Romanians

Romanians

The Romanians are an ethnic group native to Romania, who speak Romanian; they are the majority inhabitants of Romania....

• List of Romanians
• List of Romanian writers
• List of Romanian poets
• List of Romanian monarchs
• List of famous Romanians

Romanian diaspora

Romanian diaspora

The Romanian diaspora is the ethnically Romanian population outside Romania and Moldova. The concept does not usually include the ethnic Romanians who live as natives in the states surrounding Romania, chiefly those Romanians who live in Ukraine and Serbia. The diaspora does include the people of...

• Romanian American
  Romanian American
  A Romanian American is a citizen of the United States who has significant Romanian heritage. For the 2000 US Census, 367,310 Americans indicated Romanian as their first ancestry, while 462,526 persons declared to have Romanian ancestry...
  
  
  • List of Romanian Americans
• Romanian Canadian
  Romanian Canadian
  According to the Canadian Census data of 2006, there are almost 200,000 Romanian-Canadians. Some sources estimates that this number might be as high as cca. 400,000 Canadians of Romanian descent.- Before World War I:...
  
  
• Romanian French
  Romanian French
  Romanian French is the term for a French citizen of Romanian heritage and origins, born in Romania and living as an emigrant in France or being born in France from a Romanian immigrant family, that came to France at the beginning of the 20th century...
  
  
• Romanians of Australia
• Romanians in Bulgaria
  Romanians in Bulgaria
  The Romanian minority in Bulgaria is concentrated in the northwestern part of the country, in the Provinces of: Vidin, Vratsa and Pleven. They speak the Oltenian variety of the Romanian language...
  
  
• Romanians of Serbia
  Romanians of Serbia
  Romanians are a recognised national minority in Serbia. The total number of declared Romanians in the 2002 Serbian census was 34,576, while 40,054 people declared themselves Vlachs; there are differing views among some of the Vlachs over they should be regarded as Romanians or as members of a...
  
  

Languages

Languages of Romania

In Romania there are several spoken languages. Beside Romanian, the only official language nationwide, other spoken languages include Hungarian, Romani, Ukrainian, and German.- Official language :...

• Romanian
  Romanian language
  Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...
  
  
• Moldovan
  Moldovan language
  Moldovan is one of the names of the Romanian language as spoken in the Republic of Moldova, where it is official. The spoken language of Moldova is closer to the dialects of Romanian spoken in northeastern Romania, and the two countries share the same literary standard...
  
  
• Istro-Romanian
  Istro-Romanian language
  Istro-Romanian is an Eastern Romance language that is still spoken today in a few villages and hamlets in the peninsula of Istria, on the northern part of the Adriatic Sea, in what is now Croatia as well as in other countries around the world where the Istro-Romanian people settled after the two...
  
  
• Megleno-Romanian
  Megleno-Romanian language
  Megleno-Romanian is a Romance language, similar to Aromanian and Romanian, or a dialect of the Romanian language...
  
  
• Aromanian
  Aromanian language
  Aromanian , also known as Macedo-Romanian, Arumanian or Vlach is an Eastern Romance language spoken in Southeastern Europe...
  
  

History

• Communist Romania
  Communist Romania
  Communist Romania was the period in Romanian history when that country was a Soviet-aligned communist state in the Eastern Bloc, with the dominant role of Romanian Communist Party enshrined in its successive constitutions...
  
  
• Bessarabia
  Bessarabia
  Bessarabia is a historical term for the geographic region in Eastern Europe bounded by the Dniester River on the east and the Prut River on the west....
  
  
• Dobrogea
• Wallachia
  Wallachia
  Wallachia or Walachia is a historical and geographical region of Romania. It is situated north of the Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians...
  
  
• Transylvania
  Transylvania
  Transylvania is a historical region in the central part of Romania. Bounded on the east and south by the Carpathian mountain range, historical Transylvania extended in the west to the Apuseni Mountains; however, the term sometimes encompasses not only Transylvania proper, but also the historical...
  
  
• List of Wallachian rulers
• Kings of Romania
• History of the Jews in Romania
  History of the Jews in Romania
  The history of Jews in Romania concerns the Jews of Romania and of Romanian origins, from their first mention on what is nowadays Romanian territory....
  
  

Politics

Politics of Romania

Politics of Romania take place in a framework of a semi-presidential parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister of Romania is the head of government and the President of Romania exercises the functions of head of state. Romania has a multi-party system. Executive...

• Constitution of Romania
  Constitution of Romania
  The 1991 Constitution of Romania, adopted on 21 November 1991, voted in the referendum of 8 December 1991 and introduced on the same day, is the current fundamental law that establishes the structure of the government of Romania, the rights and obligations of the country's citizens, and its mode...
  
  
• Government of Romania
  Government of Romania
  The Government of Romania forms one half of the country's executive branch . It is headed by the Prime-Minister, and consists of the Ministries, various subordinated institutions and agencies, and the 42 Prefectures...
  
  
• Military of Romania
• Foreign relations of Romania
  Foreign relations of Romania
  -Europe: European Union :Romania joined the European Union on January 1, 2007. Romania also declared its public support for Turkey and Croatia joining the European Union. Romania shares a privileged economic relation with Turkey...
  
  
• List of political parties in Romania
• Presidents of Romania
• Prime ministers of Romania

Geography

Geography of Romania

With an area of 238,400 square kilometers, Romania is the twelfth largest country in Europe. Situated in the northeastern portion of the Balkan Peninsula, the country is halfway between the equator and the North Pole and equidistant from the westernmost part of Europe—the Atlantic Coast—and the...

• Counties of Romania
  Counties of Romania
  The 41 judeţe and the municipality of Bucharest comprise the official administrative divisions of Romania. They also represent the European Union' s NUTS-3 geocode statistical subdivision scheme of Romania.-Overview:...
  
  
  • Etymological list of counties of Romania
    Etymological list of counties of Romania
    This is a list of the origins of the names of counties of Romania. Many of the etymologies are Romanian interpretations of Slavonic names , as the administration documents in the Middle Ages Romanian Principalities were written in this language.-Historical counties:-Sources:*This article is based...
    
    
• Protected areas of Romania
  Protected areas of Romania
  This is a list of protected areas of Romania.About 5.18% of the area of Romania has a protected status , including the Danube Delta, which makes half of these areas .-Biosphere reserves:...
  
  
• List of islands of Romania
• List of cities in Romania
• List of postal codes in Romania
• List of buildings in Bucharest

Culture

Culture of Romania

Romania has a unique culture, which is the product of its geography and of its distinct historical evolution. Like Romanians themselves, it is defined as the meeting point of three regions: Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans, but cannot be truly included in any of them...

• Holidays in Romania
• Art of Romania
  Art of Romania
  Art of Romania encompasses the artists and artistic movements in Romania.-Romanian contemporary and modern artists:* Almaşan Virgil* Adela Andea* George Apostu* Corneliu Baba* Calin Baban* Sabin Bălaşa* Horia Bernea* Traian Brădean...
  
  
• Literature of Romania
  Literature of Romania
  Romanian literature is literature written by Romanian authors, although the term may also be used to refer to all literature written in the Romanian language.Eugène Ionesco is one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd....
  
  
• Culture of Moldova
  Culture of Moldova
  The culture of Moldova is a combination of Romanian culture and Soviet culture. The traditional Latin origins of Romanian culture reach back to the 2nd century, the period of Roman colonization in Dacia....
  
  
• Cinema of Romania
  Cinema of Romania
  The cinema of Romania is the art of motion-picture making within the nation of Romania or by Romanian filmmakers abroad.As upon much of the world's early cinema, the ravages of time have left their mark upon Romanian film prints. Tens of titles have been destroyed or lost for good...
  
  
• Music of Romania
  Music of Romania
  Romania is a European country with a multicultural music environment which includes active ethnic music scenes. Romania also has thriving scenes in the fields of pop music, hip hop, heavy metal and rock and roll...
  
  
  • Romanian rock music
    Romanian rock
    Romanian rock is a genre of popular music in Romania. It was influenced by changes in Romanian politics to such an extreme, that both the themes and styles of musicians, and the tastes and interests of listeners, changed dramatically with every major event in Romania's internal politics.As a...
    
    
  • National anthem of Romania
• Flag of Romania
  Flag of Romania
  The national flag of Romania is a tricolour with vertical stripes: beginning from the flagpole, blue, yellow and red. It has a width-length ratio of 2:3....
  
  
• Romanian mythology
• Căluşari
  Calusari
  The Căluşari were the members of a Romanian fraternal secret society who practiced a ritual acrobatic dance known as the căluş. According to the Romanian historian Mircea Eliade, the Calusari were known for "their ability to create the impression of flying in the air" which he believed represented...
  
   - a traditional male folk dance
• List of Romanian dances
• Romanian cuisine
  Romanian cuisine
  Romanian cuisine is a diverse blend of different dishes from several traditions with which it has come into contact, but it also maintains its own character...
  
  

Religion

Religion in Romania

Romania is a secular state, and it has no state religion. However, an overwhelming majority of the country's citizens are Christian. 86.7% of the country's population identified as Eastern Orthodox in the 2002 census...

• Baptist Union of Romania
  Baptist Union of Romania
  The Baptist Union of Romania is an alliance of Baptist churches for cooperative ministry in Romania. Since independent churches have no legal standing in Romania, the Baptist Union also provides a mediatorial relationship between churches and government.The first modern-era Baptists in Romania...
  
  
• Convention of the Hungarian Baptist Churches of Romania
  Convention of the Hungarian Baptist Churches of Romania
  The Convention of the Hungarian Baptist Churches of Romania is an organization of ethnic Hungarian Baptists in Romania, united for promoting cooperative ministry....
  
  
• Romanian Orthodox Church
  Romanian Orthodox Church
  The Romanian Orthodox Church is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church. It is in full communion with other Eastern Orthodox churches, and is ranked seventh in order of precedence. The Primate of the church has the title of Patriarch...
  
  

Communications

Communications in Romania

Reporters Without Borders ranks Romania 58th in its Worldwide Press Freedom Index, the same level as Poland and Hong-Kong. The public television company Televiziunea Română and the public radio Societatea Română de Radiodifuziune cover all the country and have also international programs. The state...

• List of Romanian television stations
• List of Romanian language television channels
• List of radio stations in Romania

Romanian companies

• Supermarkets in Romania
  Supermarkets in Romania
  This is a list of supermarket and other retail chains in Romania . The concept of supermarkets or hypermarkets came to Romania after 1989 and most supermarkets are made up of joint ventures between Romanian and foreign investors...
  
  
• Antena 1
• Billa
  Billa
  This article is about the company. For the Indian movies see Billa starring Rajinikanth or Billa starring Ajith Kumar or Billa starring Prabhas....
  
  
• Angst
  Angst (supermarket)
  Angst is a supermarket chain of 19 stores in Romania. It has a range of 1,000 products, mainly foodstuffs. Angst is owned by a Swiss-Romanian joint venture. Angst operates mainly in Bucharest but is based in the town of Buftea, near the capital. It employs 670 people...
  
  
• La Fourmi
• Vodafone Romania
  Vodafone Romania
  Vodafone is a Romanian mobile phone network operator. It launched in April 1997 as the first GSM network in Romania...
  
  
• Orange Romania
  Orange România
  Orange România is Romania's largest GSM network operator, the subsidiary of Orange SA. It is now fully owned by the France Télécom Group , the biggest initial investor, who gradually increased its ownership....
  
  
• Televiziunea Română
  Televiziunea Româna
  Televiziunea Română , more commonly referred to as TVR , is the short name for Societatea Românǎ de Televiziune ; acronym: SRTV. SRTV is the national state-owned public service television broadcaster of Romania...
  
  
• List of newspapers in Romania

Miscellaneous topics

• Health Care in Romania
• Economy of Romania
  Economy of Romania
  Romania has a developing, upper-middle income market economy, the 11th largest in the European Union by total nominal GDP and the 8th largest based on purchasing power parity...
  
  
• Demographics of Romania
  Demographics of Romania
  This article is about the demographic features of the population of Romania, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population....
  
  
• Transportation in Romania
• Tourism in Romania
  Tourism in Romania
  Tourism in Romania focuses on the country's natural landscapes and its rich history. The number of tourists is growing every year and tourism is becoming an increasingly important source for Romania's GDP with 7-9 million people now visiting yearly. Romania's economy is characterized by a huge...
  
  
• Agriculture in Romania
  Agriculture in Romania
  Romania has an agricultural capacity of approximately 14,7 million hectares, of which only 10 million are used as arable land. In November 2008, an evaluation revealed that 6.8 million hectares are not used....
  
  
• Romanian humour
  Romanian humour
  Romanian humour, like all of Romanian culture, has many affinities with five other groups: the Latins , the Balkan people , the Germanic peoples and the Hungarians.-Characters:...
  
  
• Public holidays in Romania
  Public holidays in Romania
  - Official non-working holidays :- Traditional festivals and holidays :- Other observances:...
  
  
• Romanian State Decorations
  National Decorations System (Romania)
  The National Decorations System of Romania is divided into six categories, listed below. It was re-established in 1998, after a 50-year period of during which Romania used a Soviet-style system of decorations...
  
  
• Scouting in Romania
  Scouting in Romania
  The Scout Movement of Romania consists of several associations with slightly different aims. Among them are:* Organizaţia Naţională Cercetaşii României , member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, founded in 1991 with 4,927 members...
  
  
  • Cercetaşii României
    Cercetasii României
    Cercetaşii României is the primary national Scouting organization of Romania...
    
    
• Romanian Christmas customs
• Common Romanian surnames
• Eastern name order used in Romanian personal names
• List of people on stamps of Romania
• List of fish on stamps of Romania