* January 5 – Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet ( b. 1922 )

* June 29 – Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet ( d. 1991 )

Vasko Popa (; June 29, 1922 – January 5, 1991 ) was a Serbian poet of Romanian descent.

On May 29, 1972 Vasko Popa founded The Literary Municipality Vršac and originated a library of postcards, called Slobodno lišće ( Free Leaves ).

Vasko Popa is one of the founders of Vojvodina Academy of Sciences and Arts, established on December 14, 1979 in Novi Sad.

In 1995, the town of Vršac established a poetry award named after Vasko Popa.

Vasko Popa died on January 5, 1991 in Belgrade and is buried in the Aisle of the Deserving Citizens in Belgrade ’ s New Cemetery.

Vasko Popa wrote in a succinct modernist style that owed much to surrealism and Serbian folk traditions ( via the influence of Serbian poet Momčilo Nastasijević ) and absolutely nothing to the Socialist Realism that dominated Eastern European literature after World War II ; in fact, he was the first in post-World War II Yugoslavia to break with the Socialist Realism.

The author also mentions that in his introduction to " Vasko Popa: Collected Poems 1943-1976 ," translated by Anne Pennington Hughes says: " As Popa penetrates deeper into his life, with book after book, it begins to look like a universe passing through a universe.

Since his first book of verse, Kora ( Bark ), Vasko Popa has gained steadily in stature and popularity.

* Vasko Popa: Collected Poems 1943-1976, trans.

* Poem Hunter, All Poems of Vasko Popa

Eleven Poems by Vasko Popa, translated by Anthony Weir

22 from the " Far Inside Us " collection by Vasko Popa, translated by Lazar Pascanovic

* Poem " If not for Your Eyes " by Vasko Popa, translated by Lazar Pascanovic

* Poem " Kalenics " by Vasko Popa, translated by Lazar Pascanovic

* Vasko Popa in Persian Anthology of World Poetry

* Collection of poems by Vasko Popa in translation

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On June 2, 1992, he and three more ethnic Romanians, members of the " Ilaşcu group " ( Ilaşcu together with Andrei Ivanţoc, Alexandru Leşco and Tudor Petrov Popa ) were arrested by the breakaway Transnistrian government and charged with the murder of two separatist officials.

* 1989 – Ruben Popa, Romanian footballer

TES also staged works by Romanian playwrights such as Victor Eftimiu, Victor Ion Popa, Tudor Arghezi, and Lucia Demetrius, and but also a vast array of works from world theater: Bertholt Brecht's Threepenny Opera, Reginald Rose's Twelve Angry Men, Georg Büchner's Woyzeck, Lion Feuchtwanger's Raquel, The Jewess of Toledo, and Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Frank V. More recent additions to their repertoire include works by Israel Horovitz and Ray Cooney, and an adaptation by Dorel Dorian of Saul Bellow's Herzog.

He played many celebrated roles by major Romanian playwrights ( Ion Luca Caragiale, Barbu Ştefănescu Delavrancea, Camil Petrescu, Tudor Muşatescu, Mircea Ştefănescu, Victor Ion Popa, Victor Eftimiu, Mihail Sebastian, Aurel Baranga, Mirodan ) and universally known roles by Shakespeare, Goldoni, Gogol, Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, Gorki, Albert Camus, Jules Romains, Eugen Ionescu, Jean Anouilh, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Edward Albee, Peter Schaffer, Patrick Süskind, Neil Simon, and Umberto Eco ).

The current chief of the Romanian Navy, succeeding Vice Admiral Dorin Dănilă on 3 July 2010, is Vice Admiral Aurel Popa.

Many Romanian historians ( e. g., Vlad Georgescu, Marcel Popa ) think that Thocomerius was a voivode in Wallachia who followed Bărbat ( a voivode around 1278 ); others ( e. g., Tudor Sălăgean ) refer to him as a local potentate whose status cannot be specified.

* Coram Deo ( album ), the first Romanian conceptual deep melodic jazz bass solo album, released by Ştefan Popa

* June 29-Vasko Popa, Yugoslav poet ( died 1991 )

In the year 1957 Popa received another award for poetry, Zmaj ’ s Award ( Zmajeva nagrada ), which honours the poet Jovan Jovanović Zmaj.

In The New York Times obituary, the author mentions that the English poet Ted Hughes lauded Popa as an " epic poet " with a " vast vision ".

* Hungarian Civic Party ( Partidul Civic Maghiar in Romanian ), an ethnic Hungarian political party in Romania

Although this acquisition united some 85 percent of the Romanian-speaking population of Eastern Europe into one nation, it left a considerable number of ethnic Hungarians under Romanian rule.

About 89. 4 % of the people of Romania are ethnic Romanians, whose language, Romanian, is an Eastern Romance language, descended primarily from Latin with some Bulgarian, Serbian, German, Greek, Hungarian and Turkish borrowings.

Beside its usage in historical context, Moor and Moorish ( Italian and Spanish: moro, French: maure, Portuguese: mouro, Romanian: maur ) is used to designate an ethnic group speaking the Hassaniya Arabic dialect.

According to the latest Romanian Census ( 2002 ), Moldovan Census ( 2004 ) and Ukrainian Census ( 2001 ) data, the region has a total population of approximately 9, 700, 000 inhabitants, 48 % of them living in Romania, 36 % in Moldova and 16 % in Ukraine, distributed among the ethnic groups as follows:

Horst Köhler's parents, ethnic Germans and Romanian citizens, had to leave their home in Bessarabia in 1940 during the Nazi-Soviet population transfers that followed the invasion of Poland and the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which awarded Bessarabia to the Soviet Union.

Etno music is a popular Romanian style, which keeps most accurate the typical ethnic sound of Romanian traditional folk music.

With many ethnic Romanian intellectuals, either fleeing, being killed after 1940, or being deported both during and after World War II, Bessarabia's cultural and educational situation worsened.

Much of the urban culture came from Moscow ; the rural ethnic Romanian population was allowed to express itself only in folklore or folk art.

Note: for the places with Romanian and Hungarian ethnic majorities, the names are also given in the language of the concerned ethnic group.

The settlements with a Romanian ethnic majority are: Vojvodinci, Jablanka, Kuštilj, Mali Žam, Malo Središte, Markovac, Mesić, Ritiševo, Sočica, and Straža.

Šušara has a Hungarian ethnic majority, while Orešac is an ethnically mixed settlement with a Romanian plurality.

Settlement with Romanian ethnic majority is Jankov Most.

Shortly after Soviet occupation, ethnic Germans ( who were Romanian citizens and had been living as a community in Romania for 800 years ) were deported to the Donbas coal mines ( see Flight and expulsion of Germans from Romania during and after World War II ).

Only in Romania and the Republic of Moldova does the Vlach ( Daco-Romanian or Romanian proper ) population comprise an ethnic majority today.

The Romanians ( dated: Rumanians or Roumanians ; in or — historically, but now a seldom-used regionalism — rumâni ; dated exonym: Vlachs ) are an ethnic group native to Romania, who speak Romanian ; they are the majority inhabitants of Romania.

The 23. 5 million, however, represent only speakers of Romanian, not all of whom are necessarily ethnic Romanians.

However, they retained their Romanian cultural and ethnic identity.

* A degree of overlap may exist or be shared between Romanian and other ethnic identities in certain situations, and census or survey respondents may elect to identify with one particular ancestry but not another, or instead identify with multiple ancestries ;

Thus the census definition of " Romanian " might variously mean Romanian-born, of Romanian parentage, or also include other ethnic identities as Romanian which otherwise are identified separately in other contexts ;