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Veronica Negru
Jun 15, 20182 min read
Comana Natural Park
Only 40 kilometres away from Bucharest there’s a fairytale place called Comana - ideal to escape the crowded, suffocating city. At Comana...
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Ilinca Stroe
Jun 6, 20186 min read
Romania’s Treasures: the Inventors
What have Romanians been up to, innovation-wise, over the last two centuries? In no particular order but some for-fun categorisation, let...
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Ilinca Stroe
May 16, 20184 min read
Romania’s Treasures: the Musicians
There can be little doubt that Romania’s contribution to the World’s music is fairly substantial, as well as wide-ranging, for an...
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Ilinca Stroe
Apr 26, 20183 min read
Today’s a Little Time Machine: What Romania Makes of Its Communist Past
Weekend holidaymakers and locals strolling on Bucharest’s Calea Victoriei on 1 April 2018 experienced the thrill of losing their way...
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Ilinca Stroe
Nov 9, 20174 min read
1917: Romania’s First Female Second Lieutenant [1]
How did she, one of eight siblings born to villager parents in Oltenia, (still) a poor region of her country, become the woman that the...
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Veronica Negru
Oct 31, 20172 min read
Dracula`s Legend
Vlad Tepeș (Vlad the Impaler), by his real name Vlad Dracula, born in 1431 in the fortress city of Sighișoara, was Voivode (Prince) of...
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Oana Barbu
Oct 10, 20174 min read
From the People’s House to the Palace of the Parliament
It is said that controversial people bring about controversial histories. And controversial histories give birth to equally controversial...
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Oana Barbu
Oct 3, 20173 min read
Florica Maria Sas – from the Pasha’s Harem to the British Royal Court
Have you ever woken up in the morning searching for a reason to stand up, go to work, face the world? Have you ever thought of giving up,...
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Iulia Andreescu
Sep 8, 20172 min read
Maria Tănase
If the French have Édith Piaf, and the Portuguese have Amália Rodrigues, Romanians have Maria Tănase. She was both a singer and an...
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Iulia Andreescu
Aug 31, 20175 min read
Marie - the Queen of Romania
One of the most prominent and loved feminine characters in the history of Romania is Queen Marie (Regina Maria). With a strong...
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Oana Barbu
Aug 17, 20174 min read
The Hunyad Castle: Where reality fades away
I was still at the age of dreaming about princesses and castles when I visited one for the first time. Back then, it seemed to be taken...
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Oana Barbu
Jul 3, 20172 min read
IA - The Romanian Blouse (A synthesis of tradition and modernity)
For a long time, tradition and modernity were perceived as two opposite concepts. Until recently, tradition was seen as an obstacle to...
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Carmen Raris
Jun 15, 20172 min read
The Influence of Slavic Languages on Romanian
A Latin-origin language, Romanian has been heavily influenced by Slavonic, which gives it a peculiar character, compared to the other...
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Enida Cincora
Jun 12, 20175 min read
The Influence of French on Romanian (A Historical Overview)
As early as the 18th century, the Romanian Principalities started being strongly influenced by French due to the reigns of Phanariote...
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Enida Cincora
May 30, 20173 min read
The Assimilation of Anglicisms in Romanian
Introduction Since December 1989, Romanian has experienced a constantly growing intake of English loanwords, and their pervasiveness is...
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Ilinca Stroe
May 18, 20172 min read
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE BUCHAREST, AN ANNIVERSARY OUTLOOK
History often has its way of channelling private enterprises smoothly towards large-scale endeavours. While we at International House...
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Ilinca Stroe
May 11, 20174 min read
Why Learn Romanian?
Looking back, the Roman Empire was quite a slack manager of its linguistic effects. Or else you wouldn’t be reading in the non-Romance...
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Veronica Negru
Apr 13, 20172 min read
Vlad Țepes or the Demythization of a Myth
The name of Vlad Țepes (Vlad the Impaler) has become in time synonymous to Dracula’s. This superposition has its origins in the...
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Enida Cincora
Apr 13, 20173 min read
On Eternal Beauty with... Ana Aslan
In present-day Romania, research in beauty care and beauty industry isn’t as fast-developing as abroad. The main goal of any cosmetic or...
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Andra Firoi
Apr 13, 20172 min read
Dragobete or the Romanian love day
Dragobete is an old Romanian holiday celebrated every year on the 24th of February. After the fall of the communism, it has become a...
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