Kingdom of Romania: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
Line 20:
| image_map = [[File:Kingdom of Romania (1939).svg|frameless]]
| image_map_caption = The Kingdom of Romania in 1939 (placeholder)
| national_motto = ''[[w:Nihil sine Deo|Nihil Sine Deo]]''<br />("Nothing without God")
| national_anthem = ''[[Trăiască Regina]]''<br />("Long live the Queen")
| languages_type = Official language<br /> {{Nobold|and national language}}
| languages = {{indented plainlist|[[w:Romanian language|Romanian]]}}
| languages2_type = Regional and minority languages
| languages2 = {{hlist |[[w:German language|German]] |[[w:Hungarian language|Hungarian]] |[[w:Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]] |[[w:Romani language|Romani]] |[[w:Gagauz Language|Gagauz]]|[[w:Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]]}}
| ethnic_groups = {{Unbulleted list |79.7% Romanians|5.4% Hungarians|3.2% Roma|2.7% Germans|2.5% Ukrainians|1.2% Russians|0.7% Bulgarians|4.6% Other|}}
| ethnic_groups_year = 2010
Line 43:
| capital = [[Bucharest]]
| largest_city = capital
| government_type = [[w:Unitary state|Unitary]] [[w:Parliamentary system|parliamentary]] [[w:Constitutional monarchy|constitutional monarchy]]
| leader_title1 = [[King of Romania|Monarch]]
| leader_name1 = [[Margareta I]]
Line 66:
| currency = [[Romanian Leu]]
| currency_code = ROL
| time_zone = [[w:Eastern European Time|EET]]
|utc_offset = +2
| date_format = {{Abbr|dd|day}}/{{Abbr|mm|month}}/{{Abbr|yyyy|year}}<br/>{{Abbr|yyyy|year}}-{{Abbr|mm|month}}-{{Abbr|dd|day}} ([[w:Anno Domini|AD]])
|drives_on = right
|cctld = [[w:.ro|.ro]]
|calling_code = [[w:Telephone_numbers_in_Romania|+40]]
| demonym = [[w:Romanians|Romanian]]
}}The '''Kingdom of Romania''' (Romanian: Regatul României), commonly known as '''Romania''' (Romanian: România), is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, the USSR to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Yugoslavia to the southwest, and the Black Sea to the southeast. The total area of the Kingdom of Romania is 287,483 km<sup>2</sup> (110,998 sq m), with an estimated 2020 population of over 32 million people.
Europe's second-longest river, the Danube, rises in Germany's Black Forest and flows southeasterly for 2,857 km (1,775 mi), before emptying into Romania's Danube Delta. The Carpathian Mountains cross Romania from the north to the southwest and include Moldoveanu Peak, at an altitude of 2,544 m (8,346 ft).
Settlement in what is now Romania began in the Lower Paleolithic followed by written records attesting the kingdom of Dacia, its conquest, and subsequent Romanisation by the Roman Empire during late antiquity. The modern Romanian state was formed in 1859 through a personal union of the Danubian Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. The new state, officially named Romania since 1866, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. During World War I, after declaring its neutrality in 1914, Romania fought together with the Allied Powers from 1916. In the aftermath of the war, Bukovina, Bessarabia, Transylvania, and parts of Banat, Crișana, and Maramureș became part of the Kingdom of Romania. In June-August 1940, as a consequence of its deteriorating diplomatic situation, Romania was compelled to cede Northern Transylvania to Hungary and parts of Bessarabia, and Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union. In November 1940, Romania signed the Tripartite Pact and, consequently, in June 1941 entered World War II on the Axis side, fighting against the Soviet Union until September 1945, when it surrendered to the Allied powers and then became a co-belligerent of the Allies while recovering Northern Transylvania.
Romania largely remained an agrarian country until the 1950s. After World War II, it rapidly industrialized and developed an advanced economy, while adopting a new constitution that enshrined democratic principles; the country soon enjoyed widespread prosperity and a high per capita income. Described as a regional power within the Balkans, Romania is a founding member of the Entente Economic Concord, ECTO and the League of Nations. It is also a member of Intermarium and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Romania peforms highly on several international metrics, including education, civil liberties, quality of life and human development. <references />
[[Category:Romania]]
| |||