What comes to your mind when you hear the name Dracula? Surely we will immediately imagine about blood-sucking creatures that make humans as victims.
Dracula's own character is actually just a fictional character from horror stories. This character first appears in a novel by Bram Stoker, an Irish writer.
In 1897, Bram Stoker wrote the novel Dracula by introducing Count Dracula as the main character of the novel.
In the real world, the name Dracula is a nickname obtained by Prince Vlad III of Wallachia who is a member of the Order of the Dragon or the Order of the Dragon.
Because it was later given the name Vlad Dracula. The Order of the Dragon is a militant brotherhood founded by the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund.
Order of the dragon for the achievement of the progress of the ottoman in the european region. In this video we will discuss about the country where the legend of the Dracula originated.
This is Romania! Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, East and Southeast Europe. Its territory is included in the southeastern part of Europe.
However, it is sometimes stated that the territory of Romania is part of Central Europe. Romania with Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest and Moldova to the east.
Besides that, Romania also has a border with the Black Sea on the east side. Romania is the largest country in southeastern Europe and the 12th largest in continental Europe. The total area of the country is 238,397 square kilometers.
It has a population of 19,317,984, making Romania the seventh most populous country in Romania in the European Union.
The official language of this country is Romanian, it is spoken as the first language by about 90% of the population in Romania, while Hungarian and Romani Vlax, which are a dialect group of the Romance languages, are spoken by about 6.2% and 1.2% respectively. of the Romanian population.
Romania is a secular country and has no official religion in the country, the majority of the population in the country identifying themselves as Christians.
Approximately 86.45% of the Romanian population identified as Orthodox Christians belong to the Romanian Orthodox Church. The form of government of Romania is a semi-presidential republic, where executive functions are held by the president who serves as head of state and the prime minister as head of government.
Bucharest is the capital and largest city of the country of Romania, the city also acts as a cultural, financial and industrial center of the country Romania Romania is ranked 52nd in the world, in the human development index, the country is categorized as one of the developing countries with low-income economies. tall.
Romania has the 45th largest economy in the world by nominal GDP , with an annual economic growth rate of 3.5% in 2020. Romania has an economy based largely on services and is one of the leading producers and exporters of machinery and electrical energy, which featuring companies such as Automobile Dacia and OMV Petrom.
Tourism is a significant contributor to the Romanian economy, this sector generates about 5% of GDP. The number of tourists continues to increase, reaching 9.33 million foreign tourists in 2016, according to the World Bank. In 2014, Romania had 32,500 companies active in the hotel and restaurant industry, with a total turnover of 2.6 billion euros.
Romanian history
Traces of life found by scientists have revealed that the area now known as Romania was first inhabited by humans about 40,000 years ago.
For centuries before becoming modern Romania, this region was alternately ruled by other European kingdoms such as Greece, Rome, Toth, Gepid, Hun, Avar, Bulgarian, Slavic and Hungarian.
In the Middle Ages, the Romanians were further divided into three distinct principalities, namely Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania.
While Transylvania was part of the Kingdom of Hungary, two other principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia, were under the rule of the Ottoman Empire.
And it was in this era that the famous legend of the prince Dracula originated. In the 14th century, the kingdoms of Wallachia and Moldavia emerged to fight the Ottoman Empire which had conquered Constantinople in 1453.
The resistance from the Romans was led by Prince Stephen III of Moldavia and Prince Vlad III of Wallachia, also known as Vlad Dracula.
Vlad III is remembered for his raids against the Ottoman Empire and his success in keeping his small country free for some time from the Ottoman Empire.
Romanian historiography views him as a fierce but just ruler, defender of the independence of Wallachia and European Christianity against Ottoman expansion.
In the western world, Prince Vlad III is best known as the inspiration for the main character in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula. In 1541, the entire Balkan Peninsula and northern Hungary became an Ottoman province.
Moldavia, Wallachia and Transylvania were under Ottoman rule with internal autonomy rights. In 1594, the princes of the three kingdoms joined the holy league to fight the ottomans.
The Holy League was a military alliance of Christian-dominated European countries, aimed at fighting the Ottoman Empire. The league was founded by Pope Clement VII in 1594.
In 1600, Prince Michael the Brave, known in Romanian as Prince Mihai Viteazul of Wallachia, united the three kingdoms in a personal union.
Mihai Viteazul tries to unite the three kingdoms, but the chance of unification is ruined by Mihai's assassination by the Austrian army.
Since the 19th century mihai was seen by nationalists as a symbol of Romanian unity, because under his rule was the first time that all the kingdoms inhabited by Romanians had come under the same ruler.
In 1699, Transylvania became the territory of the Austrian Empire, after Austria's victory over Turkey in the Great Turkish War.
Austria also made another expansion of power into Wallachia and northwestern Moldavia in 1775, taking advantage of the chaotic situation. The Russian Empire also invaded and occupied the eastern part of Moldavia in 1812.
During the period of Austrian-Hungarian rule as well as the Ottomans in the three territories, the status of the Romanians was second-class. In 1848, a revolutionary movement known as the Moldavian revolution took place in the regions of Moldavia and Wallachia, the revolution demanded the emancipation of the peasants and the unification of the two kingdoms.
However, the movement was stopped by the Ottoman and Russian troops. Meanwhile in the Transylvania region, the Hungarians occupied the upper class, so the Romanian people fought against the Hungarians.
In January 1859, After special assemblies convoked in Moldavia and Wallachia urging the unification of the two kingdoms, the great powers did not prevent the election of Alexander Ioan Cuza as domnitor or their collective leader, the election of Alexander Ioan Cuza as domnitor succeeded in uniting Wallachia and Moldavia as Romania.
The United Kingdom officially adopted the name Romania on February 21, 1862. During the Russo-Turkish war of 1877 to 1878 Romania supported Russia, and in the 1878 Treaty of Berlin, Romania's independence was recognized.
In exchange, Romania ceded the three southern districts of Bessarabia to Russia and acquired the territory of Dobrogea. In August 1916, Romania joined the Allies and declared war on Austria-Hungary.
Through a secret military convention, the Allies pledged to support Romania in an effort to unite all the Romanian people.
At the end of the war, Austria-Hungary, the Russian Empire disintegrated, so Bessarabia, Bukovina and Transylvania declared union with the Kingdom of Romania in 1918.
In 1947, the communists forced king mihai I to abdicate and leave the country. Romania was proclaimed as the people's republic of Romania.
Romania remained under military occupation and economic control of the Soviet Union until the late 1950s.
During this period, Romania's resources were absorbed by the Soviet-Romanian companies. The communist government established a regime which was mainly implemented through the new securitate or secret police.
They launched a campaign to eliminate "enemies of the state", resulting in the killing and arrest of individuals for political and economic reasons.
In 1965, Nicolae Ceauşescu began to control and oversee independent policies, such as being the only warsaw pact state with the 1968 soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, in addition to this period relations with relations after the six-day war in 1967, as well as opening the schedule and economy with West Germany.
Romania also has close relations with the Arabs, making Romania an important role in the Israeli peace process with Egypt and Israel with the Palestinian state game organization.
Because Romania's foreign debt increased sharply between 1977 and 1981.
Nicolae Ceauşescu tried to get into debt by establishing policies that impoverished the people and sluggish Romanian economy.
As a result, Cescu's popularity waned, which was guaranteed by Ceauescu's fall in the 1989 Romanian revolution. That's the history of the country of romania, and to know more about this country.
facts about romania:
The origin of the name Romania comes from the Latin romanus, which means citizen of Rome.
The first known use of the term is attested in the 16th century by Italian humanists who traveled in Transylvania, Moldavia, and Wallachia.
The current Romanian flag design has actually been in use since 1848, but has undergone several changes.
The Romanian constitution states that "The Romanian flag is a tricolor, the colors arranged vertically are blue, yellow, red".
The proportions, colors and protocol of the flag were established by law in 1994 and then extended in 2001.
Their flag is based on an ancient heraldic banner wherein blue with the head of a cow represents Moldavia and yellow with an eagle representing Wallachia.
Wallachia also chose a naval ensign with horizontal stripes of red, blue, and yellow, colors that were later chosen for the national flag of Romania.
There is currently no official interpretation of the colors other than the historical association. The official currency of Romania is the Romanian leu, and is coded as RON.
Surrounded by Slavic countries, Romanian people speak Romanian which is a Romance language that is closely related to Western Romance especially with Italian, Spanish, Catalan, French and Portuguese.
It is estimated that the Romanian language is around 1,700 years old. The earliest Homo sapiens fossils, to date, were found in 2002 in southwestern Romania, in the Cave of Bones.
The age of the fossil is estimated to be between 37,800 to 42,000 years. Perched on a rock outcrop at the Iron Gates of the Danube River, near the small town of Orsova, in southwest Romania, is a 55-meter-tall stone statue depicting Decebalus, the last king of Dacia.
The monument is the largest stone statue in Europe and can only be reached by boat. Bran Castle is one of the most famous castles in Romania, this castle is also known as Dracula's castle.
In Bram Stoker's book he wrote that Dracula lived in the castle. Count Dracula is a fictional character inspired by Prince Vlad III of Wallachia, also known as Vlad Dracula.
The castle is now a museum dedicated to exhibiting the art and furniture collected by Queen Marie who was the last queen of the kingdom of Romania.
Vlad III of Wallachia or also known as Vlad the Impaler is better known today as Vlad Dracula. He is often regarded as one of the most important rulers in the history of Wallachia and a national hero of Romania.
Romanian historiography views him as a fierce but just ruler, defender of the independence of Wallachia and European Christianity against Ottoman expansion.
Prince Vlad earned his reputation as the impaler, because of his cruelty to the enemy in war, he executed his enemies by stabbing them on wooden stakes.
In 1462, it is said that he invaded Ottoman territory and massacred tens of thousands of Turks and Bulgarians, prompting Sultan Mehmed II to mobilize his troops against Wallachia.
The popular story suggests that Vlad III was able to strengthen the central government only by imposing brutal punishments, and a similar view was adopted by most Romanian historians in the 19th century.
Vlad III's reputation for cruelty and patronymic inspired the vampire name Count Dracula. If any of you have watched the 2014 film Dracula untold.
From there you will get a little picture of the cruelty of Prince Vlad. Although the film is a work of fiction and is added with story spices.
However, in some scenes there are scenes inspired by the life story of the dracula, such as he was once a prisoner of the ottoman, then there is a scene where he kills two envoys from the ottoman sultan, there is also a cruel execution carried out on the enemy he defeated.
Romania is home to 8 places designated as cultural heritage sites by UNESCO. List of such places like, church in Moldavia, Dacian fort in Orastie mountains, historical center of sighisoara, Danube river delta, ancient beech forest in Carpathians, Horezu monastery, village with fortified church in Transylvania, Maramures wooden church.
Crossing southern Romania, the Danube River forms a beautiful river delta before flowing into the Black Sea. The Danube Delta is home to 23 natural ecosystems.
From April to December this delta is home to more than 300 species of birds that live in the canals and lakes of the delta.
This country has the largest brown bear population in Europe. About 6,000 brown bears are found in the Romanian Carpathians, out of a total of 200,000 brown bears worldwide, making up the largest population in Europe outside of Russia.
In addition, the largest mammals in Europe can also be found in this country. The European bison, a large animal weighing more than 600 kilograms that is almost extinct due to hunting, can be found in Romania.
The former salina turda salt mine dates back to the 17th century. The mine is home to an underground amusement park located about 120 meters deep in the earth.
The attractions offered at this venue include a bowling alley, an amphitheater or arena which regularly hosts live concerts, as well as a Ferris wheel ring.
What's more, this salt mine also has an underground salt lake that can be explored by rowboat.
Romania is also home to the second largest underground glacier in Europe. The scarișoara caves, located at an altitude of 1,165 meters in the picturesque Apuseni mountains, naturally protect the scarișoara glacier.
With a volume of 75,000 cubic meters, this 3,000 year old natural wonder is the second largest underground glacier in Europe and one of Romania's premier speleological sites.
The palace of parliament in Bucharest, is the heaviest and most expensive administrative building in the world. This building is also the second largest in the world, after the pentagon.
Designed by Anca Petrescu when she was 28 years old, the House of the People, as it was called during Romania's communist rule, is 270 meters wide, 240 meters long and 86 meters high.
The building has 1,100 rooms, there are also eight underground levels, as well as a nuclear bunker that is connected to other government buildings by a 20 km long tunnel.
Inside the building visitors will find 3,500 tons of crystal, 480 chandeliers and 1,409 ceiling lights, while 700,000 tons of steel and bronze are used for the monumental doors and windows.
Guinness world records recognize it as the heaviest building on the planet. Charlottenburg is the only circular village in Romania. The village was built in the 18th century by the swabians, German colonists who settled in the country.
Forming a perfect circle of houses, the stables and barns are erected in a symmetrical style, all the houses are the same distance apart and stand at the same height.
The Romanian Ministry of Culture has placed it on the list of historical monuments. Timisoara, is one of the most beautiful and vibrant metropolitan cities in Romania.
Timisoara was the first mainland European city to be illuminated by electric street lights, in 1884. By international standards, this city is second only to New York City.
Merry Cemetery or in the Romanian language called Cimitirul Vesel, is a cemetery complex located in Sapanta Village, Maramures City, Romania.
In contrast to funerals in general, this cemetery is famous for its brightly colored tombstones, which are decorated with pictures that show the profession or activities of the buried person, besides that the tombstone is also inscribed with unique poems.
The funeral culture has been going on since 1935. And now the Merry Cemetery has become an open museum and a national tourist attraction.
Top Gear host, Jeremy Clarkson stated that the Transfagaraan Road in Romania is the best driving road in the world.
This road stretches for more than 90 kilometers, and cuts through the Fagaraș Mountains. Transfagarașan is filled with sharp turns.
The view becomes even more spectacular as road users climb higher, the peak of the road being at 2,134 meters.
Romania is one of the best places in the world for 4G speed, According to dospeedtest.com, romania has a peak internet speed of 58.7 Mbps, which makes it the 7th country with the fastest internet in the world, compared to the united states where the peak connection speed is around 48 ,8 Mbps.
In addition, the average Romanian consumes more internet than any other European country. That's the history and facts of the country of Romania, a country in Europe that has its own uniqueness compared to other European countries.