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CUT GLASS CRYSTAL
HAND CRAFTED / HAND PAINTED
MADE IN ROMANIA
DECORATED WITH BLUE CLOVER LIKE FLOWERS
WITH ACCENT RED DOTS
ORIGINAL PAPER LABEL DEPICTS A CROWN HALLMARK
MEASURES ABOUT 6.5" HIGH
MOUTH IS 2"
BASE IS 2.5"
BULBOUS ROUND MIDDLE IS 5"
NO CHIPS OR CRACKS
CIRCA 1980
POSSIBLY BY TOSCANY OR AVITRA???
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FYI
Romania is a country located at the intersection of Central and Southeastern Europe, bordering on the Black Sea. Romania shares a border with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and Moldova to the northeast and east, and Bulgaria to the south. At 238,400 square kilometers (92,000 sq mi), Romania is the ninth largest country of the European Union by area, and has the seventh largest population of the European Union with more than 19 million people. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, the ninth largest city in the EU.
The United Principalities emerged when the territories of Moldavia and Wallachia were united under Prince Alexander Ioan Cuza in 1859. In 1881 Prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was crowned as King Carol I the first monarch of the Kingdom of Romania. Independence from the Ottoman Empire was declared on 9 May 1877, and was internationally recognized the following year. At the end of World War I, Transylvania, Bukovina and Bessarabia united with the Kingdom of Romania. Greater Romania emerged into an era of progression and prosperity that would continue until the eve of World War II. That war caused the rise of a military dictatorship in Romania under fascist General Antonescu, who chose to fight on the side of the Axis powers from 1941 to 1944. After his removal, Romania switched sides in 1944 and joined the Allies. By the end of the war, some formerly Romanian northeastern territories were occupied by the Soviet Union, with Red Army units stationed on Romanian soil. Then Romania forcibly became a People's Republic and a member of the Warsaw Pact.
With the fall of the Iron Curtain and the 1989 Revolution, Romania began its transition towards democracy and a capitalist market economy. After a decade of post-revolution economic problems and living-standards decline, extensive reforms fostered economic recovery. As of 2010, Romania is an upper-middle-income country with a high human development index.
Romania joined NATO on 29 March 2004, and the European Union on 1 January 2007. It is also a member of the: Latin Union, Francophonie, OSCE, WTO, BSEC, United Nations, etc. Today, Romania is a unitary semi-presidential republic, in which the executive branch consists of the President and the Government.
The Romania derives from the Latin romanus, meaning "citizen of Rome". The first known use of the appellation was by 16th-century Italian humanists travelling in Transylvania, Moldavia and Wallachia.
The oldest surviving document written in Romanian, a 1521 letter known as the "Letter of Neac?u from Campulung", is also notable for including the first documented occurrence of the country's name: Wallachia is mentioned as ?eara Rumaneasca ("The Romanian Land", ?eara from the Latin terra, "land"; current spelling: ?ara Romaneasca).
Two spelling forms: roman and ruman were used interchangeably until sociolinguistic developments in the late 17th century led to semantic differentiation of the two forms: ruman came to mean "bondsman", while roman retained the original ethnolinguistic meaning. After the abolition of serfdom in 1746, the word ruman gradually fell out of use and the spelling stabilised to the form roman. Tudor Vladimirescu, a revolutionary leader of the early 19th century, used the term Rumania to refer exclusively to the principality of Wallachia.
The use of the name Romania to refer to the common homeland of all Romanians—its modern-day meaning—is first documented in the early 19th century. The name has been officially in use since 11 December 1861. English-language sources still used the terms Rumania or Roumania, derived from the French spelling Roumanie, as recently as World War II, but the name has since been replaced with the official spelling Romania.
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