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Romanian history and culture

Romanian history and culture. Adina Ionescu & Rodica Ana Catuneanu The Romanian Foundation for Quality Promotion, Romania. General Information about Romania. Population: 22.215.421 (July 2009 est.) Romania’s neighbours: Moldavia Bulgaria Hungary Ukraine Serbia

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Romanian history and culture

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  1. Romanian history and culture Adina Ionescu & Rodica Ana Catuneanu The Romanian Foundation for Quality Promotion, Romania

  2. General Information about Romania • Population: 22.215.421 (July 2009 est.) • Romania’s neighbours: • Moldavia • Bulgaria • Hungary • Ukraine • Serbia • Area: 237.499 sq. km

  3. The main Romanian regions ► Dobrogea ► Bucovina and Moldavia ► Wallachia ► Transylvania (the west central region with the highest concentration of the ethnic minorities: Hungarian, German and Serbs) ► Crisana and Banat ► Maramures

  4. Dobrogea • Etymology: land of Dobrotici (after the prince Dobrotitsa/Dobrotici, who in 1325 ruled over the region) • Location: Southeastern Romania between the Danube River and the Black Sea • Main cities: Constanta, Medgidia, Mangalia, Tulcea • Dobrogea is the home of the Danube Delta - a 2,200-square-mile wildlife reservation designated by UNESCO as a “Reservation of the Biosphere.

  5. The DanubeDelta

  6. Cultural objectives in Dobrogea • Parts of the ruins of the ancient town of Tomis (now Constanta) - its precinct wall, aqueducts,  underground galleries, basilica, painted crypts • Parts of the ruins of the ancient Greek town of Callatis - the defense wall, the Christian basilica, the early medieval settlement in Mangalia • The ruins of Histria (founded in 657 BC), the oldest Greek settlement in Romania • The beach resorts on the Black Sea coast: Mamaia, Neptun-Olimp, Eforie Nord, Costinesti, Mangalia • The curative mud baths on the shores of Lake Techirghiol in Eforie Nord • Bird watching in the Danube Delta, the realm of over 300 bird species, including the largest pelican colonies • Danube Delta tours by boat with local fishermen • The traditional fishing villages in the Danube Delta, such as Sfantu Gheorghe, Mila 23 , Crisan, Jurilovca and Letea

  7. The main museums from Dobrogea • Art Museum in Constanta • Folk Art Museum in Constanta • National History and Archeological Museum in Constanta • Romanian Navy Museum in Constanta • Archaeological Museum Callatis in Mangalia • Folk Art and Ethnographic Museum in Tulcea • Fine Arts Museum in Tulcea • Natural History Museum & Aquarium in Tulcea • Museum of the Danube Delta in Tulcea

  8. The Aquarium from Constanta - Inaugurated in 1958, the Public Aquarium of Constanta exposes more than 2000 representatives of 60 species which live in marine and fresh water and other exotic species. • The Tropaeum Traiani is a monument in Adamclisi, built in 109 to commemorate Roman Emperor Traian 's victory over the Dacians in 102 in the Battle of Tapae. The present edifice is a reconstruction dating from 1977 of the original monument. A nearby museum contains many archaeological objects, including parts of the original Roman monument.

  9. The Statue of Ovidiu - Constanta A statue of Ovid the Roman poet banished on this land by Augustus stands in the Ovid Square. At the base of the statue is an epitaph written by the poet in Tomis Constanta. • Carol I Mosque - Constanta The Mosque in Constanta was built in 1910, by the King of Romania, in Moor style. It is an exact copy of the Konia mosque from Anatolia (Turkey). It has beautiful inner wall paintings.

  10. Mangalia Mosque is the oldest mosque in Romania, being built in 1575 by Esmahan, the daughter of Ottoman sultan Selim II. It serves a community of 800 Muslim families, most of them of Turkish and Tatar ethnicity. Near the mosque there is a 300 years old cemetery where Turkish dignitaries were buried here and tombstones bear inscriptions in Old Arabic.

  11. Bucovina and Moldavia ► Location: Northeastern Romania - between the Carpathian Mountains and the Prut River. Bucovina is situated in the northern part of the region of Moldova, bordering with Ukraine. ►The main cities: Bacau, Botosani, Galati, Iasi, Piatra Neamt, Radauti, Suceava (the capital of Moldavia from 1375 until 1565) ► Iasi – the cultural capital of Moldovia ► The most famous monuments from Iasi are: • The Church of the Three Hierarchs, (built in 1639 ) • The neo-gothic Palace of Culture, (built between 1900-1926),currently housing the Ethnographic Museum, the Art Museum and the History Museum of Moldova.

  12. Cultural objective in Bucovina region • the UNESCO World heritage sites of the Painted Monasteriesof Bucovina – built in the 15th and 16th centuries. The most famous is “The Sistine Chapel of the East”, Voronet Monastery. It was built in 1438 by Stefan the Great.

  13. Reference • http://www.romaniatourism.com • http://www.croaziere-marea-neagra.ro • http://www.rotravel.com • http://www.orthodoxphotos.com/Monasteries_and_Churches • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki • http://www.romanianmonasteries.org/

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