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| ROMANIA at a GLANCE National Statistics Board (INS) Population 21,500,000 Size 238,000 sq km, 93,000 sq miles GDP PPP $189 billion (2014) GDP PPP $18,000 (per capita 2014) Literacy 96% Ethnic groups Romanian 87%, Hungarian 6.6%, Roma 5%, Ukrainian 0.3%, German 0.3%, Russian 0.2%, Turkish 0.2%, other 0.4% (2002) Languages Romanian (Latin) (details), Hungarian, German, plus others Religions Eastern Orthodox (majority), Catholic, Greco-Catholic, Unitarian, Evangelical/Lutheran Protestant Historic events (timelines) 1859 - Wallachia and Moldavia unite 1881 - Monarchy established (Carol I) w. Parliamentary system and current tricolor flag adopted 1920 - Romania gains Transylvania 1941 - Collaboration w. Nazi Germany 1944 - Coup turns govt against Germany 1947 - Dec: King Michael forced to abdicate; Communists take-over 1989 - Dec: Communist regime overthrown (Ceausescu killed) 1992 - First free post-Communist elections 2005 - EU Accession Treaty Signed 2007 - EU Membership Formalized 2014 - Romanian open access to EU labor market |
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| WIKIPEDIA on ROMANIA: see DID YOU KNOW . . . - The first jet plane to fly was invented by a Romanian, Henri Coanda see - The game of baseball was perhaps first played in Romania and called "Oina" - First evidence of "writing" was discovered in the Danube basin (before Summerian) - Oil first exploited commercially in 1857 see, two years before oil discovered in Pennsylvania - First compressed gaz operation in Europe - 1914 see - Unitarian Church was founded in Cluj, Transylvania - 2300 Allied airmen died in bombing raids on Ploesti's oild fields in WW II - The "Desert Fox" Rommel first fought as an officer on the Romanian front in WW I and was defeated in his battle zone of Onesti (Hill 789) - The modernist "Dada" movement of the 1920s was co-founded by a Romanian |
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