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In the News (Sun 27 Dec 09)

  
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Armenians from Suceava fled to Transylvania and Galicia.
Armenians were also represented in the city council – half of it at the beginning, then a share equivalent to their share in the overall population of the town.
The Armenian church in Gura Humorului was built in 1849 and given to the Romanian Orthodox church in 1934, due to the lack of Armenians in the area.
www.personal.ceu.hu /students/02/Leon_Stacescu/rh.htm   (9682 words)

  
 East European Constitutional Review
Their importance was manifested in the budget's early adoption, the revision of several critical laws, extensive consultations with the trade unions and other social organizations regarding a fair distribution of the expected price of reforms, and diplomatic initiatives to persuade the EU to cover at least a part of the reform's costs.
Later that year, the last round of negotiations on a new standby agreement with the IMF unraveled, and fund officials declared that the government was reneging on promises to press forward with essential economic reforms.
The leader of the Greater Romania Party (GRP), Senator Corneliu Vadim Tudor, was finally stripped of parliamentary immunity for his heavy participation in the miners rampage in Bucharest this winter.
www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol8num3/constitutionwatch/romania.html   (2694 words)

  
 Info Business
Location: Romania is situated in South-Eastern part of Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula and with borders with Republic of Moldova to the East, Ukraine to the North and East, Hungary to the North-West and West, Serbia to the South-West, Bulgaria to the South and the Black Sea to the South-East
Romania is also endowed with important under-ground resources, such as: crude oil, natural gas, coal (lignite, pit and brown coal), ferrous and non-ferrous ores (copper, lead, zinc), gold and silver ores and salt.
Romania’s Association Agreement with the EU is the juridical framework of the economical and co-operation relations between the two parts.
www.roembus.org /english/business/InfoBusiness.htm   (5382 words)

  
 FCNM STATE REPORT SUBMITTED BY ROMANIA
Romania is a Contractual Party to all the documents of the OSCE adopted by that organisation since the Helsinki Final Act signed on 1 August 1975.
Consequently, Romania has a constitutional and legislative framework which guarantees full and effective equality before the law for all citizens of Romania and the participation of persons belonging to national minorities, in conditions of full and effective equality with the majority population, in all areas of economic, social, political and cultural life.
In Romania persons belonging to national minorities attend either schools where they are taught in Romanian, with the option of studying in their mother tongue as a separate subject, or schools where they are taught in their mother tongue.
www.minelres.lv /reports/romania/Romania.htm   (15621 words)

  
 Background Notes: Romania, Country Background , Romania Country Background, .Romania Country Background
Romania's 1991 constitution proclaims Romania a democracy and market economy, in which human dignity, civic rights and freedoms, the unhindered development of human personality, justice, and political pluralism are supreme and guaranteed values.
For territorial and administrative purposes, Romania is divided into 40 counties and the city of Bucharest.
Responding to Ceausescu's cautious distancing of Romania from Soviet foreign policy, particularly continued diplomatic relations with Israel and denunciation of the 1968 Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia, President Nixon paid an official visit to Romania in August 1969.
www.realadventures.com /listings/1024223.htm   (1531 words)

  
 The Ottoman Sultans of Turkey & Successors in Romania
Thus, "Modern Romania" here means the modern successor states, first to Rome ("Romania" to itself, "Byzantium" to the historians), second to the Ottoman Empire, which in the 14th and 15th centuries established its domination over all former Roman possessions, and more, in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Armenian alphabet was in use by Armenians both in Romania and in the often separate kingdoms of Armenia.
Under the Ottomans, Turkish was sometimes even written in the Armenian (as in the Greek) alphabet; but that era is long gone, and the Armenian alphabet today is only seen in the former Soviet Republic of Armenia and in Armenian exile communities, as in Syria, Lebanon, and the United States.
www.friesian.com /turkia.htm   (13594 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Crusades
Tancred took possession of the towns of Cilicia, whilst Baldwin, summoned by the Armenians, crossed the Euphrates in October, 1097, and, after marrying an Armenian princess, was proclaimed Lord of Edessa.
Meanwhile the crusaders, revictualled by the Armenians of the Taurus region, made their way into Syria and on 20 October, 1097, reached the fortified city of Antioch, which was protected by a wall flanked with 450 towers, stocked by the Ameer Jagi-Sian with immense quantities of provisions.
Thanks to the assistance of carpenters and engineers who belonged to a Genoese fleet that had arrived at the mouth of the Orontes, the crusaders were enabled to construct battering-machines and to begin the siege of the city.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/04543c.htm   (11650 words)

  
 Foreign Affairs Ministry of Republic of Armenia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The meeting was opened and chaired by President of Romania’s Union of Armenians Varujan Vosganian on behalf of the Initiative Group.
The presenters stressed the fact that the idea of creation of Romania – Armenia Chamber of Commerce was an outcome of recommendations for fostering bilateral trade and economic relations formulated in the framework of a business forum convened during a visit of Armenia’s President Robert Kocharian to Romania in November 2003.
Romania – Armenia Chamber of Commerce elected a Board Member of Armenian Union of Romania, a lawyer Maria Magdalena Udria, as its Chair, and lawyer Varujan Udria as Executive Secretary.
www.armeniaforeignministry.com /htms/PR/040319_chamber.html   (158 words)

  
 Turkey - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The most significant ethnicity is that of the Kurds, who constitute up to about 10% of the population.
Before WWI Armenians and Greeks were a large minority, dating back before the Ottoman Empire.
Smaller Greek Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox (Gregorian), Jewish, Roman Catholic and Protestant minorities are also present.
open-encyclopedia.com /Turkey   (1090 words)

  
 Romania Info No. 32 (59)
Born on June 28, 1912 in Roman (east Romania), Sergiu Celibidache graduates from the University Teacher Training Seminar in Iasi (1930), attends the courses of the School of Mathematics of the University of Iasi and of the School of Construction of the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (1931-1932).
Romania handed over on August 2,1996 through its embassy in Athens, the papers necessary to the ratification of the establishment Agreement of the Black Sea Bank for Trade and Development, as the 5th state which meets this statutory duty.
Romania's contribution to the Bank's nominal capital is of 135 million SDR, 13.5%, out of which the first installment represents 13.5 million SDR/19 million US dollars/.
www.kappa.ro /guv96/roin-32.html   (4203 words)

  
 Armenia History - Tourist Guide: Tourism Armenia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
In Poland, the last Armenian Catholic archbishop died in 1938 and most of the remaining Armenians were killed during the Second World War.
The Armenians of Romania and Bulgaria, received many refugees from the political upheavals in neighboring Russia and Turkey in the years 1915-1922.
Some 5000 Armenians remain in Romania and are concentrated in Bucharest, Constantza, and Tulca.
www.tourismarmenia.net /diaspora-01.html   (364 words)

  
 MINELRES - OSCE HCNM - Romania -answer 30/05/94   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Varujan Vosganian, leader of the Union of Armenians in Romania and president of the Parliamentary Group of National Minorities in the Chamber of Deputies, submitted their own draft to the Parliament.
Konig on the honouring of the committments entered into by Romania upon its accession to the Council of Europe, regarding the intention of the Romanian authorities "to obolish medical training, vocational training and the teaching of history and geography in the Hungarian language".
(6) The Government of Romania is deeply committed to improve the process of social, economic and cultural integration of the Roma/Gipsy population, mostly by assisting them in the fields of education and job training.
www.arts.uwaterloo.ca /minelres/count/romania/940530a.htm   (1102 words)

  
 Minority Policies in Romania
The Romanian language is the sole official language in Romania and according to Article 148 (1) the provision of the Constitution with regard to the official language is not subject to revision.
At the same time, Romania's fragile economy may be seriously affected in the long run by the loss of these two minorities, which provided the models of an achievement oriented work ethic for the rest of Romania's population for centuries.
The Hungarian minority in Romania - which numbers between 1.6 and 2 million and constitutes about 7,2 percent of the total population of the country - is concentrated in Transylvania, where it represents between a quarter and a third of the regional population.
www.mek.iif.hu /porta/szint/tarsad/politika/relations/occ006/occ006.htm   (11687 words)

  
 ethnic minorities and the Romanian diaspora in Romania's electoral system
The Chamber of Deputies and the Senate are elected in constituencies, by universal, equal, direct, secret, and freely expressed suffrage, on the basis of a list system and independent candidatures, according to the principle of proportional representation.
(3) Romania is a democratic and social State governed by the rule of law, in which human dignity, the citizens' rights and freedoms, the free development of human personality, justice and political pluralism represent supreme values and shall be guaranteed.
(2) Romania is the common and indivisible homeland of all its citizens, without any discrimination on account of race, nationality, ethnic origin, language, religion, sex, opinion, political adherence, property or social origin.
users.skynet.be /suffrage-universel/romi.htm   (1095 words)

  
 Armenian Student Association [UCSB]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
After the Armenian Genocide of 1915 many Armenians came to settle in many different countries including the United States.
The first body of Armenians arrived in the mid-nineteenth century inspired by Protestant missionaries to seek higher education in New England universities.
Around 1995 more Armenian students started to enroll at UCSB, and it was becoming obvious that these students need something that would help them keep their Armenian spirit and culture alive.
www.ucsbasa.com /history.html   (653 words)

  
 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
In 1572-1574, Ioann III of Moldova Ioann III was hospodar (prince) of Moldova, grandson of Stefan III of Moldova Stefan III the Great, son of Bogdan III of Moldova Bogdan III and his Armenian concubine Serpega.
Varujan Pambuccian represents the Armenian minority in Chamber of Deputies of Romania Parliament.
There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Armenians in Romania.
www.mauspfeil.net /Armenians_in%20Romania.html   (272 words)

  
 REENIC: Armenia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Armenians (an essay on history and culture od Armenia by Dennis R. Papazian, Professor of History, The University of Michigan, Dearborn)
Armenian National Institute (a Washington-based research institute dedicated to study, research and affirmation of the 1915 Armenian Genocide)
Armenian Institute of Literature (studies in the modern Armenian literature and theory of literature)
menic.utexas.edu /reenic/countries/armenia.html   (1618 words)

  
 The Romanian Jewish Community
The seminar is organized by the Federation of the Jewish Communities in Romania (FJCR) and by B'nai B'rith International, in cooperation with the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the "Civic Education Project" organization in Romania and the "Goldstein-Goren" Center for Hebrew Studies of the University of Bucharest.
Greetings will be received from the representative of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the representative of USAID/World learning/US Embassy in Romania, Academy member Nicolae Cajal, president of the FJCR, and Daniel Mariaschin, executive vice-president of B'nai B'rith International.
According to the "Evenimentul zilei" newspaper from Bucharest, the Philharmonic Society in Timisoara was granted $ 40,000 to finance the project of converting the synagogue in the center of the city into a concert hall.
www.romanianjewish.org /en/index_isro_arhiva_20.html   (723 words)

  
 languagehat.com: PEACHES IN CLUJ.
I visited an Armenian church once in Gherla, outside Cluj, and there is a whole cycle of jokes in Romania that involve call-in questions to Radio Yerevan.
I have the strong impression that the Armenians were junior partners to the Phanariot Greeks, and sort of rose and fell with them.
Romania's Germans went to Germany, the Jews went to Israel or America, but it's hard to believe that the Armenians all went to Armenia...
www.languagehat.com /archives/001103.php   (6469 words)

  
 diaspora in eastern europe page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The large Armenian communities of Eastern Europe no longer exist.
Following the Second World War Communism closed most of the private enterprises owned by these Armenians.
The Armenian Community of Cyprus is also the product of refugees who arrived during the 1895-1922 years.
www.armembassycanada.ca /diaspora/diaspora1.htm   (375 words)

  
 Arhieparhia de Alba-Iulia si Fagaras   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
In its present day form, The Romanian Bishops' Conference came into being on March 16th 1991, on the basis of the Protocol no. 855/1990 of the Congregation for Bishops and of the Congregation for Oriental Churches.
After 1989, the first President of the Romanian Bishops' Conference was His Eminence the Cardinal Alexandru Todea, elected in Rome on March 20th 1991, during the first ad limina visit of all the Catholic Bishops of Romania.
In Romania there are 16 hierarchs: 7 Greek-Catholic and 9 Latin.
www.christusrex.org /www2/greek-catholic/eparchys/bishops_conference_e.html   (401 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Armenian Catholic Church in Armenople (Gherla), Romania (in Romanian, plus a little French and Hungarian)
Information on Armenian churches in Suceava: Church of the Holy Cross, Zamca, St Simon (the photo is actually from Zamca), Hagigadar (in Romanian)
Portraits of Armenian writers and critics in Romania: Gheorghe Asachi, Costache Negruzzi, Garabet Ibraileanu, Ion Barbu, Haig Acterian, Nicolae Balota, Stefan Agopian, Bedros Horasangian.
www.personal.ceu.hu /students/02/Leon_Stacescu/framerightd.htm   (255 words)

  
 Atheism: Contemporary Rates and Patterns   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
According to a 1999 Gallup International Poll, over 11% of Armenians chose “none” as their religion.
We can also include Mexico (2-7% do not believe in God), Poland (3-6% don’t believe in God), Moldova (6% don’t believe in God) Romania, Georgia, and Uzbekistan (4% don’t believe in God), India (2-6% don’t believe in God), Ireland (4-5% do not believe in God), and Chile (3% do not believe in God).
From the top 50 countries, along with those additionally mentioned above countries, the grand total worldwide number of atheists, agnostics, and non-believers in God is somewhere between 504,962,830 and 749,247,571.
www.pitzer.edu /academics/faculty/zuckerman/atheism.html   (7978 words)

  
 The Ultimate Armenians in Romania - American History Information Guide and Reference
The Ultimate Armenians in Romania - American History Information Guide and Reference
Early Armenian diasporas are associated with the fall of the Bagratuni rule and other disaster, including Mongol invasion.
Varujan Pambuccian represents the Armenian minority in Parliament.
www.historymania.com /american_history/Armenians_in_Romania   (209 words)

  
 The Peace Encyclopedia: Refugees
There is but little doubt that the most potent of the factors were the announcements made over the air by the -Higher Arab Executive, urging the Arabs to quit..
"It is plain that Israel will air this issue in the course of any serious negotiations that might be undertaken one day in regard to the rights on the Palestinians.
There were so many refugee groups throughout the postwar world, and in so much worse condition, that it is difficult to understand why this particular dislocation assumed such international proportions.
www.yahoodi.com /peace/refugees.html   (8909 words)

  
 Twentieth Century Atlas - Death Tolls
There's the "Why doesn't anyone realize that communism is the absolutely worst thing ever to hit the human race, without exception, even worse than both world wars, the slave trade and bubonic plague all put together?" school, and there's the "Come on, stop exaggerating.
The truth is horrifying enough without you pulling numbers out of thin air" school.
The two schools are generally associated with the right and left wings of the political spectrum, and they often accuse each other of being blinded by prejudice, stubbornly refusing to admit the truth, and maybe even having a hidden agenda.
users.erols.com /mwhite28/warstat1.htm   (4278 words)

  
 Ethnicity and Race by Countries
Armenian 93%, Russian 2%, Azeri 1%, other (mostly Yezidi Kurds) 4% (2002).
Azeri 90%, Dagestani 3.2%, Russian 2.5%, Armenian 2%, other 2.3% (1998 est.).
Note: almost all Armenians live in the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0855617.html   (2429 words)

  
 The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Ethnic groups
Armenian 93%, Azeri 3%, Russian 2%, other (mostly Yezidi Kurds) 2% (1989)
Eastern Hamitic stock (Egyptians, Bedouins, and Berbers) 99%, Greek, Nubian, Armenian, other European (primarily Italian and French) 1%
Georgian 70.1%, Armenian 8.1%, Russian 6.3%, Azeri 5.7%, Ossetian 3%, Abkhaz 1.8%, other 5%
www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2075.html   (2811 words)

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