In the first of Romania's group stage matches, against Colombia, Hagi scored one of the most memorable goals of that tournament, curling in a 40-yard lob over Colombian goalkeeper Oscar Córdoba who was caught out of position.

The land here is rich with chernozemic soils and forms Romania's most important farming region.

The Danube is by far Romania's most important river, not only for transportation, but also for the production of hydroelectric power.

Critics have pointed out that, unlike most communist-to-social democrat changes in the Eastern bloc, Romania's tended to retain various cornerstones.

It published its cultural journal Convorbiri Literare where, among others, Mihai Eminescu, Romania's greatest poet, Ion Creangă, a storyteller of genius, and Ion Luca Caragiale, novelist and the Romania's greatest playwright published most of their works.

It is Romania's most populated county, having a population density double than the country's mean.

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.

Mamaia is a resort on the Romanian Black Sea shore, considered to be Romania's most popular resort.

The name " hunger circuses ", now so universally used as to have almost suppressed the memory of the official communist-era term, derived from the circus-like domed architecture and the irony of constructing these massive food-related buildings during a period when food was scarce throughout Romania ( due to Ceauşescu's policy of exporting most of Romania's agricultural produce in order to pay off the foreign debt ).

Some of the most famous Romanian cultural representatives such as Mihai Eminescu, Romania's national poet, Stefan Luchian, famous painter, and Nicolae Iorga, the famous Romanian historian, were born in Botosani.

It is also the location of A. T. Laurian National College, one of Romania's oldest ( founded 1859 ) and most prestigious pre-university educational institutions.

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.

Iureş was born 2 August 1951 in Băileşti, Romania and is one of Romania's most acclaimed stage and film actors.

During his peripatetic exile, Celmiņš had established personal contacts with the representatives of other fascist groupings in Europe, most notably Romania's Corneliu Codreanu.

These ships, together with the ones already in service, made Romania's Danube flotilla the most powerful riverine fleet in the world until World War II.

Bran Castle is one of Romania's most popular visitor sites, made famous in modern times when Queen Marie restored it after receiving it from the residents of Braşov County in the 1920s.

In analyzing the history of liberalism and radicalism in Romania, he concluded that many of the most extreme social reformists had rallied in opposition to land reform ( he saw this phenomenon as having made possible the toppling of Romania's Domnitor Alexandru Ioan Cuza, whom he saw as a supporter of industrialization ).

This caused an uproar, with most of Romania's diplomatic corps voicing their dissatisfaction.

Prince Carol was most unhappy by this imposition of Russian occupation of Romanian territories that seriously breached the Russo-Romanian treaty of 4 April 1877 ; he was finally persuaded by Bismarck ( in now-published original letters exchanged at that time ) to accept this compromise with Russia in view of the great economical potential of Romania's direct access to the Black Sea and its ancient ports.

At international level, Popescu stands among Romania's all-time most capped players with 115, in which he scored 16 goals.

Though criticised for praising dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu, Păunescu was called " Romania's most famous poet " in an Associated Press story, quoted by the New York Times.

Iohannis is widely credited with turning his city into one of Romania's most popular tourist destinations, and the city was declared as European Capital of Culture in 2007.

Iohannis is also widely credited with turning the city into one of Romania's most popular tourist destinations thanks to the extensive renovation of the old downtown.

Partly building on the antisemitic component of the 1907 revolts, its doctrines depicted the Jewish-Romanian community and Jews in general as a danger for Romania's development.

The Baptist Union of Romania's leadership is established by the vote of all baptists churches representatives gathered once every four years in Congress ( general assembly ).

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.

In September 1944, upon Romania's exit from the Axis camp and the onset of Soviet occupation, he was named the general secretary of Scînteia ( the deputy editor in chief to Leonte Răutu ), the official newspaper of the PCR.

His education at the military school in Bacău ( where he was a colleague of Petre Pandrea, the future left-wing activist ) ended in the same year as Romania's direct implication in the war.

The ultimate decision was attributed to Romania's Queen Elisabeth having asked Maiorescu to reconsider, or, alternatively, to the support offered by the influential Junimist Petre P. Carp.

A Freemason, Argetoianu was first elected to the Senate in 1914 as a Conservative Party representative, where he oscillated between the dissident the mainstream Conservatives of Petre P. Carp and the dissident group around Take Ionescu ( the latter was welcoming Romania's entry into World War I on the side of the Entente Powers, which Argetoianu also proposed ).

After Hitler has convinced Ion Antonescu to continue war beyond Romania's pre-1940 borders, Dumitrescu then led the Third Army to the Crimea, taking part in the Battle of the Sea of Azov.

Despite ongoing and potential disputes, however, it was unlikely in 1989 that Romania's borders would be redrawn in the foreseeable future.

Romania's largest stock exchange, the Bucharest Stock Exchange, which was merged in December 2005 with the Bucharest-based electronic stock exchange Rasdaq, plays a major role in the city's economy.

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

Gorbachev grew to dislike Honecker, and by 1988 was lumping Honecker, along with Bulgaria's Todor Zhivkov, Czechoslovakia's Gustáv Husák and Romania's Nicolae Ceaușescu as a " Gang of Four "— a group of inflexible hardliners unwilling to make necessary reforms.

The move was prompted by the officially sanctioned nationalism and Romania's claim to independence from the Eastern Bloc, as both phenomena came to see Eliade's prestige as an asset.

Noting that the book featured parts where Eliade spoke of himself in eulogistic terms, notably comparing himself favorably to Goethe and Romania's national poet Mihai Eminescu, Cernat accused the writer of " egolatry ", and deduced that Eliade was " ready to step over dead bodies for the sake of his spiritual ' mission ' ".

Late in the 1930s, Mihail Sebastian was marginalized by Romania's antisemitic policies, and came to reflect on his Romanian friend's association with the far right.

Thus, a " more accessible " object for nostalgia was a " secondary silver age within the last few hundred years "— the Kingdom of Romania's 19th century cultural renaissance.

As Antohi noted, Eliade, Emil Cioran and Constantin Noica " represent in Romanian culture ultimate expressions of excellence, and Cioran being regarded as proof that Romania's interwar culture ( and, by extension, Romanian culture as a whole ) was able to reach the ultimate levels of depth, sophistication and creativity.

Romania's independence from the Ottoman Empire was recognized in 1878 at the Congress of Berlin ; the principality turned into a sovereign kingdom in 1881, with Prince Carol becoming King Carol I of Romania.

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.

Romania's first national airline was founded in 1920 under the name CFRNA-( French-Romanian Company for Air Navigation ).

In mathematics Gheorghe Ţiţeica was one of Romania's greatest mathematicians, and also an important personality was the mathematician / poet Dan Barbilian.

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.

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

In 1936, after Romanian Prime Minister Gheorghe Tătărescu removed Nicolae Titulescu as Foreign Minister and recalled nearly all Romania's diplomats, Prince Bibesco had the unenviable responsibility of reassuring England and France that Romania was not slipping into the grip of fascism.

The first railway line on Romania's present-day territory was opened on 20 August 1854 and ran between Oravița in Banat and Baziaș, a port on the Danube.

The Vârciorova-Roman line was an important part of Romania's rail infrastructure because it spanned the entire Kingdom and provided an important connection for passengers and freight between several significant Wallachian and Moldavian cities.

Although Romania's unrest proved fragmentary and controllable, Hungary's was not, so in November Moscow mounted a bloody invasion of Hungary.