for the protection of animals (Legea pentru Protectia Monumentelor Naturii) was established in 1930 but a year later, another organization about, which is still functioning.Today, about 630 zones to be protected (total 1,200,000 hectares).Beyond this, there are three biosphere reserves, 14 national parks and 362 national reserves. The Danube Delta is on theUNESCO - World Heritage List . ===Climate <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Winter in the Cismigiu Gardens in Bucharest<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Romania has a continental climate with hot summers and cold winters. On average, it is in the winter -3 ° C and in the summer, between 22 and 24 ° C.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In the south of the country, on the lower Danube Plain, is the annual average temperature of 10 ° C; in the north this is 8 ° C.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Locally there are many differences, because of the mountains in the middle, plains in the south, east and far west, the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Mediterranean Sea in the south.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The coldest temperature measured was -38.5 ° C in Bid on the Plateau Braşov (in a broad sense, the Transylvanian Plateau ). The maximum temperature was 44.5 ° C at Ion Sion on Bărăganvlakte, a region in the lower Danube Plain.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In the west of the country there is more precipitation than in the east. The annual average is about 637 mm, with (much) more precipitation in the mountains (1000 to 1400 mm / year) than the Bărăganvlakte (500 mm / year) in the Dobrogea (400 mm / year). ==Administrative divisions <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == The districts and regions of Romania.Regions : Dobrogea - yellow, Wallachia - blue, Moldova - red, Transylvania - green (and Banat - brown, but Banat can be considered as Transylvania) <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Romania is divided into 41 districts ( judete, singular judet ), plus Great Bucharest. There are four traditional historic regions.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The districts are:

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Alba | Arad | Argeș | Bacău | Bihor | Bistrița-Năsăud | Botoșani | Brăila | Brașov | Boekarest | Buzău | Caraș-Severin | Călărași | Cluj | Constanta |Covasna | Dâmbovița | Dolj | Galați | Giurgiu | Gorj | Harghita | Hunedoara | Ialomița | Iași | Ilfov | Maramureș | Mehedinți | Mureș | Neamț | Olt |Prahova | Sălaj | Satu Mare | Sibiu | Suceava | Teleorman | Timiş | Tulcea | Vâlcea | Vaslui | Vrancea ==Population <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Demographics <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Population Development of Romania between 1961 and 2003. 1859-8600000 1912-12923600 1930-14280729 1948-15872624 1956-17489450 1966-19103163 1977-21559910

1992-22810035<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Besides Romanians live many Hungarians and to a lesser extent, Germans (Saxons) in Romania. The influence of the Roma (Gypsies) is quite large. After a decline in population in the mid-fifties of the twentieth century, the Romanian population increased under the influence of Ceauşescu strong, partly because Decree 770Romania had the largest number of inhabitants in 1989. 23,151,564. After Ceausescu's fall abortion was immediately legalized and began to descend the population again. On 1 January 1998 Romania had 22,526,096 inhabitants. That had the world's 42 largest populations in Europe and the 12 largest. 12.387 million people (55%) were living in cities and 10.139 million (45%) in rural areas

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The women were in the majority in 1998 with 11.499 million people (51%). There were 11.027 million men (49%). 24 cities had a population of over 100,000, the total population stood at 7.007 million (56% of the people living in town).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The largest cities were Bucharest in 1998 (2.032 million), Iasi (349,000), Constanta (344,000), Cluj-Napoca (333,000), Galati (332,000), Timisoara (327,000), Brasov (316,000), Craiova (314,000) Ploiesti (253,000) and Braila (234,000). The population density was 94.5 inhabitants / km, making Romania came in 74th place in the world and 26th place in Europe.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The average life expectancy was 69.05 years for women and 73.09 years for men 65.30 years. Life expectancy was 69.84 years for urban dwellers and rural residents 67.99 years. In 1998, 19.2% of the population 0 to 14 years, 62.3% from 15 to 59 years and 18.3% over 60 years.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In 1992, there were 20,408,542 of the 22,810,035 residents (89.4%), Romanians and 2,401,493 (10.6%) of a different ethnicity. The ethnicities in Romania were: the Hungarians were the largest minority in Romania with 1,624,959 inhabitants (7.1% of the total population), then came the Roma 401 087 (1.7%), 119 462 Germans (0.5 %), Ukrainians 65 764 (0.3%) and Jews 8955 (0.04%).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Between 1990 and 1996 255 034 Romanians have emigrated, of which 99 715 Germans . Shortly after the revolution in 1990, there were 96 929 people emigrated. In 1996 there were 21,526. Meanwhile, there are over 8 million Romanians outside Romania. ===Language <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The official language is Romanian . By minorities is also called the Hungarian , German (in Transylvania), Russian (in the Danube Delta), Turkish and Tatar in Dobrogea and the Romany(language of the Roma, Gypsies) in Romania (especially in the lowlands) spoke.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Romanian is a Romance language. This language group includes French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian. About 30 million people worldwide speak Romanian, most speakers just in Romania and the Republic of Moldova live.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Hungarian - a Finnish-Ugric language - spoken by the Hungarian minority, the largest minority language and is mainly in the Szeklerland spoken. Since the Hungarian is a de facto co-official language alongside Romanian where Hungarians make up more than 20% of the population. Until the nineties in Transylvania by many Transylvanian Germans speak German, but rather than accept the communist regime, fled, many to West Germany and those who remained emigrated after the fall of communism, when the borders were opened.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Furthermore, in Romania also Romani, the language of the Roma (Gypsies), spoken. In the southeast of the country is by Tatar and Turkish minorities still speak Turkish.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In terms of foreign languages ​​5 million Romanians speak English, 4-5 million French, 1.5 million German, Italian 2 million and 1 million speak Spanish. Historically, French was the leading language for the study; nowadays it is English so that the elderly speak French in Romania and the young English. ===Religion <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Wooden church in Maramures<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The Romanian constitution provides freedom of religion . The predominant religion is more than 80% of the Romanian Orthodox ism, similar to theRussian- and Greek Orthodox ism . Simply put, it is an isolated community of faith according to the Eastern or Byzantine rite, in which the Pope is not recognized as head of the Church. The Romanian Church has its own Patriarch which is based in Bucharest. From 1986 until mid-2007, Teoctist I, thePatriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church . He was archbishop of Bucharest , Metropolitan of Wallachia and Dobrogea and president of the Holy Synod . Within the Romanian borders there are 5 metropoliën:

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Especially the icons and monasteries are well-known expression of the Orthodox Church.
 * 1) the Metropolitan of Wallachia and Dobrogea
 * 2) the Metropolitan of Moldavia and Bukovina
 * 3) the Metropolitan of Ardeal ( Transylvania )
 * 4) the Metropolitan of Oltenia
 * 5) the Metropolitan of Banat .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">According to the census of 2011, it came out that the religions in Romania look like as follows:

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Source: Census 2011
 * Romanian Orthodox Church : 82.3%
 * Roman Catholic : 3.8%
 * Protestant : 2.6% ( Reformed Church in Hungary )
 * Other Christian communities: 2.9%
 * Islam : 0.1%
 * Other religions: 0.1%
 * Unknown / No answer 1.9%
 * Atheist , irreligious or non-believers: 6.8%

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In Dobrogea there is a minority of Islam (Turks and Tatars) remained since the Ottoman rule or come after migrations from the Crimea. ==Culture <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Mihai Eminescu, the greatest Romanian poet of all time.<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Romania has a thriving and diverse culture, which is partly reflected in architecture and art objects.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Romanians are very proud of their discoveries and inventions. Some inventions and discoveries of the Romanians are the Coanda effect ( Henri Coanda was the "father" of modern jet fighter ), insulin (by Nicolae Paulescu ) and the fountain pen (by Petrache Poenaru ).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The Romanian literature has recently received some fame beyond the borders of Romania (mostly through translations into German, French and English). Some modern Romanian writers were very popular in Germany, France and Italy, including Eugen Ionescu , Emil Cioran , Mircea Eliade , Mircea Cărtărescu and Linda Maria Baros .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The older classics of Romanian literature and Romanian poetry remained very known outside Romania. Traditionally Romanians appreciate poetry more than Romanian prose. Mihai Eminescu, a nineteenth-century poet is still very popular in Romania, and is also called the "best Romanian poet of all time." Revolutions of 1848 had its echoes in the three principalities leaving mid-nineteenth century came a new elite: Mihail Kogalniceanu (writer, politician and the first prime minister of united Romania), Vasile Alecsandri (politician, playwright and poet), Andrei Mureşanu (publicist and writer the Romanian national anthem) and Nicolae Bălcescu (historian, writer and revolutionary).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The works of George Enescu are very familiar to Romanians. Many consider Enescu as their national musician. The symphony orchestra of Bucharest is named after Enescu. ===Food and drink <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Sarmale<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The Romanian cuisine is influenced by the Hungarian, Austrian, Slavic, Turkish and Greek cuisine. The Romanian meal often revolves largely around meat. It is often eaten mutton and pork. Each region has its own specialties.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Some Romanian dishes are:

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The national drink Tuica, a traditional liquor, is a home-distilled plum brandy. Especially in rural areas in Wallachia Tuica is very popular and Palinka, a strong form of Tuica, is more popular in northern Romania.
 * Ciorbă, sour soup
 * Bors (gives the sour taste to the Ciorbă)
 * Mămăligă, a kind of corn mush
 * Sarmale with Smântănă, cabbage rolls filled with minced meat, spices and rice
 * Mititei with mustard, sharp sausages of minced meat
 * Piftie meat in gelatin
 * Piftea, meat / fried minced herbs +
 * Pastramă (pastrami), often made ​​from sheep meat

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Especially wine, but also beer is widely consumed by the Romanians. The most popular wine is red wine. Each region has its own type of wine. Most wine is made in the south of the Moldova region. ===Media <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The media in Romania began to develop after 1989. The public broadcaster is Televiziunea Română ( Romanian Television ). Other well-known TV stations include ProTV and Antena 2 . Major newspapers in Romania Romania Libera and Jurnalul . EuropaFM is a much listened to radio station. ===National holidays <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Christmas and (Orthodox) Easter are celebrated in the country (they are official holidays). Unlike other Eastern Orthodox Church, the Romanian Church celebrates Christmas on December 25;Easter will be celebrated on the Eastern Orthodox date. Other public holidays are New Year's Day (January 1), Labour Day (May 1), and the National Day of Romania (December 1, Verenigingsdag). With Christmas and the Labor Day it is customary closing stores more than one day. ===Festivals <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Every year there are several festivals in Romania. For example, in the summer at the seaside in Mangalia the Callatisfestival, Vama Veche the Stufstockfestival and Mamaia different (music) festivals. Félsziget Peninsula is the biggest music festival in Romania. In Sighisoara takes place every year the "Festival of the Ages" place. ===<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Music  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Music is in Romania an important part of the culture. Besides classical music and contemporary movements like pop music , hip hop , heavy metal is the folk music (Romanian: musica traditional) still regularly hear in everyday life.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Some contemporary artists are known Romanian Gheorghe Zamfir , O-Zone , Inna , Edward Maya , Voltaj and Alexandra Stan . ===<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Sports  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Romania is internationally successful in a number of sports .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The gymnast Nadia Comaneci was the first gymnast with a perfect "ten" of all time. This she did in 1976 at the Olympics in Montreal, at the age of 15 (!). She won 1976 at the Games three gold medals, one silver and one bronze. She continued her success at the Moscow Games in 1980 where she won two gold medals and two silvers.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Ilie Năstase, the tennis player, is an internationally renowned Romanian. He won several Grand Slam titles and many other tournaments; he was successful when he played double. Romania reached three times the finals of the Davis Cup.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Football is very popular in Romania. There are many players that are internationally known (or were). The football club Steaua Bucureşti was the first Eastern European club that won a European title. In 1986 they won the then European Cup .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Rugby Union is also traditional. ==Economy <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Steel from ArcelorMittal in Galaţi<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">After outbreak of the economic crisis attracted a great deal of foreign capital when the economy was built away from Romania. In 2009 the country received from the IMF, the European Union and the World Bank a loan 20 billion to reform the economy.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">To get the budget in order, were among other officials' salaries (25% in 2010) and pensions (15%) very firmly cut with the social consequences.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">After a contraction of -1.3 in 2010 there was in 2011 show an economic growth of 1.5%. In February, once an emergency loan pledged by the IMF and the European Union. The actual growth of the economy in 2012 was 2%. The same rate is forecast for 2013. In June 2012, the IMF conceded that the wages of civil servants rose by 8%. The economic growth, the IMF should be more of the internal economy than exports <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7] .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The majority of the population is experiencing the economic situation in 2013 is still as extremely difficult. ===Currency <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Romania's currency is the leu (plural lei . Leu literally means lion ) and is derived from the Dutch dollars when a lion was depicted: the leeuwentaler. On 1 July 2005 the leu was subject to revaluation, so that 10,000 old lei (ROL) was changed to 1 new leu (RON). There go just over 4 new slate in euro (2013).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Initially aimed Romania to join the Eurozone in 2013. In May 2014 Romania informed the assembled finance ministers from the European Union that it aims to join the Eurozone in 2019. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8] . ===Tourism <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Peles Castle (summer 2006)<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Each year, more than 7 million tourists from all over the world, most of Western Europe and the United States. Most tourist sites are part of the World Heritage List . In recent years, there are many national parks created that attract many visitors.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The largest lakes are Lacul Bicaz and Lacul Vidraru, both reservoirs in the Carpathians. The Southern Carpathians, part of the Carpathian Mountains, the highest mountain in Romania, the Moldoveanu with 2545 meters. One can also find bears -, wolves - and lynxes -populaties.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Northeastern Romania, the Bukovina region is famous for its many painted monasteries, especially Voroneţ , Moldoviţa , Suceviţa and Humor . The Maramures region in the northwest is known for its wooden churches and rural villages.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Transylvania is a hilly region, known for its typical Saxon sites like Sighisoara.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Wallachia is home to the capital Bucharest, but also ski resorts, such as slopes in Prahova Valley to Sinaia and Buşteni . Also particularly in Wallachia is the passage of the Danube through the Iron Gate . Another attraction is the Peles Castle .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In Dobrogea there are broad sandy beaches on the Black Sea coast, with destinations like Mamaia and Neptun . Also there is the Danube Delta, the biggest river in Europe . This area is very popular with anglers and boat trips.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The Southern Carpathians and Eastern Carpathians know winter ski tourism and an ice hotel ; in summer mountain walks, also from the many mountain huts (Cabane) .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The region is Maramureş very touristy. Tourists go there not only for the beautiful hills and mountains, but also for Romania, as well as other German culture. There may, for example, thewooden churches of Maramures find. ==<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Politics  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == President Klaus Iohannis<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The state form of Romania is a parliamentaryrepublic . The head of state is the president, since 2014 Klaus Iohannis .He has a five-year term. The Romanian government is formed by the PSD with the PC, the UNPR and the PLR . TheRomanian Parliament, which has legislative power, consists of two chambers, the Chamber of Deputies ( Camera Deputatilor ) with 345 seats and the Senate ( Senat ) with 143 seats. Members of the House of Representatives are elected by a constituency system for four years. The two rooms together form the legislative assembly, whose task is the new Romanian (ground) law (s) to adopt. ===Elections <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Romania has universal suffrage since 1929. The voting age is 18 years.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The Romanian constitution and the electoral law to grant legally recognized organizations of national minorities a representative in the Camera Deputatilor if they could not get a congressman in the normal way in the elections.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">National minorities have the right to a representative of the people than if they get a number of votes equal to five percent of all valid votes cast in Romania. Currently, minorities have 18 seats in the House of Representatives. ===Political parties <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Here are the political parties that have parliamentary representation. All parties who are here have a number of representatives in the Chamber of Deputies .

==<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Transportation  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == A2 in RomaniaThe most spectacular way of Romania, the Transfagarasan<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The total length of the Romanian road network is 84,185 km, of which 60% asphalted <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9] . There are four highways in use, the A1, A2 , A3 and A4 which will be further expanded. There are 2 motorways under construction. Many national roads are widened, as between Giurgiu and Bucharest . The national roads are not numbered in position, but to most used roads. Then it is clear that the DN1 most is being ridden. There is no toll on the Romanian highways, only the bridges over the Danube at the A2 at Cernavodă and the DN2A in Vadu Oii . A vignette is mandatory for foreigners on the highways (A) and national roads (DN). This rovignetă is for sale at petrol stations and at border crossings. A very spectacular way is the Transfagarasan (DN7C) over theSouthern Carpathians . This road with hairpin bends at an altitude of over 2000 meters, is usually closed from October to June because of snow.
 * Social Democratic Party ( Partidul Social Democrat, PSD) - In 1992 separated from the FSN , and began as Frontul Democrat already Salvării national(FDSN). The name was in 1993 changed to PDSR, and two more times in 2001 to PSDR and then to PSD - one of the current ruling parties.
 * National Liberal Party ( Partidul Naţional Liberal, PNL). In 2014, fused with a part of the PDL .
 * National Union for the Progress of Romania ( Uniunea Nationala pentru Progresul României, UNPR) - Founded in 2010, up stepped PSD members from around Gabriel Oprea - one of the current ruling parties.
 * Conservative Party ( Partidul Curator ) - in May 2005 known as the Romanian Humanist Party ( Partidul Umanist din România, PUR) - one of the current ruling parties.
 * People's Movement Party ( Partidul Mişcarea Populara, PMP) - founded in 2014 following a split in the former PDL , around Traian Băsescu and Elena Udrea .
 * Reformed Liberal Party ( Partidul Liberal Reformer, PLR) - Founded in 2014 by former Prime Minister and member of the PNL Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu .- One of the current ruling parties.
 * Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania ( Uniunea Democrata Maghiară din România, UDMR) - the only parliamentary party of a minority, with more than one representative in Parliament. All parties of minorities in Romania have a seat in the House of Representatives, a unique law in Europe.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The Romanian railway network is 11,385 km long, of which only a third is electrified, and is managed by the Căile Ferate Române .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The Danube, on which a large part of the commercial cargo from Central Europe is transported 1075 km and runs along Romania. The connection of the hinterland to the ports on the Black Sea has been greatly improved thanks to the completion of the Danube-Black Sea Canal, which 380 km of the Danube is cut off. Especially for export shipping has enormous significance for Romania. The Port of Constanta is therefore very important for the Romanian freight transport: 60% of the trade comes along it. Other major ports in Romania in Orşova , Drobeta-Turnu Severin , Turnu Măgurele , Giurgiu ,Olteniţa , Călăraşi , Cernavodă, Braila, Galati and Tulcea .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Romania has a number of international airports ( Bucharest, Timisoara, Constanta, Bacau, Cluj-Napoca, Targu Mures and Suceava ) and sixteen airports for domestic transport, including Baia Mare , Caransebeş, Craiova, Iasi , Oradea , Satu Mare and Tulcea. ==Education <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==

The Lazărhogeschool Gheorghe, a famous school in Romania<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The history of the Romanian education goes back several centuries. One of the first schools on current Romanian soil dates back to the sixteenth century, and was mentioned in a document. It was a priest school in Cenad (District Arad).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In Scheii Brasovului existed in 1495 a Romanian school and in 1544 founded the Saxon humanist J. Honteurs a Saxon school in his hometown,Brasov (then Kronstadt ). In the nineteenth century there were generally in a Romanian village primary school, usually functioning next to the church, and courses in monasteries. In bojarenfamilies were given private lessons, with Romanian and Greek teachers, and after the eighteenth century French and German teachers. The " royal academies, "schools for the" upper class ", were opened in Romania in the seventeenth century, to the south and east of the Carpathians. These schools were generally given in Greek, but when the Phanariotesfamilie was deposed, it was lifted.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In the first decades also began the high education in Romanian: in Moldova, in Iasi (1814), Gheorghe Asachi and Wallachia (1818) by Gheorghe Lazăr, a Romanian teacher born in Transylvania.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Children today have a compulsory education from their 6th to their 16th year. Groups of one to eight (6 to 14 years) is the youth in elementary school. Afterwards a few years following high school, and then college. Famous universities include those of Iasi, Cluj-Napoca and Bucharest.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The system is organized as follows:

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In the school year 1996/97 there were:
 * Scoala primara şi gimnaziala - elementary school
 * Liceu - High School
 * Invăţământ superior - High education

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">For more information about the Romanian education See "External Links". ==Famous (born) Romanians <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Mihail Kogalniceanu
 * Elementary: 2,546,231 pupils
 * High School: 792 788 pupils
 * High education: 358 488 students