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It’s Located For
Romania is located in Europe, specifically at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It is bordered by several countries: Ukraine to the north and east, Moldova to the east, Bulgaria to the south, Serbia to the southwest, Hungary to the west, and the Black Sea to the southeast
It’s Etymology
Romania derives from the local name for Romanian (Romanian: român), which in turn derives from Latin romanus, meaning “Roman” or “of Rome”.[9] This ethnonym for Romanians is first attested in the sixteenth century by Italian humanists travelling in Transylvania, Moldavia, and Wallachia.[10][11][12] The oldest known surviving document written in Romanian that can be precisely dated, a 1521 letter known as the “Letter of Neacșu from Câmpulung”,[13] is notable for including the first documented occurrence of Romanian in a country name: Wallachia is mentioned as Țara Rumânească.