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  Romanians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Romanian people are a nation in the meaning an ethnos (in Romanian: popor), defined more by a sense of sharing a common Romanian culture and having a Romanian mother tongue, than by citizenship or by being subjects to any particular country.
Romanian Catholics are present in Transylvania, Bucharest, and parts of Moldavia, belonging to both the Eastern Rite (Romanian Catholic Church) and the Roman Rite (Roman Catholic Church).
Note: also 481,593 Moldovans declared Romanian as their mother tongue and the Moldovan language is widely viewed as the official name used in the Republic of Moldova for the Romanian language, thus adding 2,011,403 to the number of Romanian speakers.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Romanians   (2949 words)

  
 Romania - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
One of the greatest Hungarian kings, Matthias Corvinus (known in Romanian as Matei Corvin - with romanian origin, ruled 1458–1490)— was born in Transylvania, and is claimed by the Romanians because of his half-Romanian father, Iancu de Hunedoara (Hunyadi János in Hungarian), and by the Hungarians because of his Hungarian mother.
Michael the Brave (Romanian: Mihai Viteazul) (1558-9 August 1601) was the Prince of Wallachia (1593-1601), of Transylvania (1599-1600), and of Moldavia (1600).
Romanian tourism focuses on the country's natural landscapes and its rich history, from medieval and Saxon villages with fortified churches in Transylvania to hot Black Sea shores and the heights of the Carpathian Mountains.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Romania   (5623 words)

  
 Romanians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Until the 19th century, it denoted the speakers of Romanian, and was a much more distinct concept than that of Romania, the country of the Romanians.
The Romanians were part of different statal entities: with the Moldavians and the Wallachians being split off and having shaped separate political identities, possesing states of their own, and with the rest of Romanians being part of other states.
The invasions that followed - such as the ones of Slavs, Hungarians, and Tatars - did not allow Romanians to develop any large centralized state, which was only achieved in the 13th century when the Romanian principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia emerged to fight the Ottoman Turks.
www.higiena-system.com /wiki/link-Romanians   (2521 words)

  
 Romanians - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Romanians are either citizens of Romania or a person of Romanian ethnicity.
The ceremonies which accompany a wedding preserve the tradition of marriage by capture; a peasant bride must enter her new home carrying bread and salt, and in parts of Walachia a flower is painted on; the outer wall of cottages in which there is a girl old enough to marry.
The Romanian folk-songs, sung and often improvised by the villagers, or by a wandering guitar-player (cobzar), are of exceptional interest and beauty.
www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Romanians   (428 words)

  
 Romanians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Romanians are voting in a run-off election between Prime Minister Adrian Nastase and opposition...
ROMANIANS AND SERBS IN 1848 The aspiration of the Romanians in the Banat to think of themselves as an independent entity became more and more evident in the first decades of the 19th century.
The Romanians (români in present-day Romanian and rumâni in historical contexts) are an...
romania.soundclicksecrets.net /5/romanians.html   (520 words)

  
 List of Romanians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Most of the people listed here are of Romanian ethnicity, and whose native tongue is Romanian.
There are also a few mentioned who were born in Romania and who can speak Romanian, though not being of Romanian ethnicity.
List of Vlachs for Vlachs from South of Danube (Aromanians)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Romanians   (1031 words)

  
 RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
The Czech government says the introduction of visa requirements for Romanians is based on a provision of the 1991 Czech-Romanian agreement on free movement,which enables each side to temporarily suspend visa-free travel by citizens of the other.
Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Nastase today said the Czech government decision was caused by those Romanians who are illegally traveling abroad and vowed to take action against them.
"The Romanian government is discussing today an emergency bill declaring the illegal crossing of a foreign border by a Romanian citizen a crime similar to the illegal crossing of the Romanian border.
www.rferl.org /features/2001/08/30082001114821.asp   (887 words)

  
 Celebrities
This is by no means the complete list of famous Romanians, but rather a sampling of the names best known outside Romania's borders.
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.
www.students.missouri.edu /~romsa/romania/html/celebrities.html   (2481 words)

  
 Alibris: Romanians
Georgescu focuses on the Romanian people, examining not only ethnic communities from pre-Roman times to the present butt also social structures, economics, and political institutions of the principalities inhabited by the Romanians at various stages of their historical development.
The evolution of the Romanians in the century between the 1770s and the 1860s was marked by a transition from long-established agrarian economic and social structures, locked into an essentially medieval political system, to a society...
The author, N.P. Comnene, was an important Romanian diplomat of the interwar period, serving his country as ambassador to Switzerland, Germany, the Vatican, as well as a delegate to the League of Nations.
www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Romanians   (447 words)

  
 Romanians online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
There are in fact a few decent romanians around who behave properly; a few who don't make complete idiots out of themselves the moment they put their fungers to keys.
I almost forgot to include that the majority of the many thousand floodbots we have on UnderNet are owned by Romanian script-kiddies between the age of 13 and 17.
The only thing is that most romanians sadly don't realize the fact that their behaviour on the internet is improper and most of the time outrageous and lame.
www.localhost.nl /~snatcher/webdesign/romanians.htm   (935 words)

  
 Romania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The oldest surviving document written in the Romanian language is a 1521 letter which notifies the mayor of Braşov about the imminent attack of the Ottoman Turks.
The name "România" as common homeland of all Romanians is documented in the early 19th century.
The official language is Romanian, a Romance language of the Italic subfamily of the family of Indo-European languages, which are also called Romanic, Romantic or Romance languages.
www.higiena-system.com /wiki/link-Romania   (5167 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Romania Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The decades-long reign of president Nicolae Ceauşescu; was ended with an uprising in late 1989, although ex-communists, now reformed as social democrats continue to be present in the democratically elected government.
The official language is Romanian, a Romance language of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages, which are also called Romanic, and are spoken by about 670 million people in many parts of the world, but mainly in Europe and the Western Hemisphere.
In Dobrogea, the region lying on the shore of the Black Sea, there is a small Muslim minority (most of Turkish ethnicity), a remnant of the Ottoman colonization of that province in the past.
www.ipedia.com /romania.html   (1038 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Romania
The Romanian language is a [Latin]] language member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages, which are also called Romanic, and are spoken by about 670 million people in many parts of the world, but mainly in Europe and the Western Hemisphere.
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 Bloc country where a Romance language is spoken.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Romania   (863 words)

  
 Vlachs - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
Vlachs (also called Wlachs, Wallachs, Olahs) are the Romanized population in Central and Eastern Europe, including Romanians, Aromanians, Istro-Romanians and Megleno-Romanians, but since the creation of the Romanian state, this term was mostly used for the Vlachs living south of the Danube river.
They are descendants of the Roman colonists and/or of the Romanized Dacian, Thracian and Illyrian local population (see Origin of Romanians for more about the dispute about the origin).
Romanian culture was influenced by the Slavs and later by the Hungarians and Germans (mainly in Transylvania).
www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=321954   (568 words)

  
 romania information site
Romanian historians claim that Dacians are the direct ancestors of present-day Romanians.
One of the greatest Hungarian kings, Matthias Corvinus (known in Romanian as Matei Corvin, ruled 1458–1490)— was born in Transylvania, and is claimed by the Romanians because of his half-Romanian father, Iancu de Hunedoara (Hunyadi János in Hungarian), and by the Hungarians because of his Hungarian mother.
The modern state of Romania was formed by the merging of the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia in 1859 under the Moldavian domnitor Alexander John Cuza.
www.of2.info /romania.htm   (4796 words)

  
 Top20Romania.com - Your Top20 Guide to Romania!
During the time of Austria-Hungary (1867–1918), Romanians in Transylvania experienced one of the worst periods of oppression in their history in the form of Hungarianisation (Magyarisation and antiromanian policy) promoted by the government.
The Romanian soccer club Steaua Bucureşti was the first Eastern European club to ever win the prestigious UEFA Champions League title (1986).
A sizeable Hungarian minority in Transylvania speaks Hungarian as well as Romanian; until the 1990s, there were also a substantial number of German-speaking Transylvanian Saxons, but most of them have left the country since the fall of communism and the accompanying opening of borders.
www.top20romania.com   (4177 words)

  
 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Moldova   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Soviet official policy also stated that Romanian and Moldovan were two different languages and Moldovan was written with a special Cyrillic alphabet derived from the Russian alphabet, as opposed to Romanian, which was written with its own version of Latin alphabet.
In the address to the Romanian parliament, in February 1991, Mircea Snegur, the Moldovan president talked about a common identity of the Moldovan and Romanians, referring to the "Romanians of both sides of the Prut River" and "Sacred Romanian lands occupied by the Soviets".
In 1989, Romanian became the official language of Moldova and following the independence of 1991, the Romanian tricolor with a coat-of-arms was used as flag, and De?teapt?-te române!, the Romanian anthem also became the anthem of Moldova.
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/moldova   (4358 words)

  
 RSA - History
The list of past and present officers can be found in the About Us section of the website.
His Excellency Traian Basescu, President of Romania, visited the Stanford campus, met the Romanian students and scholars from the area, and held a speech on "Achieving democracy from the Black Sea to the Middle East and beyond", followed by a QandA session.
It was a good opportunity for Stanford students to give feedback about the activity of the Romanian diplomatic missions in the US and engage in a debate on how Romanian officials could get students more involved in activities geared towards promoting Romania's cultural and economic interests in Silicon Valley.
www.stanford.edu /group/rsa/_content/_public/_htm/au2.shtml   (1899 words)

  
 Yamada Language Center: Blank Mailing Lists
The list is meant to make the free circulation of information easier and to have discussions relevant to the activities and life of Romanian Students.
The list is administrated by the University students, who are the main subscribers, but it is open for all those who want to join them.
Because most of the subscribers are Romanian, most of the messages on STUDENT-L are posted in Romanian, but English may be used as well to post your messages, so there are no interdictions concerning language.
babel.uoregon.edu /yamada/lists/romanian.html   (277 words)

  
 romanians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Romanians - in the past and nowadays Nowadays there are approximately 35 million people speaking Romanian most of them, more than 20 million, live in Romania as it is today and the others around...
Romanians Romanians are either citizens of Romania or a person of Romanian ethnicity.
Encyclopedia Entry for romanians Dictionary Definition of romanians Romanians Romanians are the majority inhabitants of Romania and of Moldova (also called "moldovans"), while other groups of...
www.romaniatopics.com /romanians   (1432 words)

  
 3quarksdaily
The first were born in the years before the First World War and included Tristan Tzara (né Sami Rosenstein), the father of Dadaism, the Yiddish poet, Itzik Manger, the screenwriter, Emeric Pressburger (born in Hungary but briefly a Romanian citizen in the 1920s), Mircea Eliade, Ionesco, E.M. Cioran and Saul Steinberg.
The second generation were born between the wars and included Celan, Elie Wiesel, Aharon Appelfeld and Norman Manea.
They were formed by three experiences: the rise of Romanian anti-Semitism in the 1930s, the Holocaust and exile.
3quarksdaily.blogs.com /3quarksdaily/2006/05/romanians.html   (271 words)

  
 Your Online Portal to Romania -- Famous Romanians
List includes Constantin Brancusi, Emil Cioran, Andrei Codrescu, Mircea Eliade, George Enescu, Eugen Ionesco, Hermann Oberth, Nadia Comaneci, Gheorghe Hagi, Ilie Nastase, Ion Tiriac, Dracula, and Ceausescu.
To see other lists available go to the Link Collections page.
Note that the links to famous Romanians on Page 1 and Page 2 point to sites other than the above.
members.tripod.com /travelromania/i_famousromanians_celebrities.htm   (394 words)

  
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Once you have subscribed, the requests/comments you send to the list are distributed to all subscribers and received as part of their e-mail.
A list of mailing lists available on Internet is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.nisc.sri.com (192.33.33.32) in the file /netinfo/ interest-groups.
This list is available by anonymous ftp from colossus@irlearn.ucd.ie (137.43.50.59) in /everson.
www.lai.com /newslist.txt   (365 words)

  
 Romania enriches study of ...
Before the fall of communism, a 100 lei coin, the Romanian currency, was enough to purchase a plane ticket from Bucharest to anywhere in the country.
The Romanians use the U.S. and Western European economies as models for their own, she said.
As in the United States, the personal glories of capitalism are not always welcome, she said.
www.mailtribune.com /archive/2005/1229/local/stories/08local.htm   (568 words)

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