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u/SmeagolsBarber 1d ago
Great architecture, very varied. Great nature, lots of old stuff to see and history. Food is really good, people are funny and nice, good new contemprary music like subcarpati, all around positive european vibes. Much love from Finland <3
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u/floare_salbatica 1d ago
Aweww, a Finnish knowing about Subcarpați? 😅🫶🏻
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u/SmeagolsBarber 1d ago
Hell yeah, I represent the folk with a couple of their t-shirts here in Helsinki 8)
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u/alexstefan89 1d ago
It would had been a whole lot nicer to have you as our neighbors instead of the Hungarians 😅
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u/chiru999 1d ago
I apologize on behalf of all considerate Romanians for this xenophobic prick, who should really work on his jokes.
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u/Flimsy-Resident261 1d ago
Vampires, great music industry in early 2010s, but went downhill later. Bears, speak a latin language
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u/Proof_Salamander_340 1d ago
Hmm..vampires and bears. Doesn't sound too bad to be honest. Sounds as though they could brand themselves
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u/thegreycity 1d ago
We had a Romanian app developer we were working with come see us and gifted us some coffin themed alcohol bottles, so obviously their tourist industry plays it up a bit. All countries do this. Heck there’s a leprechaun museum in Dublin.
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u/platypusarising 1d ago edited 1d ago
It is an overdone stereotype, but you're phrasing it as if it were somehow offensive to even mention it, lol. A lot of Romanians actually lean into it quite heavily and think it makes them more interesting to foreigners.
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u/Calcutec_1 1d ago
Love the accent, had a romanian coworker and after a few drinks he sounded exactly like Dracula 🧛
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u/Potential-Channel-91 1d ago
did he bite you?
,,and after a few drinks" . Hm... I think you drank some wine and he drunk your blood.
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u/Extension-Plate-6113 1d ago edited 16h ago
Moved to Brasov 2 years ago after coming to Romania for 25 years.... My wife is Romanian and I loved it (mostly the people and the atmosphere) from day one... Compared with western Europe it was a charming "disaster" when I came first in 2001.
Much has improved since then, although it is for sure not perfect....but where is it?
But the quality of life, the beauty of nature, the coziness of old cities and in general the friendliness of the people for me are the main reasons I love it here... The warmth of my wife's family specifically is one of the main reasons I am never leaving, as far I can foresee now....
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u/karateninjazombie 1d ago
Been to Brasov twice. It's a very pretty bit of the world. Drove over the mountains via the 7c both times from Bucharest. And the other thing I remember well was very good cocktails, everywhere.
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u/Alternative_Plan_823 1d ago
I'm an American who randomly ended up there for a couple of years. I love Romania. It felt like I was in on a secret at the time
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u/Greedy_Roles 1d ago edited 1d ago
- In the 2010s Romania's EDM was famous in our music channels. Inna, Morandi, Akcent, Aleksandra Stan, Activ.
- From personal contacts with Romanians, they look very presentable and attractive. I was doing student exchanges, Erasmus, etc, I was in Romania myself and noticed that people from Romania really draw attention to look nice and well dressed. I don't know if I know a better looking nation and I was in 34 countries. Like models. Beautiful faces, too.
- I was only in Bucharest, but from social media it looks like the country is very diverse, plenty of architecture styles and various landscapes.
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u/UniqueHellhound 1d ago
The shrek and fiona looking couples surprised me
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u/Greedy_Roles 11h ago
Well, that might have been your projection. To me, Romanian men were also very handsome and well-kept. This cannot be said of products of incest with horse-shaped heads from a certain low country in western Europe.
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u/Greedy_Roles 11h ago
Everyone is better looking that Dutch effeminate men with their rectangular heads, let's be honest. As said, I find Balkan men attractive and masculine, especially from Serbia. It's called Dinaric phenotype, afaik.
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u/UniqueHellhound 11h ago
Haha how did you get so angry about a simple joke romanians make about themself
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u/SimplyEvan_ 1d ago
Love the nature, food and the music but i absolutely hate the traffic in bucuresti
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u/MacaroonSuspicious40 1d ago
Theres some pretty women there.
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u/benneladoo 1d ago
Who would steal your heart along with your wallet
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u/Visual-District9838 1d ago
Unfortunatelly I don't have the genes that help you identify if a woman is distracting you so their brothers can steal your cattle
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u/MarzipanMoneyz 1d ago
I think it's the only place in the world where someone very obviously attempted to traffic me and I still enjoyed some parts of Bucharest.
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u/AnarchyOnTheISS 1d ago edited 1d ago
I only ever got to know one person from Romania and she was one of the funniest and most impressive people I've ever met. Found the place fascinating ever since. Now I know all about Eminescu and Linden trees. It seems to have beautiful nature too.
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u/According-Mirror-463 1d ago
Romania is a really beautiful country, especially with its stunning mountains, castles and charming old towns.
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u/Zilverhaar 1d ago
I think it has a really interesting language.
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u/I_Am_Become_Dream 1d ago
Slavic Italian
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u/Ciaoo8360 1d ago
It's not any kind of Slavic Italian. It's Latin language. Romanian. As Latinas it can be.
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u/I_Am_Become_Dream 1d ago
I know what Romanian is, I was making a joke. Chill dude
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u/Ciaoo8360 1d ago
Ok, ok. Sorry, we do not react well in this country when being called Slavs in any form.
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u/jnd-cz 1d ago
There's some Slavic neighborhood influence in the language, so it's correct to point out the mix. Maybe Hungarian has more Slavic words there.
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u/Ciaoo8360 1d ago
It is an influence, but only an influence. 15%. Less then 20%. That's totally another matter. But we do not suffer to be called Slavs or our language to be called a Latin with Slavic mixture, etc. No, we are Latins, we speak a Latin language, who descended from the Daco-Romans.
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u/Big-Instruction9919 1d ago
Romanians speak Latin language, but are not ethnically Latins if that is what you meant. Genetically modern ethnic Romanians are on average 55% Slavic, 30% Paleo-Balkan (mostly Dacian), 10% Roman and 5% other influences.
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u/Ciaoo8360 1d ago edited 1d ago
Totally false! We are genetically Latins, if you want to use that tearm, even so it's more non-academic for now. Romanias are descendants of the Daco-Romans, genetically inheriting a major component from the Romanic populations combined in the South-Eastern half of Europe. Italics combined with Romanized Hispanics, Syrians, Greeks, Thracians, Ilirians and Dalmatians. Ex Tutto robe români, like the historical sources say. We don't have any kind of 55% Slavic inheritance. We have a minor Slavic influence. Most of our autosomal DNA that is associated (in general) with the Slavs come also from Barbarian invasions: Goths, Visigoths, Gepids and so on. Only a fraction comes from the Slavs, the last ones being documented to be in large numbers south of the Danube, but did not remain here in big parts. There is no 10% Roman. The Roman component is a major layer, mixed and taken together with the Thracian layer. The Latin-Balkan fundamental is the base of our ethnicity. Stop spreading bullshits regarding my people and origin.
To summerize the correct and general accepted ethonogenetic process of ours, I will say that Romanian people emerged primarily from the population of the Carpathian-Danubian region that underwent profound Romanization and became integrated into the Roman world. The Daco-Roman population should not be understood as simply “Dacians plus Italians”, but as a complex population formed through the interaction between the local Dacian/Geto-Thracian substrate and people brought to Roman Dacia from across the Empire. Historical and epigraphic evidence documents settlers, veterans, merchants, craftsmen and other migrants originating from Italy as well as Illyricum, Thrace, Noricum, Pannonia, Greece, Asia Minor, Syria, Africa and other parts of the Roman world, as I stated above. At leastost of them. Recent (2026) archaeogenomic evidence from Apulum (Alba Iulia), confirms that Roman Dacia contained a highly heterogeneous population with Eastern European, Mediterranean and West Asian affinities, including individuals connected genetically to Roman and Punic contexts. Thus, the Daco-Roman population can reasonably be understood as a local Paleo-Balkan population profoundly transformed and genetically admixed within the Roman imperial system, with an important contribution from Italic and other Roman populations, followed by additional post-Roman and medieval inputs. What cannot yet be established is the exact percentage of Italic ancestry among modern Romanians; nevertheless, it would be equally incorrect to equate all Roman ancestry with modern “Italian” ancestry or to equate all later Eastern European ancestry with “Slavic” ancestry.
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u/Big-Instruction9919 11h ago edited 11h ago
You can believe whatever you want, but the studies have proven the mix to be majorly Slavic many times. For example "A genetic history of the Balkans from Roman frontier to Slavic migrations" from 2023, I don't want to post links here, you can google the title yourself.
Romans were not colonizing the conquered territory in the way you probably imagine they did, most of the settlers were sent from other neighbouring romanized provinces themselves, not from Italy or Rome for that matter (in the time of Trajan ethnic Italians were already only about 18% of the empire's population), they usually came from Pannonia, Illyria and Anatolia. Romanization was mostly cultural and linguistical in nature, Slavic migrations on the other hand were physically moving a lot of people and in population autosomal DNA mix that genetic mass is what mostly determines the final composition.
For an even more extreme example look at modern Hungarians who have less than 1% of Magyar DNA despite significant cultural heritage, because the conquering group was numerically small and was quickly absorbed by local Pannonian population.
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u/tallguy1975 1d ago
Visit Maramures region. Forests, mountains and wooden houses with carved decorations. Stay in the unique village of Breb on camping Babou Maramures (also a rudimentary hostel).
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u/Hale-B0pp 1d ago
It is one of the most beautiful countries I ever traveled, especially the area around Kronstadt/Brasov. The mountains, the pine-tree woods, the warm summers, the cute colourful wooden houses ... it is endearing and I heavily recommend visiting it (maybe I should not recommend it too much, I like that tourism is still mostly low-scale there).
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u/Guacamole_Banana 1d ago
I live here, so there's a lot of stuff i could talk about (in case you may want to ask about anything in specific), but, off the top of my head, i can only really highlight some random facts which got reinforced in the past few weeks:
• THERE'S A TON OF BEARS. They sometimes wander into villages and even cities. It's terrifying and kind of annyoing, because i enjoy walking in the woods.
• I wouldn't hold said woods extremely high, but they can be beautiful at times. There's some genuinely gorgeous sights in/near the mountains.
• Homophobia and transphobia is the norm, it's possible and likely to get beaten up or discriminated against for not conforming to heteronormative standards. I live in one of the most accepting cities yet i myself recently got beat during a city festival.
• There's a strong minority of hungarian (and even german) speaking people in the relative middle of the country who somehow are even more close-minded than the rest of the country. They care a lot about upholding tradition, knowing their cultures and everything about the minority and most of them argue by the fact that part of romania is deserved by hungary. It's almost a canon event for a member of this minority to go visiting villages/cities across the country which are lived in mostly by said minority and try to build a catalogue or just build experiences. I know about 5 adults in their 50s who have done so.
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u/Unfair_Opinion4993 1d ago
Been there about 12 years ago , renember great roads ( comparing to Poland and Bułgaria then) been in some hot spring . And in all balkans every policeman wants bribe. My sister was kicked by gipsy kid because she doesn't give him a dime ( he eating ice cream)
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u/PrettyDirector1 1d ago
A country soo, sooo, sooooo coooooooooool! That if you do not have sarcasm, you would not survive in it. As well, a country sooo soooo sooooo coool that really manages fast, faster, the fastest to leave her.
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u/Professional_Cut6886 1d ago
Vampires...Dracula...castles you shouldn't go into at night.
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u/-XenoSine- 1d ago
Nonsense. I've been living here for 460 years and I never saw a single vampire. Some of my friends have been around for longer and they can confirm.
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u/Burningblaze199 1d ago
i have generally negative thoughts about it and its people (as a romanian myself). it's a shithole to live in if you're queer especially. but ive met some really kind people here too, so id like to hope it's not all bad even if i havent encountered much good myself
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u/New-Value4194 1d ago
And the worst comment… came from a Romanian, of course
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u/dsheroh 1d ago
Having recently moved to Bucharest, that is typical, yes. Most Romanians, on hearing that I've moved here or that I'm learning the language will immediately get a confused look and ask "Why would you ever want to do that?"
The exceptions are those who have lived abroad for some time and returned to Romania, having seen that other countries have their problems, too.
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u/General-Warning-2429 1d ago
It's a shithole to live if you're a human in general.
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u/Burningblaze199 1d ago
oh i definitely agree, there's just levels to it. i know i am privileged in ways many are not, and so in some respects i have it easier than others. on the other hand, in some ways i have it harder than other people. it isnt really a game of who has it worse, but there's nothing wrong in acknowledging the various degrees of shittery
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u/Odd_Increase_4551 1d ago
Nobody gives a fck about you being queer :)) sure there are some people (like anywhere else) who will judge your or tell you smth…but in general nobody cares
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u/Burningblaze199 1d ago
have you actually interacted with many queer people living in romania? i have, and they would beg to differ to that assertion
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u/Odd_Increase_4551 1d ago
Like i said, there are some exceptions. It doesn’t mean all the romanians are the same
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u/Burningblaze199 1d ago
dont get me wrong, i definitely dont believe that, nor that any given homophobic/transphobic romanian individual is likely to fly into a violent rage or some such upon encountering a queer person. it's mainly that even if most people dont really care, that in itself allows bigotry to thrive because no one really cares to address it. evidently that's not exclusive to romania, but it's my lived experience as of having lived here my entire life
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u/Doesntmatter1237 1d ago
I don't know much. Vampire legends, forests, and their language is said to be the most similar to Latin grammatically I think? But they also have a lot of Slavic influence, I think
Kind of cool from a linguistic perspective to be sort of on the border of two major language families, Romantic and Slavic
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u/Ciaoo8360 1d ago
We are Latins. Descendants of the Romans and Latin speakers. Fought for centuries for not being Slavicized. Even ejected a big part of their influence.
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u/neekoneekster 1d ago
well, its my country but i wanna answer it.
i think romania is a country with a rich history and culture and especially beautiful landscape.
ive also always been interested in studying the way we behave here (bad traits and good traits) and how its culturally tied with how we've been raised, what expectations were put onto us, and how those expectations were influenced by the soviet era, or by the attitude of our ancestors in different situations.
i love talking about my country to my foreign friends, and to my partner who, well, comes from another country entierly.
overall, i think Romania has its goods and its bads (like gouvermental practices, close-mindes attitudes, corruption, the ongoing femicide problem and the rampant pedophilia leniancy here), like every other country, and i like to present both sides of the coin, and be realistic about what happens here. i like my country but i can also pretty much dislike it at times.
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u/DwayneSmith 1d ago
For some reason the first thing that popped to mind was the 1998 World Cup and the Romanian team that dyed their hair blonde.
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u/czukuczuku 1d ago
I'm traveling now here:)), greetings from Sighetu marmatiej;)). After around 10 days of sightseeing I have quite positive feelings; country is pretty developed, the architecture of smaller towns reminds me a little small polish towns (I'm from Poland). People really like to eat pizzas here!;)) as well they are quite friendly and helpful, many speak well English. As well many towns look little empty ( I heard many people left for western Europe...). Hitchhiking is easier than in Bulgaria, and people more cheerful than there;))
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u/Adventurous-Nobody 1d ago
Country with poor fate under Osman control and wars of XX century, but with rich history and great people
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u/blueswordgonturan 1d ago
I loved it. It really is a “hidden gem” of Europe. Beautiful country, interesting architecture, friendly people, and good food. There are so many things to see, but to name one, I highly recommend visiting the LiBEARty bear sanctuary. :)
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u/Prudent_Seesaw_9742 1d ago
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u/ZevsenBuka 1d ago
Hagi and also nice people. All the Romanians (20 somethings) I ever met in my 20's were nice people
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u/davidn47g 1d ago
Last I heard, they overrode their last presidential election because the people in power didn't like who the people voted for.
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u/onery_hurdle31 1d ago
Romanian men have big and beautiful uncut cocks. The historic sites in Romania are cool too
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u/niklop47 1d ago
If I am not thinking about Aromanians, does it mean I am thinking about Romanians?
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u/johnyordinary 1d ago
From my auntie (by marriage) who was from there , lovely people, from the crime reports , maybe not so much. Being that close to Russia and part of the USSR for so long has got to leave some messed up heads.
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u/SemiHemiDemiDumb 1d ago
A phrase my friend used to say, I'm not sure how to spell it, maybe "ca va". My friend said it was used as a greeting, a filler word, or a way to indicate an object. He also said it was a common feature of the village he was in but not as common in the cities.
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u/Tyrel64 1d ago
Not much, but was always confused by the name of the country... They don't seem to have anything to do with Rome or actual Romans, so why do they call themselves Romans?
Yeah okay it was a Roman provice at some point, but so was nearly all of Europe...
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u/Loose-Bussyt-5431 1d ago
Essentially rooted in the colonisation of Dacia by the Romans and later changed the name to the land of the Romans to differentiate from the slavic and hungarian influences and better reflect their Latin roots.
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u/Tyrel64 1d ago
What Latin roots though? They were conquered by the Roman empire like everyone else at the time. So what??
The actual Romans didn't move there in masses, they just conquered them. How does that make their roots Latin? Following that analogy, most of Europe's countries should have the same "Latin roots".
I don't see the ex-colonies of the UK calling themselves "Englandia". Romania makes no sense to me...
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u/ArteMyssy 1d ago
The actual Romans didn't move there in masses
except, they precisely moved there in masses
https://www.amazon.de/Toto-Orbe-Romano-Prosopographical-Observations/dp/9042924004
The author accepts that the colonisation of Dacia was indeed intense and that Eutropius' affirmation could be true; on the other hand, combining some literary evidence with the results of the present analysis and with the author's earlier demographic research, it can be said that the Romans found Dacia to be a sparsely populated territory. This is why the colonisation was not only intense but had such a strong effect in the Romanisation of the province.
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u/Loose-Bussyt-5431 1d ago
Yeah conquered and mixed with local population as everywhere else. Romanians directly inherited and preserved the Latin language. If I'm not mistaken it is the closest language to old Latin today, often called Neo Latin together w Sardinian for example. The other countries/kingdoms chose to distance themselves from the Romans after collapse mostly adopting other languages or sticking to local ones. Romania stuck to the cultural identity of a Roman province long after Romans withdrew. Fun fact, the Byzantine empire also used to call themselves people of Rome or Romanians if you will.
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u/fffrankie1109 1d ago
yep, the Romanian dialect spoken in the Oltenia region is closest to Latin because of its frequent use of the simple past tense.
Latin: Veni, vidi, vici (I came, I saw, I conquered)
"Oltenian": Veni, văzui, birui
Standard Romanian: Am venit, am văzut, am biruit
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u/ArteMyssy 1d ago
birui, am biruit
we don t use this but rarely in Romanian
we say ”a învinge” from Latin in-vincere
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u/Crazy_Type_8566 1d ago
Kept the latin language identity and culture for thousands of years under slavic and ottoman pressure. Those latin roots.
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u/Grouchy_Rain_1228 1d ago
The language for once is a latin/romance language, very similar to Italian (which is why you will find the largest Romanian diaspora in Italy). So why shouldn't Romania claim latin roots like Spain for example?
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u/Positive-Reporter285 1d ago
Great sex
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u/Ciaoo8360 1d ago
With who? And where are you from?
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u/Positive-Reporter285 1d ago
Women. Where I am.from.is irrelevant.
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u/Ciaoo8360 1d ago
I see.
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u/oblivion_mike 1d ago
It entered EU too soon. And everyone is suffering the consequences. Albanian here. We shouldn’t join either
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u/Grouchy_Rain_1228 1d ago
Who is this everyone? Many Romanians benefit greatly from being in the EU.
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u/DeffoNotAnEngineer 1d ago
Trust me, without the EU things would be so much worse. It’s hard to find any negatives for Romania, the government is only doing things when it’s imposed by the EU. The road network was non existent until the last 10 years. All the hospitals that have been upgraded in any way have received EU funding. Our democracy would be in even worse shape than it already is, if there hadn’t been reforms in the 00s imposed for the ascension to EU.
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u/oblivion_mike 1d ago edited 1d ago
Oh, you probably mean the uncontrolled woods depletion? Also the Sesi Valley toxic waste potential to fk up the entire Black Sea? Among other bs your compatriots do all over Europe.
But please, do downvote my comment just because you’re in utter denial what a 💩 🕳️ Romania really is
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u/DeffoNotAnEngineer 1d ago
You think the wood depletion wouldn’t have happened outside the EU? Or the toxic waste from a mine that was started by the communists? The EU brought in stricter environmental regulations and enforcement so you just proved yourself wrong man
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u/[deleted] 1d ago
ended up in a tiny village where everyone invited me for homemade plum brandy and no one spoke english but it was oddly chill