As surface and population, Romania is one of the most important states in the Balkanic area. Covering 238.391 square km, in Eastern Europe, surrounded by Ukraine, Hungary, Bulgaria and Serbia. The relief of the country is arranged like an amphitheatre (31% mountains, 33% plateaux, 36% plains). There are fourhistorical regions Transylvania, Valahia, Moldova, Dobrogea, which are divided in 41 counties, the capital being Bucharest. Romania has 21,7 million inhabitants: 90% Romanians, 6,6% Hungarians, 2,4% Gypsies, 0,3% Ukraine’s, 0,28% Germans.
Our country has a great forming potential, many tourist attractions and possibilities, a hospitable, nice, tolerant people.

Our country’s climate is temperate continental; there are four seasons and not big variations of temperature.

The Romanian people whose name comes from the Latin word ‘romanus’, but our ancestors settled on a vast area from Greece to Poland and from Switzerland to Ukraine. During the first millennium after Christ, the Thracian tribes fell under the influence of the Roman Empire and the Romanians are the only people in Eastern Europe who preserved the Latin legacy in their language. We are an island of Latinity among the Slavonic and Finnish/Ugric people and languages.

Being Orthodox Christians starting with the IV century DC, the former Dacian/Romans evolved in three separate regions: Romanian County, Moldavia and Transylvania. The Romanians succeeded to join in a modern unitary state much later under the rule of king Carol of Hohenzolern and his heir Ferdinand (the Great). After a long period of economic development, political and cultural progress, after the 2st World War Romania’s integrity was destroyed by political decisions in Moscova and Vienna, only in 1945 the country’s regions were reunited, but the victory of the Soviet Army in the war brought about the Russian influence and the Communist regime.

In the ’60 seemed that Romania had some original ideas in politics (it was the only communist country which refused to invade Czechoslovakia) but soon the dictator Ceausescu imposed an authoritarian rule. The events in 1989 put an end to this historical period in Romania.