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	Romania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Union of Transylvania with Romania was ratified in the Treaty of Trianon in 1920.
		Romania now has one of the most liberal taxation systems in Europe, and it is expected that this, along with increased foreign investment, will boost economic growth in the coming years, as well as lower corruption and bring to light the grey economy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Romania (4299 words)

	MSN Encarta - Romania
		Romania is a land of historic villages and castles, fertile plains, and majestic mountains.
		Romania shares borders with Bulgaria to the south, Serbia and Montenegro to the southwest, Hungary to the northwest, Ukraine to the north, and Moldova to the northeast.
		Romania was a kingdom from 1881 to 1947.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761559516/Romania.html (1012 words)

	Romania - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Romania is bordered by Ukraine and Moldova in the northeast, Hungary and Serbia in the west and Bulgaria to the south.
		Romania reached an agreement with the IMF in August for a USD $547 million loan, but release of the second tranche was postponed in October because of unresolved private sector lending requirements and differences over budgetary spending.
		Romania was invited by the European Union in December 1999 to begin accession negotiations.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Romania (1299 words)

	Romania - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		At the end of the WW I which brought the disintegration of the empires of Russia and Austro-Hungary and the rise of Bolshevism in Hungary and Russia, Transylvania and Bessarabia opted for a Union with the Romanian Kingdom in 1918.
		Romania's lagging and unstable economy of the 1990s has been transformed into one with macroeconomic stability, high growth and low unemployment, although a high inflation rate of 9.2% (as of 2004) remains a problem.
		Romania now has one of the most liberal taxation systems in Europe, and this, along with increased foreign investment, is expected to boost economic growth in the coming years, as well as lower corruption and bring to light the grey economy.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /romania.htm (1718 words)

	Romania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The modern state of Romania was formed by the merging of the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia in 1859 under the domnitor Alexandru Ioan Cuza.
		Union of Tranylvania with Romania was ratified in the Treaty of Trianon in 1920.
		After repudiating their 'Contract With Romania' platform which would have required the CDR to resign en masse after 200 days from a mixed coalition government (some members had signed on to the contract program while others had not), the major CDR parties were electorally eviscerated in 2000, and the Social Democrats returned to power.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/R/Romania.htm (2012 words)

	MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Romania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Among species of fish found in the rivers and offshore are pike, sturgeon, carp, flounder, herring, salmon, perch, and eel.
		About 43 percent of land in Romania is cultivated for crops or used for orchards, and the soils in most parts of the country are fertile.
		Romania also holds a wealth of mineral deposits, particularly petroleum, natural gas, salt, hard coal, lignite (brown coal), iron ore, copper, bauxite, chromium, manganese, lead, and zinc.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761559516___2/Romania.html (1033 words)

	Romania
		Romania is bordered to the north and east by Moldova and the Ukraine, the southeast by the Black Sea, the south by Bulgaria, the southwest by Yugoslavia, and in the west by Hungary("Romania General" "Romania" Concise "Romania" American Heritage).
		The major rivers of Romania are "the Danube, and its tributary, the Prut"("Romania" Concise).
		The Romania people are decedents of the Dacians, "one of the Romanized Thoracian tribes that inhabited the Balkan Peninsula during the first millennium BC"("Romania General").
	www.stargtr.net /~abarker/romania1.htm (996 words)

	Romania - Gurupedia
		Romania reached an agreement with the IMF in August for a
		The average gross wage per month in Romania is 8,065,813 lei as of January 2004, an increase of a significant 7.8% over the previous month.
		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.
	www.gurupedia.com /r/ro/romania.htm (873 words)

	Romania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In the 1992 census returns, the Romanian population was 22,788,993 however an estimate (not by the Romanian government) of the 2001 population is a decline to 22,364,022.
		It shares land borders with, to the east, Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova, to the north, Ukraine, in the west with Hungary, in the south-west, the states of the former Yugoslavia and, in the south, with Bulgaria.
		Romania is a sizeable country (the twelfth largest in Europe) with a total area of 237,500 squared kilometres of which water comprises 7,160 squared kilometres.
	scic.cec.eu.int /Main/enlargement/lan_pres/rom_02.htm (580 words)

	Romania
		Romania, republic in southeastern Europe, bounded on the north by Ukraine; on the east by Moldova; on the southeast by the Black Sea; on the south by Bulgaria; on the southwest by Serbia; and on the west by Hungary.
		The Danube River forms much of the country's southern and southwestern borders with Bulgaria and Serbia, and the Prut River divides Romania from its northeastern neighbor Moldova.
		Western Romania is dominated by the Tisza Plain, which borders both Hungary and Serbia; the section of the plain that borders Serbia is generally known as the region of Banat, while the section that borders Hungary is commonly referred to as Crisana-Maramures.
	www.ovayonda.biz /lodging/country/ro.html (686 words)

	Romania - Topography
		Romania's natural landscape is almost evenly divided among mountains (31 percent), hills (33 percent), and plains (36 percent).
		The symmetry of Romania's relief continues with the Getic Tableland to the south of the SubCarpathians, the Moldavian Tableland in the east between the SubCarpathians and the Prut River, and the Dobrujan Tableland in the southeast between the Danube and the Black Sea.
		Romania's rivers primarily flow east, west, and south from the central crown of the Carpathians.
	countrystudies.us /romania/33.htm (1032 words)

	ROMANIA
		Romania is roughly oval in shape, with a maximum distance from east to west of about 720 km (about 450 mi) and a maximum distance from north to south of about 515 km (about 320 mi).
		Education in Romania is free and compulsory for children between the ages of 7 and 14; most children choose to continue their education beyond the compulsory obligation.
		Romania became an associate member of the European Union (EU) in February 1993, and in December 1997 the EU invited Romania to begin the process of becoming a full member.
	www.trcargo.ro /HTML/romania.htm (7373 words)

	About Romania - 1
		Romania's economy grew during the 1960s and 1970s, but by the 1980s most Romanians were suffering from food shortages and other economic hardships.
		Primary education in Romania is free and compulsory for children between the ages of 6 and 16; most children choose to continue their education beyond primary school.
		The most serious social problem in Romania is the high rate of unemployment and low standard of living resulting from the country's transition from a state-run to a market economy.
	www.sandawana.freeserve.co.uk /trwl/4_romania_part_1.htm (1718 words)

	Warsaw Voice - Romania Refuses to Pay
		Romania, where the spill originated, told affected countries not to expect it to pay for the damage, and the Australian owners of the mine where the spill originated said the damage was exaggerated.
		Toxicity levels dropped in the much larger river, but clusters of dead fish could be seen floating on the surface of the Danube near Belgrade.
		"Romania had to suffer the most damage from the polluting company and thus it is entitled to get compensation as Hungary and Yugoslavia are," Dumitrascu said.
	www.warsawvoice.pl /archiwum.phtml/1258 (443 words)

	Land and Climate of Romania
		Romania is bordered on the north and northeast by Moldova, on the east by Ukraine, on the west by Hungary and Yugoslavia, and on the south by Bulgaria.
		Romania's mountains are neither extremely high nor steep, and several passes cut through them.
		Moldavia, in northeastern Romania, extends from Transylvania to the Prut River along the border with Moldova.
	www.public.asu.edu /~orlich/land.html (694 words)

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		The northern half of the country was ravaged by devastating rains (140 litres per square metre in two hours, in the Retezat Mountains, an unprecedented situation in the history of meteorological records), followed by catastrophic landslides and floods, which caused heavy destruction and the loss of human lives (28 in 1998).
		Romania's fauna, grouped by the vegetation tiers, was and still is one of the richest and most varied in Europe.
		The network of rivers in Romania is radial-shaped, with most of the rivers springing from the Carpathian Mountains and being collected directly or through tributaries (such as the Tisza) by the Danube.
	www.roembus.org /weblinks/Romania/Geography.htm (1451 words)

	Danube River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Danube is the second longest river in Europe behind the Volga and the only major European river to flow from West to East.
		Fishing in the delta and in the river is well developed as the basin provides a marine habitat for more than 100 species of fish including some endangered species such as the sturgeon.
		Romania, which is largely affected by the pollution of the river as it is downstream, has set up an environmental protection and rehabilitation program for the Danube.
	www.public.asu.edu /~goutam/gcu325/danube.htm (1783 words)

	Romania › News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The name of Romania (correctly spelled România) comes from Român (which means "Romanian" in the Romanian language, being a derivate of the word "Roman" from Latin).
		The average gross wage per month in Romania is 9,514,658 lei as of January 2005, a decrease of 5.2% over the previous month.
		Unemployment in Romania is at 6.0% (march 2005), which is very low compared to other large European countries such as Poland, France or Germany.
	www.romanian.eu.com (1788 words)

	Restoring Romania's Rivers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		About 20% of Romania's rivers have no life, and there are no facilities for properly managing garbage.
		The Danube River is choked by pollution and the Black Sea is dying a slow death.
		In 2000, a cyanide spill killed nearly all aquatic life in the Somes and Tisa Rivers in Romania, Hungary and Serbia.
	www.nacce.org /2001/marah_intl.html (462 words)

	YSI Supports Watershed Monitoring Project in Romania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The goal of the project is to increase awareness of environmental issues throughout the watershed of the Tarnava Mare River, located in the region of Transylvania in central Romania.
		Romania is located along the Black Sea, and bordered by Ukraine, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Moldova.
		Many environmental problems exist in Romania and evidence of this can be seen in Romania's rivers, which have been polluted by heavy industry, agriculture, and discharges of untreated sewage.
	www.ysi.com /extranet/EPGKL.nsf/447554deba0f52f2852569f500696b21/432a9f2a8b0fbbfb852569e7005c089b!OpenDocument (619 words)

	GREENPEACE WARNS OF FURTHER WATER CONTAMINATION IN ROMANIA AND HUNGARY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Greenpeace team that has been in Romania investigating the Australian owned gold mine and impacts to the surrounding environment of the recent disaster, discovered that the mine has been a source of persistent and acute hazards to human health and the environment since it started up in April, 1999.
		As the snow melts, the risk of further contamination to rivers is acute.
		In February 1998, 43 hectares of soil and 200 kilometres of river were contaminated by toxic sulphur oxide released from precious metal works in Zlatna.
	archive.greenpeace.org /pressreleases/toxics/2000mar14.html (589 words)

	EO Natural Hazards: Flooding in Romania
		Rivers that were barely visible on August 1, 2005, broadened into the strips of blue seen in the top image as a fresh round of flooding took hold in Romania in mid-August.
		Both Romania and Bulgaria have suffered a series of floods throughout the spring and summer of 2005.
		The images show sections of the Siret, Moldava, and Bistrita Rivers in northern Romania, all three of which were flooded.
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /NaturalHazards/shownh.php3?img_id=13059 (245 words)

	Fishing (from Romania) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The rivers of Romania, its lakes—especially the group around Razelm—and its Black Sea coastal region support a well-developed fishing industry.
		The largest quantity of fish is obtained from the Danube and its delta, and most of the annual catch is consumed fresh.
		A member of the Soviet bloc for more than 40 years, Romania was the last unreconstructed stronghold of old-line Stalinist...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-42849?tocId=42849 (923 words)

	Search Results for Constanta - Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Black Sea lies to the east, and the northward-draining Danube River delimits the county's western border.
		It lies along the Ialomita River in the middle of the Baragan Plain.
		With the exception of some private universities that have appeared since 1989, education is free and universal in Romania, and its development has been a key to the economic transformation of the...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=Constanta&submit=Find&source=MWTAB (315 words)

	Timiş River
		The Timiş (Romanian: Timiş, Serbian: Tamiš or Тамиш, Hungarian: Temes, German: Temesch) is a river rising in the Semenic Mountains, southern Carpathian Mountains, Caraş-Severin county, Romania.
		It is 340 km long, with 231 km within Romania.
		It was known in Antiquity as Tibiscus and Tibisis.
	www.1bx.com /en/Timis_river.htm (79 words)

	Planet Diary Archive 2005 - Flood - Europe Socked by Floods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Color-enhanced satellite view of some of the overflowing rivers in Romania where floods have killed 16 people this month.
		While forest fires blazed on the parched Iberian Peninsula, heavy rains triggered floods in central Europe as raging rivers overflowed their banks.
		Some of the worst flooding hit Romania, where 16 people were killed, and Bulgaria, where 26 others lost their lives.
	www.phschool.com /science/planetdiary/archive05/floo1082705.html (170 words)

	2005043.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		MODIS observation of flooding along Timis river on April 23.
		Above: Flooding along the Timis river near town of Jasa Tomic, Serbia, on April 23, 2005 as recorded by MODIS.
		Border between Romania Serbia is the dashed white line.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~floods/2005043.html (82 words)

	UNIDO - Trade Capacity Building: Case Studies: Tisza River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In early 2000 several spills of hazardous chemicals from mines in northwest Romania poisoned rivers in Romania, Ukraine and Hungary, in the catchment area of the Tisza River.
		The most serious accident occurred on 30 January 2000 when heavy rainfall and melting snow caused the tailings dam of a mining lagoon to collapse, spilling almost 100,000 cubic metres of toxic wastewater with high concentrations of cyanide and heavy metals.
		It provided public emergency response organizations in the Tisza river area with technical advice on improved their systems of monitoring and emergency preparedness.
	www.unido.org /doc/27845 (302 words)

	Planet Diary Archive 2000 - Health - Toxic Metals Leak into European Rivers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Dangerous levels of lead, zinc, and other toxic metals have leaked into Eastern European rivers after melting snow and heavy rain caused a dam to burst at a government-owned mine in Romania.
		The new pollution comes six weeks after a deadly cyanide spill caused widespread destruction to river ecosystems in Romania, Hungary, and Yugoslavia.
		The metals entered the Tisza upstream from the area contaminated by the recent cyanide spill and have reportedly entered rivers in Romania, Ukraine, and Hungary.
	www.phschool.com /science/planetdiary/archive00/heal2031700.html (199 words)

	Romania: the Magic of the Carpathians
		The speed limit in Romania is 80 kph (50 mph) on roads and 120 kph (75 mph) on motorways.
		First colonised by the Saxons in the 13th century (hence the large number of Lutheran churches in Bunesti, Cata, Cincu, Feldioara, etc.), this region was subsequently invaded by the Tatars and the Turks.
		Nestling at the bottom of a green valley at the foot of Mount Tâmpa (865 m/2,840 ft), Braşov occupied a strategic position in the Middle Ages, blocking the trade route between Transylvania and Walachia.
	www.viamichelin.com /viamichelin/gbr/tpl/mag4/art20050601/htm/voyage-roumanie.htm (2540 words)

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