Coordinates: 46°N 25°E / 46°N 25°E / 46; 25
Romania (i/roʊˈmeɪniə/ roh-MAY-nee-ə; Romanian: România [romɨˈni.a]) is a unitary semi-presidential republic located in Southeastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Bulgaria and Ukraine. It also borders Hungary, Serbia, and Moldova. It covers 238,391 square kilometres (92,043 sq mi) and has a temperate-continental climate. With its 19.94 million inhabitants, it is the seventh most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city, Bucharest, is the sixth largest city in the EU.
The River Danube, which is Europe's second longest river after the Volga, rises in Germany and flows southeastwards for a distance of 2,857 km, coursing through ten countries before emptying in Romania's Danube Delta. Some of its 1,075 km length bordering the country drains the whole of it. The Carpathian Mountains, with their tallest peak Moldoveanu at 2,544 m (8,346 ft), cross Romania from the north to the southwest.
Modern Romania emerged within the territories of the ancient Roman province of Dacia, and was formed in 1859 through a personal union of the Danubian Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. The new state, officially named Romania since 1866, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. At the end of World War I, Transylvania, Bukovina and Bessarabia united with the sovereign Kingdom of Romania. During World War II, Romania was an ally of Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union, fighting side by side with the Wehrmacht until 1944, then it joined the Allied powers after being occupied by the Red Army forces. During the war, Romania lost several territories, of which Northern Transylvania was regained after the war. Following the war, Romania became a socialist republic and member of the Warsaw Pact. After the 1989 Revolution, Romania began a transition back towards democracy and a capitalist market economy.
Romania is a modern nation-state, located in South-East Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula.
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Romania is one of the world's largest wine producers and sixth largest among European countries – in 2015 it produced around 4.069 million hectolitres of wine. In recent years, Romania has attracted many European business people and wine buyers, due to the affordable prices of both vineyards and wines compared to other wine producing nations such as France, Germany, and Italy.
In Romania are mainly cultivated grape varieties for white wines, the most widespread being Fetească Albă, Fetească Regală, Riesling, Aligoté, Sauvignon, Muscat, Pinot Gris, Chardonnay, Tămâioasă Românească, Grasă de Cotnari, Galbenă de Odobești. Therewith, the main grape varieties for red wines are Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Băbească Neagră, Fetească Neagră, Pinot Noir, Busuioacă de Bohotin.
Romania has one of the oldest wine making traditions in the world, its viticulture dating back more than 6,000 years. Due to the hot dry summers, the location proved to be successful and the grape vineyards thrived. Since the medieval times, wine has been the traditional alcoholic beverage of the Romanians.
I once walked in shadowland. I heard the howls of a hundred wolves,
how they sung with severed forgotten winds, the shivering twilight anthem.
A rising strom, i first thought, but the caves of diffs, forests,
mountains resounded the same tunes, nightspirit symphony.
Those tunes darkly penetrate my heart, that's where they came from.
The black harmony mesmerized my mind. It was as if i've join a choir of ancient dark desires.
I heard the whispers. Fire embraces.
I faded into strange silence, and ardently sacrificed to the nocturnal voices.
With blood on my hands, i hailed my master.
Thou can hear the howls from sable dimensions, which the night can't resist.
Wander as the lost with unholy harlots...sin's miracles.
Hark...your instincts are gone. Thou lived in knowledge of lies, in the words of weak.
Calls for fettered waves, far away to unknown shadows, feeling the distance to the light.
When the dreams of the believers died, thy christian soul, the wolves slept unsad.
May the silent whispers beyond the light, fascinatingly reach many paths,
Sans goal.
In the eternal night towards storming seas, in infinity undaunted eternity,
Fullmoon's nocturnal ceremony, fortress of shadows.
Night, assembly hall of possession...extolled black harmony.
Above the clouds, above my soul, the sky turns blacker by enthrailing dreary caw.
Darkness bare the eyes of a ravenswarm,
it's time to spread the wings and fly to the crowd of dignity.
Gliding through the gates of times, feel the ecstacy of symphonous might,
in this earth of sacred, i'm surrounded by the fools ecclesiastical.
[repeat]
Over the blackened sacrifice, over the darker lands.
I lay my throne, founding the deepest thoughts from beyond this mortal world.
The malignant visions, sardonic howls guide me to the vicious dark destiny:
nightspirit symphony, embracing my soul in eternity.
I once walked in shadowland. I heard the howls of hundred wolves,
how they sung with severed forgotten winds, the shivering twilight anthem.
A rising strom, i first thought, but the caves of diffs, forests,
mountains resounded the same tunes