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Romanians gave up the Oriental style and fashion and quickly adopted Western fashions radically changing their dressing style and the interior decorations of their homes. Women quickly embraced the Western trends and proved to be the main promoters of these changes in the Romanian society. Furthermore, the change in mentalities allowed women to get more involved in social activities destined for children and not only. So, in the first half of the 19th century children benefitted from improved education and standard of living in comparison to the previous generations. Well-off families in the ...

The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church announced on Thursday the canonization of Venerable Theopahno Basarab from Albotina monastery...

The capital city of Bucharest is crossed, northwest to southeast, over a length of 22 km, by Dambovita River, flanked to the north by its Colentina tributary, and by its south by Arges. The river Dambovita issues from the Fagaras Mountains, has a length of 237 km, and has a drop in altitude of 1,757 m. After it leaves the capital city, it flows into Arges river by the village of Budesti. The river's name can be confusing, since an entire county in Romania is called Dambovita, with a seat in the city of Targoviste, the old medieval capital of the principality of Wallachia.   The first ...

Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca urges, in a message sent on Sunday on the occasion of Roma People Liberation Day, to respecting and supporting this...

Mos Ion Roata, the peasant under corvee elected as deputy in the Ad-hoc Divan that voted for the Union of 1859 between Wallachia and Moldova, was...