Trăiască Regele was the national anthem

National anthem

A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that evokes and eulogizes the history, traditions and struggles of its people, recognized either by a nation's government as the official national song, or by convention through use by the people.- History :Anthems rose to prominence...

 of the Principality of Romania and later Kingdom of Romania

Kingdom of Romania

The Kingdom of Romania was the Romanian state based on a form of parliamentary monarchy between 13 March 1881 and 30 December 1947, specified by the first three Constitutions of Romania...

 between 1866 and 1947. The music was composed in 1862 by Eduard Hübsch, an army captain who later became the chief of the music department of the Minister of War

Ministry of National Defence of Romania

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. The lyrics were written by the Romanian poet Vasile Alecsandri

Vasile Alecsandri

Vasile Alecsandri was a Romanian poet, playwright, politician, and diplomat. He collected Romanian folk songs and was one of the principal animators of the 19th century movement for Romanian cultural identity and union of Moldavia and Wallachia....

 in 1881, when Romania became a Kingdom

Kingdom of Romania

The Kingdom of Romania was the Romanian state based on a form of parliamentary monarchy between 13 March 1881 and 30 December 1947, specified by the first three Constitutions of Romania...

.

Lyrics

Trăiască Regele

În pace şi onor

De ţară iubitor

Şi-apărător de ţară.

Fie Domn glorios

Fie peste noi,

Fie-n veci norocos

În război.

O! Doamne Sfinte,

Ceresc părinte,

Susţine cu a Ta mână

Coroana Română!

Trăiască Patria

Cât soarele ceresc,

Rai vesel pământesc

Cu mare, falnic nume.

Fie-n veci el ferit

De nevoi,

Fie-n veci locuit

De eroi.

O! Doamne Sfinte,

Ceresc Părinte,

Întinde a Ta mână

Pe Ţara Română!

English translation

Long live the King

In peace and honour

Loving his country

And defending it

May he be a glorious Lord

May he be over us

May he forever be lucky

In war

O! Holy Lord

Our father in the sky

Hold with your hand

The Romanian Crown

Long live the Fatherland

As long as the Sun in the sky,

Happy heaven on Earth

With a great and famous name

May it forever be spared

Of necessities,

May it forever be inhabited

By heroes.

O! Holy Lord

Our father in the sky

Hold your hand

Over the Romanian Land