Romania
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Capital | Bucharest |
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Dialing code | +40 |
Currency | Romanian leu |
Population | 19. 53 million (2018) |
Points of interest | Bran Castle |
Peleș Castle | |
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ID | 2576569 |
About Romania
Romania is a southeastern European country known for the forested region of Transylvania, ringed by the Carpathian Mountains. Its preserved medieval towns include Sighişoara, and there are many fortified churches and castles, notably clifftop Bran Castle, long associated with the Dracula legend. Bucharest, the country's capital, is the site of the gigantic, Communist-era Palatul Parlamentului government building.
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...By Paul Adams, international affairs correspondent, & Robert PlummerBBC NewsUkraine has alleged that Russian drones landed on Romanian territory during a series of strikes on a neighbouring Ukrainian city...
Ukraine war: Deserters risk death fleeing to Romania
... " When he reached the Romanian shore, a Ukrainian patrol spotted him...
Ben Ferencz: Last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor dies, aged 103
... Ferencz was born in Transylvania - part of Romania - in 1920, but his family emigrated to the US when he was young to escape antisemitism, later settling in New York...
Czechs demolish pig farm on Nazi concentration camp for Roma
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Snake Island: Why Russia couldn't hold on to strategic Black Sea outcrop
... A look at the map also shows that Russian control of the island represented a threat to Nato member Romania - both its key port of Constanta and traffic in the mouth of the River Danube...
Ukraine: Sheltering with monks in a Romanian monastery
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Ford to make electric car parts at Halewood plant
... The global car giant also recently announced a $1bn (£730m) investment in its vehicle assembly facility in Cologne, Germany, and an expansion of electric vehicle production in Turkey and Romania...
Ukraine: Sheltering with monks in a Romanian monastery
Ukraine: Sheltering with monks in a Romanian monastery
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To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.Each of The Almost four million refugees who have fled Ukraine So Far has their own story, the threads of their Past Lives , their Escape Routes and their current places of shelter all interwoven.
The Bbc 's Nick Thorpe and Sira Thierij met A Family who found shelter in a Carpathian monastery in north-east Romania – Living amongst monks, Until One day they can Return Home to Kharkiv in Ukraine.
Drone filming by Ion Holbein.
Source of news: bbc.com