December 1st is the National Day of Romania. I uploaded this short presentation for everyone who wants to know more about my home country.

2. We’ll talk about
 short facts
 physical features ;)
 a bit of history
 famous Romanian people & things
 traditions

4. Fast info
 Official name - România
 Location - (SE) Central Europe
 Time zone - GMT + 2
 Area - 237 502 km2 (Denmark X6)
 Population – over 22 mil
 Ethnic groups - Romanians 89%, Hungarian 7.5%,
Gipsy 1.9%, Other 1.6%
 Religions - Christian Orthodox 87%, Roman Catholic
5%, Protestant 5%, Jewish, Other

5. Fast info
 Currency: Romanian Leu (RON) - 1RON = aprox 2DKK
 Climate - temperate, 4 distinct (!) seasons,
temperatures from
 Capital - Bucharest (Bucureşti)
 Form of State - Parliamentary Republic with two
legislative bodies: Senate (Senat) and Chamber of
Representatives (Camera Deputatilor)
 Main political parties - Social Democratic Party,
Democratic Party, National Liberal Party etc
 NATO and EU member

6. Physical features 
 great location - latitudes 43°37’07‖ to 48°15’06‖
 perfect proportions:
 1/3 mountains
 1/3 hills
 1/3 plains
 highest peak - Moldoveanu 2544m
 one of the richest faunas in Europe (bears, deer,
lynx and wolves)
 trademarks ->

8. The Danube Delta

9. The Carpathian Mountains

10. The Carpathian Mountains

11. The Black Sea

12. Climate
 4 seasons
 very hot summer
 cold winter with plenty of snow in the mountains
 record high temp: 44.5 C
 record low temp: -38.5 C
 significant differences between regions

13. History
 oldest remains of homo sapiens in Europe - 42.000 years old – ―The Cave
with Bones‖ in Romania (believed to be the first homo sapiens to have
entered the continent)
 4000 BC – first pottery
 2000 BC - "the fairest and most courageous of
men‖(Herodotus) - the Dacian people
 100 AD – peak of Dacian civilization
 => 101 – 106 AD the Romans conquered us 
 11 century – Romanians only Latin people in E Europe

14. History
 by 13 century – first division of Romanian people:
Wallachia, Transilvania and Moldavia – fallen under
different influences
 first reunited from 1593 to1601 by Michael the Great
 On January 24, 1859 - the historic act of political unity
between Moldavia and Wallachia under one single rule,
that of Alexandru Ioan Cuza
 1st of December, 1918 - Alba Iulia the "unification of all
Romanians from Transylvania, the Banat, Crisana and
Maramures with Romania for all ages to come― was
proclaimed => thus, national day

16. Recent History
 1945 — The Yalta Agreement makes Romania
part of the Soviet system – post WWII arragements
 grandiose communist development projects -people
were submitted to a rigorous austerity programme
in the 1980s
 Dec 1989 – communist regimes falling in Europe ->
Romanians overthrow Ceausescu’s 25 yrs dictatorial
regime
 proud democracy ever since 

17. The Palace of the Parliament
second biggest building in the world after the Pentagon

19. Cool Romanian people
 … you might know

20. Constantin
Brancuşi
• internationally renowned sculptor
who led the way for modernist
sculptors

21. Angela
Gheorghiu
• one of the world's greatest
opera sopranos
• next performance
Metropolitan Opera House New
York ;)

22. Alexandra
Nichita
• prodigy Romanian painter
whose distinct style is said to
resemble that of Picasso

23. Nadia
Comaneci
• one of the best known
gymnasts of the world, winner
of five Olympic gold medals
• the first gymnast to be
awarded a perfect score of 10
in an Olympic gymnastic event

24. Henri
Coanda
• inventor and
aerodynamics pioneer,
the builder of world's first
jet powered aircraft, the
Coanda-1910.
• he discovered and gave
his name to the Coanda
effect

25. Romanian brands

26. Traditions
 Easter
 Martisor
 pottery
 embroidery
 national costumes

27. Easter

28. Mărţişor

29. Pottery

30. Embroidery

31. National costumes

32. Costumes

33. Iaşi - My home town
 aprox 400.000
 second biggest city in Romania
 economic, cultural and academic centre of the
Romanian region of Moldavia

34. Iaşi

35. I’ve told you about…
 short facts
 physical features ;)
 a bit of history
 famous Romanian people & things
 traditions

36. Come visit!