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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 .
Crossword-like puzzles, for example Double Diamond Puzzles, appeared in the magazine St. Nicholas, published since 1873. [31] Another crossword puzzle appeared on September 14, 1890, in the Italian magazine Il Secolo Illustrato della Domenica. It was designed by Giuseppe Airoldi and titled "Per passare il tempo" ("To pass the time"). Airoldi's ...
The name reform introduced around 1850 had the names changed to a western style consisting of a given name followed by a family name (surname). As such, the name is called prenume, while the family name is called nume or, when otherwise ambiguous, nume de familie ("family name"). Middle names (second given names) are also fairly common.
Lyubov, Liubov or Lubov is a female given name, meaning “love”. It is of Slavic origin, coming from the basic word l'ub (Latin: caritas). [1] [2] Variants.
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 reason for many Transylvanian name changes was to give a more "Romanian-sounding" name to certain settlements, since in many case the original Romanian name was too close to the Hungarian or German one, from which it was derived (usually a simple re-writing of the name according to Romanian phonetics).
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 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 ...