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.

In spite of the rather slow post-recession recovery, in terms of income per capita Croatia is still ahead of some European Union member states such as Bulgaria, Romania and Latvia.

It is possible that in Romania particularly where Hungarians live in large number the area called Transylvania above listed foods are known and made with dill, still they are Hungarian foods.

In Romania, icons painted as reversed images behind glass and set in frames were common in the 19th century and are still made.

This practice is still followed in other countries ( e. g., Romania ), extending to everything that could reflect the deceased person's face ( such as TVs and appliances ).

Greater Romania is still seen by many as a " paradise lost ", often by comparison with the " stunted " Communist Romania.

This method is still used by some traditional cheese-makers, e. g. in Switzerland, Greece, France, Romania, Italy, Sweden, United Kingdom and Alp-Sennereien in Austria.

The church in Romania and Hungary still looks to the statement of faith, the Summa Universae Theologiae Christianae secundum Unitarios ( 1787 ), though today assent to this is not required.

* January 24 – Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza under the name Romania ( see December 1, 1918 for the final unification, Transylvania and other regions are still missing at that time ).

It is still extensively cultivated in India, Russia, Ukraine, the Middle East, Turkey and Romania.

Although the forced quarantine or segregation of patients is unnecessary in places where adequate treatments are available, many leper colonies still remain around the world in countries such as India ( where there are still more than 1, 000 leper colonies ), China, Romania, Egypt, Nepal, Somalia, Liberia, Vietnam, and Japan.

In some Eastern European countries, like Romania and Poland, Green parties are still in the process of formation and have therefore not gained enough support.

The Napoleonic Code was also adopted in 1864 in Romania ( with some modifications ), which is still in force as of 2011 ( articles 461 to 1914 ).

After his company's relocation, many Fokker C. I and C. IV military air-planes were delivered to Russia, Romania and the still clandestine German air-force.

The Anina-Oravita railway was the first in Romania, built in 1856, it is still in use today for touristic purposes, and it is one of the most beautiful railways in Europe due to very picturesque landscapes, viaducts and long tunnels.

Maramureş is one of the better-known regions of Romania, with autonomous traditions since the Middle Ages-but still not much visited.

Image: RomaniaDanubeDelta MakingMaterialForCOnstructing0003jpg. JPG | Mudbrick is still used today, as seen here in the Romania Danube River Delta.

In contrast, the ex-King Michael I of Romania, who abdicated his throne in 1947, technically lost the use of his title, though out of politeness, he may still be called His Majesty King Michael or Your Majesty.

Although SIS1 + R2 took place, Romania and Bulgaria are still not connected due to political objectives.

As of January 2011, after 6 years, Transilvanian Highway is still under construction, 52 km of road finished and 1. 2 billion Euro paid from Romania to Bechtel USA.

In 1989, Latin script was adopted in Moldova again, along with the orthographic rules used in Romania at the time, whilst officially Transnistria still uses the Cyrillic alphabet.

While Romania did emancipate itself from Ottoman tutelage, Brătianu had to accommodate a prolonged Russian occupation, and the Congress of Berlin saw Russia seizing counties of the Budjak that were still Romanian-owned ( Romania was awarded Northern Dobruja in return ).

In many countries, such as in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine the custom of giving women flowers still prevails.