Romania, oh what a country a country that may be one of my favorite names for a country
reminding me of that old world that the Romans once built a place of beauty and greatness and oh,
Yes today, we're gonna be definitely talking about Romania. What's up guys? Welcome to FTD facts
My name is Dave Walpole
Welcome more specifically to our Monday episodes where every single Monday we look at a new country
and I got a cool playlist if you guys are interested in that sort of thing that I'll show you at the end of the
Video, but for me, yeah, we're gonna talk about Romania because from what I've learned, you know
I've run into a few Romanians in the past and I gotta say they're pretty crazy crazy in a good way
I know when sometimes people hear the word crazy. They're like wait what? I'm not nuts
I mean like crazy is in fun and loving but with that I hope you guys are all having a fantastic
Day, and before I start this episode. I just want to know what is the best place that you've ever travelled to?
Let me know down there in the comment section below and let me know what you did there and why?
while why it was your favorite place in the first place if I said place one more time, so
Romania what is great about it. What is unique about it? What can we learn about this amazing nation?
well
Let's find out looking at the great old
world map now it is big and if we get a little bit closer we zoom into this good place called Europe and
Right here is where Romania is located and there is a little bit of a debate of where Romania is
Actually located there are people out there that say yes. Romania is in Central Europe
There are people that say no it's more in Eastern Europe and some people are like no we're in
southeastern Europe
Depending on how you view Europe. Well, I mean for me it doesn't really matter
It is in Europe and that's the only thing that matters as a matter of fact
I really just get confused as a whole. I mean Europe and Asia are just one kind of like continent sort of thing
I mean like the connect via land
Doesn't really make much of a difference to me because I mean like if you look at the Americas like, you know
Canada and Mexico and you know America, of course there it's all called the America
That's why for me as a Canadian
I actually get really
irked when people call me an American but I actually forget the fact that they are referring to the fact that I am from the
Americas truth be told okay, that's a little bit of a side note. Let's get back into Romania
So I talked about myself here
but zooming in a little bit further we can see that Romania snuggles easily against the countries of
Bulgaria Serbia Hungary, Moldova and Ukraine
Coming in with a total of five different borders
and as a matter of fact to the east of it, it's got the Black Sea, which it
approximately has about
225 kilometers of shoreline. However, that is based off the World Factbook and it ranks in at
120 second of all countries in the world when it comes to shoreline
however
Zooming in even further we look at the country and it's got about two hundred thirty eight thousand three hundred and ninety seven
kilometers of land within it
It also is a country that doesn't have any land outside of its initial borders what it has in Europe and where it's located
That's all it owns. This also makes Romania the 81st largest country in the world
However, it is classified as the largest in southeastern Europe but the 12th largest in all of Europe. So there you go
There's your South East Europe and your all of Europe categories and within the borders of this country
there's not just land but there is also people and population and they've got quite an impressive amount as a matter of fact the people
Within this country are called Romanians, which actually makes me wonder
How did the country get the name Romania in the first place?
Let's take a look the word Romania stems from the word Romanus. Which means
Citizen of Rome now back in the day. The people of Romania weren't called Romans
They are actually called the getti people by the greeks or by the Romans. They were referred to as the dakki ins now
There's a lot of different theories and there's a lot of different opinions of how Romania got its name
But let's be perfectly honest back in the day
The dakki ins weren't really liked by the Romans and I'll explain why is more or less the land that they had
was something Rome wanted the general agreement of how Romania earned its
dates back to 101 ad when Roman Emperor Trajan
Sent his forces into what was known back then as dakea along with this conflict
There was another one that followed shortly after now
the reason for Rome's invasion was because Rome was simply running short of gold supply and
Romania or back then dakea was rumored to have lots of it Roman forces then ended up taking the area
occupying it and began mining the gold for the Roman Empire however back to
Population within this plucky little nation there is about nineteen million five hundred and eighteen thousand
117 people now that is just a rough kind of
estimation for
2019 keep that in mind. Yeah, of course, you know, you can't really get an accurate detail
but that's as close as they get this also makes the country ranked 59th in the world when it comes to population a
Proper census has not been done since about
2011 in which at the time there was approximately
Twenty million people within the country the peak population for Romania was around
1990 to 1991 in which the population was a little under 23 million people
Now you might be thinking yourself
Well, this is a country that has a decreasing population and unlike other countries
Which we've talked about in the past such as Belarus, which is a declining population. Not just because of
Death rate and birth rate being not really on par but also within that country people are leaving for work opportunities
That's not really happening in Romania. It's more or less the death rate also diving within people
The major ethnic group is obviously Romanians. You also have some minor ethnic backgrounds such as Hungarian Roma
Ukrainian German Albanian Russian Turkish Serbian Slovak
Arab and African of all these people when it comes to languages, however
over ninety percent of the people have reported to speak Romanian which for me I found it really fascinating because I've heard that
Romanian is a really really old language. As a matter of fact, they say it's over seventeen hundred years old
fascinating, however
This is because it is based off of a and language which falls under what you would call Romance languages
That's probably why everybody in Romania just has that it's just it's an attractive accent. I love it now, okay
All right, let's talk about this. Oh, I hope you guys like that
However with that when it comes to the actual amount of religion in the country
They say 81% of the people identify as Christian more so Orthodox Christianity
But you also have Protestants and of course Catholics and other people who identify as other religions, maybe even Islamic
No, I will say this right now. Romania does not have a state religion which to me is a good thing
Okay
So we're gonna get off the stats now and we're gonna look at some really cool facts about the country
First of all within the country have you ever heard of the Cave of bones? Yeah. I know. It sounds scary
This one is absolutely insane, so it's a cave system with about approximately 12 caverns inside
it's located near an Nina which is on the southwest side of Romania and within this cave they've discovered some of the
oldest human remains in all of Europe for example, one of the most important remains that they found in
2015 was a skull known simply as
OAS e1 oiss one. I don't know if I'm pronouncing it wrong
I probably am not only was this skull and the rest of the Marines considered the oldest human remains found in all of Europe
But they discovered that it had five to eleven percent of Neanderthal DNA
So there you go guys believe it or not. It's helping prove evolution
It's probably another good reason why the state is not run by, you know religion
It's a good thing also jumping into a little bit more of modern-day history
although this is not really modern modern modern modern like
You know you and I within probably our timeline but more specifically World War one
Most of us generally during World War one think of the good guys being Britain, Russia and France fighting against Germany, Austria
and of course the Ottomans of the time you might be surprised to know that Romania was
Actually on the side of the Allies fighting with the British and the Americans who did show up late
but they also contributed quite heavily towards the war front during World War one Romania also took back the lands of
Transylvania in which the West agreed to the terms during the Treaty of Trianon
and yes, Romania was a major founding member of the
League of Nations that's what I was gonna say. I just forgot what it was called
I wanted to say the Treaty of Versailles, but that's not it. Okay consider. Yeah, I'm talking about Transylvania
I'm just gonna get this out of this video here. First of all, I'm a huge folklore sorta fan, but let's be perfectly honest
Okay
this is one thing that Romania and Transylvania is most famous for at least in the Western world and that is
Vampires and yes with in Transylvania. There are no vampires and there is no Frankenstein monster
All right side note. Did you know that Romania is home to the world's heaviest building this one?
I found absolutely amazing. It is happening known as the palace of parliment in Bucharest
This is a big one. The thing actually took forever to build as a matter of fact it started back in
1984 and it didn't finish until 1997
What's more insane is it took over 700 architects to build and they were all led by a woman named ANCA
Patrice Koo who has the title of working on the second or first largest civilian administrative building in the world
Partially because this is a really debated topic. I've heard this building is the number one in this category
But I've also heard it's number two. It's also considered the world's most expensive
Administrative building ever built coming in at approximately three billion euros. It also has approximately
1,100 rooms and has the size of two million five hundred and fifty thousand cubic meters
That is a big palace
Huge and if you're wondering how much it weighs it comes in at approximately 4 billion
98 million five hundred thousand kilograms and it's heavy and nothing in the world even comes close
It's big
Unfortunately, this building does not classify as a World. UNESCO Heritage Site
But if they keep this building well around for long enough
It might actually get that title at some point in history
And speaking of which you can rest assure
The country of Romania is very good at preserving its culture because it's got a fair amount of UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Currently right now. It has eight of them with approximately 15 on the tentative list
Theoretically though you could say there are more than eight of them because two of them have a lot of individual structures within those
Categories what I mean is one category is the villages with fortified churches within Transylvania
there is approximately seven of these churches within that category and
There's also the wooden churches of Mara Marez which has eight within that category alone
Which to me is something I just really like I mean, it just goes to show that Romania is a country
That is all about preserving its culture and you know, its history which I think is very much important
However, guys that has been me looking at some of the basic facts of Romania. I know I missed a lot
So if I missed a lot of facts, maybe you're from Romania
be sure to let me know down there in the comment section below because
generally
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