In the aftermath of 1989, Romanian culture entered a profound crisis, triggered by the lack of power that for decades had defined its physiognomy between resistance and compromises, and exacerbated by the controversies surrounding the conduct of the intellectual under the regime and the relations with the culture of exile […]

HUMAN AND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY Eastern European state. Geographically Carpathian-Danubian country, but which is frequently included among those in the Balkans for its historical-political vicissitudes. Even in the early 21st century. Romania found herself sharing her fate in some way with that of the states of the Balkan Peninsula: at least […]

Eastern European state. The population of the Romania, which was 20,121,641 according to a 2011 census, is 21,640,168 residents. according to an estimate by UNDESA (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs) of 2014, with a rather low average density (90.5 residents / km2). The trend of demographic decrease […]

Routes of communication. – They are on the whole really insufficient. The railways measure a total distance of just 11,221 km. (1933); of them only 218 km. they are double track. Their distribution is very uneven. For example, in Transylvania the network is more or less sufficient, while in Bessarabia […]

With the fall of Ceauşescu, J. Iliescu, former Communist and leader of the National Salvation Front, later renamed the Social Democratic Party, was in power until 1995. Since the early 1990s, a transformation of the country’s economy was initiated through the restructuring of the industrial sector, the privatization of agriculture […]

The Principality and Kingdom of Romania In March 1821 the Greek A. Ipsilanti tried to raise the Principalities by entering Moldavia and reaching Bucharest, while a larger rebellion, centered on Wallachia, found a leader in T. Vladimirescu. After a beginning of agreement, the two movements came into conflict and Vladimirescu […]

Population density and distribution of cities. – With an average density of 61 residents per sq. km. Romania is far below the states of central and western Europe, but it is moreover above the average densities found in eastern Europe, with which it borders and of which it already shows […]

In the sec. XIX Romanian art completely leaves its Byzantine character; consciously turns to the West. Gheorghe Asachi, who did his studies in Vienna and Rome, amateur, but influential in Moldovan public life and director of the first art school in Iaşi, founded in 1841, was one of the first […]