Romania is a Central European or a Balkan country?

[Drawing-slim]

These countries would be very exotic for average Central European. When you cross from Croatia to Bosnia difference is great, and place feels like some far away land (I love Bosnia btw)
Albania and Montnegro have typical dinaric culture, something inner Dalmatia/Herzegovina also share. I wouldn't group entire south-east Europe togheder, because I think Slavic orthodox countries like Bulgaria, Serbia or non-Slavic country like Romania share more with Ukraine than with Albania or BiH.

I was in all these places just recently. And i took buses from zgreb sarajevo montenegro albania, i hungout with people, talked to people, intercated with them, ate diner with at bus stop breaks through the journey,lol i got pics to proof it.
Bsonia felt great too btw. E more central euro spirit soul with islamic faith. Even in the deepest villages you walk in a cafe you can drink beer liquor all you want and and smoke cigarettes all you want, while a mosque was nearby.
I loved my trip through balkans, now that i think about it,lol

[Полковник 95]

Romania - Balkans/South East Europe.
Moldavia - East Europe.

[Tommie]

It is all of the above.

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

When we mention Romania in Portugal we say "Europa do Leste", which means Eastern Europe. We don't refer to it as Balkans and much less Central Europe.

[Tommie]

That's what I said, Romania is in middle of all, of Central Europe, Eastern and Balkan, we are not part of any block. But no one cares about what I say, people still spreading bullshits like Romania is a full Balkan country.

Agree.

[RN97]

Geographically Eastern European (north of the Danube), culturally Balkan perhaps while Transylvania was/is Central European.

What's culturally balkan?
What common culture does Serbia, Albania and Romania share?

[Antimage]

What's culturally balkan?
What common culture does Serbia, Albania and Romania share?

"balkan music" for example. I heard romanian serbian albanian pop music and I heard similarities, if you request I will try to find examples to demonstrate this. I also think albania and serbia shares some food, not sure about romania

[Jana]

What's culturally balkan?
What common culture does Serbia, Albania and Romania share?

You quoted my three years old comment. I changed my opinion as you can see in post above.

because I think Slavic orthodox countries like Bulgaria, Serbia or non-Slavic country like Romania share more with Ukraine than with Albania or BiH.

Romania is similar to orthodox Slavic countries.
Regarding Balkan it means Byzantine-Ototman influnces. But I already said it should be tossed out of dictionary because of it's derogatory meaning.

[Ziveth]

A Balkan country.

This is Central Europe:

[Jana]

http://www.ce-review.org/99/23/cvijetic23.html
Indeed, there has hardly been a notion this century as burdened by negative connotation as "the Balkans" or "Balkanisation." What used to be a geographic toponym ("Balkan" comes from the Turkish word simply meaning "mountain" and is used to describe the Stara Planina mountain in Bulgaria), has become a means of defamation and a synonym for partition, tribal conflict and retrograde political agendas - that is, an incarnation of everything that is negative or backward.

The term is used, of course, in a very reductionist way and is a convenient tool for differentiating between "us" and "them," between the "civilised world" and "those down there." Even such horrifying, deeply uncivilised and inhuman political programmes as Nazism and Fascism have not completely lost their appeal in the eyes of some (hopefully irrelevant) political forces in modern Europe. The Balkans (and the type of politics it represents), however, remains an unwanted child, whom absolutely no one wants to accept as his own, left in front of the door of the wealthy nations, who are unwillingly forced to take care of it.

Not surprisingly, the nations unfortunate enough to be located in the Balkans have accepted this reductionist approach. Not to be a part of the Balkans has become a matter of self-esteem and national identification. Virtually every nation that geographically belongs to the Balkan peninsula (Turkey, Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia) claims that it by no means belongs to the Balkans and attempts to impose geo-political re-definitions that would, once and for all, remove it from the infamous list.