Bucharest is also Romania's largest centre for information technology and communications and is home to several software companies operating offshore delivery centres.

Bucharest is home to Romania's largest recording labels, and is often the residence of Romanian musicians.

Romania's largest think tank is the Romanian Academic Society ( SAR ), which was founded in 1996.

He also closed Romania's largest labor camps, abandoned the Danube – Black Sea Canal project, halted rationing and hiked workers ' wages.

Timişoara International Airport Traian Vuia ( TSR ), Romania's third largest airport, carries his name.

Căile Ferate Române ( CFR ), Romania's national railway operator, is one of the largest users of the Siemens Desiro trainsets ( as the light train variant ).

Orange România is Romania's largest GSM network operator, the subsidiary of Orange SA.

The Securitate was, in proportion to Romania's population, one of the largest secret police forces in the Eastern bloc.

From 21 April 2005 until 21 February 2010 he was the head of the Partidul Social Democrat ( PSD, Social Democratic Party ), one of Romania's largest parties.

In 2000, Tudor received the second largest number of votes in Romania's presidential elections, partially as a result of protest votes lodged by Romanians frustrated with the fractionalization and mixed performance of the 1996-2000 Romanian Democratic Convention government.

According to the 2009 data of FAOSTAT, Romania is the world's second largest plum producer ( after the United States ), and as much as 75 % of Romania's plum production is processed into the famous ţuică, a plum brandy obtained through one or more distillation steps.

Most notable Romanian hip hop artists come from Bucharest, Romania's capital and largest city.

Timişoara " Traian Vuia " International ( also known as Giarmata Airport ) is Romania's third largest airport in terms of air traffic, after Bucharest Henri Coandă and Bucharest Aurel Vlaicu Airport and the main air transportation hub for the western part of Romania.

The main organiser is Televiziunea Română, Romania's state-run ( and largest ) television network.

Craiova Airport is located in south-western part of Romania, east of Craiova municipality, one of Romania's largest cities.

In 2006, Ana-Maria Tinu sold her share of Adevărul Holding to one of Romania's richest entrepreneurs, the National Liberal politician Dinu Patriciu, her move hotly contested by Tinu's son Andrei Iucinu, who looked set to gain a third of the stock and trademark ownership upon the end of a trial.

Stufstock ( Stuf-Romanian for reed-and stock from Woodstock ) is a music festival that has taken place each year since 2003 in Vama Veche, Dobrogea, Romania, to protest against what some people may consider bad quality music ( i. e. manele and Romanian pop music ), and to call for the preservation of Vama Veche from the large scale development that has overtaken much of Romania's Black Sea coast.

Romania's Communist President Nicolae Ceauşescu flees the capital Bucharest by helicopter on 22 December 1989 amid a popular revolt to overthrow him.

Additionally, Bucharest has a prefect, who is appointed by Romania's central government.

Bucharest is also home to Romania's supreme court, the High Court of Cassation and Justice, as well as to the Constitutional Court of Romania.

Bucharest is the hub of Romania's national railway network, run by Căile Ferate Române.

Bucharest is also a major intersection of Romania's national road network.

The Romanian Motorway A3, also known as Transylvania Motorway ( Autostrada Transilvania ), currently under construction, will link the city with Bucharest and Romania's western border.

Born in Bucharest, he entered Romania's Chamber of Deputies for the National Liberal Party in 1907 and served in the cabinet from 1914.

After Bucharest, Chișinău, Iași and Chernivtsi, Galați was Romania's fifth city.

Romania's capital city, Bucharest, is situated in Muntenia.

Henri Coandă International Airport () is Romania's busiest international airport, located northwest of the city of Bucharest, within Otopeni city limits.

After cutting short a two-day trip to Iran, Ceauşescu held a televised speech on 20 December, in which he condemned the events of Timişoara, considering them an act of foreign intervention in the internal affairs of Romania and an aggression through foreign secret services on Romania's sovereignty, and declared National Curfew, convoking a mass meeting in his support in Bucharest for the next day.

The government also started several projects for social housing, restarted the construction of the motorway connecting Bucharest to Romania's main port, Constanţa, and began the construction of a motorway across the western region of Transylvania.

Nearby villages were demolished, often in service of large scale projects such as a canal from Bucharest to the Danube-projects which were later abandoned by Romania's post-communist government.

It was their first album to be released under the then newly formed Casa Productions label, as well as it was their first album to be recorded at Ines Sound & Video, in Bucharest, at the time Romania's most high end recording studio.

In 1919, after moving to Iaşi, Codreanu found communism as his new enemy, after he had witnessed the impact of Bolshevik agitation in Moldavia, and especially after Romania lost her main ally in the October Revolution, forcing her to sign the 1918 Treaty of Bucharest ; also, the newly-founded Comintern was violently opposed to Romania's interwar borders ( see Greater Romania ).

He opposed Romania's entry in World War I against Germany, but he nevertheless refused to collaborate with the German army after it had occupied Bucharest.

Romania's first win over Scotland came in Bucharest in 1984 and their first away win against Five Nations opposition came in 1988 against Wales ; 15 – 9 at Cardiff Arms Park.

By 1994 Romania's rugby fortunes had declined sharply, when a Welsh team travelled to Bucharest for an uncapped international the visitors came away with a 16 – 9 win.

People in Bucharest greet Romania's new ally, the Red Army, on 31 August 1944

Naţional lost 1 – 0 to Dinamo Bucharest, during which Petrescu received a lot of abuse from some of the Dinamo fans as he left the pitch at the end of ninety minutes, even though it was the last game of one of Romania's greatest footballers.

Romania's first religious same-sex marriage ceremony took place on 5 June 2006, following the Bucharest GayFest, when Florin Buhuceanu, the executive director of ACCEPT, married his Spanish partner of four years.

It was signed in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, on 7 May 1918 following Romania's defeat in the campaign of 1916 – 17.

Before recognizing Romania's role in the Porajmos, Traian Băsescu was widely quoted after an incident on May 19, 2007, in which he insulted a journalist by calling her a " stinky gypsy.

Later on in the year, she released " Dacă-i tarziu " which was set to launch her fourth studio album, but the release was held back to participate in Romania's national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest.

With popular support for Romania's participation in the war faltering and German-Romanian fronts collapsing under Soviet onslaught, King Michael of Romania led a coup d ' état, which deposed the Antonescu regime and put Romania on the side of the Allies for the remainder of the war.

Although it was the most dedicated ally of Germany, Romania's turning to the Allied side in August 1944 was rewarded with Northern Transylvania, which had been granted to Hungary in 1940 after the Second Vienna Award.

During the early years, Romania's scarce resources after World War II were drained by the " SovRom " agreements, mixed Soviet-Romanian tax-exempt companies established in the aftermath of World War II which allowed the Soviets to control Romania's major sources of income, in addition to the war reparations paid to the USSR.

This policy led to a tightening of Romania's bonds with China, which also advocated national self-determination.

However, despite having a wide range of infrastructure, Nufărul was, like Rogerius, built-up mainly during Romania's Communist period, which ended in 1989.

The apartments were originally intended to house Romania's communist elite, but the completed complex is certainly not a preferred residence for the city's new capitalist elite, with the possible exception of buildings that look out on the now-bustling Unirea Square, where Centrul Civic bisects the Dâmboviţa River, which is channelled underground past the Square.

The newer magazine, illustrated with idealized portraits of the Romanian peasant, was widely popular with Romania's rural intelligentsia ( among which it was freely distributed ), promoting antisemitic theories and raising opprobrium from the authorities and the urban-oriented press.

Also in 1934, Iorga also published a book which coined his image of Romania's early modern culture — Byzance après Byzance (" Byzantium after Byzantium "), alongside the three-volume Histoire de la vie byzantine (" A History of Byzantine Life ").

His work in documenting Romania's historical past could reach an unprecedented intensity, one such exceptional moment being a 1903 study trip to Târgu Jiu, a three-day interval during which he copied and summarized 320 individual documents, covering the entire period between 1501 and 1833.

A decade after, he helped create the National Liberal Party, before playing an important part in Romania's decision to enter the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 — a choice which consecrated her independence.

The Directorate for Penitentiaries operated Romania's prisons, which were notorious for their horrendous conditions.

The Directorate for Militia controlled Romania's Miliția, the standard police force, which carried out tasks such as traffic control.

Marcel and Jules Janco's first moment of cultural significance took place in October 1912, when they joined Tzara in editing the Symbolist venue Simbolul, which managed to receive contributions from some of Romania's leading modern poets, from Alexandru Macedonski to Ion Minulescu and Adrian Maniu.

Heralding the change of architectural tastes with his articles in Contimporanul, Marcel Janco described Romania's capital as a chaotic, inharmonious, backward town, in which the traffic was hampered by carts and trams.

" He ridiculed, like Ion Vinea before him, the substance of Romania's academic traditionalism, notably in a provocative drawing which showed a grazing donkey under the title " Tradition ".

The idea to build a canal became a national issue, which could promote Romania's international trade.

A total of 86 Czech and Slovak non-commissioned officers and soldiers left the First Serbian Volunteer Division, which was then stationed in Reni alongside Russian units, awaiting Romania's entry into the war.

Bonnet's reasons for arguing that Britain should take the lead in persuading Poland to come to Romania's aid were his fear that if France made such an effort, the price of Polish support would a tightening of the Franco-Polish alliance, which was counter to Bonnet's general policy of seeking to weaken France's eastern alliances.