Queen Marie of Romania, wife of King Ferdinand I, was one of the prominent personalities who shaped modern Romania. She helped forge the nation through sheer willpower, intelligence, education, a deep sense of history, devotion, heroism, diplomatic skill, and a commanding presence.
The National Peasants' Party was one of Romania's most important political parties, producing a remarkable generation of leading statesmen.
A historical perspective on Romania's Muslim community, which today accounts for 2% of the country's population but was once a sizeable one.
The Black Sea is Romania’s gateway to the wider world, giving Romanian ships and sailors access to seas across the globe.
The history of the Muslim community in Romania is primarily the history of the Tatars and Turks living in Dobrogea
The history of the industrial development of Romania’s capital city, Bucharest, which kicked off nearly 170 years ago, has kept pace with the industrial development of Romania itself.
An overview of the relations with the Ottomans from the 15th to the 18th centuries.
The fall of communism in 1989 marked the collapse of a dividing line established in 1945 among the UN nations that had defeated Germany in World War II.
Widespread lying was a defining feature of the communist regime. In this case, we cannot even speak of the ordinary level of public deception that exists in any society or political system.
No other influence has been greater on the Romanian space in the last millennium than the Turkish influence
The communist government’s fight against 'kulaks', the most capable people in the rural world, was a fight against performance itself.
The year 1924 proved difficult for Romania in terms of relations with the Soviet Union, its powerful neighbour and declared adversary.
Mining is an old occupation in the Romanian lands, present in the earliest records of the inhabitants of these parts.
After enduring the trauma of the brutal and far reaching societal transformations imposed by the communist regime installed in 1945 with direct Soviet backing, Romania had to relearn how to pursue an autonomous foreign policy that could serve its own interests.
