
What do you know about Romania?

- Romania - capital and largest city Bucharest.
Romania was one of Europe's largest oil producers in the late 19th and early 20th century. The principal fields and refineries being located near the city of Ploesti.
Romania was strategically located and fought in both world wars. In World War I it fought on the Allied side, mostly to acquire the disputed province of Transylvania - yes, of Dracula fame - from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as well as some border districts in dispute with Bulgaria.
After initial gains, the German Empire came in support of its Austro-Hungarian and Bulgarian allies and notwithstanding that the Romanian royal family was related to the imperial family of Germany - both were Hohenzollerns - attacked Romania. Romania was defeated and occupied until the later stages of the war.
After the war, Romania was awarded extensive territories, including all of Transylvania. In the inter-war period a fascist government took power under Ion Antonescu, but generally stayed on good terms with the western allies.
However, when as an outgrowth of the German-Soviet pact of 1939, the Soviets occupied the Romanian provinces of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina, Bucharest tipped toward the Axis powers. It subsequently joined in the German invasion of the USSR. It suffered its worst defeat at the battle of Stalingrad where the whole of the Romanian 4th Army was wiped out in the Soviet counteroffensive of late 1942.
Romania continued to fall back, making periodic overtures to Britain to get out of the war. However, in the end, Romania was too distant to be aided and was occupied by the USSR under Stalin. A communist government, in due course, came to power under Nicolae Ceaușescu.
In due course, Romania joined the Warsaw Pact and was generally a satellite of the USSR. However, somewhat unusually, it was given somewhat greater freedom of action in the foreign policy realm in return for Ceaușescu maintaining a brutal communist dictatorship domestically.
Among other things, Romania was not required to have Soviet military bases permanently stationed on its' soil. It was also later given some greater latitude - relatively speaking - to maintain relations with Israel and some Western states. (Mostly in the form of trade relations - especially in oil, of which at this time Romania continued to remain the second largest producer in the communist world after only the USSR itself.)
Romania balanced this by giving the USSR full support in the United Nations Organization. In addition, it supported by direct military intervention the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. In 1968 it gave more reserved support to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Romania also supported the USSR against Yugoslavia's neutral communist regime under Josip Broz Tito as well as later against Enver Hoxa's Albania. (The latter of which eccentrically sided with China in the Sino-Soviet split that began in the early 1960s.)
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the USSR imploded, the Warsaw Pact was disbanded and Romania was effectively without allies. Nevertheless, Ceacescu tried to maintain power and was brutally overthrown, being killed on Christmas day 1989.
Romania has since reoriented its foreign and defense policies back to the West as a guard against Russia - which views Romania as within its' historic sphere of influence. Romania has joined NATO while on the home front is wrestling with post-communist issues of corruption in its fledgling democracy.
So there you go. Believe it or not - and you probably won't - I did all of that from memory. I work in politics and am also a history buff. Particularly European history and hence my familiarity with Romania.
Hope that helps at least a little. Sheesh! The things that stay trapped in my head!!1|10|0Is this still revelant?
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- I know a bunch of things, mostly bad things, because of a work associate who is a Romanian dude living in Spain who likes to drill my head about the horrors that "leftist government" has been unleashing on Romania in the recent years.
But I also know that you have got cheap salmon and seafood in coastal cities like Constanta, so that's nice.0|00|0Is this still revelant?We have cheap dentists too but they are good dentists actually. I had a frienn who went from Spain to Romania just to see the dentist. Of course he used the trip to see family and stuff, but the main reason wa seeing the dentist.
Oh, yeah.
I remember being surprised how cheap they were even compared to our dentists.
But I know the things that aren't cheap in your country (or didn't use to be) are schools, lol.
That associate of mine still has an €8000 school debt for university that he never managed to pay off.
Interesting, because I thought schools in countries of this part of Europe are all tax-subsidized.
Most Helpful Girls
- If not for the great Olympic Gold Medalist Gymnast, Nadia Comăneci, I wouldn't ever have been curious about Romania. Her incredible performances in the '76 Montreal Olympics inspired me to try gymnastics, ballet & dance. Many years later, during multiple travel stops in Europe, I visited Bucharest and Nadia's hometown, Onesti. I liked my experiences in Romania. I met lots of friendly locals.1|10|0Is this still revelant?
- most of the music for U. S. TV and movies is recorded by orchestras there, they have "orchestra factories" (our nickname for them) all in one district in Bucharest0|00|0Is this still revelant?
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930- I know it is a rather mountainous country in Eastern Europe, bordered by (starting in the northeast and working counterclockwise) Moldova, Ukraine, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, the North Sea, and Ukraine again. The capital and largest city is Bucharest.0|00|0
- I know that Romanian is a Romance language. I know that Count Dracula really existed and that he was exceptionally cruel (many beheadings and slow, torturous deaths). I know that Romania is associated with gypsies. Not much else, I’m afraid1|00|0
- My 1st love was a Romanian girl who used to live in the city of Timisoara than moved to Arad and she travelled to foreign countries, i know a lot about Romania and i always wanted to visit the castle of count dracula in transylvania 😊
I also know some gypsies and their lifestyle and rules!0|10|0I'm from Lebanon, i met her in a chat room on MIRC, this story is from 20 years ago 😄
We never met face to face, it was a distant relationship that lasted for 3 years from the end of the year 1999 till 2003...
She was older than me in 2 years!
The internet was so different than now...
Noapte buna, a la reverdere 😉
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Romanian girl are sweet girls and they adore having families and they love to get married and having one man forever, a lot of them loves to become a soti de lucru which means a housewife 😜
I don't know how they become today, the new generation...
Eastern european girls are amazing in general and a lot different then western european girls!I bet that changed a lot. At least for romanian women who moved from the country. Romania is too traditional. The only thing we keep from our country even thousands miles away is the attitude and the sense of keeper, we are good keepers, indeed as you said, we like to be a woman of one man, I personally do, I am not promiscuous at all, that's not life for me.
Good to hear, well you should be like this cause your inheriting the good things!
I like the traditions of Romania, ukraine, moldova, russia, hungaria... etc
These countries where women in general always put their husbands and families as their 1st priority!
Personally i believe in gender roles and i'll never marry a girl who wants to work after marriage!Lmaoo Nahh, I don't want to be a housewife nor a parasyte, no thank you. I want to work and pay my bills. If I get married we share bills and responsabilities in and out the house.
Well people are just different and we have different views in life, you want to work and that's fine and i want a girl who adores becoming a housewife which is amazing too! 😊
Good luck!
- A country located in Eastern Europe. The capital is Bucharest. Some great musicians are from there such as Alexandra Stan and Edward Maya.0|00|0
- Romania is a backwards peasant country. The population is evenly split between gypsies and gangsters. In WW2 they were evil Nazis and little has changed. Their main exports are gangsters and horse meat.0|00|0
- I know that Vlad the Impaler/aka count Dracula lived there and built an impressive castle0|00|0
- I've heard a fair bit about Vlad Dracula, but that's about it unfortunately.0|00|0
- Anonymous1 moThat half of your population (calm down I’m exaggerating) are sitting outside of shops or walking around bus/train/subway stations begging for money in my country.0|00|0
Hahah yeah I know. I bet is something like Italy, Germany, UK, Spain or France. Those are mostly gypsies, not really romanians, people use to confuse romanian with gypsies. For example, I am not a gypsie, I do have gipsy relatives from my step dad but that's all, not in blood. And honestly, all romanian hate gypses precisely for the bad reputation they gives to romanians.
- Contributed to holocaust.
The nun movie filmed in parts of Romania.0|00|0 - I know that's where Dracula's Castle is located :)0|10|0
- I wish I knew more about it, because I'm 1/8 Gypsy, knowing that quite a few gypsy caravans travelled around Romania , it would help with my ancestry.0|00|0
- I've known several people from there, so I know a bit about it.0|00|0
- That its a country in Europe and they had that one dictator in the 1960s they killed on national tv.0|00|0
- Ofcourse relations between Vlad Tepes and the Ottoman Empire.0|00|0
- I don't want the Christmas present that Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife got.0|10|0
They were executed on Christmas Day 1989 during the Romanian Revolution, part of the larger fall of the Iron Curtain / end of the Cold War.
- I think it's a beautiful place, made famous by a Gothic horror novel, "Dracula".0|00|0
- I spent two weeks there, I have some close friends that live near Cluj. Transylvania is amazing.0|00|0
- They allied with Russia against Ottoman Empire and became an independent nation in the mid 1800s0|00|0
- Anonymous1 moThey are Orthodox and stayed under the communist rule for a long time0|00|0
- Anonymous1 moI know that according to ancestry I have over 100 distant Romanian cousins 🌚0|00|0
- Anonymous1 moTUICA, CYPRIEN (A French comedian), medicine studies without having mathematics in Baccalaureate1|00|0
- It's in Russia somewhere is all I know0|00|0
- I know they speak Romanian.0|00|0
Well that's not bad at all. Most of americans think we speak russian or that we are related to Rome. In certain way we are but it's too far on history.
- That’s where Dracula came from.0|00|0
- Wow! I've never met anyone that was Romanian0|00|0
- the country is one of the worlds biggest polutes0|00|0
- Anonymous1 moEdward Maya
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Akcent0|00|0 - Anonymous1 mothe girls are babes1|00|0
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