Is Romania Dracula's Home Country? Or not?
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Romania (eastern europe)is the country of Dracula, that's for sure. The real name of dracula was Vlad Tepes, not Tetes . So be sure you will visit Transylvania soon...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania#Romanian_heads_of_state_.28from_the_Unification_of_1859.29
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Of course!  But I don't speak Romanian.  I had a wonderful holiday there years ago - saw Bran Castle, toured through the mountains and forests where, I hear, there are still bears; stayed the night in Tirgu Mures, Brasov and some other places.  It was very beautiful then - I hope it hasn't been spoiled by commercialism now?
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Oh yes! It's a country in Eastern Europe, capital Bucharest.
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Probably no one has answered this aquestion because the state of the lives of many of the children or Romania is quite desperate.  \n\nI realize your class is a preschool class, but the reality of many children in Romania is that they don't get to do much for fun .. they do stuff to survive.\nCheck out these websites.
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I'm German-Irish, & I'm 17 years old. And Romania is hot. Do you live in Dracula's Castle. Would you take me there?
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Although revealing my location to Lucifer might be dangerous, I'll tell you :) I'm from Romania, Eastern Europe.
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i live in Romania. in my country old people believe in vampires and other type of evil creatures like "strigoi" (some creatures that are associated in other cultures with zombies). i honestly don't believe in vampires , but who knows maybe they exist.keep searching maybe you will find something interesting. let me know if you discover a vampire.
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I haven't fallen in love with a Romanian guy (or girl, for that matter), so I'm not sure how much this will help, but I do have a Romanian friend.  Again, that's a sample size of 1 so it might not be generalizable, but maybe I can tell you a little about some of the stuff she's experienced in the US.  If you're curious about Romanians in the US, this might be more helpful.  If not, then, well, it will probably be less helpful.\n\nFirst, you can expect a lot of Americans to not know much about Romania.  My Romanian friend and I were in a bar and this guy started talking to her and said, "Oh, you're from Romania?  My mother's family is Ukrainian!  That's pretty much the same, right?"  I don't know how you would react to that, but my friend wasn't crazy about it...  Also, we're grad students, and we mostly hang out with educated people who at least have college degrees, and yet we still make a lot of vampire jokes.  Adriana (my Romanian friend, same name) luckily has a sense of humor, so she makes the jokes right back.  For some reason, it's just funny to us any time she says something like, "When I was going to college in Transylvania..."  She doesn't quite get that one, but I think that we think it's funny because the cartoons we saw here when we were growing up always used Transylvania as a scary location with creepy castles and vampires and the like.  \n\nSo, my point is that at least for Americans, you being Romanian is not likely to be a source of discrimination more so than it would be if you were any other nationality.  And this is largely a function of the fact that not a lot of Americans know a lot about Romania.  So as long as you find someone who is open-minded, you'll be fine.  But you probably wouldn't be attracted to someone who was closed-minded anyway, would you?  A lot of American guys love foreign-sounding accents, also, so you might have that going for you.\n\nOh, and also, the pronunciation of the names is sometimes an issue for my friend.  Nobody really has a problem with "Adriana" because it's relatively common in many countries (though in the US, you might get a lot of "Ay-driana"), but the last names can be tougher.
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when romania becomes part of the british empire
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Isn't it supposed to be based on the conqueror Vlad The Impaler in Romania? Google it, you will see....\n\nFictional character based on a real evil person.
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You know, romania is not so famous outside of Europe. I thought it was a city or something until just a few months back.\nSorry if that sounds harsh. But thats the reality. \n\nBut now i know a lot more about the country. Its a nice place and with friendly people too. :)
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Hi Lantos...I live here in spain, \ncan you write down your e-mail address so I can reach you when I go there someday?\nI'm planning on going to Romania sooner or later....
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i'm in europe, and i know where romania is. good luck with joining the EU
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About the first question, it is from Romania. About the second, I don't know, sorry
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Romania and Bulgaria are Axis satellites; Greece and Yugoslavia are members of the United Nations; Albania is occupied territory; and Turkey has been a fairly consistent nonbelligerent. Bulgaria was happy with German permission to occupy Yugoslavian and Greek Macedonia and Thrace. Obedient to its master’s voice, Romania did not complain out loud when Hitler ordered the cession of northern Transylvania to Hungary in 1940. But Romania has not forgotten this enforced loss of territory, and underneath the surface of common membership in the Axis, Romania, Hungary, and Bulgaria are seething with territorial jealousies and ambitions. Greece and Yugoslavia are also insistent that their seized provinces shall be restored to them.\n\nSuch trouble spots as Transylvania, Thrace, Macedonia, Northern Epirus, Kossovo, and the Banat may be just words to other people. But to the people of the Balkans they have been fighting words. Much had been done before the war, however, to make boundary disputes less dangerous to peace. Only one of the six Balkan states, Bulgaria, was still unreconciled, and even Bulgaria had undertaken not to try to modify its frontiers by force of arms.\n\nAdded to these disputes between the nations are the internal divisions between various groups within (or exiled from) each country. That between the Chetniks and the Partisans is only the most spectacular and most publicized conflict. In Greece and Albania as well, struggles are in progress between the popular, forces of resistance and liberation on the one hand, and the elements of reaction and collaboration on the other, although the latter are almost negligible. The real fight is rather between bands with conflicting ideas of patriotism. Some people think there are pro-Allied movements in Bulgaria and Romania too, awaiting the opportunity to throw out pro-Axis governments. In all the Balkan countries, as in the rest of Europe, there are seeds of civil strife.\n\nIn this pamphlet, much of the blame for past Balkan troubles has been freely placed on the great powers. But of course they are not solely responsible.\n\nUncritical nationalism is particularly strong in the Balkans. And it is just in the Balkans, a small area crowded with many different peoples, that unbridled nationalist rivalry is perhaps most dangerous. The great powers have been as much motivated by nationalism as the small ones—and perhaps will continue to be. But if it is questionable whether they can afford to prolong a system in which aggressive nationalism is curbed only by the force of opposing nationalism, it is certain that the Balkan countries cannot afford it.\n\nTo put it the other way around, if the great powers have had to “recognize the necessity of establishing ... a general international organization ... for the maintenance of ... peace and security,” in the words of the Moscow Declaration, the Balkan nations are still more obliged to seek for peaceful ways of settling conflicts through cooperation or else destroy themselves.\n\nIn the settlements after World War I it was clearly not possible to draw national boundaries in the Balkans according to the wishes of all the people. Unavoidably a great many people in the mixed populations had to be left on the “wrong” side of the line wherever it was drawn. To resolve this difficulty, population exchanges were suggested and tried as the easiest and most durable solution.\n\nIn one instance—between Greece and Turkey after 1923—that method proved, in its outcome, highly successful. It removed the cause of incessant quarreling between Turkey and Greece who have since become good friends instead of bitter enemies. In a second instance—between Greece and Bulgaria—it was also beginning to show good results.\n\nPopulation exchange might work as well in other instances and again in some it could not be applied. To uproot the half-million or so Albanians who live in the Kossovo region of Yugoslavia and dump them into an already pov
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In eastern europe romania transalvania the folk legend has been around for a very long time.Or the common folk legend has survived there the longest. People who died were staked to the earth so that they would stay there. This practice is very old and is  in other ancient cultures as well. The modern idea of vampires are far differant then the original idea. Vampires were spirits of the dead or ghosts they would creap in as a mist and kill you as you slept. Garlic would ward off the evil spirits. There is a story I have heard of an outbreak of rabies in eastern europe the symptoms of rabies are alot like vampires extreme very extreme thirst blood from the mouth and foam from the mouth insanity alot like a vampire.Victims would have been thought to be possesed. \n Vlad the Impaler the man the others have mentioned is a Natianal hero in Romania and is thought of there, Like our George washington. The founder of his country.It is true that if you are going back to make sure your relative is dead and to properly stake them through the heart and dig them up and if they had been buried alive by mistake. well they would be covered with blood from trying to calw there way out of the coffin. so Then you would think they must be a vampire.