Romania is a legal, democratic, social, unified, indivisible state with a republican form of government. The 1991 Constitution is in force, which was amended in 2003. Administratively, the country is divided into 41 counties. The capital is separated into an independent administrative unit. In 2001, the largest cities: Bucharest, Constanta (348.3 thousand people), Iasi (344.3…
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Romania Early History
Prehistory and early history The oldest traces of human settlement on today’s Romanian territory date from 40,000 years ago. Numerous bones were found in several caves (Peştera cu oasis) in the southwest of today’s country. They are among the oldest remains of Homo sapiens, i.e. modern humans, in Europe. Around 5500 BC, hunters and gatherers…
Mass Media in Eastern Europe
Short for EE according to Abbreviationfinder, Eastern Europe includes Belarus, Bulgaria, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. This page describes major mass media, including newspapers, radio stations and televisions within these countries. Mass media in Belarus Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, there has been a marked decline in the number of newspaper publications,…
Romania Arts and Literature
Literature The oldest dated text in Romanian is a letter from 1521, but no real Romanian literature emerged until the 16th century chronicles. The learned Dimitrie Cantemir was the first modern history writer. The Greek dominance of Romanian cultural life was broken as the so-called Trans-Sylvanian school in the late 1700’s began a novelization of…
Romania Recent History
And in 1964 independence was declared. The new Socialist Republic of Romania had a new Constitution. The communist party was restructured and strengthened. A National Committee for Scientific Research, the General Union of Trade Unions, the Academy of Socio-Political Sciences “Stefan Gheorghiu”, the Romanian Automobile Club were born and finally the laws on abortion, divorce…