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The Romanian Army is founded. Romania switches from Cyrillic script to the Latin script that is still in use today. 1861: On February 5, the 1859 union is formally declared and a new country, Romania is founded. The capital city is chosen to be Bucharest.
The Romanian First, Second (forming), and what little was left of the Third and the Fourth Armies (one corps) were under orders from the King to defend Romania against any German attacks. King Michael offered to put the Romanian Army, which at that point had a strength of nearly 1,000,000 men, [ 282 ] on the side of the Allies .
Several theories, in great extent mutually exclusive, address the issue of the origin of the Romanians.The Romanian language descends from the Vulgar Latin dialects spoken in the Roman provinces north of the "Jireček Line" (a proposed notional line separating the predominantly Latin-speaking territories from the Greek-speaking lands in Southeastern Europe) in Late Antiquity.
During the 2000s, Romania had one of the highest economic growth rates in Europe and has been referred at times as "the Tiger of Eastern Europe". [124] This has been accompanied by a significant improvement in living standards as the country successfully reduced domestic poverty and established a functional democratic state.
In Romanian mythology, Apa Sâmbetei (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈapa ˈsɨmbetej]; lit. saturday's water) is the name given to the World Ocean, the ocean that was said to encompass the entire earth.
One of the earliest examples of Cyrillic script—an alphabet strongly associated with Slavonic liturgy—was found in Mircea Vodă in Romania. [259] The Cyrillic inscription from 943 refers to a "župan Dimitrie". [260] Traces of Bulgarian influence in the territory of modern Romania are found mostly in the area of Wallachia.
Offering pot from a Scythian grave from Alba Iulia, Romania, 6th century BC. In display at National Museum of the Union, Alba Iulia. 6th-5th century BC Tomis is founded [4] Histria, temple of Zeus Polieus [4] 560 BC – Megara founds Heraclea Pontica [4] Callatis founded [4] by Heraclea Pontica, itself a colony of Megara
Physical map of Southeast Europe. The prehistory of Southeast Europe, defined roughly as the territory of the wider Southeast Europe (including the territories of the modern countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and European Turkey) covers the period from the Upper Paleolithic ...