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 Romania
| In what month of what year did Romania have its transition of government from dictatorship (communism) to a parliamentary republic? | Romania: Random Facts
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December, 1989. In December of 1989, communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena Ceausescu were convicted of committing acts of genocide, armed attack on the people and the state power of Romania, destruction of buildings and state institutions, and starving the people of Romania. On December 25, 1989 both Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu were executed.
Romanian. Hopefully, for the most part, this question did not pose too many problems ...
Leu, Lei. The currency has significantly lost value. The estimated value in 1998 was 8,976 lei per 1 U.S. dollar.
Federation Council Assembly. The Federation Council Assembly is a level of government in Russia, roughly equivalent to the U.S. Senate.
22,500,000. The exact 2000 estimate is 22,411,121. The population is currently in decline and has been for the last several years.
| An election took place in Romania on December 10, 2000. This candidate won by roughly 67 percent of the votes. Who is this person? | Romania: Random Facts
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Ion Iliescu. Ion Iliescu won with 67 percent of the votes, well over 51 percent needed to control the parliament (government). The other candidate, Tudor, was literally (you might say) another Hitler.
1947. The country was proclaimed a 'People's Republic' on 30 December 1947. Communist control was further consolidated over the following few months.
2.1 million. In terms of population, Bucharest (Bucuresti, in Romanian - pronounced 'bookooresht') is the biggest city between Berlin and Istanbul. (Some estimates of the population of Bucharest are much higher - close to 3 million)
Dambovita River. (Pronounced 'dambovitsa'). The city lies on the Wallachian Plain, just over 40 miles north of the Danube, which forms most of Romania's border with Serbia and Bulgaria. The Dniester and Don are both well to the east of Romania.
Oil. The Romanian oil-fields are situated near the town of Ploiesti. They were among the very first oil-fields to be developed in the world (1857 onwards) and were of immense strategic importance to Germany and its European allies in both World Wars. From the Middle Ages till the early 19th century the gold mines (in the north-west of country, near Baia Mare) were extremely important, but are now almost exhausted.
Orthodoxy. There are Protestants and Roman Catholics in Transylvania and in the other more westerly parts of the country, especially among the Hungarian minority, which is split between Calvinism and Roman Catholicism. The Uniate Church owes allegiance to Rome but uses the Orthodox rites.
Romance. In other words, it's descended from Latin, like Italian, for example. It's the only Romance language in Europe that forms a linguistic island, cut off from the otherwise geographically contiguous 'block' of Romance languages in Europe.
Moldova. Moldova was an integral part of Greater Romania ('Romania Mare') from 1921-40 and again briefly in 1941-44. Moldova was part of the province of Bessarabia ('Basarabia').
| Romania has various ethnic minorities. As far as can be established, which is the largest? | Romania - A Miscellany
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Hungarians. The total population of Romania is about 22.4 million. The ethnic Hungarians number about 2 million and live mainly in Transylvania and the areas close to Hungary. Estimates of the number of Gypsies vary considerably. The ethnic German population, which peaked at around 650,000 in the 1930's, fell very sharply indeed after 1989 and in 2001 amounted to no more than 25,000-30,000 centred mainly on Sibiu (Hermannstadt) in Transylvania. All the other ethnic minorities, which include some Russians in Danube Delta, are very small in number.
| From AD106-271 the present territory of Romania was part of the Roman Empire. What did the Romans call it? | Romania - A Miscellany
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Dacia. Pannonia corresponded roughly to the central part of Hungary, Thrace was a vague term denoting a large area between the Aegean Sea and the Danube, and the term 'Romania' is relatively modern.
| When did Romania first achieve full, internationally recognized independence from the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire? | Romania - A Miscellany
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1878. The principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia had already achieved a measure of autonomy in 1822, following an uprising in 1821. During the Crimean War (1853-56) and thereafter Turkish rule was largely nominal and in 1858 the two principalities were allowed to elect their own prince, who could be one and the same person, provided the principalities had separate administrations. In fact, in 1859 they did precisely that and three years later united fully, with Ottoman assent. However, Romania did not acquire Transylvania and the Banat, together with Bukovina, from Austria-Hungary till December 1918.
| From 1927-44 Romania had a powerful Fascist party officially called the 'Legion of the Archangel Michael' (!) What was its paramilitary wing called? | Romania - A Miscellany
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The Iron Guard. The color of their shirts was in fact green. Such were the excesses of the Iron Guard that even Hitler found it necessary to order the 'Conducator' to curb them! Of course, Hitler didn't do this out of any sense of disgust, let alone sympathy for the victims, but because he believed that the Iron Guard's tenacious, ongoing violence was interfering with Romania's contribution to the Axis war effort.
| Nicolae Ceausescu, the neo-Stalinist dictator of Romania from 1965-89, was overthrown in December 1989. What became of him and his wife? | Romania - A Miscellany
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They were court-martialled and shot on Christmas Day, 1989. The trial, on a range of charges, including treason, was a drum-head court martial that lasted only two hours. They were both executed immediately afterwards and their corpses were filmed and shown the same day on Romanian television.
| From 1966 onwards Ceausescu was very worried about Romania's falling population. What measure(s) did he take to boost the birthrate? | Romania - A Miscellany
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All of these (A ban on abortions for women under 40 (later 45), Contraceptives were made increasingly hard to obtain, Married women aged under 40 (later 45) were not allowed contraceptives). Many aspects of these measures were viewed with horror abroad and they were very unpopular in Romania, too. In the mid-1980's Ceausescu even established a 'baby police' that subjected childless married women (under 45) to harsh and humiliating gynecological tests. One result of these measures was a large number of unwanted children and a significant number were simply abandoned: hence the large number of Romanian orphans.
| What is the Romanian capital? | Romania
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Bucharest. Bucharest is the biggest city in Romania, having over two million inhabitants. Its history begins in the fifteenth century.
| What is the Romanian currency? | Romania
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leu. In Romanian leu means lion. Its name comes from an Austro-Hungarian currency that was used than and had two lions on it - the sign of the royal house of Austro-Hungaria.
| What are the colors appearing on the Romanian flag ? | Romania
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red, yellow and blue. The first time when this colors were proposed for the national flag was in 1848. It is said that red represents the blood of those who fought for the country, yellow represents the grains which feed the population and blue represents the sky over the country.
| Where do you go if you are in Romania and you want to go to the seaside ? | Romania
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Black Sea. The largest port in the Black Sea is Constanta. For about five hundred years that part of Romania was in the Ottoman Empire.
| What is the biggest river bordering Romania? | Romania
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Danube. The Danube is the second biggest river in Europe after the Volga.
| What are the highest mountains in Romania?
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Carpathians. The Carpathians are describing an arch on Romanian territory. In that arch is the famous Transylvania.
| What is the highest peak in Romania? | Romania
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Moldoveanu. Moldoveanu is 2544m high
| What is Romania's code on the internet ? | Romania
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Carpathian Mountains. Sinaia is a famous skiing resort town located in the Carpathians.
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