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in eastern european cities they offer plenty of activities such as:

1) freezing at a bus stop

2) melting at a bus stop

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"Ukraine winning was a sign of compassion and solidarity and recognition from the population of Europe" and "Ukraine had a good entry" and "Romania's votes got fucked over and changed so the 12 points would not be awarded to Moldova, further causing tension between 2 sister countries to fit someone's political agenda" and "Even without this, Ukraine was 200 points further than everyone else after the public vote so it was not like changing Romania's vote did anything to ensure Ukraine wins, but it did cause damage in the relations between us and Moldova" and "Juries should be abolished" are all thoughts that can and should coexist

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Bucharest, 1932-1941, by Willy Pragher

via Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg

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love how no one is talking about the fact that moldova got a bunch of points from the public when they're talking about ukraine and "sympathy points". yeah some of them probably were but is it really a coincidence that two fun songs with folk elements got an insane amount of points from the public??

maybe people are just bored of mainstream western music

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Moldova really was like a rocket today huh

#Eurovision #eurovision 2022 #Moldova

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Massive congrats to ukraine for winning but most importantly for defeating the uk

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I'm a bit late to the party but I just found out Moldova qualified, I just loooove this band it brings back memories

#eurovision 2022 #Moldova #zdob și zdub

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traditional romanian shepherd dog breeds

bucovina

mioritic

carpatin

corb

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Ohhh could you recommend more Romanian fairy tales? Including less known ones if you wish. Thank you.

let's seeeeee

here's the ones i can remember rn, but i don't think any of these are less known :/

-> Tinerețe fără bătrânețe și viață fără de moarte

-> Doi feți cu stea în frunte

-> Fata moșului și fata babei

-> Greuceanu

-> Aleodor împărat

-> Povestea lui Harap-Alb

-> Sarea în bucate (also movie)

-> Povestea porcului (also movie. not yt link, adblock advised)

-> Făt-Frumos din lacrimă

-> Prâslea cel voinic și merele de aur

-> Neghiniță, Punguța cu doi bani, Capra cu trei iezi, Ursul păcălit de vulpe, of course

have some links and PDFs too

-> Povești nemuritoare (table of contents on page 228)

-> Povești nemuritoare (table of contents on page 166)

-> Basme populare românești

-> Povești populare românești (table of contents on page 426)

-> List of fairy tales

-> Another list

#basme

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View of Rome from the Tiber - William Marlow

1775

#art #paintings

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King Decebalus’s face, the tallest rock sculpture in Europe, Iron Gates of Danube / Romania.

#photography

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How Romanian Gypsies preserved Jewish melodies

"When I began to record music in Romania in the late 1980s, many of the elder Gypsy musicians I approached in Transylvania enthusiastically played Jewish tunes for me, alongside the Romanian and Transylvanian Hungarian music I was asking after. I was intrigued. Where had they learned these tunes? From playing for Jewish weddings, they answered. Jewish musicians in Romania/Moldavia often played alongside Gypsies. Gypsy musicians were hired for Jewish weddings, and played Jewish songs while providing csardas music for dancing. In Fizesul Gherleii (Ordongosfuzes in Hungarian) as well as Sarmas, local Gypsy village bands also played sets of "Jewish Dances". Zoltan Blum, a Jew from Fizesul Gherleii, remembers Jews dancing in a circle to this music before WWII."

- Robert (Bob) Cohen, bandleader of "Di Naye Kapelye"

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A while ago I saw a drawing here that I thought would be a bit too complex to reproduce but I've gave it a try and added the pattern from Suceava and some roses and there it is.

#romanian art #drawings

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La mulți ani, România!

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Today I will be talking about:

Balauri

A Balaur is a type of Romanian dragon, appearing in many folk tales and stories written by authors which drew inspiration from folk tales or rewrote them as to be preserved on paper (such as Ion Creangă or Petre Ispirescu).

Appearance

Balauri have multiple heads, usually three, seven, nine or twelve (magical numbers, so to say) or even a hundred! It resembles a serpent and has wings, claws, sharp teeth. It is said that it evolves from a snake who didn't bite anyone for 7-12 years. In this time it grew wings, heads, fangs and became a Balaur. Another interesting feature which appears in some stories: when a head is cut, the creature grows three in the same place.

Role in stories

Balauri always have the evil role, abducting princesses/fair maidens and being defeated by Făt-Frumos (literally, Romanian Prince Charming). Being the principal evil force, they are always defeated by the protagonist of the story and the message is that good, admirable virtues will eventually defeat the bad side.

Sometimes, they may appear as a secondary character, as one obstacle out of three for the prince to overcome. Again, the fight of good versus evil.

Association with the Solomonari

As I said in an earlier post, Solomonars, wizards who can control the weather, are the only ones who can ride Balaurs.

Origin of the name, linguistic aspects

A very curious thing is that no one really knows where the word came from, there are only meer linguistic speculations. Words which may be linked with the name of the Balaur:

boljë (Albanian) - snake

buljar (Albanian) - water snake

bell- / ber- (Thracian, a prefix?) - beast, monster

Borrowed terms:

balaura (Serbian) - insult term

balaur (Transylvanian Saxon/ dialect săsesc) - dragon

The Balaur served as an inspiration for:

the naming of the Balaur Bondoc, a theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period, which lived on the territory of Romania. Bondoc means "stocky", as the dinosaur had a greater musculature than its relatives, so the name translates to "Stocky Dragon"

The popular naming of the snake Elaphe sauromates, which is "șarpe balaur" (dragon snake, balaur snake) or "balaur dobrogean" (Dobrogean dragon, Dobrogean Balaur). Dobrogea is a region of Romania.

Bonus: a very nice stamp from the Romanian Post

Image sources:

https://kiarayew.com/balaur/

https://magical-europe.com/2019/09/10/the-devious-dragon-of-romanian-folklore/amp/

https://ro.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balaur_(dinozaur)

https://www.descopera.ro/natura/11238032-balaurul-dobrogean-cel-mai-mare-sarpe-din-romania-si-monstrii-din-basmele-noastre/amp

https://href.li/?https://www.energiaconstiintei.ro/solomonarii/

#Hahahahaha thanks for reblogging! #I'm barely active lately but I will come back soon #This blew up a little

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three 1970 Romanian stamps from a series on steppe flowers

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I served my country with my weapons: the quill, the violin, and the baton.

August 19th, 2021 marks 140 years since the birth of George Enescu, Romania’s greatest composer.