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	Celebrities
		Romanians loved to decorate their wooden household items, like the spoons, bedposts, chairs, and even the flutes.
		The Endless Column, made through the repetition of superimposed symmetrical elements, is inspired by the pillars of Romanian peasant houses, and invites the viewer to extend it into the sky to infinity.
		President of Romania between 1965 and 1989, Ceausescu is famous internationally as one of the worst communists dictators of this century.
	students.missouri.edu /~romsa/romania/html/celebrities.html (2481 words)

	RUNNING HEAD: The Romanian Way
		The Romanian estates of the realm were not legitimated by a personal nobiliary title, but by having temporary use of a fief granted by the Prince, who was the real and sole owner of the whole country's land.
		People have increasingly ceased making a difference between the two sides of their selves, public and private, living their lives with a privatized ideal in mind, even when trying to assume public roles.
		They are quite industrious people, interested in success when the goals they are trying to achieve in their official capacities are personal; however, public work and duties are subjects of disdain and neglect when they provide no immediate benefit in the private realm.
	matei.org /research/publications/matei_romway_NDNW_draft.html (5378 words)

	Romania
		In the Middle Ages Romanians lived in three distinct principalities: Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania.
		The first two would be under the influence of the Ottoman Empire, but with internal autonomy, the third at first belonged to Hungary, also having a large autonomy, then to Austria-Hungary.
		The official language is Romanian, making Romania the only Eastern Block country where a Romance language is spoken.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ro/RO.html (701 words)

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		Romanticism was a secular and intellectual movement in the history of ideas that originated in late 18th century West...
		The CimetiÃ¨re du PÃ¨re-Lachaise is the largest cemetery in Paris, and one of the most famous cemeteries in the world.
		CimetiÃ¨re de Montmartre is a famous cemetery located at 37 Avenue Samson, in the 18 th arrondissement of Paris, Fr...
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	History of Romanians
		To the Romanian language, the Slavic language (similarly to the Germanic idiom of the Franks with the French people) was the so-called super-imposed layer.
		A Romanian army, under the personal command of Prince Carol I, crossed the Danube and participated in the siege of Pleven; the result was the surrender of the Ottoman army led by Osman Pasha (December 10, 1877).
		At that time the National Romanian Party in Transylvania played an important role in asserting the Romanian national identity; the party was reorganized in 1881 and it became the standard bearer in the struggle to achieve recognition of equal rights of the Romanian nation and it the resistance against the denationalization projects.
	www.roembus.org /english/romanian_links/history_of_romanians.htm (5696 words)

	Romanian History
		The Romanian land is rich with petroleum deposits, placing the country in second position among European nations in terms of oil resources.
		Linguistically, Romanian is a Romance language, formed from a group of languages rooted in spoken Latin.
		Dacian and Roman ruins remain visible in the mountains and on the sea coast, whereupon a famous Roman poet, Publius Ovidius Naso, was exiled from the Rome.
	my.execpc.com /~raa/romanian_history.htm (1941 words)

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		About 89% of the people are ethnic Romanians, a group that--in contrast to its Slav or Hungarian neighbors--traces itself to Latin-speaking Romans, who in the second and third centuries A.D. conquered and settled among the ancient Dacians, a Thracian people.
		Romanian troops during World War II participated in the destruction of the Jewish communities of Bessarabia and Transnistria (both now comprising the independent Republic of Moldova) and Bukovina (now part of Ukraine).
		Classic Romanian plays, such as those of Ion Luca Caragiale, as well as works by modern or avant-garde Romanian and international playwrights, find sophisticated and enthusiastic audiences in the many theaters of the capital and of the smaller cities.
	www.traveldocs.com /ro/people.htm (636 words)

	Romanian Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Cultures that enjoyed the comfort of a long tradition, as well as cultures that had recently emerged in the aftermath of the collapse of multinational empires discovered the need of examining their identity; inventing various types of otherness was part of this sometimes unpleasant process.
		As a result of three turning-points in its modern history (the unification of the Romanian provinces in 1859, the rapid shift from a quasi-feudal society to a modern monarchy, the Independence War in 1877/78), Romanian culture vacillated between the imitation of foreign models and original manifestations.
		It was, as I mentioned before a new continent that was perceived by the descendants of one of the oldest populations in Europe: Romanians.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/romanian/articles/article_america.html (3783 words)

	Romanian Folk Art Informational Center
		The domain where Romanian people gave the fullest measure of their genius was undoubtedly Gift pottery decoration.
		Similar to the Dresses, folk art and crafts of other regions, the traditional costumes of the approximately 90 Romanian ethnographical areas have developed in close contact with that of neighboring ethnic groups.
		Romanian folk art is especially famous for the icon painting and the eggs' coloring which are all under the sign of the originality and ingeniosity.
	www.folk-art-center.com (237 words)

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