Still active until the early 1950s, G. Enescu (1881-1955) is certainly the composer whose work most influenced the developments of Romanian music in the 20th century: his compositions that appeared starting from the 1930s are particularly remembered by Oedipus, a play, completed...
With the division of the Roman Empire, the eastern provinces passed from the Latin to the Greek sphere of influence. Thus, the culture of the Romance-speaking population living in the Danube basin developed in a cultural context not only isolated from...
The 20th century it opened onto a well-defined literary landscape, the movements set in the previous century were ‘recovered’ in the modern sense. With the ideologues of this current, A. Vlahuță, G. Coșbuc, N. Iorga, who placed the recovery of the...
According to Findjobdescriptions, the field of poetry is always dominated, after a silence of a few years, by the exceptional personality of Tudor Arghezi (1880-1967). But the corifeo of “militant” lyricism is Beniuc, who, moreover, continues his own line of civic...
Ancient Romania had as its border the main ridge of the Carpazî; the new one has about half of the chain itself, which crosses it for a length of 600 km., dividing it in almost two equal parts. Romania can therefore...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
