What is interesting about Romania?

This «country vampires» interesting to all, from its mysterious history to the fact that the country's president goes to the store without a bodyguard. A country in Europe, revered by one of the most criminal. So, all is not so? Let's start with history.

History
The modern history of Romania begins May 9, 1877. This year the country gained its independence. Shortly before, in 1859, united the two territories - Wallachia and Moldavia. Transylvania joined them in 1918. However, the history of the people has more than one millennium.

The ancestors of the Romanians Dacians were deemed Thracian people, akin to the Albanians. It was a very warlike people, who worried the outskirts of the Roman Empire under the leadership of the legendary Decebal. After two trips to the country of the Roman emperor Trajan established in 107 by the province of Dacia. In honor of this was created Trajan's Column, which shows Dacians. Costumes of Dacians very similar to the national costumes of modern Romanians some areas. However, in 270, Emperor Aurelian was already forced to leave the province. All the colonists were taken outside the territory.

After this, the country is flooded Gothic tribes, formed the new state. In the 13-14 centuries formed Wallachia and Moldavia. Transylvania is divided between the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary. All the surrounding land populated by Slavic tribes. Thus, the country is becoming isolated from their cultural homeland of Italy. Romania - the only countries that speak a Romance language, which is divorced from the historical homeland of the language.

Culture

The name of Romania (Romaine, as they say themselves Romanians) sends us to the historical name of Rome. And the culture of this country miraculously continues to keep the legacy of the ancient empire. This surprised many historians, especially if we recall that the Roman colonization lasted only a half-century and all the Roman colonists were fully withdrawn. There is even a theory that a tribe of Latins from the Lazio region migrated from the region of the Carpathians.

Language

First, kinship with ancient Rome can be traced in language. Romanian language belongs to the eastern branch of the Romance languages. Literary language is very beautiful and like-sounding Italian. However, it has several sounds closer to the Slavic and Germanic. In the language were also Dacian roots, although their numbers are few. There has strange parallels with the French language in the part of the nasal endings of words such as hand, bread, dog, etc. Although the actual nasals in Romanian language there. French language in nowadays distributed among the educated population.

By the same branch of the languages belong to a few living and one dead language. Latter - it dalmatsky language in which a couple of centuries ago, said in Dalmatia (the Yugoslav Adriatic coast). By living languages include Istra-Romanesque, vallahsky (Aromanian), Meglena-Romanesque style. Sometimes more isolated Moldovan. In all these languages are spoken limited populations in Balkan countries such as Greece, Macedonia, Croatia, Albania, Bulgaria and Turkey. This suggests that once the Balkans and Carpathians, there was extensive Romano-speaking community, adjacent to Italy.

Architecture and kitchen
Despite considerable Germanic and Turkish influence in the country saved the tradition of ancient Rome. For example, in housing made of stone floors and do not make the thresholds. In the kitchen, despite the significant influence of the Turkish (the majority of the names of dishes, Turkish), preference is given to pork and cabbage. Beef and chicken in the socialist time lying on the shelves, but the Romanians were told that there is nothing. Pork in the free sale was not. A potato for food and not esteemed at all. Not that that in Russia or Germany.

Thanks to foreign influences in Romania was a very interesting and diverse architectural environment. Here you can find monuments of different cultures, from ancient Roman and ending with Ceausescu's palace (the communist ruler of Romania). There are many very beautiful castles at very different architecture. As a nation of Orthodox (87% of the population), Romania has a large number of monuments of Christian culture, starting with cave temples. The capital Bucharest is called «little Paris» for her beauty and elegance of the architecture. Here you can see and boulevards, and the Triumphal Arch on grand «Champs-Elysées», covered with flowering trees.

Musical Culture
Musical culture of Romania is also extremely interesting. The country was created distinctive academic focus based on national traditions, but was best known folk music performed by gypsy ensembles tarafov (taraf - a group of people in Turkish). A set of tools in those ensembles of Turkish or Persian rather than European, and Oriental music soon. The most popular dance for some reason is the so-called Sârba (Sirbu - a Serb), ie, Serbian dance. Wide world famous violin virtuoso piece «Skylark» G. Dinicu, the founder of modern tarafov. This play is sometimes performed even by Chinese «violinists» national Chinese instruments erhu (bowed instrument). Widespread popularity are also gypsy brass ensembles. It is believed that they descended from the Turkish military bands.

The most interesting unique musical instrument, apparently very ancient. This telinka or skosivka in the Carpathian Slavs. It represents a simple tube, tapered on one side, without holes. With the game blow from one side (beveled), and on the other hand cover the hole with his finger, which creates a little hoarse sounds of different heights.

Popular culture is alive and well in national costume, which can be seen on real people in villages and folk crafts such as ceramics, wood carving (widely known for magnificent carving of a Romanian furniture), weaving.

Nature
One of the principal assets of Romania is its nature. In the first place - is the Carpathians - the mountains with the old peaks. However, they are still very high, and some previously covered with snow. Beautiful beech forests of the lower part of the mountains. Magnificent mountain passes, where the horses graze, surrounded by birch trees and junipers of 6-10 meters. In the town of Baile Herkulyane has thermal spring in a beautiful valley, and there is an old resort with houses, pressed together by the rock on the edge of the mountain stream.

Through the main ridge of the Carpathians dug a grand canyon of the Danube, the great European river, connecting the half of Europe. Danube river runs into the Black Sea, forming a huge delta. Her area of 5640 square kilometers In it you can find beautiful lakes and streams, majestic sand dunes and islands. More than 300 species of birds and 1150 species of plants inhabit in the delta. Organization awarded the UNESCO Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve status.

Black Sea coast - a magnificent beaches, places of entertainment and leisure resorts.

Also Romania is famous for its wines. Many famous wine region Murfatlar. However, not everyone knows that Romania has its own ancient and several varieties of grapes, as well as France, Italy and Germany. The origin of wine in Romania dates back to the Roman period.

On the plains country produces its own oil. Just among the fields are rocking and they get out of the ground the black gold.

Enumeration attractions is endless. Every single corner of the country is worthy of thorough story. However, the overall impression of this wonderful country, Romania, we have received. It turns out that it is good not only because they had lived Count Dracula, but these real miracles occurring there at every step. And in January 2007 the country became a member of the EEC. Now it is part of a united Europe.

Good luck to you in the study of all new and unknown!

Dmitry Shomin
http://traveldin.blogspot.com/