2007-12-28 08:38:00 · 7 answers · asked by asinutza 1 in Travel ➔ Europe (Continental) ➔ Other - Europe
My guess is that you are Romanian, as am I, so I will just share these videos with everyone.
Enjoy!
A world without Romania
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucsfHPbhzDw
And the free hugs campaign ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxx454vmqz0
EDIT
Hey Oracle, nice to see you outside the crazy section - and I don't mean psych. ;-)
2007-12-29 07:00:26 · answer #1 · answered by Fex 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Romania is an Eastern European country that survived one of the worst Communist dictators in history, Nicolae CeauÅescu, who not only starved and shot his own people, but was also the cause for thousands of children to be orphaned. While his people lived in poverty, he build a huge palace to himself, the CeauÅescu palace, which is the world's second largest building in the world after the Pentagon. Nicolae CeauÅescu and his wife, Elena, were shot after a short trial during the Romanian revolution.
Romania is the homeland of the Dracula legend, has produced some of the world's best gymnasts, and has a rich countryside with a unique pastoral culture. You probably have seen a small Romanian village if you've seen the Borat movie -- the opening of the film is supposed to be in Kazakhstan, but it's really in Romania.
The capital city, Bucharest, is unique and beautiful in it's own way, but Romania is known now as the wild west of Europe -- it's not the safest or most civilized, and anything goes.
For more on Romania, check out Lonely Planet or wikipedia.
2007-12-28 16:52:24 · answer #2 · answered by Bella S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, the location part has already been answered. Anyway, Brancusi, a world-renown sculptor, was born and raised in Romania. At one point, a sculpture of his sold for about $18 million at auction, the most a sculpture was sold for. A while later, another one of Brancusi's sculptures sold for about $27 million, breaking his own record.
2007-12-29 17:14:07 · answer #3 · answered by Stupid Flanders 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Romania is in eastern Europe, near Black Sea.
It has lovely mountains, seaside, medieval cities and nice people.
For some pictures, check:
http://www.romaniatourism.com/
2007-12-28 23:30:27 · answer #4 · answered by miha_80 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Transylvania is part of Romania, and the original Dracula, Vlad Tepes, is from there.
Once I met a lady from Transylvania and she said she never heard of Dracula until she moved to the US.
2007-12-28 16:51:40 · answer #5 · answered by majnun99 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's in Eastern Europe, right next to Hungary. Communism was only overthrown there in the late 80's. Look it up on Wikipedia.
2007-12-28 16:42:52 · answer #6 · answered by North 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are the only country in that region speaking a romance language, surrounded by countries speaking slavic languages.
2007-12-29 14:58:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋