Religion and churchgoing were generally frowned upon back in Communist Romania. Religious practices were being discouraged and back in the early days of communism, some clergymen served many years in prisons for their faith
The Union of the Romanian Principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia, on January 24, 1859, was made by domestic pressure, but also under propitious international circumstances
On December 1, 1918, Romanians in Transylvania proclaimed the union with the Kingdom of Romania. The fluid and muddled situation in the autumn of 1918, at the end of WWI, led to confusion among individuals and communities
Starting in 1977, after the big earthquake that killed as many as 1,500 people, Bucharest saw deep changes during the Communist regime led by Nicolae...
The early 19th century was a time when the Romanian space modernized. It involved a new way of seeing the world, with an increasing awareness of fundamental rights and freedoms that no authority could violate
The Mavrocordatos were the first Phanariote family to rule in the Romanian Principalities
In the first half of the 1940s, Romania and Germany were allies. In spite of this alliance, there were differences between them in regard to the way they treated Jewish communities
29 years ago, Romania, along with other Eastern and Central European countries, broke the yoke of communist tyranny and joined the democratic community it had been a part of before WWII
18th Century intellectuals criticized institutions such as the monarchy and the Church and social classes such as noblemen and the clergy due to the...
The Bolshevik revolution of 1917, which had secured the victory of Communism in Russia, was only the beginning of anarchy.
One of the oldest buildings in the capital city
A look at the Romania's participation in World War I
On 1 December 1918, the city of Alba Iulia, in what is now central Romania, was the gathering place for the National Assembly of Romanians in Transylvania, who decided that the future of Romanians in Austria-Hungary was with Romania
Iconic figures in the late 19th century and the early 20th century
French geographer Emmanuel de Martonne was one of the greatest fans of Romania in the first half of the 20th Century, even the greatest, according to some. He published studies and maps which had a great influence in the drawing of borders after WWI
