
The Greeks called these people Getae, but to the Romans they were Dacians.

Thracian tribes of Indo-European origin, who migrated from Asia, occupied the actual territory of Romania.Ī distinctive Thracian sub-group emerged in what is now Romania. What is now Romania has been inhabited since the Paleolithic AgeĪs evidenced by carved stone tools unearthed there.Īpproximate date of the first known art in present day Romania: cave paintings in northwest Transylvania.Īpproximate date of pottery (dated to the Neolithic Age) that is found in all regions of Romania. Some of the history that has shaped Romania
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The 1991 Constitution re-established Romania as a republic with a multiparty system, market economy and individual rights of free speech, religion and private ownership. In December 1989 a national uprising led to his overthrow. Romania's post WWII history as a communist-block nation is more widely known, primarily due to the excesses of the former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Transylvania was successively under Habsburg, Ottoman, Hungarian or Wallachian rule, while remaining an (semi) autonomous province.

Romania's historical provinces Wallachia and Moldova offered furious resistance to the invading Ottoman Turks. Over the centuries, various migrating people invaded Romania. Romania's history has not been as idyllically peaceful as its geography.
