Flag of the Romani people

The Romani flag or flag of the Roma is the international flag of the Romani people. It was approved by the representatives of various Romani communities at the first and second World Romani Congresses (WRC), in 1971 and 1978. The flag consists of a background of blue and green, representing the heavens and earth, respectively; it also contains a 16-spoke red dharmachakra, or cartwheel, in the center. The latter element stands for the itinerant tradition of the Romani people and is also an homage to the flag of India, added to the flag by scholar Weer Rajendra Rishi. It superseded a number of tribal emblems and banners, several of which evoked claims of Romani descent from the Ancient Egyptians.

Mădălin Voicu

Mădălin Ştefan Voicu is a Romanian musician and politician of Romani ethnicity. Voicu is a member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and has been a parliamentarian in the Chamber of Deputies since 1996. He is one of only two ethnic Romani politicians

Udrea Băleanu

Udrea Băleanu, also known as Băleanul, Banul Udrea, or Udrea of Băleni, was a Wallachian and Moldavian statesman and military commander. He was especially noted as a key supporter, and alleged uncle, of the unifying Prince Michael the Brave, serving

Popești-Leordeni

Popești-Leordeni is a town in Ilfov County, Muntenia, Romania, 9 km (5.6 mi) south of downtown Bucharest, although from the northern edge of the town to the southern edge of Bucharest the distance is less than 100 m (330 ft). Most of its inhabitants

Ioniță Cuza

Ion Cuza or Cuzea, commonly known as Ioniță Cuza, was a Moldavian statesman and political conspirator, remembered as one of the first Romanian nationalists and Freemasons. His paternal family, the Cuzas (Cuzeas), were landowners of uncertain origin who

Cartea Românească

Cartea Românească is a publishing house in Bucharest, Romania, founded in 1919. Disestablished by the communist regime in 1948, it was restored under later communism, in 1970, when it functioned as the official imprint of the Writers' Union of Romania

Gavril Istrati

Gavril Istrati, or Istrate, was a Moldavian boyar who mounted military resistance to the Filiki Eteria during the Greek War of Independence. Probably hailing from the yeomanry, he spent a while servicing the more powerful boyar Teodor "Frederic" Balș

Pyotr Z. Bazhbeuk-Melikov

Pyotr Zakharovich Bazhbeuk-Melikov, also Bachbeouk-Melikoff, Bazhbeuk-Melikyan or Bazhbeuk-Melikishvili, was an ethnic Armenian politician and agronomist in Bessarabia. Educated in Tiflis Governorate and then in France, he had various administrative

Ákos Birtalan

Ákos Birtalan was a Romanian economist and politician. A member of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the legislative elections of 1992, and reelected in 1996 and 2000. In 1996–1998

Kogălniceanu

Kogălniceanu or Cogălniceanu may refer to:Kogălniceanu family, a Moldavian and Romanian boyar family, whose members include: Constantin Kogălniceanu, legislator Enache Kogălniceanu, courtier, man of letters, brother of Constantin Mihail Kogălniceanu

Andrei Simonov

Andrei Dmitrievich Simonov was a Russian Armed Forces major general serving as Chief of the Electronic Warfare Troops of the 2nd Army of the Western Military District