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About Romania
Romania is a country at the crossroads between Central Europe (Transylvania, Banat and Maramure? (district), the Balkans (Wallachia and Dobrogea) and eastern Europe (Moldavia (Romania) and Bukovina). It is bordered by Ukraine and Moldova in the north, Hungary and Serbia to the west, Bulgaria to the south and east to the Black Sea.
Prehistory and Antiquity
In 2002, the oldest remains of modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Europe found in the “Cave With Bones” (Pe?tera cu Oase) near Anina in present Romania. The remains (lower jaw) is about 42,000 years old and is been called “John of Anina” (Ion your Anina). As Europe’s oldest remains of Homo sapiens, they may represent the first of the menneskeart who have inhabited the continent. The remains are especially interesting since they exhibit a mixture of archaic, early modern human and Neanderthal traits.
The earliest written sources on the people of the territory that is now Romania comes from Herodotus in the year 513 BCE In one of his books he writes that the tribal confederation Geta was defeated by the Persian emperor Dareius the Great during his campaign against the Scythians.
Dacians is a branch of Thracians that inhabited Dacia (corresponding to the current Romania and Moldova) and parts of Moesien (mostly in northern Bulgaria) in south-east). The Dacian kingdom reached its maximum extent under King Burebista. The region was thoroughly plundered by the Roman Empire when the Roman province, bordering the Danube, Moesien, was attacked by Dakere in year 87 may under the emperor Domitian’s rule. Dacians were eventually defeated by the Roman Empire under Emperor Trajan in two battles that stretched from the year 101 to year 106, and the core of their kingdom was turned into the Roman province of Dacia.
Roman Dacia
Because the province was rich in ores, especially silver and gold Romans colonized heavily province took vulgærlatinet with him and began a period of intense Romanization, which was the source of Romanian. In the 3rd century with the invasions of migratory peoples such as the Goths were the Roman Empire but had to withdraw from Dacia in 270 years, thus leaving the first province.
Middle Ages
Romania’s position in later Antiquity and early Middle Ages is obscure – it lacks sources. In the later Middle Ages, the country is part of the three principalities: Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania, the last in Hungary. I 15 century beginning in the Ottoman Empire to conquer Southeast Europe and all three principalities become vassal. Hungary, the Habsburgs, regains Transylvania around 1700. Wallachia and Moldavia continues under the Turks, but at the end of 18 century Russia’s influence does exist.
Modern times
After the Crimean War gets Wallachia and Moldavia more autonomy and unite under Alexandru Ioan Cuza to form Romania. Cuza fall of 1866 and the country gets a new prince of the German Hohenzollern family. Over the next Turkish-Russian war, the country independently (1878) and Carol first is crowned king of Romania (1881).
After the first World Winner Romania large territories, including Transylvania and Bessarabia. In the interwar years is the political life very tense. In the second World War, Romania allied with Nazi Germany and participate in the 1941 attack on the Soviet Union. Will 1945 liberated by the Soviet Union. The monarchy was abolished in 1947 and the People’s Republic of Romania was founded. Two Stalinist leaders, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and Nicolae Ceau?escu, rules the country until a rebellion in 1989. Thereafter, Romania will become a democratic state and member of NATO and the European Union.
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