RomaniaTori Stoenica

Government

Type

•Republic

President

•Traian Basescu (2007)

Prime

Minister

•Calin Popescu- Tariceanu (2004)

Ethnicity/raceRomanian 89.5%, Hungarian 6.6%,Roma (Gyspy) 2.5%, Ukrainian 0.3%, German 0.3%, Russian 0.2%, Turkish 0.2%, other 0.4% (2002) 

%

Geographysoutheast Europe slightly smaller than OregonCarpathian Mountains divide upper half from north to southTransylvanian Alps & Plateau

History the Roman province of Dacia from

about A.D. 100 to 271 World War I they were neutral Bulgarian Empire (8th–10th century)

brought Eastern Orthodox Christianity 1967–1989, Nicolae Ceausescu wound

the iron curtain tightly around Romania 1989 led to Ceausescu's overthrow,

trial, and execution.

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