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ROMANIA
By: Georgia
LOCATION AND GEOGRAPHY
Bordered by Hungary, Ukraine, Moldavia,
Bulgaria, and Serbia
 Capital is Bucharest
 328,391 square kilometers
 Slightly smaller than Oregon
 Land is mostly mountains, hills or
plains
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Map of Romania
AGRICULTURE
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Crops include: Grains; mostly Corn and wheat,
also barley, oats, rye, and rice; Non-grains, hay,
sunflowers, potatoes, soybeans, sugar beets, feed
roots, corn silage, and table grapes
Livestock consists of: Sheep, pigs, cattle, poultry,
and rabbits
ECONOMY
GDP equivalent to 161.62 million U.S. dollars
 Exports: agricultural products, chemicals,
footwear, fuels, machinery, metal products, and
textiles
 Imports: coal, cars, medicinal equipment
 Currency: leu, one leu is about 29 cents
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CULTURE
Holidays: Christmas, New Years, Labor Day, and
Easter
 Sports: Football, handball, rugby, tennis, and
gymnastics
 Romania food consists Cabbage rolls, sausage,
and stews; Muschi Poiana has mushrooms, and
bacon stuffed beef pureed with tomato soup and
vegetables
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Muschi Poiana
A Gymnastics team
A Football Team
CULTURE (CON.)
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86.7% of Romanians are Christian
Traditions: Coloring eggs for Easter, they hollow
out the egg before they paint them, the most
common colors used to decorate them are Red,
Yellow, and Black
GOVERNMENT
 Prime
Minister is Victor Ponta
 Form of Government: Republic
 The colors on the flag represent; Blue
stands for Liberty, Yellow stands for
Justice, and Red stands for Fraternity
Romania’s Flag
Victor Ponta
PEOPLE
Language: Romania also Hungarian and German
 Ethnic groups: Mostly Romanians, also Gypsies,
Magyars, Germans, Ukrainians, Tartars, Jews,
Croats, Russian, Bulgarians, and Serbs
 Population of 22, 181, 287
 95.8% Literacy Rate
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VAMPIRE LEGENDS
Transylvania is known for vampires
 Vampires in Romania are commonly known as
“Strigoi”
 People in Romania believed if your child was
born under strange conditions or if the mother
did not eat salt or if the saw a vampire their
children would be born a vampire
 You could also become a vampire by being bitten
by a vampire, a cat leaping over your corpse,
swearing a false oath, committing suicide, or
practicing witchcraft
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VAMPIRE LEGEND (CON.)
Vampires were known to drink the blood of
people or of livestock
 Graves were watched to see if the dead became a
vampire
 If they thought someone in a grave was a
vampire they would put garlic in their mouth or
burn them piece by piece
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COLLAGE