During the process of the enlargement of the European Union, the acquis was divided into 31 chapters for the purpose of negotiation between the EU and the candidate member states for the fifth enlargement ( the ten that joined in 2004 plus Romania and Bulgaria which joined in 2007 ).

Alexandria was named after its founder, Alexandru II Ghica, prince of Romania from 1834 to 1842.

For comparison, Internet penetration in the Ukraine was 33. 7 %, in Romania 35. 5 %, Russia 42. 8 %, and Serbia 55. 9 %.

Almost all of Bulgaria's 500, 000-man standing army was positioned against these two countries, on two fronts – western and southern, while the borders with Romania and the Ottoman Empire were left almost unguarded.

Béla Bartók was born in the small Banatian town of Nagyszentmiklós in the Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary ( since 1920 Sânnicolau Mare, Romania ) on March 25, 1881.

His melodic and harmonic sense was profoundly influenced by the folk music of Hungary, Romania, and other nations.

His father, Ben Selig, had come to the United States from Romania with his family when he was four years old.

Ethnographical fieldwork was carried out in places as diverse as New Guinea, Madagascar, Romania, Guatemala and Indonesia and there were excavations in the Near East, Egypt, Sudan and the UK.

Although the album did not bring the fame he was expecting, it did reach the top of the charts in Romania and Morocco.

The Croatian Peasant Party boycotted the government of the Serbian People's Radical Party throughout the period, except for a brief interlude between 1925 and 1927, when external Italian expansionism was at hand with her allies, Albania, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria that threatened Yugoslavia as a whole.

The National Speleological Society of the USA was later founded in 1941 ( originally formed as the Speleological Society of the District of Columbia on May 6, 1939 ) and the Swiss Society of Speleology created in 1939 in Geneva, but the first speleological institute in the world was founded in 1920 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, by Emil Racovita, a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist and explorer of Antarctica.

* In Romania, throughout most of the communist period, the preferred standard was to use the secularised î. e. n. ( înaintea erei noastre, before our era ) and e. n. ( era noastră, our era ).

The first census in Romania was carried out in 1859.

In the 2004 European Parliament election the EFA was reduced to four MEPs two of the SNP ( Ian Hudghton and Alyn Smith ), one of PC ( Jill Evans ) and one of the Republican Left of Catalonia ( ERC ; Bernat Joan i Mari, replaced at the mid-term by MEP Mikel Irujo of Basque EA ) plus two affiliate members ( Tatjana Ždanoka of For Human Rights in United Latvia ( PCTVL ) and László Tőkés, independent MEP and former member of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania ( UMDR ).

During 1900 it was adopted by Germany, by Russia in 1904, the British West Indies in 1905, Spain in 1906, Belgium in 1909, Argentina in 1912, and Romania in 1913.

At the outbreak of World War I, Lang returned to Vienna and volunteered for military service in the Austrian army and fought in Russia and Romania, where he was wounded three times.

In November 2003, to celebrate UEFA's Jubilee, he was selected as the Golden Player of Romania by the Romanian Football Federation as their most outstanding player of the past 50 years.

She was coached in Romania by the Romanian coach, ( Hungarian ethnicity ), Béla Károlyi.

Germany had no direct interest in the Balkans, however, which was largely an Austrian and Russian sphere of influence, although King Carol of Romania was a German prince.

At the same time, with the aid of numerous merchant ships converted to auxiliary cruisers, a loose naval blockade on the Ottoman coasts from the Dardanelles to Suez was instituted, which disrupted the Ottomans ' flow of supplies ( only the Black Sea routes to Romania remained open ) and left some 250, 000 Ottoman troops immobilized in Asia.

After Nicolae Ceauşescu ( the communist leader of Romania ) was executed in a revolution, Alia knew that he would be next if changes were not made.

St Paisius Velichkovsky and his disciples made the practice known in Russia and Romania, although Hesychasm was already previously known in Russia, as is attested by St Seraphim of Sarov's independent practice of it.

This was the same ship that carried Jules Rimet and the footballers representing France, Romania and Belgium who were participating in the tournament that year.

Later, the new monarchies or dynasties of France ( under the Bonapartes ), Belgium, Denmark ( from 1853 ), Sweden ( from 1810 ), and the Balkan realms of Albania, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia introduced Salic law.

In Romania Transsylvania Phoenix ( known in Romania simply as Phoenix ), founded in 1962, introduced significant folk elements into their rock music around 1972 in an unsuccessful attempt to compromise with government repression of rock music.

1999 The King Oscar brand is introduced to the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Romania.

The quince tree is native to Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and was introduced to Syria, Lebanon, Croatia, Bosnia, Turkey, Serbia, Republic of Macedonia, Albania, Greece, Romania, Hungary, Ukraine and Bulgaria.

They were later successfully introduced into continental Europe, including Spain, France, Germany, central Italy, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, the Canary Islands, and even some northern European countries such as Sweden and Finland.

Siemens ULF trams were introduced in Oradea, Romania on 24 April 2008.

The resolution was debated inside Romania over the following year, and such a measure in respect to Jews was not introduced until 1922-1923.

As a historian, Kogălniceanu notably introduced several more or less influential Romantic nationalist theses: after 1840, he was noted for stressing the image of the 17th-century Wallachian Prince Michael the Brave as a unifier of Romania, although this view had not been at all present in his earlier essays ; he proposed that the Romanian folk was among the first European peoples to record history in their national language, although the earliest Romanian-language chronicles date back to the 17th century ; additionally, he argued that the Second Bulgarian Empire was a Romanian state.

Cantacuzino introduced maize to Wallachia and present-day Romania, in time the staple food-it was not yet extensively cultivated during his reign.

The snowflakes are native to central and southern Europe, from the Pyrenées to Romania and western Russia, but they have been introduced and have naturalized in many other areas, including the east coast of North America.

New and large machinery, produced inside Romania, was introduced to the site.

The Romanian specialty was introduced to the United States in a wave of Romanian Jewish immigration from Bessarabia and Romania in the second half of the 19th century, via the ( pronounced pastróme ).

Still another explanation of the slanted crossbar would suggest the Cross Saltire, as tradition holds that the Apostle St. Andrew introduced Christianity to lands north and west of the Black Sea: today's Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Moldova, and Romania.

It is native to Austria, Greece, Hungary and Romania and has been introduced to Idaho, Montana, Washington and Oregon.

Three other Warsaw Pact members, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania, received ZSU-57-2s once the ZSU-23-4 was introduced in the Soviet Army.

Vaccination has been done in Romania ever since the 17th century, when people used rudimentary methods of vaccination, such as dipping newborns into cow milk coming from cows with smallpox. However, due to the increasing number of doctors, more modern methods of vaccination have been introduced.

In 1998 listed stocks were separated in two tiers, the exchange introduced daily trading and the National Bank of Romania became the settlement bank.

Benkovski became involved in the revolutionary activities of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee after meeting Stoyan Zaimov in Bucharest, Romania ; he was also introduced to Vasil Levski and Hristo Botev's revolutionary and democratic ideas.

) is a perennial plant of the star thistle genus that grows natively in Central and South-eastern Europe ( from Southern Germany and Northern Italy to Romania and Bulgaria ), but has also been introduced and is now a noxious weed in the Northern United States, Canada and Southern Australia.

In 1961, a Balkans Cup for football clubs from Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey, and Yugoslavia was introduced.

Electric and diesel locomotives were introduced in number from the 1960s onwards ; electric locomotives were acquired from Ansaldo ( Italy ); Alsthom, ASEA also supplied some classes, and locomotives were also license built in Croatia and at Electroputere in Romania ; in the 1980s the indigenous AC electric JŽ series 442 was developed by Rade Koncar.

Beer in Romania comes from the long tradition of Romanian brewing, being introduced in Transylvania by the German colonists ( Transylvanian Saxons ) and in Moldavia by cultural connections with Poland.