Romania

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Romania is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe. It lies on the lower course of the Danube, north of the Balkan Peninsula, and on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to the east, and the Black Sea to the southeast. It is the twelfth-largest country in Europe by area, covering 238,397 km2 (92,046 mi2), and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union, with 19 million inhabitants. The capital, largest city and economic centre is Bucharest. Other major cities include Cluj-Napoca, Iași, Constanța, Timișoara, Brașov and Craiova. Romania was settled during the Lower Paleolithic. In antiquity its territory was inhabited by the Dacians. Part of it became the Roman province of Dacia after Trajan's Dacian Wars, beginning the process of Romanisation. The modern Romanian state was formed in 1859 with the unification of Moldavia and Wallachia under Alexandru...

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