Queen Elisabeth was the first woman that most Romanians viewed as a symbol of their nation.
Elie Wiesel was one of the most vocal activists for keeping alive the memory of the Holocaust.
On August 8, 1870, at 4 in the morning, two secret organizations met in Ploiesti to put into play the plan to dethrone Prince Carol of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.
Vlad the Impaler, also known as Dracula, was ruler of Wallachia for the first time in 1448.
A look at the fate of Northern Bukovina in 1940.
The communist party seized power in Romania on March 6th, 1945, with the help of the Soviet Union and immediately started the transformation of society based on the Soviet model.
Romanian-Soviet joint ventures were set up immediately after the Red Army occupied Romania, at the end of World War Two. Their label was ‘SovRoms,...
After 1948, the Romanian communist state seized all enterprises and became the sole owner of Romanian economy
During communist times, shortages were the norm, and some historians even speak of a “culture of shortages.
Women played a major role in anti-communist resistance in Romania.
War propaganda was one of the most efficient ways of boosting the morale of the army and the civilian population. It also was a means to justify the...
The Ottoman Empire, in full offensive in Central Europe in the second half of the 17th century, was a conduit for Greek and Middle Eastern culture.
The 1972 the Helsinki Conference was the first conference to cover Europe as a whole after about 20 years of division.
A few months after German troops pulled out from Romanian territory, the Romanian armed forces were operating alongside its new allies in Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
Considered to be the last large scale popular revolt in Europe, the Peasant Revolt of 1907 started in northeastern Romania.
