Visit Romania!

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Thank you Gregoshi!

Seeing that it's Christmas, here's some ideas on how we celebrate it

https://theculturetrip.com/europe/ro...ate-christmas/

https://www.uncover-romania.com/attr...as-traditions/

[Fragony]

Goingthere next month, two perhaps
, depends on mate, Ï wil buy you a drink of you apreciate it

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You're coming to Romania, Frag? Wonderful!

When exactly? And where?

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Aman Museum - an art museum.



https://www.instagram.com/p/BnrP1HZBFoQ/

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Triumphal Arch

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bsohye4naMo/

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Some more pictures!

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Here's an interesting video explaining the geopolitics of Romania, particularly on the historical side and the economic development problems.

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It's been about 10 years since I started this thread, and so far it has garnered close to 120.000 views. Together with the 210.000 or so from Total War Center, getting over 300.000 views on 2 threads to visit Romania... well, I do hope that I managed to get people to come and visit Romania!

Thank you all for viewing & commenting, I hope you visit Romania soon.

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A beautiful video outlined by the famous Kings & Generals YouTube channel about the Battle of Calugareni in 1595, an important moment in Romanian history & medieval history as well.

[Montmorency]

This is a damn shame:

There’s one obvious, notable beneficiary of this situation: Ikea. The company is now the largest individual consumer of wood in the world, its appetite growing by two million trees a year. According to some estimates, it sources up to 10 percent of its wood from the relatively small country of Romania, and has long enjoyed relationships with mills and manufacturers in the region. In 2015, it began buying up forestland in bulk; within months it became, and remains, Romania’s largest private landowner.

The global market’s edacity for timber, perhaps predictably, has gone far beyond the legal limits set up by an already permissive state. According to a 2018 report, initially suppressed by the Romanian government and leaked later that year, the country saw 38.6 million cubic meters of wood exit its forests annually during the preceding four-year period; the government had licensed just 18.5 million cubic meters. In other words, without even accounting for possible violations based on method of extraction, more than half of the country’s timber is illegally harvested. Even legal logging, which on private and public land alike must be preceded by a forest management plan that is approved by the government, can be rife with corruption and abuse. Since roughly the date of Romania’s accession to the EU, between half and two-thirds of the country’s virgin forest has been lost.