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36 unusual facts about Romania


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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lupeni Strike of 1929

A trial ensued, and as the ruling of a court in Deva was not to the miners' liking, they appealed to the High Court of Cassation and Justice.

Mânza River

Mânza River can refer to two different tributaries of the Iapa River in Romania

Moişa River

Seaca Moişa may refer to the following rivers in Romania

Nicolae Leon

Nicolae Leon (1862-1931) was a Romanian biologist of world renown.

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 Cheii

Râul Cheii may refer to the following rivers in Romania

Râul Crucii

Râul Crucii may refer to 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

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

Targus

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

Tibiscus University of Timişoara

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

Untu River

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

Văcăria River

Văcăria River may refer to 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 Peşterii River

Valea Peşterii River may refer to the following rivers in Romania

Valea Șesii River

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

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).

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.

Bridge of Flowers

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Igor Klipii

He studied law and history at the "Ion Creangă" State University in Chişinău and international relations at the National School of Administration and Political Science of Bucharest (Romania) and the European Institute of High International Studies in Nice (France).

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Magda Herzberger

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

Mahmut Karaduman

His lieutenant, a Turk named Gabi Kaiat, lives in Bucharest and handles transshipments on the Romanian end.

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.

Marian Sârbu

A member of the National Union for the Progress of Romania (UNPR) and formerly of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), he has been a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Călăraşi County (1996-2008) and Vaslui County (since 2008).

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.

Nationalisms Across the Globe

Hungary and Romania Beyond National Narratives: Comparisons and Entanglements.

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.

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.

Petru Dumitriu

After school in Romania, Dumitriu studied philopsophy at Munich University with a Humboldt scholarship, but his studies were interrupted in 1944 when Romania changed sides in the Second World War.

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.

Snowboarding at the 2013 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival

Snowboarding at the 2013 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival is held at the Clăbucet Sosire (Arrival) slope in Predeal, Romania from 19 to 22 February 2013.

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.

Stere Gulea

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

Stratos Boats

Stratos began building boats in 1984, and sells throughout a network of dealers throughout the United States, Australia, France, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Italy and Venezuela.

Summit cross

A superlative example is the Heroes' Cross on Caraiman Peak, in the Bucegi mountains of Romania at an altitude of 2291m — the greatest construction of this sort in the world (as recognized in 2013 by the Guinness World Records).

Syenite

Syenite is not a common rock, some of the more important occurrences being in New England, Arkansas, Montana, New York (syenite gneisses), Switzerland, Germany, Norway, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Malawi (Mulanje Mountain Forest Reserve) and Romania (Ditrău).

Tárogató

In the 1920s, Luţă Ioviţă, who played the instrument in the army during World War I, brought it to Banat (Romania), where it became very popular under the name taragot.

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).

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.

Victor Brauner

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