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1 day ago · Early modern period. Independence and Kingdom of Romania. World War I. Greater Romania (1918–1940) World War II and aftermath (1940–1947) Communist period (1947–1989) 1989 Revolution. Transition to free market (1990–2004) NATO and the European Union membership (2004–present) Romanian rulers. See also. Notes. References. Sources. Further reading.
2 days ago · The Thracians, an Indo-European -speaking people, inhabited large parts of Southeast Europe, primarily in modern-day Bulgaria, Romania, and northern Greece. Their origins are obscure, but they are believed to have descended from a mixture of Proto-Indo-Europeans and Early European Farmers. Around the 5th millennium BC, various indigenous groups ...
4 days ago · In 1859 the principalities of Walachia and Moldavia were united, and in 1877 they proclaimed their independence from the Ottoman Empire as the modern Romania. This was accompanied by a conversion from the Cyrillic alphabet to the Latin and by an exodus of students who sought higher education in western Europe, especially France .
2 days ago · 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.
1 day ago · Most of the Balkan nation-states emerged during the 19th and early 20th centuries as they gained independence from the Ottoman Empire or the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Greece in 1821, Serbia, and Montenegro in 1878, Romania in 1881, Bulgaria in 1908 and Albania in 1912. Recent history Modern political history of the Balkans from 1796 onwards ...
2 days ago · Transylvania is a historical region in central and northwestern Romania. It was under the rule of the Agathyrsi, part of the Dacian Kingdom (168 BC–106 AD), Roman Dacia (106–271), the Goths, the Hunnic Empire (4th–5th centuries), the Kingdom of the Gepids (5th–6th centuries), the Avar Khaganate (6th–9th centuries), the Slavs, and the ...
4 days ago · ROCOCO. CLASSICISM. Early Modern Period is a historical concept regarding a period from the beginning of the Renaissance to an unevenly defined turning point of the 19th century. A temporal framework of the Modern Period is, in general, unanimously established; different division lines that close this epoch are being pointed out though.
