Romania




SOME FACTS

Romania is a South-Eastern country of Europe, with a population of almost 23,000,000 and an area of 237,500 square kilometers.

The capital of Romania is Bucharest, one of the most beautiful cities in the country, situated in the South part of Romania. Bucharest is also called "little Paris", because of the many French influences of the last century, when the most spoken foreign language in Romania was French.

Since 1918,the national day of Romania is on the 1st of December, the day as the 3 parts that once were apart came together and formed the country as it is today.

The official language is Romanian, a Neolatin language, being related to the other Latin languages in Europe, such as Italian, Spanish, French etc.
In the year 106 A.D. the Romans have conquered the country and brought many of their traditions and habits to what later became Romania.

The main creed in Romania is the Orthodoxism (around 87% of the population),followed by Catholicism (5% of the population) and others.
People in Romania are very faithful, they believe in God, worship Him and it's not rare to see people going to church every Sunday morning and coming home at noon time, hearing them talking about their believes and praising God, mostly in the countryside.


The official currency in Romania is the 'Lei', but it's usual that banks and other institutions work with the USD or with the Euro (the official currency for most of the countries in Europe).







THE COMMUNISM AND THE REVOLT



For 45 years (1945-1990) Romania was a communistic country, ruled by Ceausescu, a president who held the entire power of the country. Besides being the president, he was the army's commander-in-chief, the president of the unique politic party, named the Communistic Party. He made the laws and had the right to decide about life and death in the country.
'Communistic' means that every single person in the country was equal to the oth