Bessarabia, having declared its independence from Russia in 1917 by the Conference of the Country ( Sfatul Țării ), called in Romanian troops to protect the province from the Bolsheviks who were spreading the Russian Revolution.

These led to a dramatic decrease in Ceauşescu's popularity and culminated in his overthrow and execution in the bloody Romanian Revolution of 1989.

Since the Romanian Revolution of 1989, Bucharest has again become an increasingly cosmopolitan city, including identifiable Chinese and Irish presences.

* June 13 – June 1990 Mineriad: Fighting breaks out in Romania in the aftermath of the Romanian Revolution of 1989, between the supporters of Nicolae Ceauşescu and the Communist regime, and those of the new regime.

** The Romanian Revolution begins in Timişoara when rioters break into the Committee Building and cause extensive vandalism.

The Romanian Revolution of 1989 began with mass anti-Ceaușescu protests in Timișoara in December 1989 and continued in Bucharest, leading to the overthrow of the Communist regime.

A newer landmark of the city is the Memorial of Rebirth, a stylized marble pillar unveiled in 2005 to commemorate the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989, which overthrew Communism.

After the 1905 Russian Revolution, a Romanian nationalist movement started to develop in Bessarabia.

In December 1989, Timișoara witnessed a series of mass street protests by Romanians, Hungarians and Serbs, in what was to become the Romanian Revolution of 1989.

Later representatives from the region were sent to the Romanian national assemblies held in Blaj during the 1848 Revolution where Romanians decided to demand equal rights and resist the attempt of Hungary of gaining independence from the Habsburg House.

With the resurgence of church construction after the Romanian Revolution of 1989, there are new churches built in the traditional style.

In 1990, after the Romanian Revolution, Eliade was elected posthumously to the Romanian Academy.

Iliescu is widely recognized as a predominant figure in the first fifteen years of post-1989 Romanian Revolution politics.

The 1989 Romanian Revolution began as a popular revolt in Timișoara.

Some alleged he had connections to the KGB, the allegations continued during 2003-2008, when Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, who had been granted access to Soviet archives, declared that Iliescu and some of the NSF members were KGB agents, that Iliescu had been in close connection with Mikhail Gorbachev ever since they had allegedly met during Iliescu's stay in Moscow, and that the Romanian Revolution of 1989 was a plot organized by the KGB to regain control of the country's policies ( gradually lost under Ceaușescu's rule ).

Category: People of the Romanian Revolution of 1989

Despite the fact that they were expected to sing their first song in their hometown Timişoara, the city that sparked the Romanian Revolution of 1989 that eventually led to the downfall of the Communist regime, their first post-1989 concert took place in Bucharest, the capital of Romania.

After the Romanian Revolution from the end of the 1989, this genre began to fade out, becoming almost extinct in the middle of 1990s.

Traditionally, the biggest minority in the county were Germans, but their numbers have decreased since World War II and especially the Romanian Revolution of 1989.

After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, which resulted in the fall of Communism, Romania was left with one of the largest, most dense and most frequently-used railway networks in Europe ; but at the same time having relatively outdated infrastructure.

Dead laying in a morgue killed during the Romanian Revolution of 1989.

During the Romanian Revolution of 1989, power was taken by a group called the National Salvation Front ( FSN ), which gathered dissidents, both from within the Communist Party and non-affiliated.

flag of Romania | Romanian flag with a hole in the center, as Romanian Revolution of 1989 | used in 1989 ; photo made during an anti-government demonstration in Bucharest in September 2006

* 1989 – Doru Davidovici, Romanian writer and pilot ( b. 1945 )

* Alexandra Dulgheru ( born 1989 ), Romanian tennis player

* Alexandra Stan ( born 1989 ), Romanian singer

* Georgian Tobă ( born 1989 ), Romanian footballer

* 1989 – Ruben Popa, Romanian footballer

* 1989 – Gabriel Torje, Romanian footballer

** Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator ( d. 1989 )

On August 31, 1989, following a 600, 000-strong demonstration in Chişinău four days earlier, Romanian ( Moldavian ) became the official language of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Nicolae Ceaușescu (; 26 January 1918 – 25 December 1989 ) was a Romanian Communist politician.

He was General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and as such was the country's last Communist leader.

* Hermann Oberth ( 1894 – 1989 ), Romanian and German physicist

Since then, this song, which contains a message of liberty and patriotism, has been sung during all major Romanian conflicts, including during the 1989 anti-Ceauşist revolution.

In the summer of 1940, fear of the Soviet Union, in conjunction with German support for the territorial demands of Romania's neighbors and the Romanian government's own miscalculations, resulted in more territorial losses for Romania.

Raiffeisen Bank Romania has resulted from the merger in June 2002 of the two Raiffeisen Group banks present on the local market Raiffeisenbank ( Romania ) S. A., established in 1998 as a subsidiary of RZB Austria and Banca Agricola Raiffeisen S. A. established in April 2001, after the take over by RZB Austria of the Romanian state-owned Banca Agricola.

The origion of the Romanians, that is the formation of the Romanian people and the venue thereof, has been for centuries subject to scholarly debate, since its different approaches ( sometimes driven by political bias ) have not resulted in a consensual view.

Although Strabo appears to portray these campaigns as short-term raids for plunder and to punish his enemies, several Romanian scholars have argued, on the basis of controversial interpretation of archaeological data, that they resulted in longer-term Dacian occupation and settlement of large territories beyond the dava zone.

The site, extended in later years, was completed with new buildings by Janco down to the mid 1930s ; this pet project resulted in some of the most experimental buildings in the history of Romanian architecture, in striking contrast with the antique design prevalent in the surrounding Hala Traian quarter.

The interaction between Romanised and non-Romanised indigenous peoples and the Slavs resulted in linguistic similarities which are reflected in modern Bulgarian, Albanian, Romanian and Macedonian, all of them members of the Balkan language area.

The writer's investigations into Romanian culture also resulted in an accurate record of the Romanian language as it was spoken during his day, sampling dialects, jargon, slang, verbal tics, as well as illustrating the experiments undertaken by conflicting schools of linguistics during the 19th and early 20th century, as well as the traces they left on the Romanian lexis.

This was due to a number of factors: the country's lack of industrial development, which resulted in a relatively small working class and a large peasant population ; the minor impact of Marxism among Romanian intellectuals ; the success of state repression in driving the party underground and limiting its activities ; and finally, the party's " anti-national " policy, as it began to be stated in the 1920s — supervised by the Comintern, this policy called for the breakup of Greater Romania, which was regarded as a colonial entity " illegally occupying " Transylvania, Dobruja, Bessarabia and Bukovina ( regions that, the communists argued, had been denied the right of self-determination ).

A veritable " trial by press " resulted in which all of his works and activities were systematically reevaluated, proving Călinescu's perennial value and ability to offer new generations new perspectives on his own times and the whole history of Romanian literature.

This attitude resulted in a clash between Adevărul on one side and Romania's new dominant socialist faction, the Romanian Social Democratic Party ( PSDR ) and the socialist-controlled labor movement on the other.

Its intervention in the war was nevertheless ill-fated, and resulted in the occupation of Bucharest and much of the surrounding regions by the Central Powers, with the Romanian authorities taking refuge in Iaşi.

Michael's victory resulted in the first instance when the principalities of Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania were united under a Romanian ruler.