Elena Balan
POST-REVOLUTION ROMANIA, 1990: Mineriad of 13-15 June
The violent events of 13-15 June 1990 remained known in post-communist memory as "Mineriad of 13-15 June 1990" and refer to the repression, by law enforcement forces, with the help of miners, of protest rallies in the University Square of that period.
POST-REVOLUTION ROMANIA, 1990: 30 years since the first Prut "Flower Bridge"
May 6, 1990 saw the first "flower bridge" thrown open across the Prut River as part of the border-opening events with the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR).
World War II, 1945: Restoration of the Romanian administration in Northeastern Transylvania
On March 9, 1945 the Romanian administration was re-established in Northeastern Transylvania. A festive meeting was organized on the occasion in Cluj on March 13, 1945, with King Mihai, Prime Minister Petru Groza and the first deputy of the Soviet People's Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, A.I. Vyshinsky, attending.
REVOLUTION 30: 23 - 31 December 1989 events in Bucharest and in other Romanian cities
Romania was the only country facing wide spread violence during the 1989 revolutions; officially, 1,104 people died and 3,300 were injured. Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship, believed to be the most brutal and repressive in Eastern Europe, was without doubt one of the main reasons for such a tragic end - as the work ''The 1989 Revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe.
#Bucharest560: Bucharest, throne citadel and capital of the country (historical landmarks)
The first documented mention of the "citadel of Bucharest" as princely residence comes up in a document issued on 20 September 1459 by Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler), ruler of Wallachia (1448, 1456-1462, 1476-1477).