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The Romanian revolution (Romanian: Revoluția română) was a period of violent civil unrest in Romania during December 1989 as a part of the revolutions of 1989 that occurred in several countries around the world, primarily within the Eastern Bloc. [6]
The Romanian Revolution resulted in more than 1,100 deaths in Timișoara and Bucharest, and brought the fall of Ceaușescu and the end of the Communist regime in Romania. [310] After a week of unrest in Timișoara, a mass rally summoned in Bucharest in support of Ceaușescu on 21 December 1989 turned hostile.
28 December – For the first time, after a long break, is held a meeting of the Board of Writers' Union of Romania. Is elected a provisional steering committee, the president being Mircea Dinescu. 29 December - The Socialist Republic of Romania is renamed as Romania (Romanian: România). [17]
The revolution was the only violent overthrow of a communist state in the Warsaw Pact. Czechoslovak President Gustáv Husák's resignation on 10 December 1989 amounted to the fall of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, leaving Ceaușescu's Romania as the only remaining hard-line communist regime in the Warsaw Pact. [78] [79] [80]
Nevertheless, the Romanian economy witnessed the first years of growth after the 1989 revolution. The government also started several projects for social housing, restarted the construction of the motorway connecting Bucharest to Romania's main port, Constanţa, and began the construction of a motorway across the western region of Transylvania.
After the fall of communism in Romania with the Romanian Revolution of December 1989, [45] Romania tried to regain the small Snake Island. [46] Since it is located on the Black Sea, it has access to the sea's continental shelf rich in petroleum and natural gas resources. [47] The owner of it was now Ukraine, as the Soviet Union had collapsed in ...
Tabula Peutingeriana shows about 88 localities, the names of some of which were still Dacian at the time of its compiling as they end in -dava. 20 of them are still inhabited today, and 6 of them still retain the same name, or, incorporate their original names into their current name.
Romanian Revolution: Directorate for Security Troops; Romanian Land Forces (until 22 December 1989) Romanian Police (until 22 December 1989) unknown shooters; Romanian anti-communists; Romanian Land Forces (from 22 December 1989) Victory. End of Communist regime in Romania; Execution of Nicolae Ceaușescu; 1,104 dead