2.  Area: 230,340 sq. km - 9th in Europe Population: 22.7
million - 7th in Europe Capital: Bucharest (2.06 million
population)
 National Day: December 1
 Ethnic groups: Romanians 89.5%, Hungarian 6.6%,
Roma 2.5%, German 0.3%, Ukrainian 0.3%, Russians
0.2%, Serbs 0.2%, other 0.8%
 There are over 8 milions Romanians living abroad.
 Religion plays an integral part in the lives of
Romanians. Over 86.8 % of the population belong to
the Orthodox church.

4. Born November 12, 1961) is a Romanian gymnast, winner of three
Olympic gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and the
first female gymnast ever to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an
Olympic gymnastic event. She is one of the best-known gymnasts in the
world. In 2000 Comăneci was named as one of the athletes of the century
by the Laureus World Sports Academy.
Nadia Comaneci

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9. Ştefan Odobleja
 Ştefan Odobleja was a Romanian
scientist, one of the precursors of
cybernetics. His major work, “Psychologie
consonantiste”, first published in 1938 and
1939, in Paris, had established many of the
major themes of cybernetics regarding
cybernetics and systems thinking ten
years before the work of Norbert Wiener
was published in 1948.

10. Tristan Tzara
 Tristan Tzara was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet,
essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist,
playwright, literary and art critic, composer and film director,
he was known best for being one of the founders and central
figures of the anti-establishment Dada movement
Dada or dadaism rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense,
anarchy, irrationality and intuition. The name 'Dada' was
reputedly arrived at during a meeting of the group when a
paper knife stuck into a French-German dictionary happened to
point to 'dada', a French word for 'hobbyhorse." The movement
primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes,
art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its
anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in
art through anti-art cultural works. Its purpose was to ridicule the
meaninglessness of the modern world as its participants saw it. In
addition to being anti-war, Dada was also anti-bourgeois and
anarchistic in nature.

12. • Without the work of Nicolae Paulescu the history of medicine would
probably have a different course, particularly the history of diabetic
medicine. The distinguished Romanian scientist was the first to discover
insulin (which he called pancreine).
• In 1916 Paulescu developed an aqueous pancreatic extract which
normalized the blood sugar levels in a diabetic dog. He had to interrupt his
experiments during the World War I till 1921 when he wrote an extensive
whitepaper on the effect of the pancreatic extract injected into a diabetic
animal: Research on the Role of the Pancreas in Food Assimilation. The
paper was published in August 1921 in the “Archives Internationales de
Physiologie.”
Nicolae Paulescu

13. • Petrache Poenaru was a Romanian inventor of the Enlightenment era.
• Poenaru, who had studied in Paris and Vienna and, later, completed his
specialized studies in England, was a mathematician, physicist, engineer,
inventor, teacher and organizer of the educational system, as well as a politician,
agronomist, and zootechnologist, founder of the Philharmonic Society, the
Botanical Gardens and the National Museum of Antiquities in Bucharest.
• While a student in Paris, Petrache Poenaru invented the world's first fountain
pen, an invention for which the French Government issued a patent on May 25,
1827.

14. Bucharest
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16. Bucharest
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 About Bucureşti / Bucharest Short description: Known in
the past as "The Little Paris" Bucharest has changed a lot
lately and today it has become a very interesting mix of
old and new that has little to do with its initial reputation.
Finding a 300 years old church near a steel-and-glass
building that sit both next to a communist style building
is common place in Bucharest. Perhaps "The Big Mix"
would be a more appropriate name for the current
Bucharest. Some adore it and enjoy its unique charm,
while others feel uncomfortable around the gray
Communist-era buildings and lack of western style tourist
attractions. However, Bucharest offers some excellent
attractions, and has, in recent years, cultivated a
sophisticated, trendy, and modern sensibility that many
have come to expect from a European capital. Bucharest
has been undergoing major modernization programes in
recent years and is still going to continue not if more
projects in the years to come. Bucharest is experiencing an
economic boom and will be experiencing this boom for
many years to come