Romania
Overview
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central
Central Europe
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 and Southeastern Europe
Southeast Europe
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, on the Lower Danube
Danube
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, within and outside the Carpathian arch
Carpathian Mountains
The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians are a range of mountains forming an arc roughly long across Central and Eastern Europe, making them the second-longest mountain range in Europe...

, bordering on the Black Sea
Black Sea
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. Romania shares a border with Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 and Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

 to the west, Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

 and Moldova
Moldova
Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...

 to the northeast and east, and Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

 to the south.

At 238391 square kilometres (92,043.3 sq mi), Romania is the ninth largest country of the European Union
European Union
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 by area, and has the seventh largest population of the European Union with 20.2 million people.
Timeline

1862    Bucharest proclaimed capital of Romania.

1862    Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.

1863    In Romania the mountain railway from Anina to Oravita is used for the first time.

1870    The ''Republic of Ploieşti'', a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.

1877    Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.

1877    Romania declares itself independent from the Ottoman Empire following the Senate adoption of Mihail Kogălniceanu's Declaration of Independence. This act is recognized on March 26, 1881 after the end of the Romanian War of Independence.

1878    Treaty of Berlin: the European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman empire.

1913    Second Balkan War: delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.

1916    Romania declares war against Austria-Hungary, entering World War I as one of the Allied nations.

1916    World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.

 
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