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About Romania













                   ■     Romania is being touted as Europe's                           embraces the Carpathian Mountains
                         hidden entrepreneurial tech hotbed                            long associated with natural thermal
                         due to its growing business sector,                           spas, climbing, skiing and trekking.

                         wealth of technical skills and                                Bordering Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia,
                         resources and an endemic                                      Moldova and the Ukraine with its
                         entrepreneurial culture of self-                              feet sliding into the Black Sea, it has
                         sufficiency and resilience amongst                            a temperate-continental climate. Its
                         its youth.                                                    capital city, the dynamic and colorful
                                                                                       Bucharest, is the 6th largest city in
                         A central European country cloaked                            the EU. A democracy with a capitalist
                         in myths and legends of "Dracula"                             market economy, it is home to

                         (the blood sucking vampire),                                  famous artists, musicians and
                         Romania is dressed in the thick                               inventors.
                         forests of Transylvania, medieval
                         towns in Sighisoara and a plethora
                         of castles and ancient churches. It
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