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DID YOU KNOW … ...that the Danube Delta in Romania is Europe's second largest and best preserved delta?...that the Romanian language is the only Romance language where definite articles are enclitic?...that, with an area of 238,391 km², Romania is the largest country in Southeastern Europe?...that Romania's Palace of Parliament, despite the building process not being completely finished, is the biggest building in Europe and the second-largest building in the world?...that Romania renominated its currency, the leu, in July 2005, so that 10,000 old lei equal 1 new leu?...that Timişoara, a city in western Romania, was the first European city to have electric streetlights?...that Bucharest's RATB mass transit network is the fourth largest in Europe?...that Romania joined the EU on January 1, 2007?
The Danube Delta (Romanian: Delta Dunării; Ukrainian: ДельтаДунаю, Del'taDunaju) is the second largest river delta in Europe, after the Volga Delta, and is the best preserved on the continent. The greater part of the Danube Delta lies in Romania (Tulcea county), while its northern part, on the left bank of the Chilia arm, is situated in Ukraine (Odessa Oblast). The approximate surface is 4152 km², of which 3446 km² are in Romania. If the lagoons of Razim-Sinoe (1015 km² of which 865 km² water surface; situated in the south, but attached to the Danube Delta from geological and ecological perspectives, as well as being the combined territory of the World Heritage Site) are to be added, the considered area of the Danube Delta grows to 5165 km².
Romanian (obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: limbaromână[ˈlimbaroˈmɨnə] ( listen)) or Daco-Romanian is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova. It has official status in Romania, Republic of Moldova, and the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in Serbia. In the Republic of Moldova, the language is officially called limbamoldovenească ("Moldovan") for political reasons. Romanian speakers are scattered across many other countries, notably Italy, Spain, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Portugal, United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, France, and Germany.
In morphology and syntax, a clitic is a morpheme that is grammatically independent, but phonologically dependent on another word.It is pronounced like an affix, but works at the phrase level. Clitics may belong to any grammatical category, though they are commonly pronouns, determiners, or adpositions. Note that spelling is not a good guide for identifying clitics, clitics may be spelled as independent words, bound affixes or separated by special characters (e.g. apostrophe). Etymology The name of Romania (Romanian: România) comes from Romanian: român which is a derivative of the Latin: Romanus (Roman).The fact that Romanians call themselves a derivative of Romanus (Romanian: Român/Rumân) is first mentioned in the 16th century by many authors, including Italian humanists travelling in Transylvania, Moldavia and Wallachia] The oldest surviving document written in the Romanian language is a 1521 letter known as "Neacşu's Letter from Câmpulung".[This document is also notable for having the first occurrence of "Rumanian" in a Romanian written text, Wallachia being here named The Rumanian Land – ŢearaRumânească (Ţeara from the Latin: Terra land). In the following centuries, Romanian documents use interchangeably two spelling forms: Român and Rumân.[Socio-linguistic evolutions in the late 17th century led to a process of semantic differentiation: the form "rumân", presumably usual among lower classes, got the meaning of "bondsman", while the form român kept an ethno-linguistic meaning.[After the abolition of serfdom in 1746, the form "rumân" gradually disappears and the spelling definitively stabilises to the form "român", "românesc".[The name "România" as common homeland of all Romanians is documented in the early 19th centuryThis name has been officially in use since December 11, 1861. English-language sources still used the terms "Rumania" or "Roumania", borrowed from the French spelling "Roumanie", as recently as World War IIbut since then those terms have largely been replaced with the officialspelling "Romania".
Romania (pronounced /roʊˈmeɪniə/ ( listen)roe-MAY-nee-ə; archaic: Rumania, Roumania; Romanian: România[romɨˈni.a] ( listen)) is a country located in Southeastern and Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea .Almost all of the Danube Delta is located within its territory. Romania shares a border with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova to the northeast, and Bulgaria to the south. Romania România
The leu (Romanian pronunciation: [lew], plural lei[lej]; ISO 4217 code RON; numeric code 946) is the currency of Romania. It is subdivided into 100 bani (singular: ban). The name of the currency means "lion". On 1 July 2005, Romania underwent a currency reform, switching from the previous leu (ROL) to a new leu (RON). 1 RON is equal to 10,000 ROL. The currency of Moldova is also called the leu, but is independent of the Romanian leu. Romania joined the European Union on 1 January 2007 and it is expected to adopt the euro in 2014.
Timişoara (Romanian pronunciation: [timiˈʃo̯ara] ( listen) is a city in the Banat region of western Romania. It is the capital of Timiş County. With 311,586 inhabitants (2009)Timişoara, the second largest Romanian city, is the main economic and cultural center in Banat in the west of the country.
The Palace of the Parliament (Romanian: PalatulParlamentului) in Bucharest, Romania is a multi-purpose building containing both chambers of the Romanian Parliament. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the Palace is the world's largest civilian administrative building, most expensive administrative building, and heaviest building. The Palace was designed and nearly completed by the Ceauşescu regime as the seat of political and administrative power. NicolaeCeauşescu named it the House of the Republic (Casa Republicii), but many Romanians call it the People's House (Casa Poporului).
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