In the 2nd century, it was the location of a Roman theatre.

The first leu coin was minted in Romania in 1870.

It is said that out of 16,000 Romans, only 1,000 survived.

The commanding officer came and asked him, Tell me, are you a Roman? He said, Yes.

Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea.

Ion Besoiu ( born 11 March 1931, Sibiu) is a Romanian actor.

Alexandru Dan Tudor (born 13 September 1971) is a Romanian football referee.

Saint Patrick's Day is observed on 17 March, which is said to be the date of his death.

The basis for this character is the early life of Augustus, the first Roman Emperor.

That night, roughly a hundred Romanian citizens died in the streets, and hundreds more were wounded.

After Augustus, the first Roman princeps, the Senate could vote deceased emperors into divine status.

Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.

Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.

The original copper coins ( as ) had a face value of one Roman pound of copper, but weighed less.

Florin Gheorghiu (born 6 April 1944) is a Romanian chess player and university lecturer in foreign languages.

Meet the people behind Neighborhood Diaries (and Kalam) Bishan Sammadar, Harleen, Sahar Romani, Rohini, and Maitrayee (picture above from left to right).

Adrian Năstase ( born 22 June 1950) is a Romanian politician who was the Prime Minister of Romania from December 2000 to December 2004.

Gordian II ( c. 192 April 12, 238), was Roman Emperor for one month with his father Gordian I in 238, the Year of the Six Emperors.

Constantin Angelescu (1870 1948) was a Romanian politician who served as an interim Prime Minister of Romania for five days, between 30 December 1933 and 3 January 1934.

Within the first year of Romania s accession to the EU on January 1, 2007, for example, roughly a million Romanians migrated to Italy and Spain.

Alfred Eisenbeisser () (born 7 April 1908 in Cernăuţi, Austria Hungary (now in Ukraine) deceased 1 July 1991 in Berlin, Germany) was a Romanian football player and figure skater of German ethnicity.

Negiat Sali (born September 4, 1953) is a Romanian economist and politician, a member of the Democratic Union of Turco Islamic Tatars of Romania (UDTTMR) and former member of the Chamber of Deputies in 2000 2004.

The horrible murder of Giovanna Reggiani that took place near a Romanian refugee camp in the suburb of Tor di Quinto in Rome shocked both Italy and Romania.

It made a wretched start at independence when the industrial region of Transdnistria populated by Russian and Ukrainian speakers who feared that the majority of Moldovans, who are of Romanian descent, planned closer ties with Romania declared independence.