Romania is a Central European or a Balkan country?

[TheForeigner]

Unless I'm mistaken, Wallachia always was it's springboard and core territory and that's geographically and culturally balkan/byzantine. The rest I'm not that sure about, like Transylvania.

Romanians are pretty based imo anyway. So there's no way the dudes who produced Michael the Brave and the Kebabisiser Vampire are anything but balkanoid.

Lol based, kebabisiser? Well the Balkan peninsula stops at the Danube, but culturally it is mainly balkan. Some here don't like it. The thing is the balkan peninsula or southeast europe are a part of southern europe and Romania goes to far north for that and is more of a''carpathian country''.

[Myth]

That's a hard one, since my dads family immigrated from Romania, there's several elements to Romania that make them kind of stand out yet have similarities in some ways to all 3, Romanians speak a Latin language, the southern part it seems like more Romanians are darker and can look similar to Italians or I think sometimes similar to Greeks, yet I've seen some Romanians who have Asiatic features maybe turkic, it seems to the north, more slavic influence, and west slight Hungarian and German, I don't think there is an easy answer but I would say Romania to me probably feels more southeast European even though geographically it probably would not be considered part of the Balkans except the extreme southeast.

[Smaug]

Balkan of course.

[GERULA]

Romania is not a balkan country ...but of course the ones spreading the rumor would like it to be associated with that and thus lower the historical and geographical significance of Romania . The answer to the question is ...look at the map and learn geography ..and little history...and Voila ...Carpathian Country ...distinct ancient culture and traditions ...all the "balkanickies" are welcome to start screaming ...LOL

[Tooting Carmen]

Balkan without doubt.

[Vlach]

When I see this guys what think that we are balkan country...
We are Romania, we are not central, balkan... Transylvania is central Europe, S. Romania is balkan and North-East is East and all this make Romania special, not a Balkan country

[cyrus]

I would call it a Bordeland Country because none of classical definitions (Balkanic, Eastern, or "Central" European) doesn't culturally, religious or ethnic could be applied 100%.

[Ctwentysevenj]

I picked Eastern Europe, but I feel there is a bit of South east Europe/ Balkan and Central European elements in Romania.

[wvwvw]

I picked Eastern Europe, but I feel there is a bit of South east Europe/ Balkan and Central European elements in Romania.

This.

Romania is mainly a Balkan country, meaning it shares many (mostly negative) characteristics with other Balkan countries which are typical of the region. Maybe when the economy of Romania improves, and Romanians become more prosperous that perception will change. Until then Romania remains awfully Balkan. The endemic corruption that can be seen in all Balkan countries, the poverty, the gypsy ghettos, the black economy, the illegal trade, even the turbo music, the turkish minorities are not things to be proud of, no wonder every Balkan country wants to rid itself of this label. In fact the term Balkan is only associated positively in Bulgaria and Albania. Serbs want to be Central European, Greeks would rather call themselves Southern Europeans, and Romanians would rather call themselves Germanic or Carpathian. Noone wants to be Balkan. (a turkish word btw)

[blogen]

The Eastern European influence in the religion in Romania before the Balkanization (since 1945):


And now, the Transylvanian Romanians are religiously Balkanized:


The German and Hungarian minorities, the real Central/Eastern European elements in Romania:



GDP per capita, Moldova is clearly part of Ukraine and Wallachia connected to the Balkan, only the traditionally rich ex Hungarian lands, the Bánát, Partium and the industrialized Central Transylvania is developed (except the capital and the oil counties):


But the population in southern Transylvania are dominantly Balkanite Romanians. So finally this is the basic situation in Romania: