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Romania is the largest country in Southeastern Europe and the twelfth-largest in Europe, having an area of 238,397 square kilometres (92,046 sq mi). [243] : 17 It lies between latitudes 43° and 49° N and longitudes 20° and 30° E. The terrain is distributed roughly equally between mountains, hills, and plains.
Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Romania. 1 December. Ziua Națională a României. National Day of Romania. It celebrates the unification of Transylvania, Bessarabia and Bukovina with the Kingdom of Romania . 25-26 December. Crăciunul. Christmas Day. Both first and second Christmas Day are holidays.
Map of Romania in 1919 with new regions annexed to it. Great Union Day ( Romanian: Ziua Marii Uniri, also called Unification Day [1] or National Day) is a national holiday in Romania, celebrated on 1 December, marking the unification of Transylvania, Bassarabia, and Bukovina with the Romanian Kingdom in 1918, something that is known as the ...
The Roma constitute one of Romania's largest minorities. According to the 2011 Romanian census, they number 621,573 people or 3.08% of the total population, being the second-largest ethnic minority in Romania after Hungarians, [21] with significant populations in Mureș (8.9%) and Călărași (7,47%) counties.
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Territorial evolution of Romania, 1859-present (animated map). Divisions of Wallachia, 1601-1718 Divisions of Moldavia, 1601-1718 Divisions of Transylvania, 1606-1660. The earliest organization into județe of the Principalities of Wallachia, respectively ținuturi of Moldavia, dates back at least to the early 15th century.
Here is a list of all local administrative units ( localități; sing. localitate ), which are the municipalities ( municipii; sing. municipiu ), cities ( orașe; sing. oraș) and communes ( comune; sing. comună) of Romania, grouped by macroregions ( macroregiune; sing. macroregiunea ), development regions ( regiunile de dezvoltare; sing ...
Lesser spoken languages in Romania include: Serbo-Croatian (26,732: 20,377 Serbians, 6,355 Croatians ), Slovak (16,108), Bulgarian (6,747), Greek (4,146). The use of French developed among Romanian elites from the 18th century. Patrick Leigh Fermor, who visited Romania in 1934, noted that although the elites were all bilingual, their mother ...