Romania is a Balkan country located in southeastern Europe with a population of about 19 million according to Eurostat. Romania is the second-largest country in Europe with an area of ​​238,397 km². The capital of Romania is Bucharest and it is the largest in terms of population (2.1 million).

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Romania's neighbors

South-Bulgaria
North-Ukraine
West-Hungary
Southwest-Serbia
East-Moldova

Other major cities in Romania:

Cluj-Napoca
Iași
Brașov

Iași

 The Danube has a second place for the longest river in Europe. The Danube rises withinside the Black Forest in Germany and flows in a southeasterly route for 2,857 kilometers earlier than emptying into the Danube Delta in Romania. The Carpathian Mountains pass Romania from north to southwest. The maximum height in Romania is Moldovino Peak with a top of 2,544 m (8,346 ft). History of Romania Romania turned into based in 1869 through a private federation of the Danube principalities of Moldova and Wallachia. Romania received its independence in 1877. In World War I, Romania fought with the Allied international locations on the grounds that 1916.

Following the conflict, Bukovina, Bessarabia, Transylvania, components of Banat, Krishana, and Maramureş have become a part of the Kingdom of Romania. In June-August 1940, due to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and consequently the Second Vienna Prize, Romania turned into compelled to cede Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union, and Northern Transylvania to Hungary.
 Romania entered World War II in June 1941 at the Axis side, combating in opposition to the Soviet Union till August 1944, whilst it joined the Allies and recovered Northern Transylvania. Following the conflict and profession through the Red Army, Romania has become a socialist republic and a member of the Warsaw Pact. After the 1989 Revolution, Romania started a transition toward democracy and a marketplace economy.
Etymology


 "Romania" derives from Latinromanus, meaning "Roman" or "of Rome".The first recognized use of the appellation turned into attested to withinside the sixteenth century through Italian humanists journeying in Transylvania, Moldavia, and Wallachia. The oldest recognized surviving report written in Romanian, a 1521 letter called the "Letter of Neacșu from Câmpulung", is awesome for inclusive of the primarily documented incidence of the USA's call: Wallachia is stated as Țeara Rumânească.

In English, the call of the USA turned into previously spelled Rumania or Roumania. Romania has become the main spelling round 1975. Romania is likewise the professional English-language spelling utilized by the Romanian government.

Official names

1859–1862: United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia
1862–1866: United Principalities or Romania
1866–1881: Romania or Principality of Romania
1881–1947: Kingdom of Romania or Romania
1947–1965: Romanian People's Republic (RPR) or Romania
1965–December 1989: Socialist Republic of Romania (RSR) or Romania
December 1989–present: Romania

Romanian Cuisine

Romanian Cuisine could also be a various blend of varied dishes from several traditions with which it's interested to contact, but it also maintains its own character.

Dishes in Romania

Soups

Romanian Cuisine could also be a various blend of varied dishes from several traditions with which it's interested contact, but it also maintains its own Borș is fermented wheat bran, a souring agent for ciorbă.
Ciorbă is the traditional Romanian sour soup
Ciorbă de burtă (tripe soup), soured with sour cream
Ciorbă de perișoare (meatball soup)
Ciorbă de fasole cu afumătură (bean and smoked meat soup)
Ciorbă de legume (vegetable soup)
Ciorbă de pește „ca-n Deltă” (fish soup prepared in the style of the Danube Delta)
Ciorbă de praz is a leek soup
Ciorbă de pui is a chicken souparacter. it's been mainly influenced by Turkish and a series of European cuisines especially from the Balkans, or Hungarian cuisine also as culinary elements stemming from the cuisines of Eastern and Central Europe.
Dishes in Romania

Salads

Gogonele murate - pickled green tomatoes, which is the simple version of murături asortate.

Desserts

Chec - pound cake
Clătite - crêpes (literally: pancakes)
Colivă - boiled wheat, mixed with sugar and walnuts (often decorated with candy and icing sugar; distributed at funerals and memorial ceremonies)
Colțunași

Drinks

Afinată - a liqueur made from afine (aka. bilberry in English), which are similar to the North American blueberry.
Bere
Bragă
Cafea
Must - the grape juice in the fermentation process that hasn't become wine yet.
Pălincă is a strong, double-distilled fruit brandy (especially plum, but also apple, apricots, peach, pear etc.) produced in Transylvania
Rachiu is a fruit brandy. Generic "rachiu" can be made from any fruit (except plums), while "țuică" is reserved exclusively for the variety of brandy made from plums.

Sports

 Football is that the most sweltering game in Romania with more than 219,000 enlisted players starting at 2018. The commercial center for football in Romania is generally €740 million predictable with UEFA.

 The organization is that the Romanian Football Federation, which has a place with UEFA. The Romania public eleven played its first match in 1922 and is one among just four public groups to have participated inside the initial three FIFA World Cups, the other three being Brazil, France, and Belgium. Generally speaking, it's played in seven World Cups and had its best period during the 1990s, when it completed sixth at the 1994 FIFA World Cup , ultimately being positioned third by FIFA in 1997.

Medical services

 Romania has a subsidized medical coverage framework; complete wellbeing consumptions by the public authority are generally 5% of GDP. It covers clinical assessments, any careful tasks, and any post-usable clinical guide , and gives free or financed medication to an assortment of sicknesses. The state is obliged to support public clinics and centers. The most widely recognized reasons for death are cardiovascular infections and disease. Contagious sicknesses are very normal by European guidelines. In 2010, Romania had 428 state and 25 private emergency clinics, with 6.2 medical clinic beds per 1,000 individuals, and more than 200,000 clinical staff, including more than 52,000 specialists. Starting at 2013, the displacement pace of specialists was 9%, over the ecu normal of two .5%.

Occasions and customs

 There are 12 non-working public occasions, including the great Union Day, celebrated on 1 December in recognition of the 1918 association of Transylvania with Romania. Winter occasions incorporate the Christmas and New Year merriments during which different special legends moves and games are normal: plugușorul, sorcova, Ursul, and Capra. The customary Romanian dress that in any case has to a great extent dropped out of utilization during the twentieth century, is a mainstream stately garment worn on these merriments, particularly in country regions. There are penances of live pigs during Christmas and sheep during Easter that has required an exceptional exclusion from EU law after 2007. In Easter, customs, for example, painting the eggs are extremely normal. On 1 March highlights mărțișor giving, which might be a custom that females are gifted with a sort of charm that is given forever karma.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_cuisine