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Main article: History of Romania In 513 BC, south of the Danube, the tribal confederation of the Getae were defeated by Darius during his campaign against the Scythians (Herodotus IV.93). Over half a millennium later, the Getae (also named Daci by Romans) were defeated by the Roman Empire under Emperor Trajan in two campaigns stretching from 101 to 106, and the core of their kingdom was turned into the Roman province of Dacia. The Gothic and Carpic campaigns in the Balkans during 238–256 forced the Roman Empire to reorganize ...

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List of prominent Romanians - Architecture. Ion Mincu, father of the traditional Romanian Style (neoromanism) List of prominent Romanians - Choreography. Sergiu Anghel, choreographer,director,scenarist Nicolai Apetri, dance innovator List of prominent Romanians - Painting. Calin Alupi Theodor Aman Gheorghe Tattarescu Ion Andreescu Corneliu Baba Sabin Bălaş ...

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The party was founded in 1991 by Tudor and his literary mentor, the writer Eugen Barbu, one year after launched the "Greater Romania" (Romania Mare) weekly magazine, which remains the most important propaganda tool of the PRM. Tudor subsequently launched a companion daily newspaper called "The Tricolor" (Tricolorul). (The historical expression "Greater Romania" refers to the idea of uniting all territories inhabited by ethnic Romanians into a single country; it was briefly achieved between the two World Wars, and is now a rallying cry for Ro ...

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List of Romanians - Ancient and Medieval. Anthim the Iberian, Archbishop of Wallachia Basarab I Neagoe Basarab Iancu de Hunedoara, voivod of Transylvania Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary; father was ethnically Romanian (Vlach) Mihai Viteazul Mircea cel Bătrân Ştefan cel Mare, voivod of Moldavia Vlad Ţepeş (to some known as Dracula) List of Romanians - Renaissance Age. Dimitrie Cantemir; historian, writer, and music ...

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Michael has not encouraged monarchist agitation in Romania, and royalist parties have made little impact in post-Communist Romanian politics. He takes the view that the restoration of the monarchy in Romania can only result from a decision by the Romanian people. "If the people want me to come back, of course, I will come back," he said in 1990. But, he said, "Romanians have had enough suffering impos ...

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Michael settled in Britain, later he lived in Switzerland, and in June 1948 he married Anne of Bourbon-Parma, with whom he has five daughters. The Romanian authorities stripped him of his Romanian citizenship in 1948. He became a commercial pilot and worked for an aircraft equipment company. In 1992, three years after the revolution which overthrew the Communist regime in Romania, the new Romanian government allowed Michael to return to Romania for Easter celebrations, where he drew large crowds. In Bucharest over a mill ...

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Main article: Romania since 1989 Presidential and parliamentary elections were held on May 20, 1990. Running against representatives of the pre-war National Peasants' Party and National Liberal Party, and taking advantage of FSN's tight control of the national radio and television, Iliescu won 85% of the vote. The FSN secured two-thirds of the seats in Parliament. A university professor with strong family roots in the Communist Party, Petre Roman, was named Prime Minister of the new government, which consisted mainly of former communist offici ...

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Main articles: Romania in the Dark Ages, Romania in the Middle Ages Different parts of the territory of present-day Romania were invaded and controlled succesively by the Goths from 271 until 4th century, by the Huns until 435, the Gepids, the Avars and the Slavs during the 6th century, the Bulgars (subsequently Bulgarians) during 7th – 11th century, Magyars and Pechenegs during the 10th century, an ...

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Mineriad - 28 January. After the National Salvation Front's decision to transform itself into a party, an anti-Communist manifestation took place in Bucharest's Victoria Square (Piaţa Victoriei), organised by the Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNŢCD), National Liberal Party (PNL), and other smaller parties. The manifestation was mainly aimed at Ion Iliescu, protesters waving banners reading "He who spent five years with the Russians, cannot think like Bush", "We don't want neoco ...

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List of Romanians - Soccer. Cristian Chivu Ilie Balaci Ladislau Bölöni Silviu Lung Gheorghe Hagi Anghel Iordănescu Gica Popescu Emerich Jenei Mircea Lucescu Vasile Miriuţă Adrian Mutu Nicolae Dobrin Cătălin Hâldan Marius Lăcătuş Michael Klein Helmut Dukadam ...

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Main article: Dacia, Roman Dacia The territory of today's Romania was inhabited since at least 513 BC by the Getae or Dacians, a Thracian tribe. Under the leadership of Burebista (70-44 BC) the Dacians became a powerful state which threatened even the regional interests of the Romans. Julius Caesar intended to start a campaign against the Dacians, but was assassinated in 44 BC. A few months later, Burebista shared the same fate, assassinated by his own noblemen. His powerful state was divided in four and did not become unified ...

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List of Romanians - Biology. Grigore Antipa, hydrobiologist Ana Aslan, geriatrics researcher Victor Babeş, biologist Dimitrie Brândzã, botanist Carol Davila, physician Dinischiotu family, several famous Romanian physicians and professors; Ioan Cantacuzino, microbiologist Iuliu Haţieganu, physician Wilhelm Knechtel, botanist Nicolae Leon, biologist Gheorghe Marinescu, neurologist Mina Minovici, forensic sci ...

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Main article: Romania during World War II As a result, in 1940, Romania lost territory in both east and west: In June 1940, after issuing an ultimatum to Romania, the Soviet Union occupied Bessarabia and northern Bukovina. Two thirds of Bessarabia were combined with a small part of USSR to form the Moldavian SSR. Northern Bukovina and Budjak were apportioned to the Ukrainian SSR. In August 1940, Northern Transylvania was awarded to H ...

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Main article: Communist Romania Soviet occupation following WWII led to the formation of a communist Peoples' Republic in 1947 and the abdication of king Michael, who went into exile. In the early 1960s, Romania's communist government began to assert some independence from the Soviet Union. Ceauşescu became head of the Communist Party in 1965 and head of state in 1967. Ceauşescu's denunciation of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and a brief relaxation in internal repression helped give him a positive image bo ...

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Main article: National awakening of Romania As in most European countries, 1848 brought revolution to Moldavia, Wallachia, and Transylvania, announced by Tudor Vladimirescu and his Pandurs attempt in 1821. The goals of the revolutionaries - complete independence for the first two and national emancipation in third - remained unfulfilled, but were the basis of the subsequent evolutions. Also, the uprising helped the population of the t ...

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List of Romanians - Architecture. Petre Antonescu, triumphal arch Ion Mincu, Neoromanticism Alexandru Orascu, Neoclasscism List of Romanians - Choreography. Sergiu Anghel, choreographer,director,scenarist Nicolai Apetri, dance innovator List of Romanians - Painting. Calin Alupi Theodor Aman Gheorghe Tattarescu Ion Andreescu Corneliu Baba Sa ...

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Non-violent revolution - Foundations. The Soros Foundations, founded by philanthropist George Soros, have been active for many years in fostering a transition to democracy and free enterprise in the post-Soviet sphere. Through the Open Society Institute, they are noted for their close relationships with several of the color revolutions, particlarly in Ukraine.

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Principalty of Romania Kingdom of Romania Romanian People's Republic Socialist Republic Romania (from 1965, 21 August) Romania See also: Kings of Romania, Bessarabia, Moldavia, Wallachia, and Transylvania ...

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Main article: Politics of Romania Romania is a democratic republic. The legislative branch of the Romanian government consists of two chambers, Senatul (The Senate), which has 137 members (as of 2004), and Camera Deputaţilor (The Chamber of Deputies), which has 332 members (as of 2004). The members of both chambers are elected every four years. The President is also elected by popular vote, every ...

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Officially, as with other Communist parties, the supreme body of the Romanian Communist Party and its predecessors was the party congress held once every five years with one delegate for every 1,000 party members. The Party Congress elected a Central Committee and the general secretary and adopted the party's program and other documents. The Central Committee would be the main party body between Congresses. In 1984, the Central Committee consisted of 265 full members and 181 candidate members. The body was responsible for implementing the decisions of the party congress and the direction of party activities. ...

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During its underground years the membership of the party was quite small, less than 1,000 people. Members were largely drawn from ethnic minorities in Romania who were the most repressed elements of the population in the first part of the twentieth century and thus the most attracted to revolutionary ideas. In 1933, 26.58% of party members were from Romania's Hungarian minority, 22.65% were ethnic Romanians and 18.12% were Jewish. Others were Russians and Ukrainians from Bessarabia, Bulgarians from the south of Romania, Poles from the north, ...

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For territorial and administrative purposes, Romania is divided into 41 counties and the city of Bucharest. Each county is governed by an elected county council. Local councils and elected mayors are the public administration authorities in villages and towns. The county council is the public administration authority that coordinates the activities of all village and town councils in a county. The central government appoints a prefect for each county and the Bucharest municipality. The prefect is the representative of the government a ...

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