An Introduction to Romania
- Useful Links on Culture and Language -

• Today's Weather in Timisoara
• Current Time for Romania
• World Factbook: Romania
• Currency Converter (Get a "cheat sheet")
• Romanian Map by the National Geographic Map Machine
  

  Romania Sites

  
• Welcome to Romania! All sorts of useful info and links
• Meet Romania!
• Destination Romania
• Links to Romania
• Yahoo's Romanian Links
  

  Timisoara Links

• Timisoara
• Timisoara Home Page
• The Coup d'Etat of 1989
• Various Timisoara Links
• Pictures of Timisoara
  

  Romanian Studies, Culture, History

• Romanian Culture links
• Romanian Historical Articles
• International Theological Education Ministries Christ for Romania
• Nicholae Klepper has two books on Romania - a cookbook and an illustrated history.
• Eliznek Romania Pages Cultural History and an extensive links page by a traditional Romanian dance group.
• The Counties of Romania on the RoTravel pages - good maps of each county.
• Three Romanian Fairy Tales [More stories below!]
• The Romani (Gypsies): A poverty stricken minority in Romania and Eastern Europe
  • The Patrin Web Journal: Romani Culture and History
  • Romani Links
  
  

  Romanian (Moldavian) Language Study

  
• About the Romanian Language: Romance language derived mainly from the Latin language spoken in the ancient Roman province of Dacia, which coincides roughly with modern Romania. Romanian has four principal dialects. Daco-Romanian, or Romanian proper, is spoken by about 18 million people in Romania, in parts of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Moldova, where it is officially called Moldovan (although widely considered identical to Romanian).

  The Romanian literary language is based on the Daco-Romanian of the historic region of Walachia, in southern Romania. Romanian preserves some Latin traits lost in other Romance languages, notably the inflection of nouns. Romanian also has some characteristics common to the languages spoken in the Balkan Peninsula (most of which are not Romance languages), such as the placement of the definite article after the noun. Romanian has absorbed an unusually large number of words from the Slavic languages, the Greek language, the Turkish language, the Hungarian language, and the Albanian language.

• Online Dictionary of Basic Romanian Words and Phrases
• Romanian Language Fonts
• "Electronic Talking dictionaries for 35 languages. Translation Software for Windows, Pocket PC, Palm OS."
• InterTran Machine translation to/from Romanian and other languages.
• Romanian Language Translators

• Books for Language Study:
  • Romanian-English, English-Romanian Dictionary by Mihai Miroiu Paperback - 567 pages (September 1996) Hippocrene Books
  • Romanian Phrase Book & Dictionary Paperback (March 1994) Berlitz Travel Guide; ISBN:
  • Beginner's Romanian (Beginner's Guide) by Dana Gall Paperback - 200 pages (December 1993) Hippocrene Books
    
    Designed to meet the needs of business people, tourists, and students traveling in Eastern Europe, the Beginner's Series touches on a country's history and culture, driving rules, social customs, restaurant practices, and other daily concerns, as well as language skills, including vocabulary, grammar, and phrases.
  • Teach Yourself Romanian : Complete Course (Teach Yourself) by Dennis Deletant, Yvonne Alexandrescu includes Audio Cassette - 288 pages 2nd Bk&Cs edition (April 1998)
  

  

  Romania: Internet Sites

• Timisoara Online
• Internet West
• Internet Cafes in Timisoara
• Europa Nova: Timisoara, Ro
  

  Romanian Folk and Fairy Tales

• Why Cats sit on the Doorstep in the Sun
• Swan Maidens
• Folktales for Travelers
• Cat and Mouse:Fables about Cats and Mice
• Ingratitude Is the World's Reward: Folktales of Type 155
• Every Mother Thinks Her Child Is the Most Beautiful
  

  Travel Guides Sites: Lonely Planet. . . . Rough Guides !

  Published Guides: There are others available

  • Lonely Planet: Romania & Moldova; 1st edition Nicola Williams (May 1998)
  • Lonely Planet: Eastern Europe; 5th edition Steve Fallon (January 1999)
  • Rough Guide Romania (2nd Ed) by Tim Burford, Dan Richardson, (May 1998) Rough Guides; ISBN:
  • Hidden Destination: A True Romanian Adventure by R. Lee Brennan, Lee Brennan (November 1998)
  • Fodor's Eastern and Central Europe (18th Edition) by Fodor's (Editor) (December 1998)