…and about our village…VULCAN

Teacher Postolache Dumitrita

...ROMANIA...Romania is a

country in Southeastern Europe. It borders Hungary and Serbia to the W, Ukraine and Moldova to the NE and Bulgaria to the S. Romania is a “gifted country”, as it has a stretch of sea coast along the Black Sea and the eastern and southern Carpathian Mountains run through its center.

Main INFO about Romania• Politics:

Romania is a parliamentary democratic republic where executive functions are held by prime minister. The president is elected by popular vote for maximum two terms, and since the amendments in 2003, the terms are five years.

• Administrative divisions:

Romania is divided into 41 counties and the municipality of Bucharest. Each county is further subdivided into cities and communes, which have own mayor and local council. There are a total of 319 cities and 2686 communes in Romania.

• Demographics:

In 2002, Romania had a population of 21,698,181.

• Geography:

With a surface area of 238,391 square kilometres (92,043 sq mi), Romania is the largest country in southeastern Europe and the twelfth-largest in Europe.[119] Romania's terrain is distributed roughly equally between mountainous, hilly and lowland territories.

• Language:

The official language of Romania is Romanian, an Eastern Romance language related to Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan.

• Religion:

Romania is a secular state, thus having no national religion. The dominant religious body is the Romanian Orthodox Church.

UNIQUENESS in Romania

The statue of Decebalus The Statue of Dacian

king Decebalus (40-meter high) is the tallest rock sculpture in Europe. It is located on the Danube, near the city of Orşova.

Beusnita – Ochiul BeiBei Lake will amazes

you by its colors: one of the most clear blue ever seen.

UNIQUENESS in Romania

Castles and palaces Bran CastlePeles CastleHumedoara CastleFăgăras Fortress

Painted monasteries SucevitaMoldovitaHumorVoronet

Location:

Vulcan is large village, situated in the south west of Romania, in Hunedoara county.

Hunedoara

county in

Romania

VULCAN village in

Hunedoara county

• Culture & Religion: Half of the inhabitants

of Vulcan village are Romanians and the other half is formed bz Hungarians.Therefore, there are two churches and two religions: the Orthodox and Calvinist religion.

• Languages: Due to this mixture,

there are two languages spoken here: the Romanian and the Hungarian languages

• Education: There is only one

school in Vulcan, named Scoala Generala; it comprises kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, both for Romanians and for Hungarians.

...our village...VULCAN

Vulcan in pictures

The Romanian church

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The Carpathians, the Danube

and the Black Sea are the

three elements whose mixture leads to the unity and

originality of the Romanian

territory called the Carpathian-Danubian-Pontic

space.

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Born in the Carpathian-Danubian-Pontic space, the Romanian people, descending from the Dacians and the Romans, represents in the ethno-cultural space of Europe one of the oldest people, having according to the historian Nicolae lorga, "roots which are four times millennial"

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Forced to suffer the wild attacks of migratory

people for a long time, the Romanians constituted

themselves into independent states in the 14th

century by uniting the existent pre-state

territories. Although historic circumstances

prevented the forming of a unique Romanian state

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In 1859, as a result of an immense internal

effort and a favorable external context, the

Union of Moldova and Wallachia was achieved

by the election of Alexandru loan Cuza as

Prince of both states. "The Small Union" was

consolidated by a reforming work which

brought the newly formed state closer to

Europe and enabled it to make itself known in

external affairs. Iasi was the city that made the

first steps towards the unification. The decisive

step towards the constituting of the Romanian

Unitary National State was taken during the

year 1918. By uniting all the Romanian

territories some of which had been under

foreign rule: Basarabia, Bucovina, Banat and

Transilvania, the Great Union was

accomplished in Alba lulia on December

1st, 1918. Iasi was the Center for resistance during the World

War I. Here was initiated the Great Union. The anti-Communist

revolution of December 1989 showed the Romanians' option for

democracy and liberty. Thoroughly European, Romania has

given the world cultural patrimony great personalities: the

scholar Dimitrie Cantemir, the sculptor Constantin Brancusi, the

musician George Enescu, the inventor Henri Coand, the

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diplomat Nicolae Titulescu, the historian Nicolae lorga, the

dramatist Eugen lonescu, the historian Mircea Eliade, the

mathematician Grigore Moisil. Many of them have their lives

strongly related to Iasi City. Representing an oasis of Latinity in

this part of the world, the Romanians confirm the statement

made by the Romanian historian Nicolae lorga: "We have

remained Romanians because we could not part from the

memory of Rome".

Used websites:http://www.world-geographics.com/cfg/public/_lib/img/maps/europe/map_of_romania.jpg

www.wikipedia.com www.inromania.orgwww.goromaniatours.com