As a French I went to Romania quite a few times because it's really cheap and it's gorgeous ! This country is so underrated, in Western Europe people don't imagine how beautiful this country is.
Merci monsieur, vous êtes gentil, les paroles positives des visiteurs peuvent apporter le changement de mentalité nécessaire pour que la Roumanie retrouve sa place sur les cartes touristiques du monde, la place qui avait commencé à prendre forme avant l'occupation du pays par les bolcheviks qui ont détruit non seulement les perspectives touristiques, mais ont conduit à la démolition ou à la ruine complète de monuments, aujourd'hui disparus ou méconnaissables... sans parler de nombreux objets de valeur volés dès les musées et emmenés en Russie pendant les années de « vassalité inconditionnelle » imposé par le régime communiste.
@@RaduRadonysTheirs and ours as well, to be honest, because before joining the EU we did very little to improve standards and promote ourselves to the World out there, far less than Colombia, Zanzibar, Thailand, Cambodia or even the Czechs or Hungarians next door did - let’s be honest with ourselves. It’s not really their fault that our roads were bad and we didn’t have enough international airports or comfortable accomodation 20 years ago. Remember, just few years ago how our representative went abroad to an International Tourism Conference or Symposium or Fair (or whatever that was) with a bunch of A4 printed photos attached to a black curtain - and that was the best our Tourism Department managed to do to advertise tourism in Romania. I remember it well, it was a scandal and the images of that delegation went viral on the internet, we were all appalled …
My wife is Romanian and of course I've been there several times.She comes from Baia Mare which is in the county of Maramures which shares a border with Ukraine. Romania is a very beautiful country and underrated. It doesn't only have breathtaking scenery and castles as shown in the short documentary. It is the home to several excellent universities, in Cluj and Timișoara. Romanians themselves are very friendly despite the bad reputation some have in the West. Actually I've found that generally, people in Eastern Europe (Poland, Bulgaria and Russia)on the whole, friendlier than those in the West. Romania has 2 big problems tho' ...infrastructure (getting from A to B is not that easy, also the condition of the roads). and high political corruption . One interesting theme tho is Transylvanian Saxon, a native German dialect of the Transylvanian Saxons, an ethnic German minority group from Transylvania in central Romania, and is also one of the three oldest ethnic German and German-speaking groups of the German diaspora in Central and Eastern Europe. For example ,the city Cluj-Napoca in Transylvanian Saxon is "Klausenburg", Baia Mare is "Frauenbach" etc. The language is an Eastern Romance language, this makes it easier (regarding the basics) to learn compared to Hungarian, however the difficulties come later. Oh..it also has the 9th fastest Internet (260.97 Mbps) in the world...and BitDefender. Vă sfătuiesc să vizitați România!
I’m from Baia Mare, that’s why I was talking about Maramures above, I had the first hand experience of autumns there . 🙂 The Saxons you’re talking about have left the country and moved to West Germany in proportion of about 85% or more about 35-40 years ago and even after the 1989 Revolution when they stopped being traded by Ceausescu for money. In Maramureș we didn’t have Saxons, we had Schwabs, (my husband was one of them) they were brought there by the Austro-Hungarian “Empire” only 300 years ago. By that time, the Saxons in the south of Transylvania in Brașov , Sibiu, Sighișoara etc were there for 500 years already. They are not the reason why Baia Mare is Called Frauenbach (that is the literal translation of its original Latin name, Rivulus Dominarum = Ladies River) but due to the fact that all localities under Austro-Hungarian occupation had to have the names in German, the official language of Austria and in Hungarian, the official language of Hungary. Hungary was occupied by Austria the same way as Czechia or Slovakia or Serbia or any other country but they had a few armed uprisings trying to destabilise the Austrian empire and they ended up offering peace if they were taken as partner of decision in the politics of the Empire, that’s how the Austrian empire became Austro-Hungarian, it wasn’t so from the beginning. The Latin or Romanian names of the localities didn’t count to the occupants and were not even written on panels at the entry or exit from those localities by the Austro-Hungarian authorities, they were only orally preserved by the native Romanian population. That’s why today so many localities have their names written in 3 languages, for the benefit of the local ethnic minorities and for their descendants that today live abroad but return as tourists occasionally.
@@DeannaSt To go into the, even past 150 years, of Romanian history will take a very long time. (Too many wars and border changes) This link will show you how often, and who its neighbours were. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_Romania#/media/File:RomaniaBorderHistoryAnnimation_1859-2010.gif The population of the Transylvanian Saxons (or Siebenbürger Sachsens) and Banater Swabians in Romania shrank together, and now you have a Siebenbürger Sachse as your President.....Klaus Iohannis who says he will fight the corruption. Let's hope he will succeed.
@@mikefraser4513 He won’t fight crap, he’s the laziest Saxon ever born in Europe… in 9 years of presidency he never accepted one single interview or a single (brief even) televised debate …nothing, nada, zilch. Events that are worrying people happen and he doesn’t come out to talk to the nation for 5-7 days after the event took place, if ever…he’s brilliantly absent most times… Right now a Russian drone fell into Romanian territory and he appeared on TV to deny it 2 days in a row🤣🤣… despite the Ukrainians warning Romania it happened; he implied the Ukrainians were rambling…Then finally the mayor of a village found the drone remains , but he embarrassed himself once more… for the umpteenth time.
@@mikefraser4513 🤣🤣🤣 Thanks for the links but I know the history of my country pretty well, no need to learn it from strangers, no offence 😉😃 I’ve spent 25 years of my life schooling myself in 3 different countries… I know our history in intimate detail, far better than you would probably imagine. By the way, why do you think I would need a link to Wikipedia in order to know the history of my own country of birth? 🫤 Is this your conclusion about Romanians in general after being married to one of them? I find that rather puzzling and a bit disappointing. Allow me to share with you some trivia: did you know that the Romanians were not allowed to enter any of the Ziebenbürgen cities wearing any footwear, regardless of their status or season… for few hundred years? They had to leave their footwear at the gates of the city, so once inside of any township or city they could be easily singled out …and they were allowed in there only once a week when it was market day or if they had a legal issue at the courts. It didn’t matter if they were priests or teachers or the mayor of a village, they had to leave their footwear at the gates of the city…women and children as well . Funny, don’t you think? 😉😃
Upon their migration from Turkey to Italy, Romans adopted the Latin Language from the Latin people just like they adopted European genetics from the Sabine women they kidnapped.
I went to Romania three times, doing development work with their criminal justice agencies. It is a beautiful country with friendly people, who were always happy to share whatever they had. However many of the cities had had their historic centres flattened to provide areas where triumphant parades could be held to celebrate President Ceaușescu. I did try and learn some of the language: because it has the same origins as Romance languages such as French and Spanish, it was quite easy to pick up some vocabulary but the grammar defeated me.
haha yeah, Romanian has similar grammar to German. The theory is way more pompous and convoluted than it needs to be. It's a thousand times harder to learn grammatical theory than to learn to actually use it. I wouldn't bother with it, just go in for the exercises, to get a feel of it
That isn't really true, the vast majority of cities in romania have their historic centers, the only real damage done was in Bucharest and laşi. Laşi isn't great because of it, but bucharest is such a massive city that the vast majority is still the old city, and the new communist era parts are actually far more post-modernist and art Deco than brutalist when it comes to bucharest. I found bucharest to be very similar to new york in that way, but also just far more impressive in the fact that so much ancient architecture was kept. Also I'm pretty sure romania has one of the highest amount of world heritage sites in the world, they have a lot of well preserved cities and towns. Even my Romanian friends would talk trash about their small villages and towns, and when I go to visit them they're more dense and busy than some of the streets in Chicago and New York. There's many areas that were newly built up with commie blocs, and yes while that may not look great, as someone from new york, it looks better than it does here. Plus you realize these are why romania has the highest home ownership rate on the planet. As a new yorker owning an apartment in the city is an absurd idea. At least they have transit and parks and store access. Here those same public housing buildings get Nothing but parking and maybe a subway line.
Romania is one of the most underrated countries to visit. I was there in June, and will come back soon. I recommend Timisoara, Brasov and Sighisoara. I also went into the forest by myself, and could see a wolf and some bears. Connor; You have to look into eastern (well, central) europe more!! Poland and Hungary is beautiful!!
@@flaviu777then you don’t know Hungary at all, beside Budapest there is also Pécs with the Christian necropolis, Fertö lake, Balaton lake, Hortobágy National Park, Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma, Hollóko village, Tokaj wine region, Castle of Esztergom, The caves and karts in Budapest, Ipolytartnóc Fossils natural conservation area, Ödön Lechner’s works in Hungary like the Museum of Applied Arts or Szent László Church in Kőbánya, the city of Esztergom and Visegrad, Upper Tisza-Region with the wooden churches similar to Maramures… there are tons of things to see in Hungary!
@@cosmincasuta486 pai Io cred ca am făcut o listă destul de detaliată, termină cu naționalismul asta fără sens, sunt mii de locuri faine in Ungaria pe lângă Budapest.
As a Portuguese speaking, I can’t believe the commentator said Romance languages, “Portuguese PROBABLY ????” First of all that is very offensive because Portuguese language is older than Spanish by 400 years! Portugal was established in the year 1139 on the Iberian Peninsula as one of the most oldest nations in Europe, who’s first king designed his own government and national boarders way ahead of Spain and Italy!!! Of course PORTUGUESE IS A LATIN LANGUAGE!!! It has a lot of common words, sentences, phrases the same with pronunciation it’s brother languages of Spanish ( Portuguese twin brother language by the way!), Italian, French, and ROMANIAN!!! As a Portuguese speaking person is learning Romanian and I find it interesting that both our languages are STILL MUTUALLY INTELLIGIBLE!!!! Romanian has so many words, ideas, expressions, and sentences that are exclusively PORTUGUESE!!!! Some of their words appear in high quantity in Portuguese, Portuguese: Eu sou vs. Romanian: Eu sunt Portuguese: doer vs. Romanian: doare ( pain) Portuguese : Meu dor vs. Romanian: Meu dor Portuguese: formosa vs. Frumoasa ( beautiful) Portuguese: ajudar vs. Romanian: ajutor ( help) Portuguese: arranjar vs. Romanian: aranjat (fix) Portuguese: Tu fostes vs. Romanian: Eu foste ( these are exclusively Portuguese word that you don’t find in Spanish, French, nor Italian!!! Just only between Portuguese and Romanian!!! And so much more! I am fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, intermediate French and Italian! I can comprehend all these languages mostly 90 to 100 percent of the time! I am in the mist of learning Romanian as well and I find this language fascinating 🧐 to me! Since I am Portuguese, I can now understand some Romanian ( hardest Latin language ever !!!) We are thousands of miles apart but we still come together in our languages!!! Portuguese: Viva nossos irmãos Romenos ! Eu amo te muito ! Limba Romană: Trăiască Romană noștri frate de limba Portugheză Eu te iubesc multe!
Portuguese with Romanian similarities: To say “ Very Good 👍 “ Romanian: Foarte bine Portuguese: Forte (strong) bem :) But in Portuguese we say : Muito bem ( multe bine ) To say “ Congratulations 🎉 “ Romanian: La Multe Ani ( the many years) in Portuguese translation: “Muito Anos!” In Portuguese to say congratulations, is “ Parabéns 🎉 which in Romanian is “ Pentru bine!” It means in Latin “ For the good 👍 “
All good, except I have no idea what "meu dor" and "eu foste" is supposed to mean in Romanian. And I AM Romanian. Take it easy mate, you don't have to prove anything, really. I'm not sure there's any pride to be taken into something beyond our control, that happened thousands of years ago.
A little disappointed about this top 10. As a Romanian I never imagined a top 10 places to visit would ever skip the Danube Delta. Even if I live in Transylvania and there is plenty to see here, the Danube Delta still remains (imho) the best place to visit here. I would also add as honorable mentions: the historical region of Maramures (not the entire present day county) with the wooden churches and the merry cemetery at Sapanta; the whole area where the Danube enters the Romanian territory; monasteries in Northern Moldavia (if you like this kind of sightseeing); the city of Cluj-Napoca, all the fortified churches in Transylvania (although the one in Biertan might be the coolest looking one). I just noticed I am biased as I was born and lived my entire life in Transylvania, but someone else should add to this list here. Cheers
Yay! My home country! 😁 Romanian is indeed a Romance language. Saw Corvin Castle, there was a man playing medieval music on a mandolin there. I'm surprised they didn't show Peles Castle.
I am Portuguese and trying to learn Romanian and I can definitely understand some Romanian!!! So many Portuguese words, expressions, and language phrases together with Romanian!!! These words are only exclusively found between Portuguese and Romanian!!! It doesn’t exist in Spanish ( which has little similarities by the way), Italian, or French! Just Portuguese and Romanian! Even our pronunciation of Latin are highly similar to each other in Portuguese ( from Portugal) with Romanian!!! Just incredible!!! Portuguese: Nos somos Latinos formosos! Romanian: Noi suntem frumoși Lătin! PORTUGUESE: Eu falo pouco Romeno mas entendo :). Romană : Eu vorbesc puțin dar eu înțeleg ! 😂😂😂😂
Yes it is! Romanian is a Romance language! I am Portuguese and I can understand Romanian a lot! I am learning the language a little bit at the time and Romanian does sound like ( European) Portuguese) does “Peles Castle mean “ Skin Castle” ? In Portuguese you say “ Castelo 🏰 de Pele” and in Portuguese to plural the nouns you add an “s”. So you say “ Peles” means “Skins.”
@@stella81t I want to go to Romania too ! Do you know that even the Portuguese language from Portugal 🇵🇹 is so similar to Romanian? I am learning Romanian and love it ! It has so much Portuguese in the Latin language in common.
💙💛❤️Romania, it's a country that have is all. Mountains, hills, flat lamds, danube delta, sea coast, desert, beautiful cities and one of the friendiest population in Europe. The cultural music, traditions and food are also amazing
Hello, McAmerican from England! :P Romanian here. 1. We have all 4 seasons, albeit shortened these last years a bit, because of climate changes. Want to see sun, rain, leaves changing or snow - just go outside is how it works here. Lots of green places, lakes, rivers, a salt water Black Sea, forests, underground salt mines and glaciers, mountains to hike or snowboard/ski on. USA has all those too, except a sea. Ocean is bigger, though. 2. We have the closest Romance language to Latin, especially in grammar. Romanian is basically Neo-Latin with loans of words from all the people that raided, traded or tried to conquer Us. 3. Food is delicious, simple, hearty, healthy, organic, most people here own an apartment and another house in the countryside with a farm and grow their own stuff. And, of course, make their own tasty wines and brandy from all the fruits you can imagine. 4. People are friendly and welcoming and love to share what little or much they have with you. We're are very hard on each other and like to find flaws, but that's a good thing: it helps things improve. Weird thing is, while Romanians, much like other Latins, love to complain, they are really proud people and don't like being slandered. Not that they won't joke about it when you actually do. Our sense of humor is very banter-ish and sometimes dark. We don't get offended easily. We have A LOT of history, been through a lot and that made Romanians have a thicker skin and find witty solutions to obstacles. 5. Stop dying inside and book a flight already! You have the fastest internet and the cheapest in the world here, lots of advantages from the Government for nomad vlog travelers, and 90 days of Visa stay for non EU tourists. Lots to see before they can kick you out, but you can trick it and visit other EU countries for a while and come back for more ;) Noroc! (=Cheers!)
You are not an idiot. Churchill and Roosevelt were for leaving Eastern Europe to Stalin. That is why when you think of Europe you only consider Italy,Spain,Germania and France. That thinking led us to Putin.
I agree with you! I can’t believe he doubted that Portuguese is Latin language! I can understand some Romanian because I am Portuguese and we have a lot of words and phrases in common!
The cool thing about the Black Sea is that it has the oldest, best preserved shipwrecks in the world (the oldest being about 2500 years old), due to the fact that below a certain depth it's anoxic. Which, of course, offers unique insight to historians, some of the ships being the only of their kind preserved to this day.
Bran Castle - thats one high-tech castle. Was built in the 14th century but has plumbing and hot water installation. It even has a water collection system from the rain water from the roof. It had heated showers and toilets. In the freaking 14th century.
I know right?? Everyone thinking this stuff was just made up in the US. Like it;s all ''new technology". It is soooo NOT new. LOOOL! Whenever I tell ppl that no one believes me though. Like...come on!
I was at Sighisoara, Brasov, Bran and Corvin Castel, the Danube Delta, Orshova and the north part of the country. Even my county, Bihor, north-west of the country is soo beautiful
Yep, been to all of them, since I was born in Transylvania. They're gorgeous by themselves, but the landscape and nature are even more beautiful. I would visit either in spring, when everything is blooming, or in the fall
Hi. I'm Cristian, I am romanian ( but I live în Denmark from 1998 ) and you are NOT idiot ! 😅 It's true that it's a BIG IGNORANCE in USA. Romania is a wonderful and cheap country, over 70% from romanians speak english, it's a latin country ( romanian language is like italian) , wonderful cuisine and I suggest you to visit the country. All the best ! Cristian
Romania was not part of the Ottoman Empire, it was subordinated to the empire, it paid tribute, periods of independence intertwined with periods of total dependence...
As a romanian i can say i visited a lot of castles from my country and I can say they look so majesting when u see them in person, Also I recommend u visit the fortress of Suceava even just in photos it looks so beautiful
The Black Sea isn't as salty as the Mediterranean, but that's not the cool part. The Black Sea has layers of water that do not mix. Below 200 m. (650 ft.) there is a high concentration of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) making it an anoxic environment suitable only for certain types of bacteria. There's basically no life below that depth. The Carpathians are about the same age as Alps (same orogeny). There's another group of much older mountains just east of Black Sea. These are called the Măcin Mountains, and they have been eroded to the point that the highest peak is around 450 m (1500 ft). As for the places, Bran is lovely, especially in the spring (the area, not the castle itself). I wouldn't recommend Mamaia (it's too touristy for my taste).
The mountains are called the Carpathian Mountains and they are not connected to the Alps at all...the Carpathians are a different range of mountains. T Thank you for being interested in my country! Also there are many many more beautiful things to see, sights, cities, villages, castles, let's not forget the Danube Delta..etc ...
The Black Sea is a meromictic sea (the largest body of water of this kind), where brackish water stays atop, and salty water (in this case very salty and toxic) stays at the bottom. In this case, fresh water and the salts brought by the great rivers plus evaporation keeps the water brackish down to 200 meters or so, which flows into the Mediterranean Sea trough the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straights. And then the lack of up and down currents allows the very salted water of the Mediterranean to flow underneath and to accumulate under the brackish layer, from 200 meters down to 2000 meters deep. There the water has a high concentration in salt and hydrogen sulfide, which preserves many forms of biological matter, such as ancient ships and members of the biosphere. Few living things can survive there (much of them are anaerobic bacteria) but most of them are preserved.
To Romania - Maramuresh: Emerson Lake & Palmer composed HOEDOWN inspired by the Folklore music of the region Romania is known as a latin isle in the slavic sea Latest editions historians say that the ancestors of the romans lived on the actual territory of romania aproximated there leaders about 100 b c till 105 a c : Butebista Decebal
In fact the Carpathian mountains in the fall are best to visit, not only the foliage became red and gold but in many places there is a phenomenon like temperature inversion and became more warmer and nice to visit. The waters of Black Sea are less salted than of Mediterranean, but that also produced stratification of water at various debts (the salted water from Mediterranean descend at lower layers!) and for that there is no life at deeper layers sector where there is hydrogen sulfide. The bonus is that because of no life at the bottom of that sea, there are the best preserved shipwrecks from old times.
i was born and i grew 40 min away from Hunedoara and i have seen the castle countless times as i grew up. Looking at how it's presented here but having it in mind as i live in Germany for 10 years now,, i cried a bit. A place that needs to be seen for sure
you are more then welcome!!! there are quite a lot americans that they are living in romania, so like everyone else you are all welcome to visit and maybe to settle down in romania, nice day to everyone!
What is presented is just minimum of Romania can offer...Think about Danube Delta where you can travel with boat on thousend of canals,hundred of lakes in the mountains where you can take a boat renting a room or camping,Therme Buckarest...the biggest SPA in Europe,salt mines inside mountains where you can walk,take a bus inside mountain or take a boat,Peles Castle...one of the most beautiful castle in the world,Statue of King Decebal...a sculpture in mountain ...the biggest in Europe...Think about flora and fauna in Romania is so diverse,also Black Sea with 50 km along the sea with hotels and besches,ski resorts in the mountains for winters sports...And these are not all...The ones who visit Romania will apreciate security on the streets...you can walk in any town at any time in the night man or single women with no fear of anything...,romanian are very friendly people,and food is exceptional...And most of all romanian language have so many word in comon with english,french,spanish italian or portughese...as you can deduce a meaning of a conversation...So visit Romania and you will be positive impressed ..
I'm Romanian and I visited some of these places, but not all. Funny or not, I visited more places outside of Romania (I travel each year to a different country, mostly European though). Romania is on par with most of the other countries, at least from a natural beauty point on view.
Have you ever been to Portugal? I am Portuguese-American and I am fluent in Portuguese. I find it fascinating that Romanian shares so many similarities with Portuguese with words that doesn’t exist in Spanish, French, nor Italian. Only words and phrasal expressions between Portuguese and Romanian! ❤
@@RaduRadonys Trust me, please go to Portugal 🇵🇹! You will end up falling in love 🥰 with the country! Not only it is beautiful but my curious mind wanted to know how much in common does Romanian have in Portuguese!!! It blew up my mind!!! 😆Portuguese and Romanian shares so many of the same to similar Latin words that doesn’t even exist in Spanish, French, nor Italian!!! It is exclusively between Portuguese and Romanian! We are so far apart but yet, we still come together in language sense! I made a lady friend from Romania 🇷🇴 and I love her dearly! She puts up with me all the time trying to learn Romanian and then I come to figure out it is in Portuguese! 😂😂❤️I am proud that I am learning how to communicate in Romanian now, if I can remember sometimes how to speak it! 😂😂😂Portuguese and Romanian also share like the same pronunciation at times lol 😂! Just incredible!!! Look 👀 at the similarities between Portuguese and Romanian! No wonder why the Spanish, Italians, and French can’t understand us sometimes! HAHAHA 🤣 Romanian: Eu sunt frumoasa!
Sorry my phone made a mistake in sending. Look 👀 between Portuguese and Romanian: Romanian: Eu sunt frumoasa! Portuguese: Eu sou Formosa! Romanian: Eu vorbesc Portuguese: Eu falo Romanian: fiu meu Portuguese: Meu filho ( filho is son in Portuguese and Figlio in Italian with the same meaning and pronunciation). Portuguese: Meu grande dor 🤕 ( My great pain) Romanian: It is the same pronunciation and a slightly different meaning more of missing someone. Portuguese can mean the same also but it most of the time relates to pain. Portuguese: doer ( hurts) Romanian: doare ( hurts) Portuguese: dói tanto ( hurts so much) Same with Romanian. Portuguese and Romanian for number 2: Portuguese: dois Romanian: doi Feminine ( duas) vs. ( doua) Portuguese: A casa 🏡 verde em o mar 🌊. Romanian: O casa verde in îl mare Portuguese: Com um kilo de carne 🥩 não 👎 morre de fome. Romanian: Cu un kilo de carne nu moare de foame. (The same sentence, same meaning, and the same pronunciation!!!) ❤️❤️❤️🇷🇴🇵🇹 Portuguese: ajudar-me por favor 🙏. Romanian: ajutor-mi te rog ( rogai por nós meu senhor) ( Pray for us my Lord). Portuguese: Meu nome ( my name ) Same said also in Romanian. Portuguese: Arranjar Romanian: Aranjat (to fix) Portuguese: Onde fostes ? ( where did you go?) Romanian: Unde Fost? (Same pronunciation and meaning) Portuguese: Eu quero mais ➕ ( I want more) Romanian: Eu mai vreau Portuguese: “ este” ( this one) Romanian: “ este” ( you are) both pronunciation are the same 😂😂❤️🤣! ( Ish +te) sound Romanian: Tu vezi Portuguese: Tu vez ( same meaning and pronunciation) Portuguese: fazes tu ( you do) Romanian: Same pronunciation and meaning in Portuguese! 😂😂😅🤣 And there are plenty more words in common !!! You guys speak very well in Portuguese! La Multe Ani !!! ( Portuguese : Parabéns 🎈!!! Pentru bine! )
As a Romanian I can tell you for sure that what you see in this video is only a small part of beautiful Romania, you have much more to see, much more places that it not talking, the Danube Delta, the Bucovina region, Moldova region (part of Romania, not Moldavian Republic - that was a part of Moldova region of Romania and was taken by f... Russians Stalin with a lot of other territories that are still captive in the f... Ukraine), there is much, much more to see, you never imagine what a GEM is Romania in European Union, how unique we are, we are spoke a romance language, but not with slavic as you wrong believe, but we spoke a pure latin language... Even if we speak a latin language we have some influences from a lot of invasions starting with Romans Empire (we are DACS as root), after them we have to fight with Ottoman Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Germans, Russians and a lot of others even so, we preserved our root, Romania in fact was meant to be named DACIA in 1868 but was not accepted by the bigger powers of Europe of that time because it will recognize our history continuity on this lands lond time before a lot of well known European country's more than 2500 years of history here... Any questions, just shoot them and I will do my best to answer.
I am Portuguese American and I am doing my best to learn Romanian! ❤️ I am a fluent speaker of Portuguese and Spanish languages and I definitely understand Romanian sometimes. Other times I might not understand but I get so happy when a Romanian tries their best to help me understand them :). I definitely can understand most of the time Italian and I took French for 10 years! So all these Latin languages does help me have a more clearer understanding of the Romanian language! It is quite remarkable and beautiful that although Portugal 🇵🇹 ( all the way to the Western European Latin language through miles far away to Eastern European hemisphere of Romania 🇷🇴!) Our languages even come together with the start of the beginning saying “I am “ . Portuguese: Eu sou formosa ! vs. Romanian: Eu sunt frumoasa ! ❤️🇵🇹🇷🇴
As a Romanian, I disagree with both statements sorry. Bucharest is better during the summer and spring (great festivals, closed streets that turn into urban promenades, amazing vibes) not so great in winter. Brasov is amazing in any season tho. Trains are probably our national embarrassment!. Ask any Romanian and will tell you the same. CFR which is the company that operates all of our train stations and the biggest train company in RO (state-owned) is the reason for it. Romania has developed quite a lot, but our trains and train infrastructure are well behind, on par with Serbia and worse than Hungary unfortunately despite the economy overtaking both countries.
@@costinhalaicu2746 good for Serbia. But I’m ashamed of what our train company is doing with our train infrastructure. Romania also has one of the most extensive network of rails in Europe but it all goes to shit thanks to CFR leadership, absolute imbeciles
@@michaeltom5465 I’m not American! According to Google there is……quote: Transylvanian Alps, also called Southern Carpathians. Romanian Carpatii Meridionali, mountainous region of south central Romania. It consists of that section of the Carpathian Mountain arc from the Prahova River Valley ( east ) to the gap in which flow the Timis and Cerna rivers…..end quote. If Google is wrong, you should inform them.
I m a romanian and I ve never heard of the 'Transylvanian Alps' before. I can see on google search is actually a thing but I guess is just like a nickname, same like Bucharest being called The Little Paris between the world wars did not mean it actually was part of Paris or anything like that, and I know you did not mean that Transylvanian Alps would be part of alps but just thought maybe I should mention it. When I was in school in Romania we learned this subgroup of The Carpathian Mountains is called The Meridional Carpathians which it just means The Southern Carpathians, and they re just a group of the Carpathian Mountains, and the Leaota and Parang Mountains you mentioned are a subdivision of same group called The Meridional Carpathians, in fact almost all the mountains in Romania are simply Carpathian Mountains with their subgroups, with only exception being the Dobrogea Mountains, near the Black Sea. Long Story Short: when you mention the Carpathian as being one of the 10 or more ranges that includes all the others you mentioned after as they all divisions of the Carpathian Mountains.
Is it possible that it was some sort of “ ancient “ name because you are the 2nd person who has pointed that out. Perhaps someone should inform Google that it is misleading people. It is like in my country where people from other countries still call our northern peoples Eskimos, when they are actually Inuit. Thank you for educating me on that. I have seen many videos of your country, it is very beautiful.
this video just scratched the surface of what Romania can offer in terms of tourism ... there are many many other things that are unique only to Romania
We got software development offices in Germany and Romania and we love both places: great engineers, easy to get along with, romanians more friendly than germans though, superb scenery.
In your film you can see a total of 15% of the beauty and the things that represent Romania. To get to know the real Romania you have to live there for a few years. I have personally been to most European countries, and I can tell you with complete confidence that Romania is the most beautiful country in all of Europe. I lived 5 years in Romania, and I can tell you that you were not in the right places and not in the right restaurants. I personally was at the summit of the Carpathians at the beginning of autumn, and I saw 17 shades of forest, I just stood for 4 hours and could not take my eyes off the breathtaking view I saw there. In northern Romania you Sipping wine number one in the world!!! Or homemade alcohol that the villagers make themselves and makes your love life reach 200% and all this without a headache the next day. In the winter I visited a ski resort with my friends for a week. At night it was -15 degrees outside and it was snowing slowly As if it were feathers, and the moon would reflect and illuminate the ski resort and the forest next to it and would give you the feeling as if you were in the fairy forest from one of the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales. What is true in your story is that Romania is a country with a lot of corruption, bad road infrastructure and it got a bad name in the West Because of the stupidity of the West and a lot of gossip coming especially from the Hungarians who are really very jealous of the Romanians. My hint is very simple...those who want to see Romania in its entirety should come to it for at least 3 months from the end of September to December...and not contact tourist companies, you should talk to a Romanian who owns a car and is willing to drive you to different places for a little money, places like this that he himself was going to enjoy them.❤
McJibbin💙💛❤️Romania have the place 6th in the world at speed of network and it's the first place in Europe, Romania invented the Insulin, the jet engine, the pen, Romania was the first country to extract oil.
It's not enough to say 10 places to visit in Romania. I invite you here, in Romania, feel it, taste it and smell it with your senses. Nowhere in this world, will you find such a scent as here. It's unique. What you can feel is more than I can explain in words.
you have the best chance against a wolf as they are just wild dogs, but a bear, not so much. Lyncs you can take down only based on luck, as it can be as fragile as a wolf, just more agile, and with claws, but bears can behead you with a paw swipe and AR very tough.
They are the Carpatos mountain range , the road is on Fagaras mountains, i went to Brasov , Cluj-Napoca , a place he didn't refereed that is Salina Turda , and a small beach town just in Bulgaria border
Carpați (Carpathian Mountains in English) Mountains are in Romania, they start in Germany and end in Ukraine. If you are referring to Vama Veche, that's actually a village, not a town. Come again! Cheers!
Me and my wife are on a castle tour across Europe and I gotta say, nothings beats Eastern Europe when it comes to castles. Sadly, there is a huge number of them that are destroyed and not taken care of. Most of the castles in Romania are under the financial investment and protection of King Charles to which I owe all my thanks for taking care of our heritage.
'Most castle in Romania'? - Not really. Other than some buildings he bought in Viscri, the rest is more of a 'marketing' contribution and encouraging the preservation of traditions - which is of course very valuable and we are thankful for. But he has nothing to do with investments in 'most castles of Romania' - you are wrong about that.
@McJibbin, come visit, it`s waaaay cheaper then the US :) anyone should visit honestly, there is something for everyone: amazing stuff to see, nature, night life, amazing food influenced by many cultures. Chose a spot on the map and you should find many places to stay and also visiting packages online to visit castles, I searched for a colleague from work visiting from Kuala Lumpur, and there are 1 or 2 day trips by car and a guide from Bucharest for example. By the way, most of us speak 2-3 languages, some english, some french, some german, etc.
Hey there, I was so happy to see how mind blown you were in regard to the Corvin Castle feom Hunedoara, since I was born and raised there. Thank you so much for appreciating my country's beauty!
Corvin Castle, I have been there 3 times already and i love it. Is my favourite in my country mostly because is not a comercial castle. Is quartet and beautiful out there and the view from the towers is amazing and the whole castle looks like is straight out of a fairytale. ❤❤❤ Hope you will get here is an amazing country. 🤗
19:31 Yes, an autumn sunny day in Romania from September till the end of November will display the most gorgeous mixture of yellow-orange-red-maroon and mixed with the permanent green of the pine-trees and I could recommend for that experience a particular region up North at the border with Ukraine called MARAMUREȘ (try pronouncing like it would be spelled rather “muramooresh”) because that region (that’s actually a county with that name) is all hills and mountains covered by forests (and few orchards) and where the sky appears intensely blue by contrast. They also have there the Merry Cemetery and specific villages different than in the rest of the country, where the churches and monasteries are made entirely of wood, roofs included.
Oooh!!! I've commented before looking at the full video! The bosphorus and darnanels thing being connected to the mediteraneean, connected to the strait of Gibraltar to the Atlantic....wow,that really impressed me! Ppl think that americans are dumb but....yeah...really nice work dude! Jeez!!! The bosphorus and darnanele thing just GOT ME! U were so good!not something u would expect from an american
The autumn color transition among trees is common in most of Romanian forests. I can speak for the forests of Transylvania which I see always. Excepting coniferous forests which are green all-year round, it's similar to what you have in New England, but it usually starts after the middle of August and it ends around November-December. It's always nice to see a tree in vibrant green color, another one in pale green, one in yellow, one in orange, one in red and towards the end of autumn in light or dark brown, while you drive along the Transylvanian forests. After November, the forests can be depending on weather either dark, empty forests with twisted branches exposed to elements or white, glittering forests, covered in rime ice (most beautiful) or snow.
First of all the Romanian language is a Romance language not slavic. The Romanian language is the closest language to Old Latin including grammar (except the Italian) for example: in patria nostra multe silve sunt (old latin) - în patria noastră multe păduri sunt (romanian) - meaning - in our country there are many forests. What you probably don't know about Romania and Romanians is that: 1. The religion in Romania is Orthodox Christian. There are almost 30,000 churches throughout the territory, of which 300 are monasteries. For example medieval monastery Voroneț (1488) și Sucevița (1581). These two churches are among the eight the painted churches of Moldavia listed in UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites. The churches have interior and exterior walls decorated in Byzantine style. The iconography is strictly in the Byzantine style. 2. The sacred spiritual ortodox centers of the Romanians are in Moldova and Muntenia (in the south of the country), because there are the necropolises of their ancient kings Basarab and Brâncoveanu. Matei Basarab is buried in the Aronta monastery in 1654 (Muntenia) There are other holy places in the region of Moldova - Bogdana Monastery (1359-1365) in Suceava where the first five Moldavian kings are buried, also, the Putna Monastery where the great Moldavian king Stephen the Great is buried 3. Romanians are 100% white-skinned.
It's a very nice video of our country. There's more to it that showed here. For example, the tallest wooden churches in the world are in Maramures. Another place that is extremely beautiful and unique is Bucovina, in the north-east of the country, where you can see the Bucovinian painted Orthodox monasteries which have their exterior walls painted and not just the interior. One of these, Voronet, has a unique paint color called Voronet blue, that you can only find there. The Danube Delta is one of the most unique European ecosystems, and one of the best preserved river deltas in the world. Tens of thousands of species of plants and animals live there. There's a king Decebal statue somewhere in the Danube Gorges, right on the banks of the river, which would remind you of the statues of Gondor kings from the Lord of the Rings movie, except this one actually exists. And of course more churches and monasteries and castles, too many to enumerate. Come visit, it's fairly cheap compared to Western Europe, and I don't think you'd regret it. 😃 And to answer one of your questions: the Black Sea has a salinity of about half of that of the Mediterranean Sea: 17.3 parts in a thousand for the Black Sea, compared to 36 parts in a thousand for the Mediterranean. As you correctly guessed, it's because of the huge flow of fresh water from the major rivers, such as the Danube, Dnieper, Dniester, Bug and Don, these being some of Europe's biggest rivers, combined with the fact the Black Sea only communicates with the World Ocean through the choke point of the Turkish Straits. 😃 As for another question, yes the foliage goes through the kaleidoscope of colors, just like New England. It's not surprising, since we're on roughly the same latitude too. For example, Augusta, Maine is at 44.31 degrees North, while Bucharest, Romania is at 44.42 degrees North - so essentially on the same parallel. Speaking of which, don't hate us too much. 😅 There is a joke, which goes like this: when God created the world, the representatives of each of the peoples of the world lined up to receive some of His gifts, so He gave each one gift that would be theirs for eternity. Thus He made Germans industrious, the French great lovers, the British He gave nobility, to the Japanese - craftsmanship, to the Americans - wealth, and so on. Finally, when the line cleared, the last in line was the representative of the Romanians. God, seeing him, says "oh, my, I forgot about you Romanians. I am sorry, but I don't have any other gift to give, so this is what we're going to do: because I can't give you a trait to further you in the world any longer, I'll make your country a paradise on Earth." 🤣
Love when foreigners can see thru the stereotypes. About Romanian history, you can find a video: "The history of Romania explained in 10 minutes" that is pretty well documented.
The Ottomans defeated Romania but they were not occupied. It was more of a forced client kingdom thing. But no Romania was not part of the ottoman empire.
+9 funny think is tha tthe otomans actually lost more battles against romania but they where so big at that time that they just got another 100-200k masive army after every defeat
yes not ... they didint anexed any part of curent romania except for a small part with ports at danube ... the dobruja was full anexed by the otomans but rest of the teritorys no... and yes ... they did nothing if they paid tribute@@dhanyrafael
Yes the colours are beautiful when the season are changing. We have 4 seasons: Summer, Spring, Fall, Winter. ❤ Black Sea is a sallty water. But in Danube Delta is fresh water because they build a damm , long story. 😂❤
In Romania, at least at my school, (Timişoara) we had tours organized to visit these places(paid by the parents ofc), all i can say is that as a kid i was scared shitless of them, narrow and tall corridors and massive rooms, and the humidity and temperature inside of them (can be 40c outside, inside its 10c) makes me understand why almost everyone that visits feels chills running down their spine.
Hi listen I have a amazing beautiful friend who is Portuguese and she teaching me to know about Portuguese speaking it and Portuguese is a Latin language my friend speaks 6 different languages and the is the most beautiful amazing to learn speak different languages my friend knows her languages and cultures and countries and I will and I will always stand by her side and I will let nobody treat her bad and I will always be there for her she is extremely amazing women in this world she the extremely best teacher in this world and I mean it from the bottom of my heart I will always find learning different languages and speaking them amazing beautiful
I advise you to look for other clips about Romania, this one is well made but incomplete, I don't see the Danube Delta or the happy cemetery ( joyful cemetery ), and there are many more that I don't see in the clips on the net
I have been to Bran castle many times. As a child, my parents would send me, from Bucharest, to summer camp in the area of Bran and my brother and I would climb up the long way so as not to be seen and sneak in the castle in between tourists. Then we would go to the nearest recycle bin and steal the special slip-ons for our shoes so we don't scratch the floors. Plus it made us look legit, even though we didn't pay for them. Oh....to be a kid again going to camp in Transylvania.
I had a great time in Brasov. It was just after the revolution so there were bullet holes everywhere. However it was winter and the snow was perfect for skiing. The food was a bit suspect, I’m sure the burgers were rat (very tasty). Went to Bran Castle and made sure all my pictures were black and white (long before digital photography). Very spooky place.
well its good that you educate yourself it means you are growing up. But dont forget usa got really nice places and we Europeans would love to visit it as well
7:38 I guess that would be because this cities were built hundred of years before the invention of cars, and if you went back 400-500 years ago this would be the town markets were people would meet to exchange goods, so would usually be in the centre of the town. In some towns this area does not exist anymore as roads were built ater on top but in alot of towns it has been preserved and that s why this walking car free areas do exist in some european towns, and I m sure this is not an european only thing, I m sure same can be found in Asia as well.
Alps and Carpatians are the same mountain chain! The Black Sea is salted and also has the salinity as human tears that’s why you can open the eyes in the water 😊
I was sooo surprised when I realized the rest of the seas don't. Like, that was my 1 main disappointment when visiting other oceans. I just always assumed they're all about the same. But they are NOT! Not by a long shot. Thank you for telling people.
There is no link between Dracula and Vlad the Impaler, Dracula is 100% fiction. And Vlad's castle is Poenari Castle, now it's just a ruin but it's in a spot that would make life very difficult for any attackers so it's quite cool that way.
TBH, every country is beautiful. But if you live in that country you do not appreciate it as much. BTW I wa in Romani in 2011 and I must agree, it is a really beautiful country and I hope I will have change to visit it once again.
No, Principate of Transilvania, like Principate of Wallachia and that of Moldavia (three main constituents of Romania) , was not part of the Ottoman empire, just the Kingdom of Hungary. Transilvania managed to gain a sort of autonomy due to ottoman invasions, later fel under austro-hungarian domination but still preserved the autonomy until 1865 when it was annexed by Hungary until 1918 and the union to Romania (asked by majority of population). All three principates (some more time, some less) payed tribute to the ottoman empire 9It was hard to keep them under control due to the mountains that favored guerilla type of attacks. So even if empire attacked in great force (3 to 1), the armies of romanians (aided by Szekely warriors, hungarians and sometimes by polish and others) were capable to do great damage and sometime win a war or two.
Answering your questuins 1 Was it part of the Otoman Empire? Sort of, not really an integral part, but vasal states that used to pay tribute. 2. Are the mountains connected to the Alps? No! It is a different mountain chain called the Capathians 3. Is he getting payed by the government? Probably no 4. Why do European cities have squares? Because they are way older than the invention of the car 5. Bran Castke is a gothic castle, The wooden beans are common in Germany 6. Bran Castle has nothing to do with Vlad the Impaler 7. Hungary is placed in the Panonian Plane 8. You would never beat a bear or a wolf 9. The Black Sea has less salt in it than the Mediteranean, but ir is salty Notable mentions he missedL The cities of Iasi, Oradea, Timisoara, Targoviste and Suceava, the monstaries of Bucovina, the wooden churches of Maramures, the entire region of Dodrogea, the Danube Gorge. If you ever decide to travel to Romania, I am offering to host you. You only need to pay for the airplane ticket,..... good luck
The territory of modern day Romania was historically always at the crossroads of empires. There are 3 main regions Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania .They all united in 1918. They were not part of the Ottoman Empire, as they were never integrated in the empire, but they where vassal states. Transylvania was part of the Kingdom of Hungary and latter the Austro-Hungarian Empire, while part of Moldavia, known as Basarabia (now Republic of Moldova) was part of annexed by the Russian Empire. In 1856 Moldavia and Wallachia united and formed the Kingdom of Romania as an Ottoman vassal state. We gained independence in 1877 and in 1918 after WW1 Transylvania, Basarabia and Northern Bucovina also voted to unite with the Kingdom of Romania. After WW2 Basarabia was annexed by the USSR ... So that is how we got modern Romania and why the Republic of Moldova (Basarabia) is our sister state, same people, same language, same culture, but two states.... To answer your second question the mountains are not connected to the Alps. It is a different mountain chain called the Carpathians ... Fun fact .. Bran Castle has nothing to do with Vlad the Impaler aka Dracula ... his royal courtyard was in Târgoviste and his mountain castle was Poienari Keep ...
The mountains are part of the alpino-carpato-himalaian chain aka the alpine belt according to Wikipedia 😊 PS check the geography now video. It explains more about how Romania was formed
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As a French I went to Romania quite a few times because it's really cheap and it's gorgeous ! This country is so underrated, in Western Europe people don't imagine how beautiful this country is.
And who's fault is that?
@@RaduRadonys hahah so true. Those negative stereotypes against Romanians freshly baked out of the Western media ignorance campaigns
Merci monsieur, vous êtes gentil, les paroles positives des visiteurs peuvent apporter le changement de mentalité nécessaire pour que la Roumanie retrouve sa place sur les cartes touristiques du monde, la place qui avait commencé à prendre forme avant l'occupation du pays par les bolcheviks qui ont détruit non seulement les perspectives touristiques, mais ont conduit à la démolition ou à la ruine complète de monuments, aujourd'hui disparus ou méconnaissables... sans parler de nombreux objets de valeur volés dès les musées et emmenés en Russie pendant les années de « vassalité inconditionnelle » imposé par le régime communiste.
@@RaduRadonysTheirs and ours as well, to be honest, because before joining the EU we did very little to improve standards and promote ourselves to the World out there, far less than Colombia, Zanzibar, Thailand, Cambodia or even the Czechs or Hungarians next door did - let’s be honest with ourselves.
It’s not really their fault that our roads were bad and we didn’t have enough international airports or comfortable accomodation 20 years ago.
Remember, just few years ago how our representative went abroad to an International Tourism Conference or Symposium or Fair (or whatever that was) with a bunch of A4 printed photos attached to a black curtain - and that was the best our Tourism Department managed to do to advertise tourism in Romania.
I remember it well, it was a scandal and the images of that delegation went viral on the internet, we were all appalled …
Thank you for your kindness !!! From Romania with love ❤️ !
My wife is Romanian and of course I've been there several times.She comes from Baia Mare which is in the county of Maramures which shares a border with Ukraine. Romania is a very beautiful country and underrated. It doesn't only have breathtaking scenery and castles as shown in the short documentary. It is the home to several excellent universities, in Cluj and Timișoara. Romanians themselves are very friendly despite the bad reputation some have in the West. Actually I've found that generally, people in Eastern Europe (Poland, Bulgaria and Russia)on the whole, friendlier than those in the West. Romania has 2 big problems tho' ...infrastructure (getting from A to B is not that easy, also the condition of the roads). and high political corruption .
One interesting theme tho is Transylvanian Saxon, a native German dialect of the Transylvanian Saxons, an ethnic German minority group from Transylvania in central Romania, and is also one of the three oldest ethnic German and German-speaking groups of the German diaspora in Central and Eastern Europe. For example ,the city Cluj-Napoca in Transylvanian Saxon is "Klausenburg", Baia Mare is "Frauenbach" etc. The language is an Eastern Romance language, this makes it easier (regarding the basics) to learn compared to Hungarian, however the difficulties come later.
Oh..it also has the 9th fastest Internet (260.97 Mbps) in the world...and BitDefender.
Vă sfătuiesc să vizitați România!
Total de acord❤eu sunt din Beius Bihor
I’m from Baia Mare, that’s why I was talking about Maramures above, I had the first hand experience of autumns there . 🙂
The Saxons you’re talking about have left the country and moved to West Germany in proportion of about 85% or more about 35-40 years ago and even after the 1989 Revolution when they stopped being traded by Ceausescu for money.
In Maramureș we didn’t have Saxons, we had Schwabs, (my husband was one of them) they were brought there by the Austro-Hungarian “Empire” only 300 years ago. By that time, the Saxons in the south of Transylvania in Brașov , Sibiu, Sighișoara etc were there for 500 years already.
They are not the reason why Baia Mare is Called Frauenbach (that is the literal translation of its original Latin name, Rivulus Dominarum = Ladies River) but due to the fact that all localities under Austro-Hungarian occupation had to have the names in German, the official language of Austria and in Hungarian, the official language of Hungary.
Hungary was occupied by Austria the same way as Czechia or Slovakia or Serbia or any other country but they had a few armed uprisings trying to destabilise the Austrian empire and they ended up offering peace if they were taken as partner of decision in the politics of the Empire, that’s how the Austrian empire became Austro-Hungarian, it wasn’t so from the beginning.
The Latin or Romanian names of the localities didn’t count to the occupants and were not even written on panels at the entry or exit from those localities by the Austro-Hungarian authorities, they were only orally preserved by the native Romanian population.
That’s why today so many localities have their names written in 3 languages, for the benefit of the local ethnic minorities and for their descendants that today live abroad but return as tourists occasionally.
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To go into the, even past 150 years, of Romanian history will take a very long time. (Too many wars and border changes)
This link will show you how often, and who its neighbours were.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_Romania#/media/File:RomaniaBorderHistoryAnnimation_1859-2010.gif
The population of the Transylvanian Saxons (or Siebenbürger Sachsens) and Banater Swabians in Romania shrank together, and now
you have a Siebenbürger Sachse as your President.....Klaus Iohannis who says he will fight the corruption. Let's hope he will succeed.
@@mikefraser4513 He won’t fight crap, he’s the laziest Saxon ever born in Europe… in 9 years of presidency he never accepted one single interview or a single (brief even) televised debate …nothing, nada, zilch.
Events that are worrying people happen and he doesn’t come out to talk to the nation for 5-7 days after the event took place, if ever…he’s brilliantly absent most times…
Right now a Russian drone fell into Romanian territory and he appeared on TV to deny it 2 days in a row🤣🤣… despite the Ukrainians warning Romania it happened; he implied the Ukrainians were rambling…Then finally the mayor of a village found the drone remains , but he embarrassed himself once more… for the umpteenth time.
@@mikefraser4513 🤣🤣🤣 Thanks for the links but I know the history of my country pretty well, no need to learn it from strangers, no offence 😉😃 I’ve spent 25 years of my life schooling myself in 3 different countries… I know our history in intimate detail, far better than you would probably imagine.
By the way, why do you think I would need a link to Wikipedia in order to know the history of my own country of birth? 🫤
Is this your conclusion about Romanians in general after being married to one of them?
I find that rather puzzling and a bit disappointing.
Allow me to share with you some trivia: did you know that the Romanians were not allowed to enter any of the Ziebenbürgen cities wearing any footwear, regardless of their status or season… for few hundred years?
They had to leave their footwear at the gates of the city, so once inside of any township or city they could be easily singled out …and they were allowed in there only once a week when it was market day or if they had a legal issue at the courts.
It didn’t matter if they were priests or teachers or the mayor of a village, they had to leave their footwear at the gates of the city…women and children as well .
Funny, don’t you think? 😉😃
Romanian is the third closest language to latin after Italian and Spanish so you could say Romanians are more latin than French :)
Romania is the only Latino country in East Europe ,sister to Italian and Spanish ,cousin to French and Portughese
The romanian language is more latin than French for sure, but we aren't more latin than the French xD
Upon their migration from Turkey to Italy, Romans adopted the Latin Language from the Latin people just like they adopted European genetics from the Sabine women they kidnapped.
Agreed
Romanian are the oldest ortodox latin on the planet
I went to Romania three times, doing development work with their criminal justice agencies. It is a beautiful country with friendly people, who were always happy to share whatever they had. However many of the cities had had their historic centres flattened to provide areas where triumphant parades could be held to celebrate President Ceaușescu. I did try and learn some of the language: because it has the same origins as Romance languages such as French and Spanish, it was quite easy to pick up some vocabulary but the grammar defeated me.
haha yeah, Romanian has similar grammar to German. The theory is way more pompous and convoluted than it needs to be. It's a thousand times harder to learn grammatical theory than to learn to actually use it. I wouldn't bother with it, just go in for the exercises, to get a feel of it
@@lalayastill610it's similar with french grammar, not german
That isn't really true, the vast majority of cities in romania have their historic centers, the only real damage done was in Bucharest and laşi. Laşi isn't great because of it, but bucharest is such a massive city that the vast majority is still the old city, and the new communist era parts are actually far more post-modernist and art Deco than brutalist when it comes to bucharest. I found bucharest to be very similar to new york in that way, but also just far more impressive in the fact that so much ancient architecture was kept. Also I'm pretty sure romania has one of the highest amount of world heritage sites in the world, they have a lot of well preserved cities and towns. Even my Romanian friends would talk trash about their small villages and towns, and when I go to visit them they're more dense and busy than some of the streets in Chicago and New York. There's many areas that were newly built up with commie blocs, and yes while that may not look great, as someone from new york, it looks better than it does here. Plus you realize these are why romania has the highest home ownership rate on the planet. As a new yorker owning an apartment in the city is an absurd idea. At least they have transit and parks and store access. Here those same public housing buildings get Nothing but parking and maybe a subway line.
În this clip it shows just a small part of România.
U need at list 3 months visiting day by day to see România how beautifull is
God Bless Romania!❤️
Romania is one of the most underrated countries to visit. I was there in June, and will come back soon. I recommend Timisoara, Brasov and Sighisoara. I also went into the forest by myself, and could see a wolf and some bears. Connor; You have to look into eastern (well, central) europe more!! Poland and Hungary is beautiful!!
Hungary is beautiful 😂.10 places to visit in hu.1 Budapest 2 Budapest..10 budapest
Visezi...ungurii nici nu existau😅 cand traiau aici romanii
@@flaviu777then you don’t know Hungary at all, beside Budapest there is also Pécs with the Christian necropolis, Fertö lake, Balaton lake, Hortobágy National Park, Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma, Hollóko village, Tokaj wine region, Castle of Esztergom, The caves and karts in Budapest, Ipolytartnóc Fossils natural conservation area, Ödön Lechner’s works in Hungary like the Museum of Applied Arts or Szent László Church in Kőbánya, the city of Esztergom and Visegrad, Upper Tisza-Region with the wooden churches similar to Maramures… there are tons of things to see in Hungary!
@@dacian_1346 Yeap...Budapest!
@@cosmincasuta486 pai Io cred ca am făcut o listă destul de detaliată, termină cu naționalismul asta fără sens, sunt mii de locuri faine in Ungaria pe lângă Budapest.
As a Portuguese speaking, I can’t believe the commentator said Romance languages, “Portuguese PROBABLY ????” First of all that is very offensive because Portuguese language is older than Spanish by 400 years! Portugal was established in the year 1139 on the Iberian Peninsula as one of the most oldest nations in Europe, who’s first king designed his own government and national boarders way ahead of Spain and Italy!!! Of course PORTUGUESE IS A LATIN LANGUAGE!!! It has a lot of common words, sentences, phrases the same with pronunciation it’s brother languages of Spanish ( Portuguese twin brother language by the way!), Italian, French, and ROMANIAN!!! As a Portuguese speaking person is learning Romanian and I find it interesting that both our languages are STILL MUTUALLY INTELLIGIBLE!!!! Romanian has so many words, ideas, expressions, and sentences that are exclusively PORTUGUESE!!!! Some of their words appear in high quantity in Portuguese,
Portuguese: Eu sou vs. Romanian: Eu sunt
Portuguese: doer vs. Romanian: doare ( pain)
Portuguese : Meu dor vs. Romanian: Meu dor
Portuguese: formosa vs. Frumoasa ( beautiful)
Portuguese: ajudar vs. Romanian: ajutor ( help)
Portuguese: arranjar vs. Romanian: aranjat (fix)
Portuguese: Tu fostes vs. Romanian: Eu foste
( these are exclusively Portuguese word that you don’t find in Spanish, French, nor Italian!!! Just only between Portuguese and Romanian!!!
And so much more! I am fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, intermediate French and Italian! I can comprehend all these languages mostly 90 to 100 percent of the time! I am in the mist of learning Romanian as well and I find this language fascinating 🧐 to me! Since I am Portuguese, I can now understand some Romanian ( hardest Latin language ever !!!) We are thousands of miles apart but we still come together in our languages!!!
Portuguese: Viva nossos irmãos Romenos ! Eu amo te muito !
Limba Romană: Trăiască Romană noștri frate de limba Portugheză Eu te iubesc multe!
Portuguese with Romanian similarities:
To say “ Very Good 👍 “
Romanian: Foarte bine Portuguese: Forte (strong) bem :)
But in Portuguese we say : Muito bem ( multe bine )
To say “ Congratulations 🎉 “
Romanian: La Multe Ani ( the many years) in Portuguese translation: “Muito Anos!”
In Portuguese to say congratulations, is “ Parabéns 🎉 which in Romanian is “ Pentru bine!” It means in Latin “ For the good 👍 “
Why Portuguese women are talking too much? And so much of it rubbish
From a Romanian that learned Portuguese, I think Portuguese is harder :)))
All good, except I have no idea what "meu dor" and "eu foste" is supposed to mean in Romanian. And I AM Romanian. Take it easy mate, you don't have to prove anything, really. I'm not sure there's any pride to be taken into something beyond our control, that happened thousands of years ago.
A little disappointed about this top 10. As a Romanian I never imagined a top 10 places to visit would ever skip the Danube Delta. Even if I live in Transylvania and there is plenty to see here, the Danube Delta still remains (imho) the best place to visit here. I would also add as honorable mentions: the historical region of Maramures (not the entire present day county) with the wooden churches and the merry cemetery at Sapanta; the whole area where the Danube enters the Romanian territory; monasteries in Northern Moldavia (if you like this kind of sightseeing); the city of Cluj-Napoca, all the fortified churches in Transylvania (although the one in Biertan might be the coolest looking one). I just noticed I am biased as I was born and lived my entire life in Transylvania, but someone else should add to this list here. Cheers
Danube Delta is being drained by Ukrainians. No sense to advertise something that won't be there soon.
I wouldn't add Cluj-Napoca in the top 10 personally
Și eu care ad da orice ca să ma fi născut la munte:)
@@usern893
nu-s nascut chiar la munte... hai sa zicem o zona de podis mai inalt :)
Iasi, Peles Castle, Muddy Volcanos
Yay! My home country! 😁
Romanian is indeed a Romance language. Saw Corvin Castle, there was a man playing medieval music on a mandolin there. I'm surprised they didn't show Peles Castle.
I am Portuguese and trying to learn Romanian and I can definitely understand some Romanian!!! So many Portuguese words, expressions, and language phrases together with Romanian!!! These words are only exclusively found between Portuguese and Romanian!!! It doesn’t exist in Spanish ( which has little similarities by the way), Italian, or French! Just Portuguese and Romanian! Even our pronunciation of Latin are highly similar to each other in Portuguese ( from Portugal) with Romanian!!! Just incredible!!!
Portuguese: Nos somos Latinos formosos!
Romanian: Noi suntem frumoși Lătin!
PORTUGUESE: Eu falo pouco Romeno mas entendo :).
Romană : Eu vorbesc puțin dar eu înțeleg ! 😂😂😂😂
I am Serbian Romanian and I can't wait to visit more! Now that I got to Germany and more money 🙃😔😟😟
Yes it is! Romanian is a Romance language! I am Portuguese and I can understand Romanian a lot! I am learning the language a little bit at the time and Romanian does sound like ( European) Portuguese) does “Peles Castle mean “ Skin Castle” ? In Portuguese you say “ Castelo 🏰 de Pele” and in Portuguese to plural the nouns you add an “s”. So you say “ Peles” means “Skins.”
@@stella81t I want to go to Romania too ! Do you know that even the Portuguese language from Portugal 🇵🇹 is so similar to Romanian? I am learning Romanian and love it ! It has so much Portuguese in the Latin language in common.
💙💛❤️Romania, it's a country that have is all. Mountains, hills, flat lamds, danube delta, sea coast, desert, beautiful cities and one of the friendiest population in Europe. The cultural music, traditions and food are also amazing
Hello, McAmerican from England! :P Romanian here. 1. We have all 4 seasons, albeit shortened these last years a bit, because of climate changes. Want to see sun, rain, leaves changing or snow - just go outside is how it works here. Lots of green places, lakes, rivers, a salt water Black Sea, forests, underground salt mines and glaciers, mountains to hike or snowboard/ski on. USA has all those too, except a sea. Ocean is bigger, though. 2. We have the closest Romance language to Latin, especially in grammar. Romanian is basically Neo-Latin with loans of words from all the people that raided, traded or tried to conquer Us. 3. Food is delicious, simple, hearty, healthy, organic, most people here own an apartment and another house in the countryside with a farm and grow their own stuff. And, of course, make their own tasty wines and brandy from all the fruits you can imagine. 4. People are friendly and welcoming and love to share what little or much they have with you. We're are very hard on each other and like to find flaws, but that's a good thing: it helps things improve. Weird thing is, while Romanians, much like other Latins, love to complain, they are really proud people and don't like being slandered. Not that they won't joke about it when you actually do. Our sense of humor is very banter-ish and sometimes dark. We don't get offended easily. We have A LOT of history, been through a lot and that made Romanians have a thicker skin and find witty solutions to obstacles. 5. Stop dying inside and book a flight already! You have the fastest internet and the cheapest in the world here, lots of advantages from the Government for nomad vlog travelers, and 90 days of Visa stay for non EU tourists. Lots to see before they can kick you out, but you can trick it and visit other EU countries for a while and come back for more ;) Noroc! (=Cheers!)
Actually Latin language is a neo Thracian language :th-cam.com/video/ICuK_y_hJm4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Wc4IwZEoAGa3Juhh
I like your comment no.5 5. Stop dying inside and book a flight already! 😂
@@MEG82427Ikr? He knows he's gonna love it and will come back. No better time than now to travel! Cheers!
You are not an idiot. Churchill and Roosevelt were for leaving Eastern Europe to Stalin. That is why when you think of Europe you only consider Italy,Spain,Germania and France. That thinking led us to Putin.
I agree with you! I can’t believe he doubted that Portuguese is Latin language! I can understand some Romanian because I am Portuguese and we have a lot of words and phrases in common!
The cool thing about the Black Sea is that it has the oldest, best preserved shipwrecks in the world (the oldest being about 2500 years old), due to the fact that below a certain depth it's anoxic. Which, of course, offers unique insight to historians, some of the ships being the only of their kind preserved to this day.
Black Sea is dated as one of the oldest Sea , around 5/6000 years old.....
Bran Castle - thats one high-tech castle. Was built in the 14th century but has plumbing and hot water installation. It even has a water collection system from the rain water from the roof. It had heated showers and toilets. In the freaking 14th century.
I know right?? Everyone thinking this stuff was just made up in the US. Like it;s all ''new technology". It is soooo NOT new. LOOOL! Whenever I tell ppl that no one believes me though. Like...come on!
Romania is paradise on earth
the country is just so beautiful man and the people are so nice and helpful, i love it
Yap and the ladies fukc so good 🙈
@@sorinjasoncnd5560 true that
I was at Sighisoara, Brasov, Bran and Corvin Castel, the Danube Delta, Orshova and the north part of the country. Even my county, Bihor, north-west of the country is soo beautiful
Yep, been to all of them, since I was born in Transylvania. They're gorgeous by themselves, but the landscape and nature are even more beautiful. I would visit either in spring, when everything is blooming, or in the fall
Hi. I'm Cristian, I am romanian ( but I live în Denmark from 1998 ) and you are NOT idiot ! 😅 It's true that it's a BIG IGNORANCE in USA. Romania is a wonderful and cheap country, over 70% from romanians speak english, it's a latin country ( romanian language is like italian) , wonderful cuisine and I suggest you to visit the country. All the best ! Cristian
Romania was not part of the Ottoman Empire, it was subordinated to the empire, it paid tribute, periods of independence intertwined with periods of total dependence...
Hello my friend, you make me laugh in a positive way ! I liked your reaction very much !!!
From Romania with love ❤️🇷🇴 !!!!
As a romanian i can say i visited a lot of castles from my country and I can say they look so majesting when u see them in person, Also I recommend u visit the fortress of Suceava even just in photos it looks so beautiful
The Black Sea isn't as salty as the Mediterranean, but that's not the cool part.
The Black Sea has layers of water that do not mix. Below 200 m. (650 ft.) there is a high concentration of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) making it an anoxic environment suitable only for certain types of bacteria. There's basically no life below that depth.
The Carpathians are about the same age as Alps (same orogeny). There's another group of much older mountains just east of Black Sea. These are called the Măcin Mountains, and they have been eroded to the point that the highest peak is around 450 m (1500 ft).
As for the places, Bran is lovely, especially in the spring (the area, not the castle itself). I wouldn't recommend Mamaia (it's too touristy for my taste).
The mountains are called the Carpathian Mountains and they are not connected to the Alps at all...the Carpathians are a different range of mountains. T
Thank you for being interested in my country!
Also there are many many more beautiful things to see, sights, cities, villages, castles, let's not forget the Danube Delta..etc ...
The Black Sea is a meromictic sea (the largest body of water of this kind), where brackish water stays atop, and salty water (in this case very salty and toxic) stays at the bottom. In this case, fresh water and the salts brought by the great rivers plus evaporation keeps the water brackish down to 200 meters or so, which flows into the Mediterranean Sea trough the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straights. And then the lack of up and down currents allows the very salted water of the Mediterranean to flow underneath and to accumulate under the brackish layer, from 200 meters down to 2000 meters deep. There the water has a high concentration in salt and hydrogen sulfide, which preserves many forms of biological matter, such as ancient ships and members of the biosphere. Few living things can survive there (much of them are anaerobic bacteria) but most of them are preserved.
To Romania - Maramuresh:
Emerson Lake & Palmer composed
HOEDOWN inspired by the Folklore music of the region
Romania is known as a latin isle in the slavic sea
Latest editions historians say that the ancestors of the romans lived on the actual territory of romania aproximated
there leaders about 100 b c till 105 a c :
Butebista
Decebal
In fact the Carpathian mountains in the fall are best to visit, not only the foliage became red and gold but in many places there is a phenomenon like temperature inversion and became more warmer and nice to visit.
The waters of Black Sea are less salted than of Mediterranean, but that also produced stratification of water at various debts (the salted water from Mediterranean descend at lower layers!) and for that there is no life at deeper layers sector where there is hydrogen sulfide. The bonus is that because of no life at the bottom of that sea, there are the best preserved shipwrecks from old times.
And now we have the wrecked Russian war ships 🚢🙈
i was born and i grew 40 min away from Hunedoara and i have seen the castle countless times as i grew up. Looking at how it's presented here but having it in mind as i live in Germany for 10 years now,, i cried a bit. A place that needs to be seen for sure
I have been to all of them because I live in Romania and trust me Corvin's Castle is even bigger in real life, that thing is massive :))
you are more then welcome!!! there are quite a lot americans that they are living in romania, so like everyone else you are all welcome to visit and maybe to settle down in romania, nice day to everyone!
My mom is from Hunedoara :) I’ve been to Corvin Castle many times. It’s more beautiful in person
What is presented is just minimum of Romania can offer...Think about Danube Delta where you can travel with boat on thousend of canals,hundred of lakes in the mountains where you can take a boat renting a room or camping,Therme Buckarest...the biggest SPA in Europe,salt mines inside mountains where you can walk,take a bus inside mountain or take a boat,Peles Castle...one of the most beautiful castle in the world,Statue of King Decebal...a sculpture in mountain ...the biggest in Europe...Think about flora and fauna in Romania is so diverse,also Black Sea with 50 km along the sea with hotels and besches,ski resorts in the mountains for winters sports...And these are not all...The ones who visit Romania will apreciate security on the streets...you can walk in any town at any time in the night man or single women with no fear of anything...,romanian are very friendly people,and food is exceptional...And most of all romanian language have so many word in comon with english,french,spanish italian or portughese...as you can deduce a meaning of a conversation...So visit Romania and you will be positive impressed ..
I'm Romanian and I visited some of these places, but not all. Funny or not, I visited more places outside of Romania (I travel each year to a different country, mostly European though). Romania is on par with most of the other countries, at least from a natural beauty point on view.
Have you ever been to Portugal? I am Portuguese-American and I am fluent in Portuguese. I find it fascinating that Romanian shares so many similarities with Portuguese with words that doesn’t exist in Spanish, French, nor Italian. Only words and phrasal expressions between Portuguese and Romanian! ❤
@@eileencampos5680 Not yet, Spain is the furthest in the West where I've been, but it's definitely on my list :) Portugal sounds amazing !
@@RaduRadonys Trust me, please go to Portugal 🇵🇹! You will end up falling in love 🥰 with the country! Not only it is beautiful but my curious mind wanted to know how much in common does Romanian have in Portuguese!!! It blew up my mind!!! 😆Portuguese and Romanian shares so many of the same to similar Latin words that doesn’t even exist in Spanish, French, nor Italian!!! It is exclusively between Portuguese and Romanian! We are so far apart but yet, we still come together in language sense! I made a lady friend from Romania 🇷🇴 and I love her dearly! She puts up with me all the time trying to learn Romanian and then I come to figure out it is in Portuguese! 😂😂❤️I am proud that I am learning how to communicate in Romanian now, if I can remember sometimes how to speak it! 😂😂😂Portuguese and Romanian also share like the same pronunciation at times lol 😂! Just incredible!!!
Look 👀 at the similarities between Portuguese and Romanian! No wonder why the Spanish, Italians, and French can’t understand us sometimes! HAHAHA 🤣
Romanian: Eu sunt frumoasa!
Sorry my phone made a mistake in sending. Look 👀 between Portuguese and Romanian:
Romanian: Eu sunt frumoasa!
Portuguese: Eu sou Formosa!
Romanian: Eu vorbesc
Portuguese: Eu falo
Romanian: fiu meu
Portuguese: Meu filho ( filho is son in Portuguese and Figlio in Italian with the same meaning and pronunciation).
Portuguese: Meu grande dor 🤕 ( My great pain)
Romanian: It is the same pronunciation and a slightly different meaning more of missing someone. Portuguese can mean the same also but it most of the time relates to pain.
Portuguese: doer ( hurts)
Romanian: doare ( hurts)
Portuguese: dói tanto ( hurts so much) Same with Romanian.
Portuguese and Romanian for number 2:
Portuguese: dois Romanian: doi
Feminine ( duas) vs. ( doua)
Portuguese: A casa 🏡 verde em o mar 🌊.
Romanian: O casa verde in îl mare
Portuguese: Com um kilo de carne 🥩 não 👎 morre de fome.
Romanian: Cu un kilo de carne nu moare de foame.
(The same sentence, same meaning, and the same
pronunciation!!!) ❤️❤️❤️🇷🇴🇵🇹
Portuguese: ajudar-me por favor 🙏.
Romanian: ajutor-mi te rog ( rogai por nós meu senhor) ( Pray for us my Lord).
Portuguese: Meu nome ( my name ) Same said also in Romanian.
Portuguese: Arranjar Romanian: Aranjat (to fix)
Portuguese: Onde fostes ? ( where did you go?)
Romanian: Unde Fost?
(Same pronunciation and meaning)
Portuguese: Eu quero mais ➕ ( I want more)
Romanian: Eu mai vreau
Portuguese: “ este” ( this one)
Romanian: “ este” ( you are) both pronunciation are the same 😂😂❤️🤣! ( Ish +te) sound
Romanian: Tu vezi
Portuguese: Tu vez ( same meaning and pronunciation)
Portuguese: fazes tu ( you do)
Romanian: Same pronunciation and meaning in Portuguese! 😂😂😅🤣
And there are plenty more words in common !!! You guys speak very well in Portuguese! La Multe Ani !!! ( Portuguese : Parabéns 🎈!!! Pentru bine! )
@@RaduRadonys Please read what I have wrote to you 🤣😂🤣 ❤️🇷🇴🇵🇹
As a Romanian I can tell you for sure that what you see in this video is only a small part of beautiful Romania, you have much more to see, much more places that it not talking, the Danube Delta, the Bucovina region, Moldova region (part of Romania, not Moldavian Republic - that was a part of Moldova region of Romania and was taken by f... Russians Stalin with a lot of other territories that are still captive in the f... Ukraine), there is much, much more to see, you never imagine what a GEM is Romania in European Union, how unique we are, we are spoke a romance language, but not with slavic as you wrong believe, but we spoke a pure latin language... Even if we speak a latin language we have some influences from a lot of invasions starting with Romans Empire (we are DACS as root), after them we have to fight with Ottoman Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Germans, Russians and a lot of others even so, we preserved our root, Romania in fact was meant to be named DACIA in 1868 but was not accepted by the bigger powers of Europe of that time because it will recognize our history continuity on this lands lond time before a lot of well known European country's more than 2500 years of history here...
Any questions, just shoot them and I will do my best to answer.
I am Portuguese American and I am doing my best to learn Romanian! ❤️ I am a fluent speaker of Portuguese and Spanish languages and I definitely understand Romanian sometimes. Other times I might not understand but I get so happy when a Romanian tries their best to help me understand them :). I definitely can understand most of the time Italian and I took French for 10 years! So all these Latin languages does help me have a more clearer understanding of the Romanian language! It is quite remarkable and beautiful that although Portugal 🇵🇹 ( all the way to the Western European Latin language through miles far away to Eastern European hemisphere of Romania 🇷🇴!) Our languages even come together with the start of the beginning saying “I am “ .
Portuguese: Eu sou formosa ! vs. Romanian: Eu sunt frumoasa ! ❤️🇵🇹🇷🇴
I liked Romania a lot - Bucharest and Brasov in Winter. Amazing trains for some reason too.
As a Romanian, I disagree with both statements sorry. Bucharest is better during the summer and spring (great festivals, closed streets that turn into urban promenades, amazing vibes) not so great in winter. Brasov is amazing in any season tho. Trains are probably our national embarrassment!. Ask any Romanian and will tell you the same. CFR which is the company that operates all of our train stations and the biggest train company in RO (state-owned) is the reason for it. Romania has developed quite a lot, but our trains and train infrastructure are well behind, on par with Serbia and worse than Hungary unfortunately despite the economy overtaking both countries.
@@celestindimitriu3675 They're worst than Serbian trains now too, they invested in railway infrastructure recently.
@@costinhalaicu2746 good for Serbia. But I’m ashamed of what our train company is doing with our train infrastructure. Romania also has one of the most extensive network of rails in Europe but it all goes to shit thanks to CFR leadership, absolute imbeciles
Romania has about ten or more mountain ranges….Carpathian, Transylvanian Alps, Apuseni Mountains, Leaota Nountains,, Parang Mountains and many more.
It's not such a thing Transylvanian Alps but in an American head and I don't mean disrespect...
@@michaeltom5465 I’m not American! According to Google there is……quote: Transylvanian Alps, also called Southern Carpathians. Romanian Carpatii Meridionali, mountainous region of south central Romania. It consists of that section of the Carpathian Mountain arc from the Prahova River Valley ( east ) to the gap in which flow the Timis and Cerna rivers…..end quote. If Google is wrong, you should inform them.
I m a romanian and I ve never heard of the 'Transylvanian Alps' before. I can see on google search is actually a thing but I guess is just like a nickname, same like Bucharest being called The Little Paris between the world wars did not mean it actually was part of Paris or anything like that, and I know you did not mean that Transylvanian Alps would be part of alps but just thought maybe I should mention it. When I was in school in Romania we learned this subgroup of The Carpathian Mountains is called The Meridional Carpathians which it just means The Southern Carpathians, and they re just a group of the Carpathian Mountains, and the Leaota and Parang Mountains you mentioned are a subdivision of same group called The Meridional Carpathians, in fact almost all the mountains in Romania are simply Carpathian Mountains with their subgroups, with only exception being the Dobrogea Mountains, near the Black Sea. Long Story Short: when you mention the Carpathian as being one of the 10 or more ranges that includes all the others you mentioned after as they all divisions of the Carpathian Mountains.
Is it possible that it was some sort of “ ancient “ name because you are the 2nd person who has pointed that out. Perhaps someone should inform Google that it is misleading people. It is like in my country where people from other countries still call our northern peoples Eskimos, when they are actually Inuit. Thank you for educating me on that. I have seen many videos of your country, it is very beautiful.
Google is wrong. There is no Transylvan Alps. If you really want to know the correct names of our mountins please consult an geographic atlas.
this video just scratched the surface of what Romania can offer in terms of tourism ... there are many many other things that are unique only to Romania
Thank you for this video, i live near Corvin Castle - Hunedoara. :) But this region is full of castles and cool places to visit!
We got software development offices in Germany and Romania and we love both places: great engineers, easy to get along with, romanians more friendly than germans though, superb scenery.
In your film you can see a total of 15% of the beauty and the things that represent Romania. To get to know the real Romania you have to live there for a few years. I have personally been to most European countries, and I can tell you with complete confidence that Romania is the most beautiful country in all of Europe. I lived 5 years in Romania, and I can tell you that you were not in the right places and not in the right restaurants. I personally was at the summit of the Carpathians at the beginning of autumn, and I saw 17 shades of forest, I just stood for 4 hours and could not take my eyes off the breathtaking view I saw there. In northern Romania you Sipping wine number one in the world!!! Or homemade alcohol that the villagers make themselves and makes your love life reach 200% and all this without a headache the next day. In the winter I visited a ski resort with my friends for a week. At night it was -15 degrees outside and it was snowing slowly As if it were feathers, and the moon would reflect and illuminate the ski resort and the forest next to it and would give you the feeling as if you were in the fairy forest from one of the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales. What is true in your story is that Romania is a country with a lot of corruption, bad road infrastructure and it got a bad name in the West Because of the stupidity of the West and a lot of gossip coming especially from the Hungarians who are really very jealous of the Romanians. My hint is very simple...those who want to see Romania in its entirety should come to it for at least 3 months from the end of September to December...and not contact tourist companies, you should talk to a Romanian who owns a car and is willing to drive you to different places for a little money, places like this that he himself was going to enjoy them.❤
McJibbin💙💛❤️Romania have the place 6th in the world at speed of network and it's the first place in Europe, Romania invented the Insulin, the jet engine, the pen, Romania was the first country to extract oil.
I would like to recommend you to watch Wild Carpathia. It's a documentary series made by a british journalist, named Charlie Ottley. Enjoy :)
It's not enough to say 10 places to visit in Romania.
I invite you here, in Romania, feel it, taste it and smell it with your senses. Nowhere in this world, will you find such a scent as here. It's unique. What you can feel is more than I can explain in words.
you have the best chance against a wolf as they are just wild dogs, but a bear, not so much. Lyncs you can take down only based on luck, as it can be as fragile as a wolf, just more agile, and with claws, but bears can behead you with a paw swipe and AR very tough.
The black sea is a unique sea , on surface the saltiness is lower and in depth is very salty , there is no life at the bottom of the black sea.
I knowwww! It is awesome. No sharks but super salty and perfect to swim in! MHAHAHAHAHA! one day, one day...
God bless Romania 🇷🇴
They are the Carpatos mountain range , the road is on Fagaras mountains, i went to Brasov , Cluj-Napoca , a place he didn't refereed that is Salina Turda , and a small beach town just in Bulgaria border
Carpați (Carpathian Mountains in English) Mountains are in Romania, they start in Germany and end in Ukraine. If you are referring to Vama Veche, that's actually a village, not a town. Come again! Cheers!
If you want to see crazy nteresting documentaries about Romania try Wild Charpathia series
I have been to the corvin castle on a school trip this may and it was soo big we couldn’t get to see it all
Me and my wife are on a castle tour across Europe and I gotta say, nothings beats Eastern Europe when it comes to castles. Sadly, there is a huge number of them that are destroyed and not taken care of. Most of the castles in Romania are under the financial investment and protection of King Charles to which I owe all my thanks for taking care of our heritage.
'Most castle in Romania'? - Not really. Other than some buildings he bought in Viscri, the rest is more of a 'marketing' contribution and encouraging the preservation of traditions - which is of course very valuable and we are thankful for. But he has nothing to do with investments in 'most castles of Romania' - you are wrong about that.
Thank you! Hugs from Romania! 💙💛❤
@McJibbin, come visit, it`s waaaay cheaper then the US :) anyone should visit honestly, there is something for everyone: amazing stuff to see, nature, night life, amazing food influenced by many cultures. Chose a spot on the map and you should find many places to stay and also visiting packages online to visit castles, I searched for a colleague from work visiting from Kuala Lumpur, and there are 1 or 2 day trips by car and a guide from Bucharest for example. By the way, most of us speak 2-3 languages, some english, some french, some german, etc.
Hey there, I was so happy to see how mind blown you were in regard to the Corvin Castle feom Hunedoara, since I was born and raised there. Thank you so much for appreciating my country's beauty!
Corvin Castle, I have been there 3 times already and i love it. Is my favourite in my country mostly because is not a comercial castle. Is quartet and beautiful out there and the view from the towers is amazing and the whole castle looks like is straight out of a fairytale. ❤❤❤ Hope you will get here is an amazing country. 🤗
19:31 Yes, an autumn sunny day in Romania from September till the end of November will display the most gorgeous mixture of yellow-orange-red-maroon and mixed with the permanent green of the pine-trees and I could recommend for that experience a particular region up North at the border with Ukraine called MARAMUREȘ (try pronouncing like it would be spelled rather “muramooresh”) because that region (that’s actually a county with that name) is all hills and mountains covered by forests (and few orchards) and where the sky appears intensely blue by contrast.
They also have there the Merry Cemetery and specific villages different than in the rest of the country, where the churches and monasteries are made entirely of wood, roofs included.
U should see România în winter...it's spectacular!
I am Romanian, and you should come to Romania my friend :) trust me you will experience the most beautiful views you've ever seen
you are more than wellcome !
Oooh!!! I've commented before looking at the full video! The bosphorus and darnanels thing being connected to the mediteraneean, connected to the strait of Gibraltar to the Atlantic....wow,that really impressed me! Ppl think that americans are dumb but....yeah...really nice work dude! Jeez!!! The bosphorus and darnanele thing just GOT ME! U were so good!not something u would expect from an american
I love how forests look in Romania during the winter. In the mountains it is amazing
The autumn color transition among trees is common in most of Romanian forests. I can speak for the forests of Transylvania which I see always. Excepting coniferous forests which are green all-year round, it's similar to what you have in New England, but it usually starts after the middle of August and it ends around November-December. It's always nice to see a tree in vibrant green color, another one in pale green, one in yellow, one in orange, one in red and towards the end of autumn in light or dark brown, while you drive along the Transylvanian forests. After November, the forests can be depending on weather either dark, empty forests with twisted branches exposed to elements or white, glittering forests, covered in rime ice (most beautiful) or snow.
First of all the Romanian language is a Romance language not slavic.
The Romanian language is the closest language to Old Latin including grammar (except the Italian)
for example: in patria nostra multe silve sunt (old latin) - în patria noastră multe păduri sunt (romanian) - meaning - in our country there are many forests.
What you probably don't know about Romania and Romanians is that:
1. The religion in Romania is Orthodox Christian.
There are almost 30,000 churches throughout the territory, of which 300 are monasteries.
For example medieval monastery Voroneț (1488) și Sucevița (1581).
These two churches are among the eight the painted churches of Moldavia listed in UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites.
The churches have interior and exterior walls decorated in Byzantine style.
The iconography is strictly in the Byzantine style.
2. The sacred spiritual ortodox centers of the Romanians are in Moldova and Muntenia (in the south of the country), because there are the necropolises of their ancient kings Basarab and Brâncoveanu.
Matei Basarab is buried in the Aronta monastery in 1654 (Muntenia)
There are other holy places in the region of Moldova - Bogdana Monastery (1359-1365) in Suceava where the first five Moldavian kings are buried, also, the Putna Monastery where the great Moldavian king Stephen the Great is buried
3. Romanians are 100% white-skinned.
It's a very nice video of our country. There's more to it that showed here. For example, the tallest wooden churches in the world are in Maramures. Another place that is extremely beautiful and unique is Bucovina, in the north-east of the country, where you can see the Bucovinian painted Orthodox monasteries which have their exterior walls painted and not just the interior. One of these, Voronet, has a unique paint color called Voronet blue, that you can only find there. The Danube Delta is one of the most unique European ecosystems, and one of the best preserved river deltas in the world. Tens of thousands of species of plants and animals live there. There's a king Decebal statue somewhere in the Danube Gorges, right on the banks of the river, which would remind you of the statues of Gondor kings from the Lord of the Rings movie, except this one actually exists. And of course more churches and monasteries and castles, too many to enumerate. Come visit, it's fairly cheap compared to Western Europe, and I don't think you'd regret it. 😃
And to answer one of your questions: the Black Sea has a salinity of about half of that of the Mediterranean Sea: 17.3 parts in a thousand for the Black Sea, compared to 36 parts in a thousand for the Mediterranean. As you correctly guessed, it's because of the huge flow of fresh water from the major rivers, such as the Danube, Dnieper, Dniester, Bug and Don, these being some of Europe's biggest rivers, combined with the fact the Black Sea only communicates with the World Ocean through the choke point of the Turkish Straits. 😃 As for another question, yes the foliage goes through the kaleidoscope of colors, just like New England. It's not surprising, since we're on roughly the same latitude too. For example, Augusta, Maine is at 44.31 degrees North, while Bucharest, Romania is at 44.42 degrees North - so essentially on the same parallel.
Speaking of which, don't hate us too much. 😅 There is a joke, which goes like this: when God created the world, the representatives of each of the peoples of the world lined up to receive some of His gifts, so He gave each one gift that would be theirs for eternity. Thus He made Germans industrious, the French great lovers, the British He gave nobility, to the Japanese - craftsmanship, to the Americans - wealth, and so on. Finally, when the line cleared, the last in line was the representative of the Romanians. God, seeing him, says "oh, my, I forgot about you Romanians. I am sorry, but I don't have any other gift to give, so this is what we're going to do: because I can't give you a trait to further you in the world any longer, I'll make your country a paradise on Earth." 🤣
Love when foreigners can see thru the stereotypes. About Romanian history, you can find a video: "The history of Romania explained in 10 minutes" that is pretty well documented.
Nu a menționat Delta Dunări,ceea mai impresionantă delta din Europa,este foarte frumos.
Boss, come to Romania, if you wanna see how is it like.
The Ottomans defeated Romania but they were not occupied. It was more of a forced client kingdom thing. But no Romania was not part of the ottoman empire.
+9 funny think is tha tthe otomans actually lost more battles against romania but they where so big at that time that they just got another 100-200k masive army after every defeat
Yes, the Ottoman Empire which sieged even Vienna, left Romanians alone if they payed their imposed taxes in gold, sheep, salt, etc.
yes not ... they didint anexed any part of curent romania except for a small part with ports at danube ... the dobruja was full anexed by the otomans but rest of the teritorys no... and yes ... they did nothing if they paid tribute@@dhanyrafael
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Yes the colours are beautiful when the season are changing. We have 4 seasons: Summer, Spring, Fall, Winter. ❤ Black Sea is a sallty water. But in Danube Delta is fresh water because they build a damm , long story. 😂❤
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In Romania, at least at my school, (Timişoara) we had tours organized to visit these places(paid by the parents ofc), all i can say is that as a kid i was scared shitless of them, narrow and tall corridors and massive rooms, and the humidity and temperature inside of them (can be 40c outside, inside its 10c) makes me understand why almost everyone that visits feels chills running down their spine.
Hi listen I have a amazing beautiful friend who is Portuguese and she teaching me to know about Portuguese speaking it and Portuguese is a Latin language my friend speaks 6 different languages and the is the most beautiful amazing to learn speak different languages my friend knows her languages and cultures and countries and I will and I will always stand by her side and I will let nobody treat her bad and I will always be there for her she is extremely amazing women in this world she the extremely best teacher in this world and I mean it from the bottom of my heart I will always find learning different languages and speaking them amazing beautiful
România îs beauty all the Time ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
A man has no chance in a fight with a bear. The Carpathian bear is twice as big as the grizzly bear. It can get to 600 kilos (over 1300 lbs).
lol, Ursii nostri sunt mai mici decat Grizzly 😉 dar oricum da, nu ai nici-o sansa sa invingi un urs.
I advise you to look for other clips about Romania, this one is well made but incomplete, I don't see the Danube Delta or the happy cemetery ( joyful cemetery ), and there are many more that I don't see in the clips on the net
your failed sneeze attempt made my day :)
The wolf was the war flag of the old occupants of current Romania - the Dacians (yep where the Dacia brand comes from).
I have been to Bran castle many times. As a child, my parents would send me, from Bucharest, to summer camp in the area of Bran and my brother and I would climb up the long way so as not to be seen and sneak in the castle in between tourists. Then we would go to the nearest recycle bin and steal the special slip-ons for our shoes so we don't scratch the floors. Plus it made us look legit, even though we didn't pay for them. Oh....to be a kid again going to camp in Transylvania.
I had a great time in Brasov. It was just after the revolution so there were bullet holes everywhere. However it was winter and the snow was perfect for skiing. The food was a bit suspect, I’m sure the burgers were rat (very tasty). Went to Bran Castle and made sure all my pictures were black and white (long before digital photography). Very spooky place.
I moved to Brasov to enjoy a life close to nature and less stress.
Come visit Brasov & Romania and maybe stay for good 😊
well its good that you educate yourself it means you are growing up. But dont forget usa got really nice places and we Europeans would love to visit it as well
you must visit Peleș Castle. Is gorgeous
I been to all of them. And we have many more to see in Romania.
7:38 I guess that would be because this cities were built hundred of years before the invention of cars, and if you went back 400-500 years ago this would be the town markets were people would meet to exchange goods, so would usually be in the centre of the town. In some towns this area does not exist anymore as roads were built ater on top but in alot of towns it has been preserved and that s why this walking car free areas do exist in some european towns, and I m sure this is not an european only thing, I m sure same can be found in Asia as well.
Alps and Carpatians are the same mountain chain! The Black Sea is salted and also has the salinity as human tears that’s why you can open the eyes in the water 😊
I was sooo surprised when I realized the rest of the seas don't. Like, that was my 1 main disappointment when visiting other oceans. I just always assumed they're all about the same. But they are NOT! Not by a long shot. Thank you for telling people.
There is no link between Dracula and Vlad the Impaler, Dracula is 100% fiction. And Vlad's castle is Poenari Castle, now it's just a ruin but it's in a spot that would make life very difficult for any attackers so it's quite cool that way.
You should visit Romania, you won't regret it!
Man, you should come sometimes ... once in summer time and once in winter time!
It would not cost a lot for you!
Cheers from Timisoara!
TBH, every country is beautiful. But if you live in that country you do not appreciate it as much. BTW I wa in Romani in 2011 and I must agree, it is a really beautiful country and I hope I will have change to visit it once again.
The Corvin Castle its in my hometown and after 35 years still impresses
No, Principate of Transilvania, like Principate of Wallachia and that of Moldavia (three main constituents of Romania) , was not part of the Ottoman empire, just the Kingdom of Hungary. Transilvania managed to gain a sort of autonomy due to ottoman invasions, later fel under austro-hungarian domination but still preserved the autonomy until 1865 when it was annexed by Hungary until 1918 and the union to Romania (asked by majority of population). All three principates (some more time, some less) payed tribute to the ottoman empire 9It was hard to keep them under control due to the mountains that favored guerilla type of attacks. So even if empire attacked in great force (3 to 1), the armies of romanians (aided by Szekely warriors, hungarians and sometimes by polish and others) were capable to do great damage and sometime win a war or two.
Accurate description of the situation in those times. Respect.
You're in the US. You have the whole of the North-West and North-East. Those parts have wonderfull spaces. Go .. Go!
Don't beat yourself up. You're learning now and that's all that matters.
thank you for promoting Romania...
Romania is beautiful
I live near Corvin Castle. The scenery is amazing.
Answering your questuins 1 Was it part of the Otoman Empire? Sort of, not really an integral part, but vasal states that used to pay tribute.
2. Are the mountains connected to the Alps? No! It is a different mountain chain called the Capathians
3. Is he getting payed by the government? Probably no
4. Why do European cities have squares? Because they are way older than the invention of the car
5. Bran Castke is a gothic castle, The wooden beans are common in Germany
6. Bran Castle has nothing to do with Vlad the Impaler
7. Hungary is placed in the Panonian Plane
8. You would never beat a bear or a wolf
9. The Black Sea has less salt in it than the Mediteranean, but ir is salty
Notable mentions he missedL The cities of Iasi, Oradea, Timisoara, Targoviste and Suceava, the monstaries of Bucovina, the wooden churches of Maramures, the entire region of Dodrogea, the Danube Gorge.
If you ever decide to travel to Romania, I am offering to host you. You only need to pay for the airplane ticket,..... good luck
The territory of modern day Romania was historically always at the crossroads of empires. There are 3 main regions Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania .They all united in 1918. They were not part of the Ottoman Empire, as they were never integrated in the empire, but they where vassal states. Transylvania was part of the Kingdom of Hungary and latter the Austro-Hungarian Empire, while part of Moldavia, known as Basarabia (now Republic of Moldova) was part of annexed by the Russian Empire. In 1856 Moldavia and Wallachia united and formed the Kingdom of Romania as an Ottoman vassal state. We gained independence in 1877 and in 1918 after WW1 Transylvania, Basarabia and Northern Bucovina also voted to unite with the Kingdom of Romania. After WW2 Basarabia was annexed by the USSR ... So that is how we got modern Romania and why the Republic of Moldova (Basarabia) is our sister state, same people, same language, same culture, but two states....
To answer your second question the mountains are not connected to the Alps. It is a different mountain chain called the Carpathians ...
Fun fact .. Bran Castle has nothing to do with Vlad the Impaler aka Dracula ... his royal courtyard was in Târgoviste and his mountain castle was Poienari Keep ...
Donde está el Delta del Danubio? 12:24
La tierra más joven de Rumanía, patrimonio de UNESCO? Rumanía no es solo Transilvania.
My friend visited Draculya's Castle in 2007, though it is actually his brother's ;-)
The mountains are part of the alpino-carpato-himalaian chain aka the alpine belt according to Wikipedia 😊
PS check the geography now video. It explains more about how Romania was formed