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5 unusual facts about Romanian


Aromanians

This in fact puts the other two languages which developed from this form of Vulgar Latin - the Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanian languages - in the same position as Aromanian.

Ioana Pârvulescu

Ioana Pârvulescu (1960) is a Romanian writer.

Michael the Brave

During his reign, which coincided with the Long War, these three principalities forming the territory of present-day Romania and the Republic of Moldova were ruled for the first time by a single Romanian leader, although the union lasted for less than six months.

Mihai Costea

Mihai-Alexandruu Costea (born 29 May 1988 in Drăgăşani) is a Romaniann professional footballer who plays as a forward.

Romanian subdialects

First, according to many linguists, the Romanian language (in the wider sense) is already divided into four dialects: Daco-Romanian, Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian, and Istro-Romanian; these, according to other linguists, are separate languages.


1948–49 FC Dinamo București season

The newly formed team played under the name Dinamo A. Coloman Braun-Bogdan, the former manager of Romanian national team, is installed as coach.

Aldea

Dan Andrei Aldea (born 9 March 1950), a Romanian rock multi-instrumentalist

Alexander Lion

After the ceasefire on the Romanian front, he returned to France, serving at Reims and the Somme.

Americana

In some Romance languages (including Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan and Italian), Americana is the feminine noun or adjective referring to women or objects from the American Continent declined in the feminine gender.

Austin Area Translators and Interpreters Association

As of 2011, there are about 240 members working in the following languages: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hungarian, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Mandarin, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Swedish, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

Bardan

Ştefan Bardan (1892- ??), Romanian Major-General during World War II

Battle of Păuliş

Advancing on the northern bank of the Mureş River, on the direction Sâmbăteni-Miniş, concomitantly with an enveloping maneuver of the righ flank of the Romanian troops, the Hungarian 1st Armored and 6th Reserve Infantry Divisions made contact with the "Păuliş" Detachment west of the village of Păuliș (Ópálos), on 14 September.

BFW M.23

These were distinct from the Romanian modified version known as the ICAR Universal.

Boian culture

The culture's geographical extent went as far west as the Jiu River on the border of Transylvania in south-central Romania, as far north as the Chilia branch of the Danube Delta along the Romanian border with Ukraine and the coast of the Black Sea, and as far south as the Rhodope Mountains and the Aegean Sea in Greece.

Călin

Călin Dan (born 1955), Romanian artist, theorist and curator

Clisura Dunării

Miodrag Belodedici (born 1964), Romanian retired footballer, won the European cup with Steaua Bucureşti and Red Star Belgrade (1985, 1990).

Coloman Braun-Bogdan

In 1933 he took the coaching courses of the British football school at Folkstone and in 1940 those of the Romanian football school of O.N.E.F. As manager he led Sportul Studenţesc and Jiul Petroşani to the top flight of Romanian football and he won the Romanian national championship and the Romanian Cup with UTA Arad.

Corneliu Coposu

Vladimir Tismăneanu, Stalinism pentru eternitate, Polirom, Iaşi, 2005 ISBN 973-681-899-3 (translation of Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2003, ISBN 0-520-23747-1)

Dâmbovița Center

In the winter of 2006, a public-private partnership agreement between Elbit Medical Imaging, an Israeli company, and the Romanian government was announced to develop Casa Radio.

The Romanian government contracted the construction of a hotel and a mall called "Dâmbovița Center" to the Turkish company Cenk Vefa Kucuk.

Dorohoi pogrom

On 1 July 1940, in the town of Dorohoi in Romania, Romanian military units carried out a pogrom against the local Jews, during which, according to an official Romanian report, 53 Jews were murdered, and dozens injured.

Edward Rydz-Śmigły

Śmigły-Rydz was transferred from the internment camp to the villa of a former Romanian prime minister in Dragoslavele, from where he escaped on 10 December 1940 and crossed illegally into Hungary.

Eugen Nae

Eugen Gheorghe Nae (born 23 November 1974 in Periș, Romania) is a Romanian former footballer.

Ferenc László

He played a major role in the development of a Hungarian program with Electrecord, the Romanian state record company.

Florin Răducioiu

An even greater success for Florin would come three months later when in Toftir, he managed to score all four of Romania's goals against the Faroe Islands, becoming the first Romanian player to score four goals for the national team in modern times, a record equaled only by Gheorghe Popescu in 1997 against Liechstenstein.

George Murnu

He has translated an accomplished version of the Odyssey and Iliad into Romanian.

George Nicolescu

In 1972 he gained admission to the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Romance Languages, French-Romanian section.

Ion Timofte

For a half dozen years, the Romanian genius spread his art and lead Boavista to an era of success.

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006

It was organised by the Romanian national broadcaster, Romanian Television (TVR), in co-operation with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

Kirsten O'Brien

In the first episode, which aired in February 2010, O'Brien won when she beat Mellor driving a Romanian TR-85 combat tank.

Leda Atomica

The harmony of the framework was calculated by the artist following the recommendations of Romanian mathematician Matila Ghyka.

Mariana Marin

Educated in Bucharest during the time of the Romanian relative cultural freesom of the 1960s, she went on to receive a degree in philology from the University of Bucharest in 1980, starting a grade school teacher career that lasted almost ten years, first in a village along the Danube, then in Bucharest.

Mayor of Bucharest

The Mayor of Bucharest (Primarul General al Municipiului Bucureşti in Romanian), sometimes known as the General Mayor, is the head of the Bucharest City Hall in Bucharest, Romania, which is responsible for city-wide affairs, such as the water system, the transport system and the main boulevards.

Mihai Covaliu

Covaliu then disposed of Mathieu Gourdain 15–12 to earn the first Romanian gold medal in sabre and become number one in FIE rankings.

Nadler

Judith Nadler, Jewish Romanian-American librarian and director of the University of Chicago Library

Nicolae Labiș

Studies, articles, and encomia all appeared in literary magazines through this period, for Labiș proved an enduring source of inspiration and guidance for the 1960s generation of Romanian poets, led by Nichita Stănescu.

Orthodoxy in the Republic of Ireland

Since 2010, the Romanian Orthodox parish of Ballsbridge has been operating from two alternate locations in Blanchardstown: three recently appointed priests hold the liturgy there every Sunday.

Paleologu

Theodor Paleologu (born 1973), Romanian historian and diplomat, son of Alexandru

Panait

Panait Istrati (1884–1935), Romanian writer of French and Romanian expression

Petcu

Răzvan Petcu (born 1973), retired Romanian freestyle and butterfly swimmer

Petre Mihai Bănărescu

Petre Mihai Bănărescu (born 15 September 1921 in Craiova, Dolj County — died 12 May 2009 in Bucharest) was a Romanian ichthyologist.

Radiosurgery

The device was invented at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1967 by Lars Leksell, Ladislau Steiner, a Romanian born neurosurgeon, and Börje Larsson, a radiobiologist from Sweden's Uppsala University.

Radu Lecca

RSHA bureaucrats informed that, beginning September 10, Romanian Jews were to be forcefully embarked for Lublin (Majdanek): "those that are fit will be put to work, while the rest undergo special treatment".

Radu Pavel Gheo

Gheo was a member of the Romanian young writers' group CLUB 8 from Iași, together with Constantin Acosmei, Șerban Alexandru, Radu Andriescu, Michael Astner, Emil Brumaru, Mariana Codruţ, Gabriel Horațiu Decuble, Florin Lăzărescu, Dan Lungu, Ovidiu Nimigean, Dan Sociu and Lucian Dan Teodorovici.

Romanian National Party

After 1906, the PNR was one of two parties offering representation, as socialist Romanian groups in the region united to form the Social Democratic Party of Transylvania and Banat.

Sean Kane

Sean was one of the first Scottish actors to perform with Romanian actors at the Teatrul De Comedie in Bucharest Romania in their production entitled 'Home'.

Silvian Iosifescu

Silvian Iosifescu (21 January 1917 - May 2006) was a literary critic, educator, translator and Romanian literature professor at the Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest.

Stefan Nerezov

These successful military operations couldn't prevent the Romanian Army from threatening the rear of the Bulgarian Army and reaching the vicinity of capital Sofia which forced the Bulgarian capitulation.

Vălenii de Munte

Romanian historian Nicolae Iorga's former residence in Vălenii de Munte hosts now a museum.

Varujan

Varujan Vosganian (born 1958), Romanian politician, economist, essayist and poet

Viaţa ca o pradă

Viaţa ca o pradă (Life as prey) is a 1977 novel by Romanian author Marin Preda.

Xenopol

Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol (1847 - 1920), Romanian scholar, essayist, historic, member of the Romanian Academy, brother of the second, or

Zakuska

Zacuscă, a spread made from cooked vegetables in Romanian cuisine

Zalman Kornblit

Bercovici, Israil, O sută de ani de teatru evriesc în România ("One hundred years of Yiddish/Jewish theater in Romania"), 2nd Romanian-language edition, revised and augmented by Constantin Măciucă.


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