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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Rumania
Rumania was frequently the scene of the wars waged by Turkey against Austria or against Russia.
Rumania; its duties are to preserve the unity of the
Rumania disappeared when the people, influenced by the Bulgars, placed themselves under the jurisdiction of the Greek Church in the ninth century and thus became involved in its schism.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/13224b.htm   (4383 words)

  
  MSN Encarta - Archive Article - 1939: Rumania
Rumania's foreign policy, however, remained unchanged, and Grigore Gafencu, the Foreign Minister, was retained in the new Cabinet.
Rumania's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Grigore Gafencu, answered on Nov. 29 with a forceful speech in which he stressed his country's neutrality and, at the same time, its resolution to maintain its frontiers intact and to meet any aggression with armed force.
Rumania tried also to maintain closest diplomatic and military relations with Yugoslavia, and this effort was facilitated by the family ties between the two royal houses.
encarta.msn.com /sidebar_461501529/1939_Rumania.html   (1449 words)

  
 Rumania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Rumania lost its trade preferences and became a pariah to the...
Rumania: Transición sangrienta.(política e historia recientes)(TT: Romania: blood-stained transition.)(TA: rec...
Rumania, que vena de realizar un exitoso debut...
ido.encyclopedia.st /Rumania   (265 words)

  
 JewishEncyclopedia.com - RUMANIA:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
If the assertions of Rumanian historians are to be accepted, Jews lived in Rumania for a considerable time before the advent of the hordes of Roman convicts brought by Emperor Trajan for the purpose of populating the fertile country of the Dacians, which he had desolated after his bloody conquest.
Fifty-seven persons voted upon as individuals were naturalized in 1880; 6, in 1881; 2, in 1882; 2, in 1883; and 18, from 1886 to 1900; in all, 85 Jews in twenty-one years, 27 of whom in the meantime died.
Communal law of Rumania permits only those Jews to be naturalized who (1) have reached the grade of non-commissioned officers in the army, (2) or have passed through college, (3) or have a recognized foreign degree, (4) or have founded a factory (Loeb, pp.
www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=475&letter=R   (4554 words)

  
 Rumania on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Rumania es, dice su presidente en el Senado: Puerta de México a Europa Central.(TT: Rumania is, for Mexico the gate to Europe, It's President says.)
Rumania: Existir para andar, andar para existir.(De Viaje)
Rumania y su reforma estructural: un ladrillo más de la nueva Europa.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-R1umania.asp   (508 words)

  
 The Avalon Project : The Armistice Agreement with Rumania; September 12, 1944
The state frontier between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Rumania, established by the Soviet-Rumanian Agreement of June 8 1940, is restored.
Compensation will be paid by Rumania ford losses caused to the property of other Allied states and their nationals in Rumania during the war, the amount of compensation to be fixed at a later date.
The printing, importation and distribution Rumania of periodical and non-periodical literature, the presentation of theatrical performances and films, the work of wireless stations, post, telegraph and telephone shall be carried out in agreement with the Allied (Soviet) High Command.
www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/wwii/rumania.htm   (1034 words)

  
 Queen Marie of Romania / Rumania's Soldier Queen  / The Century 1918
Betrayed by the Stürmer faction in, Russia, her one-time ally, a condition which makes Rumania almost entirely surrounded by enemies, the Allies being unable, owing to her geographical situation, to get supplies and soldiers to her, she was forced to capitulate in the face of danger of inevitable famine and threatened destruction.
For her Majesty Marie, Queen of Rumania, is a story-book queen, so variously gifted and so altogether regal in her charm that one who writes of her must fear the accusation of flattery.
Even a few minutes in her presence enable one to understand why all Rumanians, and the foreigners who have met her, glow in praise of the simplicity, naturalness, warm-heartedness, and talent of this queen who is kinswoman to many other queens and kings, and who has lived all her life in the purple.
www.tkinter.smig.net /QueenMarie/SoldierQueen   (4116 words)

  
 Rumania - Fyfe
Rumania has been all but crushed by the Central Powers, and yet her patriotic King has courageously said, in his hour of sorrow, that he would have taken the step he did, even had he known all.
Indeed, it remains to be proved whether the sufferings the war has brought upon that country have been in vain, and that her effort has not aided in curtailing the length of the war.
Rumania, at least, has not ceased to exist, the King is still on national soil, his Army is being, speedily re-formed, and we may hope that, in co-operation with Russia, it will yet succeed in recovering the occupied territory.
www.greatwardifferent.com /Great_War/Rumania/Rumania_01.htm   (9026 words)

  
 RUMANIA - LoveToKnow Article on RUMANIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Apart from the Dobrudja, the whole of Rumania is included in the northern basin of the lower Danube.
It consists of a single inclined plane stretching upwards, with a north-westerly direction, from the left bank of the river to the summits of the Carpathians.
Cereals, chiefly maize, with green crops and fields of gourds, alternate with fallow land overgrown by coarse grasses, weeds and stunted shrubs.
17.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RU/RUMANIA.htm   (493 words)

  
 NEEDY GUESTS, RELUCTANT HOSTS: THE PLIGHT OF RUMANIANS IN POLAND, AEER 13 (1), 1995   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
"Rumania's roughly 2.5 million Roma have been caught in the crossfire between the nationalities, on the one hand, and social tensions emanating from the country's economic disintegration, on the other.
When gangs of miners were shipped into Bucharest in 1990 to put down anti-government dissent, Roma were singled out for special treatment and the miners went on the rampage in their homes for an evening of vicious outrages, before leaving the capital with the President's praise ringing in their ears (Fraser, 1992).
In Strzeszyn, a suburb of Poznan, 12 dug-outs are inhabited by 68 Roma from Rumania.
condor.depaul.edu /~rrotenbe/aeer/aeer13_1/Gozdziak.html   (3484 words)

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