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Romania

Romanian is a Romance language, a legacy of Roman rule after Trajan conquered Dacia in 106 AD. The Carpathian Mountains arc through the country's heart, and the Danube ends its 2,850 km journey here in the Danube Delta, one of Europe's largest wetlands.

The turrets and timbered gables of Peles Castle set among trees below the Carpathian mountains, Romania

Peles Castle, in the Carpathians

Photo: Vislupus, CC BY-SA 4.0

Vertical bands of blue, yellow and red, a tricolor raised in the 1848 revolution in Wallachia. In 1989 protesters cut the communist coat of arms from its center, leaving the plain flag used today.

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