Romania
| Use attributes for filter ! | |
| Capital | Bucharest |
|---|---|
| Dialing code | +40 |
| Currency | Romanian leu |
| Population | 19. 53 million (2018) |
| Points of interest | Bran Castle |
| Peleș Castle | |
| Palace of Parliament | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 2576569 |
About Romania
Romania is a southeastern European country known for the forested region of Transylvania, ringed by the Carpathian Mountains. Its preserved medieval towns include Sighişoara, and there are many fortified churches and castles, notably clifftop Bran Castle, long associated with the Dracula legend. Bucharest, the country's capital, is the site of the gigantic, Communist-era Palatul Parlamentului government building.
Ukraine says Russian drones crashed in Romania
...By Paul Adams, international affairs correspondent, & Robert PlummerBBC NewsUkraine has alleged that Russian drones landed on Romanian territory during a series of strikes on a neighbouring Ukrainian city...
Ukraine war: Deserters risk death fleeing to Romania
... " When he reached the Romanian shore, a Ukrainian patrol spotted him...
Ben Ferencz: Last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor dies, aged 103
... Ferencz was born in Transylvania - part of Romania - in 1920, but his family emigrated to the US when he was young to escape antisemitism, later settling in New York...
Czechs demolish pig farm on Nazi concentration camp for Roma
......
Snake Island: Why Russia couldn't hold on to strategic Black Sea outcrop
... A look at the map also shows that Russian control of the island represented a threat to Nato member Romania - both its key port of Constanta and traffic in the mouth of the River Danube...
Ukraine: Sheltering with monks in a Romanian monastery
...Ukraine: Sheltering with monks in a Romanian monasteryThis video can not be playedTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser...
Ford to make electric car parts at Halewood plant
... The global car giant also recently announced a $1bn (£730m) investment in its vehicle assembly facility in Cologne, Germany, and an expansion of electric vehicle production in Turkey and Romania...
Czechs demolish pig farm on Nazi concentration camp for Roma
Demolition work is to start on Friday on a Czech pig farm built on The Site of a Nazi-era concentration camp for Roma.
It ends decades of often bitter dispute between The Farm 's owners, The government and Roma rights groups.
Historians say 1,309 Roma citizens were interned at Lety in South Bohemia during The War .
Many children were among The 326 people who died there of malnutrition, maltreatment and disease.
The Camp was staffed by Czech guards, rather than The Nazi SS, and none of them were convicted after The War .
Czech historians and politicians have long clashed over Lety's history and exact role in The Holocaust .
Lety was originally established by The Czechoslovak government Two Weeks before The Nazi occupation in March 1939, as a labour camp for " workshy citizens".
In July 1942, The Nazi Protectorate authorities transformed it into a " gypsy camp" and The First Roma inmates arrived in The autumn.
Most of those who died were Caught Up in a typhoid epidemic that swept through The Camp during The Winter of 1942.
Unable to control The epidemic, The Nazi authorities closed The Camp in May 1943. Those Left Alive were sent on to a similar facility in Moravia or to Auschwitz.
The Roma population of Bohemia and Moravia was almost entirely wiped out in The (Devouring) - The Roma word for The Holocaust .
During The 1970s, The industrial pig farm was built at Lety, becoming a source of deep anguish to Czech Roma. The community faces discrimination to This Day .
The demolition marks The culmination of a long and arduous campaign by Roma rights activists to turn The Site into a sombre place of remembrance.
There is no longer any trace of The Camp and a modest stone memorial was erected in a little glade at The Farm for those who died. But annual ceremonies there were often disrupted by The stench of manure.
Critics of The demolition, who have included former Prime Minister Andrej Babis , argue Lety was not a concentration camp but a work camp.
They point out The Farm was built just adjacent to The Site of The Camp , rather than on it.
The Quarrel was finally resolved when The government bought The Pig farm from its owners and closed it, transferring The Site to The Museum of Romani Culture.
Bulldozers were due to move in on Friday after a ceremony. The area will make way for a proper museum dedicated to The Camp and The Porajmos.
Who are The Roma?Source of news: bbc.com
