🇷🇴 Been waiting 10 years for this day

Tens of thousands of people across Romania are coming to Bucharest tomorrow to attend the consecration of Romania's National Cathedral, the largest Orthodox Church in the world

🇷🇴 The most important victories of Romanian Voievods (rulers) during the Middle Ages:

For hundreds of years, the Romanian Principalities fought against the Ottomans and Tatars, making the ultimate sacrifice to protect Europe and Christianity

A thread ↓ 1. Mircea the Great (Wallachia) and the Battle of Rovine

In 1395, the Ottoman Empire under Bayezid I marched towards Wallachia with 48,000 attempting to conquer and annex the land as they had done recently with Bulgaria

🇷🇴 Some cool old photos I've found recently of Romanian people in the mid 1900s, mainly from rural Transylvania and surrounding regions

1. Man from Maramureș with his pipe 2. Man from Hunedoara wearing mask used in celebration around Christmas and new year

🇷🇴 George Simion presents plan for reunification of the Republic of Moldova with Romania:

"The time has come to change our institutional reporting and to look at Basarabia again with the eyes of a mother country that awaits its son at home."

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George Simion: "Romania has the historical, moral and strategic duty to treat the Republic of Moldova not as a neighboring country, but as a living part of our nation. A space broken by force, but never alienated in the soul.

Annexation of Basarabia by Soviet forces in 1940:

🇷🇴 I picked 4 images to represent each Romanian region and this is the result:

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What did other countries think about Vlad the Impaler back then? 🇷🇴

I gathered accounts from various countries about Vlad III, from the time when he was alive or shortly after his death

Thread ↓ 🇷🇸 "Dracula, the Wallachian lord, crossed into Turkish lands and killed many, impaling them on stakes so that the sultan’s army fled in fear. He was a Christian fierce as a lion, and his name was spoken among us with awe."

Konstantin Mihailović (1490s), a Serbian Janissary

🇷🇴 The Battle of Teișani between Wallachia and the Crimean Khanate in 1602

How a Tatar warrior challenged a Romanian commander to single combat, and why he shouldn't have done it, as it ended with his decapitated head being showcased in front ot the Khan's army

Thread ↓ In the summer of 1602, the Crimean Tatars, led by Khan Gazi Ghirai, invaded Wallachia.

This was likely ordered by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed III to punish Radu Șerban, the then Voievod of Wallachia, for his allegiance to the Habsburgs and to restore Ottoman influence.

10 Facts about Călin Georgescu that not everyone may know:

1. Călin Georgescu is an agronomist engineer and holds a PhD in pedology, the study of the properties of the soil
2. Georgescu is a black belt in Judo and became vice-champion of Romania and the Balkans in 1979 at the age of 17

He is also is a black belt in Shotokan Karate

🇷🇴 Radu de la Afumați was a ruler of Wallachia during the 16th century

He stopped the advance of the Ottoman Empire into Wallachia and prevented its annexation as a province

His grandfather Vlad IV was one of the three brothers of Vlad the Impaler

Thread ↓ The Sultan wanted Mehmed Bey, the Pasha of Nikopol, to become the governor of the region which they wanted to annex into the Ottoman Empire

This obviously clashed with the recent coronation of Radu as ruler of Wallachia, a battle was imminent

Legionarism: Christianity is not a pacifist religion

Thread ↓ "Turn the other cheek, right?" No.

Many use this verse to deny Christians the right and, depending on the context, even the duty of fighting back when under attack.

This sentence does not mean what many Christians think it means and I will explain to you why.

Legionarism: How men became weak and gay, and why they must die in order to be born again

Thread ↓ The founder of the Legionary school, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, identified early on the ongoing feminization and godlessness of the modern man.

I think we were given an excellent example during the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Paris.

Legionarism: How the Country's National Elite Determines Its Downfall or Success

Thread ↓ Codreanu was a passionate critic of democracy

He argued that the masses cannot rule themselves and therefore require an elite of individuals to lead them while upholding the interests of the eternal nation

🇷🇴 The Romanian Army: 1877

In 1877, Romania fought its War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire, becoming a kingdom shortly afterward

Here is a summary of the units of the Romanian Army at that time

Thread ↓ The first image shows Prince Carol I (after the war of 1877, King Carol I)

He is embodied in a uniform of a general en-chef, in ceremonial dress, and behind him is a royal aide-de-camp officer also in ceremonial dress

🇷🇴🇧🇬 The Bulgarian-Romanian Kingdom: A union that never came to be

Thread ↓ Background

Both Bulgarians and Romanians trace at least part of their ancestry back to Thracian and Dacian tribes that habitated the Balkans in ancient times

🇷🇴🇷🇸 Starina Novak: Michael the Brave's most loyal general

A tale of Romanian-Serbian friendship (Thread) ↓ Novak was one of the most capable generals of Michael the Brave, the man who would unite the Romanian Principalities for the first time in history

This legendary hero, of Serbian origin, was born around 1520 in the village of Poreci, Serbia, near the Danube

🇷🇴 Romanian Fascist Architecture and Sculpture

Similar to their Italian counterparts, the constructions had to be imposing and giving the royalty a greater significance

The architecture and sculpture were simple, elegant and filled with national symbolism

Thread ↓ The Transnistria Exhibition pavilion was built in Bucharest in 1941

The exhibition honored Romania's conquest at the Eastern Front

🇷🇴 The Tactics of Vlad the Impaler: Asymmetrical & Psychological Warfare

Raids, battles, and campaigns are all synonymous with Vlad III, the Impaler

Behind the legend, however, lies the history of an excellent military commander

Thread ↓ While it is easy to label Vlad as a bloodthirsty maniac due to many myths, his actions were rarely impulses but rather calculated actions aimed to demoralize his enemies

He played his part as a leader and commander in one of the most dangerous times in European history

🇷🇴 Moldavia: Founding & Independence

Known as one of the three Romanian principalities along with Wallachia and Transylvania, the Principality of Moldavia played an important role in Romanian history

Thread ↓ In 1353, a Romanian ruler from Maramureș named Dragoș, who was under Hungarian suzerainty, was sent by the Hungarian king to establish a line of defense against the Golden Horde around the Siret River (today part of the region of Moldova in Romania)

🇷🇴🇵🇱 Polish Highlanders also known as "Gorals" and their connection with Romanians

Thread ↓ Between the 13th and 15th centuries Romanian shepherds from Transylvania started migrating and settling around Central Europe following the Carpathian Mountain range

🇷🇴 How fashion giants like Dior and Louis Vuitton steal Romanian Folk Clothing designs and sell them as their own "original" creations for up to €30,000

A Thread ↓ In 2017 Dior launched a collection featuring folk motifs

Soon people began to see that many of them looked very similar to those of traditional Romanian clothing from Bihor

🇷🇴 Life in Romania during the Interwar Period and WW2: 15 Pictures

1. Little boy doing the Roman salute, better known as 'Nazi salute' 2. Men building a pyramid