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Roman provinces in modern Romania (106–117) The religion of the Getae, an Indo-European people inhabiting the Lower Danube region in antiquity, was characterized by a belief in the immortality of the soul. [1] [2] Another major feature of this religion was the cult of Zalmoxis; followers of Zalmoxis communicated with him by human sacrifice. [1]
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.
According to the 2011 census, there are 870,774 Catholics belonging to the Latin Church in Romania, making up 4.33% of the population.The largest ethnic groups are Hungarians (500,444, including Székelys; 41% of the Hungarians), Romanians (297,246 or 1.8%), Germans (21,324 or 59%), and Roma (20,821 or 3.3%), as well as a majority of the country's Slovaks, Bulgarians, Croats, Italians, Czechs ...
As Hossu was reluctant to leave Romania, the pope made him a cardinal only "in pectore", i.e. without publishing the fact, and this was only revealed on March 5, 1973, three years after Hossu's death. [19] Another remarkable Romanian Greek-Catholic ecclesiastic of the time was Alexandru Todea (1912–2002).
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... History of Christianity in Romania (2 C, 24 P) J. Jewish Romanian history (9 C, 44 P) Pages in category "History of religion ...
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
2.6 Romania since 1989. ... Download as PDF; ... and 2,658,165 people chose to not declare their religion. [2] The Romanian Orthodox Church is an autocephalous ...
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 [ 266 ] ), including all of the historic Romanian lands.