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Romanian language
Romanian language member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages ). It is spoken by about 22 million people in Romania, where it is the official language, by 3 million people in Moldova, and by perhaps another 1 million persons s... Read more
Iuliu Maniu
Iuliu Maniu , 1873-1951, Romanian politician, head of the Romanian National Peasants' party. Born in Transylvania, he helped to organize the Romanian national movement there before and during World War I. In 1918 he headed the Romanian provisional government. As premier (with one slight interruption... Read more
Dimitrie A. Sturza
Dimitrie A. Sturza , 1833-1914, Romanian statesman, of a prominent Moldavian family. With Ion Bratianu and Constantin Rosetti he helped bring about the abdication of Prince Alexander John Cuza in 1886 and established Carol I as his successor. After Bratianu's death (1891), Sturza was the recog... Read more
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej , 1901-65, Romanian Communist leader, b. Moldavia. He joined the Communist party in 1930 and while in prison (1933-44) was elected (1936) to the central committee. Escaping in 1944, he became a leading figure in Romanian Communist politics. In 1945 he was elected secretary-gen... Read more
Ion Luca Caragiale
Ion Luca Caragiale , 1853-1912, Romanian playwright and author. Romania's foremost dramatist, his works sharply satirized Romanian society. His masterpiece, A Lost Letter (1884), describes a provincial government election won by a blackmailer. Other plays include Carnival Adventures (1885) and ... Read more
Gyula
Gyula , town (1991 est. pop. 34,154), SE Hungary, on the White Koros River near the Romanian border. It is an agricultural center and has a fine château and a 14th-century castle. Ferenc Erkel, composer of the Hungarian national anthem, was born in Gyula. ... Read more
Georges Enesco
Georges Enesco , Rom. George Enescu, 1881-1955, Romanian violinist, composer, and conductor; studied at the Vienna Conservatory and in Paris with Massenet , Fauré , and others. Enesco made many worldwide concert tours as both violinist and conductor, including appearances with the New Yor... Read more
Nicolae Ceauşescu
Nicolae Ceauşescu , 1918-89, Romanian statesman. The son of a peasant, he early became active in the Romanian Communist movement and was arrested as a revolutionary; he spent the late 1930s and early 40s in prison, where he became acquainted with the future first secretary of the Romanian Commu... Read more
Carol I
Carol I 1839-1914, prince (1866-81) and first king (1881-1914) of Romania, of the house of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. He is also called Charles I. A Prussian officer, he was elected to succeed the deposed Alexander John Cuza as prince of Romania. He reformed the Romanian constitution and laid the gr... Read more
Treaty of Neuilly
Treaty of Neuilly , 1919, peace treaty concluded between the Allies and Bulgaria after World War I. It was signed at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Bulgaria ceded part of W Thrace to Greece and several border areas to Yugoslavia; S Dobruja was confirmed in Romanian possession. Reparations were required,... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "romanian"

Romanians
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...percent are ethnic Romanians LANGUAGE: Romanian RELIGION: Christianity...briefly all the Romanians under one rule...strengthening of Romanian identity. The...influence, the Romanian Orthodox Church...predominant religion of Romanians. There are smaller...
Romanian literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Romanian literature the literature of...16th cent. most writing by Romanians was in Slavonic. In 1541 a catechism in Romanian was issued at Sibiu, and from...liturgical works were published in Romanian to meet the needs of the local...
Romanian Americans
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America ...Turkish conquests, and the Romanian language has survived as a...the thirteenth century, the Romanian principalities Moldavia and...Dej (1901-1965) of the Romanian Communist party served as...the year 2002. THE FIRST ROMANIANS IN AMERICA Romanians have...
Romanian language
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Romanian language member of the Romance group of...Serbia, and Hungary. At the present time Romanian is written in the Roman alphabet, to...however, Cyrillic characters were used for Romanian. A distinctive feature of Romanian is...
Romanian
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Romanian Official language of Romania, spoken by up to 25 million people in Romania, Macedonia...Romance branch of the Indo-European family. Originally written in Cyrillic characters, Romanian has used the Roman alphabet since 1860.
Mohyla, Peter (Romanian, Petru Movilǎ; 1596–1646)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World MOHYLA, PETER (Romanian, Petru Movil ǎ ; 1596 – 1646) MOHYLA, PETER (Romanian, Petru Movil ǎ ; 1596 – 1646), archimandrite of the Kiev Monastery of the Caves and Orthodox metropolitan of Kiev. Mohyla...
Blaga, Lucian
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...philosopher, translator, and dramatist, Romanian writer Lucian Blaga (1895 –...key concepts in the development of a Romanian national identity. Blaga was born on...Romania. He was the ninth child born to a Romanian Orthodox priest and his wife. Interestingly...
Transnistria
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...most notorious, acts of the Romanian authorities was their response...on 22 October 1941 of the Romanian headquarters in the city which...summer of 1944 accused the Romanians of having massacred 200...and Trestioreanu and other Romanian officers who had carried out...
Bessarabia
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...80) with a predominantly Romanian population which, except...formed the eastern half of the Romanian principality of Moldavia...national assembly of Bessarabian Romanians voted for the union of the...Republic (AMR) in the partly Romanian-inhabited area of south...
Romania
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...inter-war foreign policy pursued by all Romanian governments until the Munich agreement...and war effort The German–Romanian economic agreement of 23 March 1939 guaranteed the predominance of Germany in the Romanian economy and established an economic plan...

Dictionary entries related to "romanian"

Romanian
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...of or relating to Romania or its people or language. • n. 1. a native or national of Romania, or a person of Romanian descent. 2. the language of Romania, a Romance language influenced by the neighboring Slavic languages, also spoken by...
Romanian Rhapsodies
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Romanian Rhapsodies. 2 works for orch., No.1 in A and No.2 in D, by Enescu , Op.11.
Romania
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...1965), a medical officer in the Romanian army, published his considerations on psychoanalysis in a Romanian journal of medical sciences in 1912...contributed to making psychoanalysis known to Romanian intellectuals by publishing two articles...
Moldova
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...majority (65 per cent) of Moldovans (of Romanian ethnicity), with a substantial minority...territory in 1940, when Stalin added to it Romanian areas of northern Bukovina and Bessarabia...x2013;Stalin Pact . It was occupied by Romanian troops 1941–4, but was officially...
Hungary
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...cold shoulder by the Romanians, Slovaks, and Serbs...the advance of the Romanian army into Hungary's...make concessions to the Romanians. This increased further...Aided by French and Romanian armies, a nationalist...
Transylvania
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...mineral deposits. With its original Romanian population (since the tenth century...relating to discrimination against the Romanian majority of the population, which intensified...school examinations could only be taken in Romanian, while the curriculum was changed to...
Enescu, George
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...Romania, 1881; d Paris, 1955). Romanian composer, violinist, and conductor...Grumiaux, and Gitlis. His comps. use Romanian folk-idioms and are also influenced...concertante , vc., orch. (1901); 2 Romanian Rhapsodies (1901); 3 vn. sonatas...
Comissiona, Sergiu
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...Comissiona, Sergiu ( b Bucharest, 1928). Romanian-born conductor (Amer. cit. 1976...and orch. 1946–8. Cond. Romanian State Ens. 1948–55. Cond. Romanian State Opera 1955–9; Haifa SO...
Popescu-Gopo, Ion
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Animator and Director. Nationality: Romanian. Born: Bucharest, 1 May 1923. Education...Cinema (Bucharest), April 1983. Romanian Film, no. 2, 1987. On POPESCU-GOPO...Image et Son (Paris), November 1967. Romanian Film (Bucharest), 1968. Cinema...
Kun, Béla
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...a wave of nationalist outrage at the Romanian occupation of Transylvania. This proved...territory occupied by the Czechs and Romanians, he was unable to accept any peace which...Nationalist Army under Horthy , and the Romanians, who entered Budapest on 4 August 1919...

Thesaurus entries related to "romanian"

victorious
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus victorious • adjective  the victorious Romanians brought home the gold synonyms : triumphant, conquering, vanquishing, winning, champion, successful, top, first.

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Romanians back home from Lebanon.
Newspaper article from: Bucharest Daily News (Bucharest, Romania); 7/19/2006; 700+ words ; ...explained that the Romanian Embassy to Lebanon...help hundreds of Romanians leave the country...of the evacuated Romanians expressed appreciation...professionalism of the Romanian Embassy in Lebanon...repatriation of Romanian citizens. 'President...have relations with Romanians ...
ROMANIAN SOLDIERS STAND UNITED WITH AMERICANS IN IRAQ
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 5/15/2007; 700+ words ; ...said, noting the Romanians were eager students...there are nearly 600 Romanian soldiers serving...working with the Romanians to help provide...Air Force, the Romanian army, the British...volleyball game with the Romanians the same day, said...to teach her any Romanian, because they ...
Romanians look to boost ties with UAE.
Newspaper article from: Gulf News (United Arab Emirates); 12/14/2008; 700+ words ; ...found just four or five Romanians but now the population...About 80 per cent of Romanians in the UAE are graduates...qualifications, he said. The Romanian labourers like carpenters...the Ambassador. Some Romanians who returned home for...Minister Counsellor at Romanian Embassy who has ...
Debunking Romanian Myths.(economy)
News Wire article from: Mondaq Business Briefing; 5/17/2002; 700+ words ; ...about doing business with Romanians: "How do you make Romanian chicken soup?" they ask...of false notions of the Romanian character into the psyche...way in which they perceive Romanians and Romanian business opportunities...
Romanian actress battles racism in Italy
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/10/2008; ; 632 words ; ...counsellor for the Romanian community's integration...bridge between the Romanians and the mayor...connected to work: more Romanians die at work sites...languages to help Romanian migrants find information...was murdered. A Romanian gypsy was quickly...undesirable foreigners. ...
Italy Expels Romanians Deemed Dangerous
News Wire article from: AP Online; 11/3/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...attacked a group of Romanians in Rome. Romanian Prime Minister Calin...beaten by suspected Romanian muggers. Three Romanians were also arrested...to the crimes by Romanians is normal, there's fear, said a Romanian waiter who would...
ROMANIAN EMBASSIES;Top Diplomats Support Rebellion in Bucharest
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/24/1989; 698 words ; Romanian embassies in at least 14 countries, including...today denounced the ousted regime of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and declared...continued between army soldiers who sided with Romanian citizens and security forces loyal to...
For Romanian Emigres in U.S., Jubilation Replaces Outrage
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/23/1989; ; 700+ words ; ...them traitors to the Romanian people." At one point...demonstration last night at the Romanian Legation in Manhattan...their crimes against all Romanians." Radu Tuian, an...Gaetan said. Many Romanians in this country came...weekend when Hungarian-Romanian students rallied to...
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: Romanians meet at university to discuss their "jewel"
M2 Presswire; 7/21/1998; 700+ words ; ...UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: Romanians meet at university to discuss...history. He and dozens of Romanians and "adoptive Romanians" like himself will share that...convention of the American-Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences...
LUCKY US -- ROMANIAN FILMS HERE THIS WEEKEND.(LIFESTYLE)
Newspaper article from: The Capital Times (Madison, WI); 3/5/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...hospital. Often, it seems Romanian filmmakers take a clear...recurring theme in modern Romanian films is either looking...existence still haunts modern Romanians today. In American Fiances (noon Saturday), a Romanian woman who left the country...