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36 unusual facts about Romania


Anton I. Arion

Anton I. Arion (1824 - 1897) was a Romanian politician who served as the Minister of Interior from August 12, 1868 until November 16, 1868.

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

Colentina

The name Colentina can refer to three places in Bucharest, Romania.

CSU Aurel Vlaicu Arad

CSU Aurel Vlaicu Arad is a Romanian semi-professional rugby union club from Arad, which will play the 2011 season in Romanian Rugby Championship, the first division of Romanian rugby.

Deia River

Deia River may refer to the following rivers in Romania

Donald R. Heath

From 1920 to 1929, Heath held consular positions in Romania, Poland, and Switzerland.

Edwin W. Kemmerer

As a "money doctor" Kemmerer was not alone: in Poland he was followed by Charles Dewey; Romania had the Frenchmen Charles Rist and Roger Auboin; and for Hungary and Germany, the Americans Jeremiah Smith Jr and S. Parker Gilbert, respectively.

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.

Iezeru River

Iezeru River may refer to the following rivers in Romania

Iulius Mall

Iulius Mall is a chain of malls in Romania.

Jiu Valley miners' strike of 1977

On the day of Ceaușescu's arrival, Securitate troops as well as party functionaries were called in from Craiova, Târgu-Jiu and Deva to try to disperse the protesters.

Juliusz Nowina-Sokolnicki

Juliusz Nowina-Sokolnicki (b. December 16, 1920 in Pinsk, d. August 17, 2009 in Colchester, England) Polish politician, head of one of the two governments which claimed in 1972 to be the successor to the exiled Polish government that was created to replace original Polish government, which fled to Romania in September 1939 at the start of World War II.

Lazăr River

Lazăr River may refer to the following rivers in Romania

Moara Dracului River

Moara Dracului River may refer to the following rivers in Romania

Mogoș River

Mogoș River may refer to one of the following rivers of Romania

Moişa River

Seaca Moişa may refer to the following rivers in Romania

Nationalisms Across the Globe

Hungary and Romania Beyond National Narratives: Comparisons and Entanglements.

Neptun

Neptun, Romania, resort town on the southeast Black Sea coast of Romania

Peceneaga River

Peceneaga River can refer to the following rivers in Romania

Pintii River

Pintii River may refer to the following rivers in Romania

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 Crucii

Râul Crucii may refer to the following rivers in Romania

Râul Grădinii

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

Râul Popii

Râul Popii can mean the following rivers in Romania

Roman governors of Lower Moesia

This is a list of Roman governors of Lower Moesia (Moesia Inferior), in the modern states of Bulgaria and Romania (Dobruja).

Sărmaș River

Sărmaș River may refer to one of 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.

Targus

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

Tărhăuş River

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

Untu River

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

Valea Carelor River

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

Valea Fetii River

Valea Fetii River can refer do one of the following rivers in Romania

Valea Șesii River

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


100th Fighter Squadron

The Alabama ANG contingent, which included nearly twenty fighter pilots and eight F-16s, exercised with approximately 200 Romanian soldiers, technical staff, and pilots flying six Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 "Fishbed" fighters at 71st Air Base, located near the town of Câmpia Turzii in the northwestern part of Romania.

2008 Men's Water Polo Olympic Qualifier

The tournament was held at the "Ioan Alexandrescu" Pool, newly built in Oradea, Romania from March 2 to March 9, 2008s.

2010 Men's European Volleyball League

In the final four tournament, the semi-final matches featured Portugal and Spain defeating Romania (3–2) and Turkey (3–0), respectively, to produce a rematch of the 2007 final.

Alexander Philadelpheus

He received numerous honors including, being named Knight of the Royal Order of the Saviour and Knight Commander of the Royal Order of George I, Knight Commander of the Bulgarian order of Saint Alexander, Knight Commander of the Order of the Rumanian Crown, Officer of the French Order of the Legion of Honor, Officer of the Dutch Order of Orange-Nassau and Knight of the Spanish Order of Fealty.

Alro Slatina

In September 2005, Alro bought from Balli Group 67% of Alum a Romanian company based in Tulcea that produced 540,000 tonnes of alumina in 2006 for around US$ 9 million.

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).

Belene Nuclear Power Plant

Concerns regarding the construction of the plant have mainly been felt in nearby Romania, with articles in the newspapers such as Cotidianul, România Liberă and Ziarul even going as far as comparing the project with Chernobyl despite a new generation of VVER reactors is to be used, and not the cheaper graphite-moderated RBMK series like Chernobyl's.

Beverley Daurio

Her short fiction has been published in Canada, Australia, the United States, Romania, and England, and her poetry, reviews, and literary essays have been widely published (including The Globe and Mail, Books in Canada, The Malahat Review and many other venues.

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.

Bogata River

Bogata River may refer to the following rivers in Romania

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.

Carabus hungaricus

The majority of its populations inhabit calcareous sandy grasslands from the Deliblat (Serbia: Deliblatska Peščara) throughout the Banat (Serbia, Romania) and sandy areas in Hungary along the Danube River all the way to Vienna (Austria) and South Moravia (Czech Republic).

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.

Cermei

Cermei is a commune in Arad County, Romania, situated in the Teuzului Plateau, in the basin of the Sartiș River.

Crown Council

Crown Council of Romania, the constitutional body advising the reigning Kings of Romania

Devilish Presley

In November 2008 the band toured Europe again including a debut gig in (Romania) in the capital (Bucharest).

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.

Dovid Knut

In 1920, when Bessarabia became part of Romania, the family moved to Paris, where Dovid had factory and other jobs during the day and studied French at the night school of the Alliance française, opened his own eatery in the Latin Quarter, studied in the Department of Chemistry of the University of Caen in Normandy, and worked as an engineer.

Dwijen Mukhopadhyay

As a member of ‘Indian Cultural Delegation’, he toured Soviet Union and East European countries like Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia.

Florin Răducioiu

An even greater success for Florin would come three months later when in Toftir, he managed to score all four of Romania's goals against the Faroe Islands, becoming the first Romanian player to score four goals for the national team in modern times, a record equaled only by Gheorghe Popescu in 1997 against Liechstenstein.

Foreign direct investment in Romania

General Motors could shortly begin investments in order to develop a production centre in Romania, with Cluj-Napoca as a potential location for the future plant, close to the Nokia Village.

Galați steel works

The idea of building a large steel works in eastern Romania, with access to the Danube and/or the Black Sea, was first discussed in 1958 at a plenary session of the ruling Romanian Workers' Party.

Greek-Catholic Church in Bocşa

The Greek-Catholic Church in Bocșa is a church in Bocșa, Sălaj, Romania.

Horaţiu Pungea

Horaţiu Eugen Pungea (born 18 February 1986, Luduș, (Mureş), Romania) is a Romanian rugby union footballer.

Internet in Romania

According to a top made by Bloomberg in 2013, Romania is ranked 5th in the world and 2nd in Europe in terms of internet connection speed, being surpassed by Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan, while the United States is only the 14th.

Jarbook

In 2003, the Romanian publishing house Humanitas has published four such jarbooks, out of which one is an anthology of international poetry entitled Eternul femenin (The Eternal Feminine), and the three others are selections of poems by Leonid Dimov, Emil Brumaru and Șerban Foarță.

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.

John Flournoy Montgomery

Montgomery was clearly expected to watch over the political intrigues not only in Budapest but, from his central location on the Danube, to monitor the goings-on in Hungary’s neighbors (Austria, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia) and other countries in the region as well, including Bulgaria, Poland, Germany and Italy.

Juan Ramón López Caro

In June 2010, he finished his contract with Spain Under-21 and he decided not to continue anymore and to sign a contract with the Romanian Liga 1 club FC Vaslui.

Kosovo Campaign Medal

The Air Campaign refers to any flight operations which are performed in the land area and air space of Serbia (including Kosovo), Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Bosnia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Greece, Bulgaria, Italy, and Slovenia, as well as the waters and air space of the Adriatic and Ionian Sea, provided such flight operations are in direct support of Kosovo peacekeeping actions.

Lucia Hossu-Longin

Lucia Hossu-Longin is a Romanian TV producer/director, best known for the documentary series Memorialul Durerii.

Magda Herzberger

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

Măru River

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

Mayor of Bucharest

The Mayor of Bucharest (Primarul General al Municipiului Bucureşti in Romanian), sometimes known as the General Mayor, is the head of the Bucharest City Hall in Bucharest, Romania, which is responsible for city-wide affairs, such as the water system, the transport system and the main boulevards.

Nicolae Mărăscu

The highest point of Mărăscu career was at the 1924 Olympic Tournament, when Romania, even losing to France (59-3) and the United States (39-0) still won the bronze medal by finishing in 3rd place.

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).

Pinus cembra

Pinus cembra, also known as Swiss pine, Swiss stone pine or Arolla pine, is a species of pine tree that grows in the Alps and Carpathian Mountains of central Europe, in Poland (Tatra Mountains), Switzerland, France, Italy, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Slovakia (Tatra Mountains), Ukraine and Romania.

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.

Stere Gulea

Stere Gulea (born 2 August 1943 in Mihail Kogalniceanu village, Constanţa County) is a Romanian film director and screenwriter.

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.

Teodor Florian

Florian career highest point was his presence at the Romania team that reached the 3rd place at the 1924 Summer Olympics, even losing to France (59-3) and the United States (39-0).

Tibiscus University of Timişoara

Tibiscus University of Timişoara is an accredited university in Timişoara, Romania.

Valea Pustie River

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

Valentin Porcișteanu

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.

Victor Brauner

When his family returned to Romania in 1914, he continued his studies at the Evangelical school in Brăila.

Vitalie Călugăreanu

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