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40 unusual facts about România


1981 New Zealand rugby union tour of Romania and France

The All Blacks won eight of the ten games, including the international match against Romania and both internationals against France.

AHG Industry

The holding is formed by several companies active in Germany, Romania, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria, People's Republic of China, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Iraq.

Alro Slatina

Alro's primary aluminium facilities are located in Slatina and currently comprise a smelter and processing facilities, including a cast house, hot and cold rolling mills and an extrusion shop.

Alvin M. Owsley

In 1933 Owsley was rewarded for his efforts as a campaign speaker for Franklin D. Roosevelt with an appointment as the U.S. minister to Romania (1933–35).

Arsura River

Arsura River may refer to one of the following rivers in Romania

Bogata River

Bogata River may refer to the following rivers in Romania

Breaza River

Breaza River may refer to the following rivers in Romania

Bridge of Flowers

Bridge of Flowers (event), an event in 1990 by demonstrators who advocated for the unification of Romania and Moldova.

Cacova River

Cacova River can refer to one of the following rivers in Romania

Cleopa Ilie

The current patriarch, Daniel, was one of his disciples along with other current bishops.

Coasa River

Coasa River can refer to one of the following rivers in Romania

Colnic River

Colnic River may refer to the following rivers in Romania

Deia River

Deia River may refer to the following rivers in Romania

Direcţia Generală de Protecţie şi Anticorupţie

Direcţia Generală de Protecţie şi Anticorupţie (General Directorate for Protection and Anti-corruption, DGPA; known before as Serviciul Intern de Protecţie şi Anticorupţie- Internal Service for Protection and Anti-corruption, SIPA) was the secret service of the Ministry of Justice of Romania.

European Masters in Interactive Multimedia

European Master in Interactive Multimedia (EMIM) is a partnership between five institutions of higher learning in Europe: Babeş-Bolyai University in Romania, ITIN in France, Staffordshire University in United Kingdom, Tallinn University in Estonia and Yeditepe University in Turkey.

Gardu River

Gardu River may refer to the following rivers in Romania

Hidişel River

Hidişel River may refer to the following rivers in Romania

Iezeru River

Iezeru River may refer to the following rivers in Romania

Iulius Mall

Iulius Mall is a chain of malls in Romania.

Joaquín Albarrán

Named with American urologist John Kelso Ormond (1886–1978); also known as "Gerota’s syndrome", after Romanian anatomist and urologist Dimitrie Gerota (1867-1939).

Joseph Franz von Goez

Joseph Franz von Goez (born 28 February 1754, Sibiu, Romania) was a lawyer, artist, illustrator and portraitist active in Vienna in the mid-18th century.

Moara Dracului River

Moara Dracului River may refer to the following rivers in Romania

Mociar River

Mociar River may refer to one of the following rivers in Romania

Nationalisms Across the Globe

Hungary and Romania Beyond National Narratives: Comparisons and Entanglements.

Pârâu Crucii

Pârâu Crucii may refer to several places in Romania

Paul Ioachim

Paul Ioachim (1930, Buzău, Romania – 2002) was a Romanian playwright, actor, and theater director.

Peceneaga River

Peceneaga River can refer to the following rivers in Romania

Pentru Voi

Fundatia Pentru Voi (Pentru Voi Foundation) from Timişoara, Romania was established in 1995 as a Foundation for supporting people with intellectual disabilities.

Poienari River

Poienari River may refer to one of the following rivers in Romania

Pompiliu Constantinescu

Pompiliu Constantinescu (May 17, 1901 – May 9, 1946) was a Romanian literary critic.

Râul Bisericii

Râul Bisericii can refer to one of the following rivers in Romania

Râul Grădinii

Râul Grădinii may refer to one of the following rivers in Romania

Săsăran

Săsăran (sometimes Sasaran outside of Romania) is a Romanian surname originating mainly from north-western Romania.

Slătioara River

Slătioara River may refer to the following rivers in Romania

Social fund

However, a Social Fund also exists in Romania, a country that has recently joined the EU, as well as in many other Eastern European countries.

Starčevo site

The culture of Starčevo is connected with other cites from Balkan and middle Europe where they use the term Starčevo-Keres-Kris culture in Hungary and Romania cites to symbolize the union of three close culture: culture of Starčevo, culture of Kereska and culture of Kris all of them located on the region of today southeast Hungary, Serbia and Romania.

Tămășești River

Tămășești River may refer to one of the following rivers in Romania

Targus

:Targus is occasionally seen as a translation for the Târgu or Tîrgu regions in Romania.

Untu River

Untu River may refer to one of the following rivers in Romania

Valea Șesii River

Valea Şesii River may refer to one of the following rivers in Romania


Administrative divisions of Romania

After modern Romania was formed in 1859 through the union of Wallachia and rump Moldavia, and then extended in 1918 through the union of Transylvania, as well as Bukovina and Bessarabia (parts of Moldavia temporarily acquired by the Habsburgs, 1775–1918, respectively the Russian Tsars, 1812–1917), the administrative division was modernized using the French departments system as an example.

Alexandru Mironov

Born in the Bessarabian locality of Vertujeni, now part of Moldova, Mironov was from a family which took refuge in southern Romania following the region's second occupation by the Soviet Union before the end of World War II.

Anuţa Cătună

Anuţa Cătună (born October 1, 1968 in Lunca Ilvei, Bistriţa-Năsăud) is a former female long-distance runner from Romania, who represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996.

Astra Film Festival

Throughout the decades, AFF Sibiu was honoured to present Portrait programmes of the world’s greatest documentary filmmakers: John Marshall (USA), David MacDougall (Australia), Robert Gardner (USA), Kim Longinotto (UK), Michael Yorke (UK), Mircea Săucan (Romania-Israel), Leonard Retel Helmrich (Holland), and Bob Connolly (Australia).

Battle of Temesvár

When he sent for more munitions, Bem did not know that Dembiński moved the spare munitions to Lugos (now Lugoj, Romania), so Bem gave the order to Kmety to move forward on the left flank.

Batushansky

Although there is no place named Batushany, a number of populated places with similar names exist, including Botoşani in Romania's region of Moldavia and the village of Butuceni in the self-proclaimed Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic in the Republic of Moldova.

Bobbi Trout

This was another record broken by Trout and was later recognized by King Carol II of Romania where a representative gave her the Royal Decree and the aviation cross for pilots who made record flights, a distinction which was only given to two other pilots - Earhart and Charles Lindbergh.

Boian culture

The culture's geographical extent went as far west as the Jiu River on the border of Transylvania in south-central Romania, as far north as the Chilia branch of the Danube Delta along the Romanian border with Ukraine and the coast of the Black Sea, and as far south as the Rhodope Mountains and the Aegean Sea in Greece.

Borislav Stevanović

Born in Titova Mitrovica, Stevanović played club football in Yugoslavia, Spain and Romania for Radnički Niš, Mérida, Rad, Zemun, Universitatea Craiova and BASK.

Bucharest Alexeni Airport

Alexeni Airport was a project for a new low-cost airport for Bucharest, located in the Alexeni town, in Ialomiţa County, at 60 km north-east of the capital city of Romania.

Carpathian Mountains

The most important cities in or near the Carpathians are: Bratislava and Košice in Slovakia; Kraków in Poland; Cluj-Napoca, Sibiu and Braşov in Romania; and Miskolc in Hungary.

Casco Schützhelme

Casco Schutzhelme based in Bretnig-Hauswalde, Germany, is a protection headwear producing company from Germany which has two production sites located in Bretnig-Hauswalde and Satu Mare, Romania and is specialised in producing helmets and safety glassess.

Cundall Johnston and Partners

Founded in Newcastle and Edinburgh, Cundall now has United Kingdom offices in London, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Birmingham and Manchester, with Australian offices in Sydney, Perth, Melbourne and Adelaide plus offices in Dubai, Doha, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Cyprus in Paphos and Nicosia, Madrid, Cluj-Napoca and Bucharest in Romania.

DGIA

Direcţia Generală de Informaţii a Apărării (General Directorate for Defense Intelligence) is Romania's military intelligence agency, subordinated to the Ministry of National Defense.

DN1B

On its first segment, from Ploieşti to Valea Călugărească it runs through one of Romania's most important wine regions and the site of many inns (hanuri) and historical cellars, many of which were built in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Dorohoi pogrom

On 1 July 1940, in the town of Dorohoi in Romania, Romanian military units carried out a pogrom against the local Jews, during which, according to an official Romanian report, 53 Jews were murdered, and dozens injured.

Elena Cernei

In 1961, she was made Artistă Emerită (Honoured Artist) of the Republic of Romania and in 1999 received the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa from the National University of Music Bucharest for her contributions to the field of musicology.

Eugen Nae

Eugen Gheorghe Nae (born 23 November 1974 in Periș, Romania) is a Romanian former footballer.

Fanfare Ciocărlia

Fanfare Ciocărlia is a popular twelve-piece Balkan Brass Band/Romani brass band (not to be confused with Romanian) from the northeastern Romanian village of Zece Prăjini.

Gaston Paris

He contributed largely to the Histoire littéraire de la France, and with Paul Meyer published Romania, a journal devoted to the study of Romance literature.

Interoute

Interoute's offices: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, plus a Network Operations Centre in Sofia and a Customer Service Centre in Prague and Luleå.

Ion Gheorghe Maurer

Dennis Deletant, Communist Terror in Romania, C. Hurst & Co., London, 1999; Ceausescu and the Securitate, M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, New York, 1995

Istana Nurul Iman

Using various self-serving definitions, a number of palaces are claimed to be the world’s largest: Istana Nurul Iman, Buckingham Palace, Quirinal Palace, Royal Palace of Madrid, Stockholm Palace, The Forbidden City, The Palace of Versailles, The Royal Palace of Caserta, The Winter Palace, The Louvre, Prague Castle, and Romania’s Palace of the Parliament.

Jehovah's Witnesses Association of Romania

Tom Gallagher, Modern Romania: The End of Communism, the Failure of Democratic Reform, and the Theft of a Nation, NYU Press, 2005.

Klange aus der Walachei

The composition was first performed on 6 January 1848 in Bucharest in Wallachia (now Romania), as part of a six-month tour of Europe that Strauss was conducting with his orchestra.

Kyoko Edo

She also was invited as a judge for the International Tchaikovsky Competition, George Enescu International Music Competition in Romania, Concours International de Long-Thibaud, the International Music Competition of Japan, and Geneva International Music Competition.

La Caixa

At the end of 2007, La Caixa had 5,480 branches, of which 5,468 are located throughout Spain and two operating abroad (Warsaw, Poland and Bucharest, Romania), and 10 representative offices in Germany, Belgium, China, France, Italy, Morocco, Portugal and the United Kingdom.

Lazăr River

Lazăr River may refer to the following rivers in Romania

Magda Herzberger

Magda Herzberger (born 1926, Cluj, Romania) is an author, poet and composer.

Marian Hemar

Soon after the outbreak of World War II Hemar fled Warsaw after being searched for by the Gestapo and reached Romania, and eventually the Middle East, where he signed up and served in the Polish Independent Carpathian Rifle Brigade.

Mihai Volontir

Volontir was born on March 9, 1934 in the village of Glinjeni, Romania, now part of the present day Rezina district in Moldova).

Paddyfield Warbler

It is a rare vagrant to western Europe although there are small breeding populations along the western shores of the Black Sea around the border between Bulgaria and Romania.

Paul Goma

At the end of August 1968, Paul Goma became a member of the Romanian Communist Party, in an act of solidarity with the Romanian position during the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia (Romania did not take part, indeed condemning the invasion).

Petya Miladinova

She has played in "Thessaloniki conspirators," "In the Moon Room", "Confusion", "That's absurd," "The Importance of Being Earnest", etc. and participated in numerous theatrical performances of festival projects in countries of Europe such as Hungary (Budapest and Szeged), Georgia, Uzbekistan (Tashkent), Russia (Yaroslavl) Italy (Urbino and Rome), France (Avignon) and Romania (Iași).

Prostitution in Austria

The last time prostitution was completely forbidden in Austria was under Maria Theresa of Austria (1740-1780), who shipped prostitutes along with other "antisocial" people down the Danube to Timișoara in the Banat region of Romania.

Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013

Cezar represented Romania with the song "It's My Life", which qualified from the second semi-final of the competition and finished in 13th place in the final, scoring 65 points.

Sean Kane

Sean was one of the first Scottish actors to perform with Romanian actors at the Teatrul De Comedie in Bucharest Romania in their production entitled 'Home'.

Techint

Companies owned by the Techint group through Tenaris include: Siderca and Siat (Argentina), Confab (Brazil), Tamsa (Mexico), Algoma (Canada), Dalmine (Italy), Silcotub (Romania) and has production facilities in the US and a joint venture with NKK (Japan), holding 51% of NKK shares since 1999, making it the first Japanese steel company in foreign majority ownership.

Valea Pustie River

The Valea Pustie River may refer to one of the following rivers in Romania

Valentin Porcișteanu

2011 is the year of the greatest success of his career – he scored wins in Brasov Rally, Cluj Rally, Arad Rally and Tara Barsei Rally, and ended up the season as the youngest ever Champion in the Romanian National Rally Championship history.

In 2008 Valentin Porcisteanu stepped into the top class of the Romanian National Rally Championship, competing with a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII and finishing 7th in the Overall ranking and 4th in the Mitsubishi Lancer Cup.

Vitalie Călugăreanu

Also, he has worked as a reporter for television station Antena 1 (Romania), Prima (news agency), Euro TV Moldova.

Zalman Kornblit

Bercovici, Israil, O sută de ani de teatru evriesc în România ("One hundred years of Yiddish/Jewish theater in Romania"), 2nd Romanian-language edition, revised and augmented by Constantin Măciucă.

Zamir Gotta

He is best known as the traveling companion of American chef Anthony Bourdain in his Travel Channel TV show Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, when they traveled to Uzbekistan, Russia and Romania and later in the U.S. Rust Belt, Ukraine, and Kansas City.