The symmetry of Romania's relief continues with the Getic Tableland to the south of the SubCarpathians, the Moldavian Tableland in the east between the SubCarpathians and the Prut River, and the Dobrujan Tableland in the southeast between the Danube and the Black Sea.

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.

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.

Romania's most portant general, Petre Dumitrescu, was commander of the Romanian Third Army at Stalingrad.

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.

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

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

During this period, Romania's resources were drained by the " SovRom " agreements: mixed Soviet-Romanian companies established to mask the looting of Romania by the Soviet Union.

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

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

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

On December 20, 1919, these men voted, along with the representatives of Romania's other regions, to ratify the unification acts that had been approved by Sfatul Ţării and the National Congresses in Transylvania and Bukovina.

Romania's national anthem has eleven stanzas, although only the 1 < sup > st </ sup >, 2 < sup > nd </ sup >, 4 < sup > th </ sup >, and 11 < sup > th </ sup > are sung on official occasions, as established by Romanian law.

To the young Eliade, the Iron Guard seemed like a path for returning to the silver age of Romania's glory, being a movement " dedicated to the cultural and national renewal of the Romanian people by appeal to their spiritual roots ".

During this period, railways were seen as the symbol of Romania's rapid industrialisation under Communist leaders Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and later by Nicolae Ceaușescu.

In a radio broadcast to the Romanian nation and army on the night of 23 August King Michael issued a cease-fire, proclaimed Romania's loyalty to the Allies, announced the acceptance of an armistice ( to be signed on September 12 ) offered by Great Britain, the United States, and the USSR, and declared war on Germany.

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.

Romania's government also took measures to allay domestic discontent by reducing investments in heavy industry, boosting output of consumer goods, decentralizing economic management, hiking wages and incentives, and instituting elements of worker management.

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.

This fusion is identified by political scientist Ioan Stanomir as a mutation of Junimeas ideology, running contrary to Titu Maiorescu's liberal conservatism, but resonating with the ideology of Romania's national poet, Mihai Eminescu.

However, he viewed the autochthonous element in this acculturation, the Dacians ( collocated by him with the Getae ), as historically significant, and he even considered them the source for Romania's later links with the Balkan " Thracian " space.

Romania's communist regime, set up in the late 1940s, originally revised Iorga's role in the historical narrative: a record 214 works of his were banned by communist censors, and remained banned until 1965.

* 1989: At the Court of Yearning: Poems by Lucian Blaga, translation of Romania's modern poet.

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.