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Despite his high status in Serbia, at home Bărbulescu sided with the "Germanophiles", opposing Romania's entry into the war.As early as July 1914, Iași's Viața Romînească hosted an essay supporting the policies of Austria-Hungary: Greșelile curentului politic anti-austriac de la români ("Mistakes of the Anti-Austrian Current among the Romanians"); it argued that Austria was predatory ...
Hungarian is the largest minority language in Romania: the 2011 census listed 1,227,623 native Hungarian speakers in the country, or 6.1% of the total population. This minority largely lives in Transylvania, which was part of the Kingdom of Hungary until the end of World War I.
Romanian has become popular in other countries through movies and songs performed in the Romanian language. Examples of Romanian acts that had a great success in non-Romanophone countries are the bands O-Zone (with their No. 1 single Dragostea Din Tei, also known as Numa Numa, across the world in 2003–2004), Akcent (popular in the Netherlands ...
The history of the Romanian language started in Roman provinces north of the Jireček Line in Classical antiquity.There are three main hypotheses around its exact territory: the autochthony thesis (it developed in left-Danube Dacia only), the discontinuation thesis (it developed in right-Danube provinces only), and the "as-well-as" thesis that supports the language development on both sides of ...
Modern Romanian (Romanian: română modernă) is the historical stage of the Romanian language starting from the end of the 18th century until today. In general, it is agreed that the modern era comprises three distinct periods: the premodern period starting from 1780 and lasting until 1830, the modern period from 1830 until 1880, and the contemporary period after 1881. [1]
3 March – Dimitrie Gerota, anatomist, physician, and corresponding member of the Romanian Academy (born 1867). 6 March – Miron Cristea, first Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (1925–1939), Prime Minister of Romania (1938–1939) (born 1868). [16] 10 May – Adela Xenopol, feminist writer (born 1861). [17]
The re-latinization of Romanian (also known as re-romanization) [1] was the reinforcement of the Romance features of the Romanian language that happened in the 18th and 19th centuries. Romanian adopted a Latin-based alphabet to replace the Cyrillic script and borrowed many words from French as well as from Latin and Italian, in order to acquire ...
Depiction of Romanian troops storming the Grivitsa redoubt during the Romanian War of Independence, 1877. The military history of Romania deals with conflicts spreading over a period of about 2500 years across the territory of modern Romania, the Balkan Peninsula and Eastern Europe and the role of the Romanian military in conflicts and peacekeeping worldwide.