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ROMANIA Romania is the largest of the Balkan states, sitting at the crossroads of Europe, whose nationals are proud of being ‘an island of Latinos’ in a ‘sea of slavish'. The country has seen several empires come and go: Roman, Ottoman and AustroHungarian, all leaving their legacy.

ROMANIA Romania's flag displays three equal vertical stripes: blue, yellow and red. The currency of Romania is Leu (RON). Romanian is the official language of the Romania. Romania has the 9th largest territory and the 7th largest population (with 22 million people) among the European Union member states.

ROMANIA Romania has a rich cultural and natural diversity. Its dramatic mountain scenery includes the densely forested Carpathian Mountains, the Danube Delta (the largest wetland in Europe) and 70km (43 miles) of fine white sandy beaches on the Black Sea Coast.

The Carpathian Mountains

The Danube Delta

The Black Sea Coast

ROMANIA Romania's cultural heritage can be experienced in the Saxon towns of Transylvania, also home to Bran Castle, of Dracula fame, the painted monasteries of Bucovina and the rural village idyll of Maramures.

The Bran Castle

Map of Bucovina monasteries Wood Gate from Maramures

ROMANIA Romanian National Dress The basic garment for both men and women is a shirt or chemise, which is made from hemp, linen or woolen fabric. This was tied round the waist using a fabric belt, narrow for women and wider for men. The cut of this basic chemise is similar for men and women.

DOBRUDJA Dobrudja (Dobrogea in Romanian) is the territory between the lower Danube river and the Black Sea, which includes the Danube Delta and the Romanian seashore. Northern Dobruja (Dobrogea) belongs to Romania, Southern Dobruja (in Romanian, Cadrilater) to Bulgaria.

Map of Romania with Northern Dobrudja highlighted in orange and Bulgaria with Southern Dobrudja highlighted in yellow

DOBRUDJA This land was inhabited since ancient times by Dacians. In the 7th and 6th century BC several Greek colonies were founded here including Tomis, Histria, Callatis, Dionysopolis and Olbia to facilitate trade with locals.

Ancient towns and colonies in Dobrudja (Modern coastline shown)

DOBRUDJA The entire Dobruja has an area of 23,100 km² and a population of rather more than 1.3 million, of which just over two-thirds of the former and nearly threequarters of the latter lie in the Romanian part. Nationalities in Northern Dobruja at the beginning of the 20th century

DOBRUDJA In Dobrudja are a great number of churches, many with a great history. Techirghiol Saint Mary Monastery Many of these are from Middle Age, but we have here churches from XI-th century to first part of XX St Great Martyr Mina Church Constanta century. The Great Mosque Constanta Saint Apostle Andrew’s Cave

Costinesti St. Helen from the Sea Monastery

DOBRUDJA Major cities are Constanţa, Tulcea, Medgidia and Mangalia. There are 10 main resorts of the Romanian Black Sea shore that are stringing southwards along the coast, while Mamaia lies a few thousand meters north to Constanta. Romanian Sea resorts rank among the very few beaches in Europe which can offer all day long sunlight. The beaches are generally natural ones.

CONSTANTA Constanţa is one of the two counties of Dobrudja, with the capital city at Constanţa. In 2002, it had a population of 715,151 and the population density was 101/km². The degree of urbanization is much higher (about 75%) than the Romanian average.

Constanta county Coat of arms

Constanta county localization on Romania map

CONSTANTA The county has 3 municipalities, 9 towns and 58 communes (2005). Municipalities: Constanţa, Medgidia, Mangalia Towns: Băneasa, Cernavodă, Eforie, Hârşova, Murfatlar, Năvodari, Negru Vodă, Ovidiu, Techirghiol.

CONSTANTA The Black Sea littoral is the preferred destination for the summer holidays in Romania. The resorts are: Năvodari, Mamaia, Eforie (North and South), Costineşti, Olimp, Neptun, Jupiter, Cap Aurora, Venus, Saturn, Mangalia, 2 Mai, Vama Veche.

Mamaia

Eforie Sud

Neptun - Olimp

CONSTANTA Constanţa metropolitan area includes the municipality of Constanţa, 5 cities and 8 communes. It has a population of 550,000 in an area constituting only 33% of Constanţa County.

CONSTANTA Telegondola The Genovese Houselights

The Archeological Park

The Tomis Port

AquaMagic

The Constanta Popular Art Museum

Constanta Casino

“Ovidius” University

EFORIE SUD Eforie Sud is an resort integrated in the city of Eforie, on the Black Sea shore. It is a land between Techirghiol Lake and Black Sea, at 8-20 m above sea level, at 19 km of Constanta.

EFORIE SUD The Eforie Sud resort was set up by Ioan Movilă, an boyar from Moldavia, in 1899, when they started to build the Movilă Hotel . First, the resort was named The Techirghiol-Movilă Baths, then Movilă Baths or TechirghiolMovilă.

The Techirghiol-Movilă beach in 1932

The Ioan Movila statue in Eforie Sud

EFORIE SUD In 1912, Eforie Sud became a summer resort. It has a chalk promontory and an cliff that can reach 35 meters height. Eforie Sud was called, between the two world wars, Carmen Sylva, after the poet name of Queen Elisabeth of Romania.

Eforie Sud cliff

Queen Elisabeth of Romania

EFORIE SUD The education in Eforie Sud is made in the “Carmen Sylva” High School. The school has students in primary school (I-IV), gymnasium (V-VIII) and high school (IX-XII).