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Romania and Spain, although countries located at the two extremes of Europe, had at one point been part of the Roman Empire and have had numerous approaches and connections throughout history. The first direct Spanish-Romanian political relations date back to the 15th century, when the Voivode of Transylvania, John Hunyadi and King Alfonso V of ...
The gitano in Spanish society have inspired several authors: Federico García Lorca , a great Spanish poet of the 20th century, wrote Romancero Gitano ("Gypsy Ballad Book") The Roma is the most basic, most profound, the most aristocratic of my country, as representative of their way and whoever keeps the flame, blood, and the alphabet of the ...
As of 2023, there were 630,795 Romanian citizens living in Spain. [7] Most of the immigration took place given economic reasons. The linguistic similarities between Romanian and Spanish , as well as Romanians' Latin identity , are also a reason for the country's attractiveness to Romanians.
The Romani people have long been a part of the collective mythology of the West, where they frequently were (and still are) depicted as outsiders, aliens, and a threat. For centuries, they were enslaved in Eastern Europe and they were also hunted in Western Europe: the Porajmos, Hitler's attempt to commit genocide against the Romani people, was one violent link in a chain of persecution that ...
This is a timeline of Romanian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Romania and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Romania .
Franco's death ushered in a return of the monarchy under King Juan Carlos I, which saw a liberalization of Spanish society and a re-engagement with the international community. A new liberal Constitution was established in 1978. Spain entered the European Economic Community in 1986 (transformed into the European Union in 1992), and the Eurozone ...
The expansion of Roman citizenship in the Antonine Constitution in 212 AD radically changed the concept of romanitas and aided in the further assimilation of native Iberian cultures. Three Roman emperors, Theodosius I, Trajan and Hadrian, came from the Roman provinces of Hispania, as did the authors Quintilian, Martialis, Lucan and Seneca.
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.