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Romania
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- 1 A country in Southeast Europe. Capital and largest city: Bucharest.
"There is strong resistance in much of Europe to fracking, the practice of forcing liquid and sand into wells to release trapped oil and gas. France has a ban on fracking, Germany has imposed a moratorium, and opposition has cropped up and sometimes delayed shale exploration in Eastern European countries like Romania and Poland."
- 2 The Latin or Romance-speaking areas of Europe, collectively. historical, literary
- 3 Obsolete form of Romagna. alt-of, obsolete
"In the end of Ianuarie, Borbon passed the Po with all his troupes, and directed his iourney towards Romania: […]"
- 4 Synonym of Byzantine Empire, also used for its former territories. historical
"There is a significant coincidence of dates between several events: the splitting of the Paulician community in Rhomania in consequence of Séryios’s innovations; the breach between Séryios’s partisans and the East Roman Imperial Government, […]"
Etymology
From Romanian român (“Romanian”) (in turn from Latin romanus (“Roman”)) + -ia. Doublet of Romagna.
From Latin Rōmānia, from Byzantine Greek Ῥωμανία (Rhōmanía), itself from Latin rōmānus.
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