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- Romanians You Should Know: Carol I
- Romania During Communism
- Romanian Food
- Overrated Romania: The Mud Volcanoes
- Romanians You Should Know: Nadia Comaneci
- Romanians You Should Know: Nicolae Titulescu
- Romanians You Should Know: Rodion Camataru
- Romanians You Should Know: Mihai Eminescu
- Romanians You Should Know: Stefan Kovacs
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Romanians You Should Know: Nicolae Titulescu
Romania’s greatest diplomat, the negotiating skills of Nicolae Titulescu were in large part responsible for Romania more than doubling the size of its territory in the Treaty of Versailles that followed the end of World War I.... -
Romanians You Should Know: Stefan Kovacs
Winner of two consecutive European Cups with Ajax Amsterdam from 1972-73, Ştefan Kovács is the mjost successful Romanian football coach in history.... -
Romanian Food
Let’s face it, nobody travels to Romania for the food. As with most of the Balkans the vast majority of what’s on offer is a diluted version of Turkish cuisine, with Hungarian and Germanic influences clearly discernable in Transylvania.... -
Romanians You Should Know: Mihai Eminescu
Born Mihail Eminovici in Botosani (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) in 1850, Mihai Eminescu is widely regarded as Romania’s finest romantic writer, and is recognized as both Romania and Moldova’s national poet.... -
Romanians You Should Know: Nadia Comaneci
There’s an urban myth in the US that claims all baby girls born in the six months after the 1976 Montreal Olympics were called Nadia.... -
Overrated Romania: The Mud Volcanoes
Romanians love banging on about the many unique natural wonders their country boasts. And indeed, from the Danube Delta to the Carpathian Mountains, there are certainly a decent number of natural sights to take in and enjoy.... -
Romanians You Should Know: Rodion Camataru
Legend has it that when Austrian Toni Polster heard news that Rodion Camataru had scored another hat-trick, and had thereby overtaken him at the top of Europe’s scoring chart, he simply shrugged his shoulders and said “I’m not going to Monte Carlo.... -
Romanians You Should Know: Carol I
Few visitors to Bucharest will leave without seeing the enormous horseback statue of Carol I - the first king of modern Romania - which appeared in front of the University Library in Piata Revolutiei at the end of last year....
Romania During Communism
Courtesy comunismulinromania.roMainly a photo archive, though also a collection of personal memeories and vignettes, the site is very well done (though browsing is a little awkward), and most of the photos have some kind of English caption.
We spent half the morning going through it, and while much of the archive does not consist of new material (or will not be new to those who have any history of studying the communist period in Romania), everyone will find much which is fascinating, and much which will be entirely unseen.
Courtesy comunismulinromania.ro
What's more, in a rare case of forward thinking, the MNIR has made the entire photo collection available under Creative Commons: anyone can use the images as long as they credit the source.
For those of you who manage to come back to our site after heading off to look at the photos at Communism in Romania, you might want to take a look at our version of events that led to the end of the communism regime in Romania (and the bloody aftermath) here.
And as for the very capitalist Romania of today, try our city guides to Bucharest and Brasov.