Crossword clues for romania
romania
- One state's revolutionary broadcast blocked by another
- Bucharest's country
- European country
- European nation
- Hungary neighbor from which lots of spam comes
- Balkan country
- Warsaw Pact member
- Land on the Black Sea
- Its capital is Bucharest
- Black Sea country
- Where Transylvania is
- Transylvanian Alps location
- Country on the Black Sea
- Transylvanian Alps setting
- Transylvanian Alps locale
- The Danube flows along its southern border
- Site #1
- Nadia Comaneci's homeland
- Elie Wiesel's homeland
- Dracula's castle is there
- Country in Europe
- Cluj is its second-most populous city
- Carpathian Mountains country
- Bucharest setting
- Wallachia and Moldavia, today
- Eastern European nation
- Birthplace of Elie Wiesel
- Modern home of ancient Walachia
- Where the Danube ends
- Bucharest's land
- Country with a blue, yellow and red flag
- Land where the Danube flows
- Bucharest?s land
- Bucharest's home
- Country that's home to Dracula's Castle
- A Balkan republic in southeastern Europe
- Where to find Ploesti
- Dracula's home
- Home of Transylvanians
- Nadia's land, to Nadia
- Cluj's country
- Where the Prut flows
- Where to spend a leu
- Area regularly cleared, bordering Asian country
- Country run — nothing taken with huge enthusiasm
- Country manor dilapidated, the reverse of tip-top
- Country in the centre of Europe madness
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Eastern European nation, name taken officially in 1861 at the union of Wallachia and Moldavia, from Latin Romani "people from Rome," which was used to describe the descendants of colonists there from Roman times; see Roman + -ia. In early use often Rumania, or, from French, Roumania. Related: Romanian; Rumanian; Roumanian.
Wikipedia
Romania ( ; ) is a republic in Southeast Europe which borders the Black Sea, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Hungary, Serbia, and Moldova. It has an area of and a temperate- continental climate. With 19.94 million inhabitants, the country is the seventh most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city, Bucharest, is the sixth largest city in the EU.
The River Danube, Europe's second longest river, rises in Germany and flows southeastwards for a distance of 2,857 km, coursing through ten countries before emptying in Romania's Danube Delta. The Carpathian Mountains, with their tallest peak Moldoveanu at , cross Romania from the north to the southwest.
Modern Romania emerged within the territories of the ancient Roman province of Dacia, and was formed in 1859 through a personal union of the Danubian Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. The new state, officially named Romania since 1866, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. At the end of World War I, Transylvania, Bukovina and Bessarabia united with the sovereign Kingdom of Romania. During World War II, Romania was an ally of Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union, fighting side by side with the Wehrmacht until 1944, when it then joined the Allied powers and faced occupation by the Red Army forces. Romania lost several territories, of which Northern Transylvania was regained after the war. Following the war, Romania became a socialist republic and member of the Warsaw Pact. After the 1989 Revolution, Romania began a transition back towards democracy and a capitalist market economy.
Following rapid economic growth in the early 2000s, Romania has an economy predominantly based on services, and is a producer and net exporter of machines and electric energy, featuring companies like Automobile Dacia and OMV Petrom. It has been a member of NATO since 2004, and part of the European Union since 2007. A strong majority of the population identify themselves as Eastern Orthodox Christians and are native speakers of Romanian, a Romance language. With a rich cultural history, Romania has been the home of influential artists, musicians, inventors and sportspeople, and features a variety of tourist attractions.
Romania is a modern nation-state, located in South-East Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula.
Romania may also refer to:
- Romania (European Parliament constituency), currently represented by thirty-three MEPs
- Romania, the self-identifying short-form name of the later Roman Empire and the East Roman or Byzantine Empire (Greek: )
- Romania, the self-identifying short-form name of the Latin Empire, a Crusader state set up after the Fourth Crusade conquered the city-state of Constantinople
- Latin (Romance) Europe, the places where Romance languages are spoken, or the Romance-speaking peoples as a group
- ST Rumania, British tugboat previously named Empire Susan
- Romanija, a geographical region in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina
In European elections, Romania is a constituency of the European Parliament, currently represented by thirty-five MEPs. It covers the member state of Romania.
Usage examples of "romania".
The Orang Benua or Orang-outang, frequently called Sakeis or Jakuns, consist of various tribes with different names, thinly scattered among the forests of the chain of mountains which runs down the middle of the Peninsula from Kedah to Point Romania.
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Albania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, East Germany, Yugoslavia, North Korea, Cuba, South Yemen, Congo-Brazzaville, North Vietnam, Guinea-Bissau, Cambodia, Laos, South Vietnam, Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique, Nicaragua, the Seychelles, Grenada, and Afghanistan.
Iron Curtain came down in Eastern Europe, I had the opportunity to visit many Christian leaders in Timisoara, Romania.
Sure, there were little telltale signs like the Soviets marching through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Mongolia, Turkmenia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kirgizia, Poland, Moldavia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Albania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, East Germany, Yugoslavia, North Korea, Cuba, South Yemen, Congo-Brazzaville, North Vietnam, Guinea-Bissau, Cambodia, Laos, South Vietnam, Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique, Nicaragua, the Seychelles, Grenada, and Afghanistan.
North Syracuse NNY and Presque Isle ME, Chyonskrg Kurgistan and Pliscu Romania, and possibly elsewhere.
On his watch, the Soviets consolidated their control over Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, eastern Germany to the Elbe River, Yugoslavia, and North Korea to the 38th parallel.
In the peace settlement that followed World War I , Romania reclaimed not only Bessarabia , but also a northern fragment of Moldavia from the dismembered Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The best known were those at Wietze (Hannover, Germany), Pechelbron (Alsace), Beziers (southern France), Agrigentum (Sicily), Modena (Po valley, Italy), and Tegernsee (southern Bavaria), and at various locations in Galicia and Romania.
Only a quarter of those deported ever returned to their homes in Romania .
He’d lived among ghosts in a cottage in Cornwall and had documented the rights and rituals of a necromancer in Romania.
Under their respective bashaws and sanjaks, the troops of Anatolia and Romania were successively led to the charge: their progress was various and doubtful.
Under their respective bashaws and sanjaks, the troops of Anatolia and Romania were successively led to the charge: their progress was various and doubtful.
We had Australia, Spain, Italy, the Czech Republic, Qatar, Turkey, and Romania and dozens of others on our side.
But no sooner was he seated on the throne of Romania, than he dismissed the Greek ambassadors with a smile of contempt, declaring, in a pious tone, that, at the day of judgment, he would rather answer for the violation of an oath, than for the surrender of a Mussulman city into the hands of the infidels.
The newscaster took viewers into numerous orphanages in Romania where tens of thousands of children, from infancy through late teens, were living in deplorable conditions.