WE LOVE ROMANIA! CYBERSECURITY SCHOOL S (OUR ERASMUS PROJECT) 

ROMANIA IS A EUROPEAN COUNTRY,SURROUNDED BY HUNGARY, SERBIA, MOLDAVIA, UKRAINE AND BULGARIA AND WITH THE BLACK SEA ON THE COAST. 

THE HISTORY OF ROMANIA STARTED…IN THE PREHISTORY PERIOD. CAN YOU GUESS THE NAME OF THE SCULPTURED FIGURES?. THEN, SOME INDOEUROPEAN GROUPS CAME TO THIS LAND. INDOEUROPEAN PEOPLE RECEIVE THIS NAME, BECAUSE THEY CAME FROM A PLACE BETWEEN INDIA AND EUROPE AND THEIR LANGUAGE TOO. 

AFTER THEM, THE ROMANS…OF COURSE, THE EMPEROR TRAJAN HAD A STRONG WAR WITH THE THRACIANS . HE ORDERED TO BUILD A BIG BRIDGE TO CROSS THE DANUBE RIVER. THE ARCHITECT APOLLODORUS MADE IT. IT IS SCULPTURED IN TRAJAN´S COLUMN CAN YOU LIST SOME ASPECTS AND PEOPLE IN COMMON WITH OUR HISTORY IN MÉRIDA?. 

MONGOLS WERE IN ROMANIA TOO. ATTILA WAS A GREAT LEADER IN THE DANUBE RIVER…(ROMANIA AND HUNGARY MAINLY). SOME PEOPLE CONFUSE ATILA WITH HANNIBAL, BOTH HAD A WAR WITH ROMANS? DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCES? FIND OUT ABOUT THEM. 

IN THE XIV C. TRANSILVANIA WAS PART OF ROMANIA, THEY HAD A WAR AGAINST OTTOMANS. (ARE THEY FRENCH, ENGLISH, GERMAN OR TURKISH?). VLAD TEPES WAS FROM THIS PERIOD, HE IS REMEMBERED BY HIS CRUELTY. THE CHARACTER OF DRACULA, WAS BORN FROM THIS BRAVE AND CRUEL WARRIOR, VLAD TEPES. 

WE HAVE KNOWN A LOT OF DRACULAS…ALL OF THEM FROM TRANSILVANIA (ROMANIA). CAN YOU GUESS WHERE THE DRACULA´S CASTLE CAN BE THEN? 

BUT THE MOST FAMOUS ONE IS: DRACULA OF BRAM STOKER´S NOVEL AND FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA´S MOVIE LATER. DO YOU THINK THAT BRAM STOKER AND DRACULA (VLAD TEPES) ARE FROM THE SAME COUNTRY? 

AFTER VLAD TEPES AND OTTOMANS A LOT OF THINGS HAPPENED AND THEN THE FIRST WORLD WAR TOOK PLACE. AT THE BEGINNING THEY DID NOT PARTICIPATE, BUT IN 1916 ASTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE TRIED TO ADD TRANSILVANIA FOR THEM, UNTIL 1918 THAT THEY WERE UNIFIED AGAIN. NOWADAYS THEY ARE LIKE THIS: 

NICOLAE CEAUȘESCU WAS THE LEADER OF THE ROMANIAN SOCIALIST REPUBLIC FROM 1967 UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1989. HE WAS THE LEADER OF THE ROMANIAN COMUNIST PARTY TOO. NOWADAYS THE PRIME MINISTER IS…A WOMAN OR A MAN? 

VASILICA VIORICA DĂNCILĂ HAS BEEN THE FIRST WOMAN TO GET TO BE PRIME MINISTER IN ROMANIA, SINCE 2018. 

NADIA COMANECI WAS A VERY IMPORTANT OLIMPIC SPORT WOMAN . SHE WAS THE FIRST WOMAN WITH A PERFECT MARK IN THE OLIMIC GAMES, A TEN. HER SPECIALITY WAS ARTISTIC GYMNASTIC. CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT DOES SHE DO NOWADAYS? 

ROMANIA HAS A LOT OF PLACES TO VISIT: FROM BUCAREST, THE CAPITAL TO CLY-NAPOCA, TIMISOARA, CRAIOVA AND BRASOV . CAN YOU FIND MORE ABOUT THESE PLACES?. WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO VISIT? 

WHAT CAN WE FIND IN BUCHAREST, THE CAPITAL CITY? THE ROMANIAN ATHENAEUM, CISMICIU GARDENS THE OLD CENTRE, THE STAUROPOLEOS MONASTERY AND THE PALACE OF PARLIAMENT. 

HERE YOU ARE SOME CURIOSITIES FROM ROMANIA…FOR EXAMPLE, MAYBE YOU REMEMBER THIS IMAGE OF TARZÁN… 

ALTHOUGH, THERE HAVE BEEN PLENTY OF THEM ALONG THE HISTORY… 

THE MOST FAMOUS ONE WAS THIS ROMANIAN ACTOR…CAN YOU GUESS HIS PREVIOUS JOB? 

ONE MUSICAL CURIOSITY IS THAT ROMANIA STARTED IN EUROVISION SONG CONTEST IN 1994. THE BEST MARK FOR ROMANIA WAS A THIRD POSITION WITH "LET ME TRY" IN 2005 AND IN 2010 WITH "PLAYING WITH FIRE“ BY PAULA SELING Y OVI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGY20O4Z7nM 

TYPICAL FOOD CIORBA, THE “QUEEN” ON THE TABLE. , LA CIORBĂ, PRONNOUNCED “CHORBA” IN SPANISH, IT IS A DENSE SOUP WITH CHICKEN OR BEAF,FISH , VEGETABLES ETC. ROMANIAN SOUPS USUALLY HAVE SOME PEPPER AND SMÂNTÂNA, PRONNOUNCED “ESMANTENA”, A KIND OF THICK CREAM, A BIT BITTER WITH THE ASPECT OF YOGHOURT). ONE OF THE MOST CURIOUS SOUPS IS : CIORBĂ DE BURTĂ (CORNS SOUPS) THAT CONTAINS PIECES OF PORK GUT. 

PAPANASI, PRONNOUNCED “PAPANÁS” THEY ARE ROUNDED SWEETS WITH CHEESE INSIDE, IT IS SERVED WITH SMANTANA, OR RED FRUITS JAM. 

OTHER CURIOSITIES: -THE BIGGEST POPULATION OF BROWN BEARS ARE IN ROMANIA. BRASOV IS THE CITY OF THE BROWN BEARS. -TIMISOARA WAS THE FIRST TOWN IN EUROPE ILUMINATED WITH STREET LIGHTS IN 1884. 

-MOUNTAINS BRUCEGI ARE NATURALLY SCULPTURED, BUT THEY ARE SIMILAR TO EGIPT. -ROMANIA HAS THE BEST CONECTIONS TO THE INTERNET IN EUROPE. -BALEA LAC IS THE FIRST ICE HOTEL IN EUROPE, BUILT IN IN 2006. CAN YOU FIND OUT WHERE IS IT? 

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