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The name of Romania (România) comes from the Romanian Român, which is a derivative of the Latin adjective Romanus (Roman). [1] Romanians are a people living in Eastern Europe speaking a Romance language .
Romanian teens in traditional clothes are dancing A traditional house in the Village Museum. The folklore of Romania is the collection of traditions of the Romanians. A feature of Romanian culture is the special relationship between folklore and the learned culture, determined by two factors. First, the rural character of the Romanian ...
Romanian revolutionaries of 1848 waving the tricolor flag. The name Romanian is derived from Latin romanus, meaning "Roman". [138] Under regular phonetical changes that are typical to the Romanian language, the name romanus over the centuries transformed into rumân. An older form of român was still in use in some regions.
The earliest evidence of the name "Romanian" may be found in the 13th‑century Nibelungenlied: "Duke Ramunch of the land of the Vlachs / with seven hundred warriors he runs to meet her / like wild birds, he was seen galloping." [14] Ramunch may be a transliteration of "Romanian", representing in this context a symbolic leader of the Romanians ...
The Romanian expression România Mare (Great or Greater Romania) refers to the Romanian state in the interwar period and to the territory Romania covered at the time. At that time, Romania achieved its greatest territorial extent, almost 300,000 km 2 or 120,000 sq mi [ 265 ] ), including all of the historic Romanian lands.
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.
In Transylvania, the emancipation movement became better organized, and in 1861, an important cultural organization by the name of ASTRA (The Transylvanian Association for Romanian Literature and the Culture of the Romanian People) was founded in Sibiu under the close supervision of the Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan Andrei Șaguna.
In 2009–2010, a media campaign followed by a parliamentary initiative asked the Romanian Parliament to accept a proposal to revert the official name of country's Roma (adopted in 2000) to Țigan (Gypsy), the traditional and colloquial Romanian name for Romani, to avoid the possible confusion among the international community between the words ...