Exploring Romania's Modern Face 🇷🇴

[@carmenjura9360]

Never been to Cluj but now planning on it , thank you for showing me around and thank you for loving my country, I’ve been living in NY most of my adult life and nothing could quench my longing for my beautiful country . I’m Romanian through and through and I have to thank you for bringing me closer to home .

[@oopsimovedagain]

Cluj is a beautiful town, and north west from it, there the region of Maramureș, which is probably the last traditional region of Europe. It’s towns and village are of an impossible beauty: The Last Traditional Region of Europe // Romania in summer kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJuZqmd9rLJma8k. Thank you very much for the kind words! NYC is interesting too, I kept some incredible memories from there, but I guess the peace and safety I found in Romania and East of Europe in general are priceless 🥰🇷🇴!

[@adrianagradea4505]

Keep up the great work! Don’t mind these negative people who feel so important as to tell you what to do. Love, from another Romanian.

[@oopsimovedagain]

Thank you Adriana 🥰🇷🇴

[@adrianagradea4505]

@@oopsimovedagain you’re welcome! I was born in Cluj and lived there for almost 30 years.

[@blu9371]

Congrats for hitting 1000 subs ! You are back in Romania! Yay

[@oopsimovedagain]

Thanks buddy ! Well noticed, yes I am 🥰

[@alexandranmargaras1308]

I share your sentiments for Eastern and Central European countries; they are free, have stunning sceneries, amazing architecture and still hold on to their strong traditions. Fantastic job on showcasing my hometown of Cluj. A big thank you! Keep them coming!!

[@oopsimovedagain]

Thank you Alexandra for the kind words! It’s a beautiful city 🥰🇷🇴

[@WalknTalkVlogs]

Thanks for making this Vlog. Nice one!

[@claudiuardelean0008]

Beautiful... visited almost all the places shown in your vid.

[@oopsimovedagain]

Lovely words ! Thank you so much for the support ❤️. What’s your favorite city in Romania ? 🥰

[@sirajoBarrys]

Love the country

[@joedoe7236]

So you are in Cluj on Saturday morning and stop a "random" cute young lady on the street ( who can also speak English ) to spend you few good hours, wandering around Cluj, sightseeing, and having breakfast, lunch, and dinner in those nice places. Mai, mai how lucky you are :).

[@oopsimovedagain]

Everything is possible in Romania 🇷🇴. It’s the land of possibilities. But don’t say this too loud or we’ll have tourists flooding our safe and beautiful east of Europe 🥰🤫

[@stanciuflorin5328]

The best commercial! The Ministry of Tourism should hire you!

[@oopsimovedagain]

You’ve a ministry of tourism in Romania 😅?! They must be very shy 🙈

[@halaszialexandru8412]

❤️Cluj

[@oopsimovedagain]

Da !

[@petermarkovits-ke2gp]

You must have learned the history of Transylvania from some austro-hungarian books. The ancestors of todays romanians never left Transylvania to come back 1000 yeara later due to the magnanimity of the mongolian hungarian kings. We romanians recognize this "bozgor bulshit" coming out from some of the magyars' losers. The hystory of alk Transylvania's has two sides as its golden coins and would always be wise to learn it studying the ownership of the minting press. Many territories in eastern europe if the last 2 millenia were taken back and forth by the ones with stronger arms and longer spears. The majority of population in Transylvania has always been made by romanians. Transylvania still has a minority of hungarian population, and together with saxons, ukrainians (ruttenians) in Maramures, serbians in Banat contribute to the upringing of the country as a whole undivisible and suvereign statal entity. Our days the young generations have become multilingual, many romanians luving in Transylvania speak hungarian and german. Bucharest not Cluj has the highest number of hungarians living in a romanian city. That speaks volumes of a country that is on upswing trend. Is there an issue between hungarians and romanians? More amongst the oportunistic politicians of both sides than between the people of these two etnic groups. Hoping very soon to leave the chaotic NYC for a small transylvanian city. From a jew born in Regat, whose grand father fought in the ww1 austro-hungarian army. Thanks to your work of the last 33 years, at this moment for a miidle class family the quality of life is more apealing comparring it with the down scaling trend all over USA. Keep up the good work. Many american romanians straight families will return to make Romania Great Again. Warm regards from a romanian jew still living in NYC. Sa va fie la toti numai cum vreti voi. Pace intre oamenii de omenie indiferent de etnie. Shallom

[@alifc1082]

Romanians don't claim things that aren't part of them. Funny coming from an American Matei Corvin.. As times were, and Hungarians invaded Transilvania, lost of them came, so he was from a Hungarian family, but born and raised Cluj, so he was Hungarian and Romanian. He was loved as an Romanian king as he was local and spoke the language ang knew the people(and was good gif the town, I imagine if he would have been a terrible ruler, would have been less "claimed") ...

[@stancuceciliu906]

Draguta clujeanca!

[@razza118]

di Pi la noi...

[@adyx007]

Wow you really got lost.? They liked you so much that you came back a tour

[@theswede5402]

Showing us a city but also teaching us Game at the same time :D.

[@lkl3210]

5:18 The Romanians say his father was Romanian, the Hungarians say his father was Cuman, but as an analogy if descendants of Cumans from this regions aren't Romanian, then by the same logic Obama isn't American, and with this statement i would probably offend both Romanian and Hungarian ethno-nationalists but be somewhat more closer to the truth. Shame that in current year we can't gather around our common elements and built on that to move into the future together and we still squabble over feudal level non sense but who knows what the future will bring. Enjoy your travels !

[@blu9371]

Romanians are cumans and daco roman descendants.

[@lkl3210]

@@blu9371 well according to a genetic study done this year Romanians are 20% dacian and everything that came after, 50% of the tested DNA comes from Neolithic cultures like Cucuteni-Tryptilia age between 7000 and ~4000 years ago, and 30% even older, if you want to argue what percentage of that last 20% is split between dacians, romans, cumans, avars, goths, huns, turks, slavs, bulgarian, macedonian, germans, greek, Roma *Mongols(sorry forgot them) and whatever other cultures settled here in the past 2000 years, I don't see the point but ok they are only daco-roman-cuman, if you know that for a fact good on you, because well, DNA testing can't really be used for establishing a time-line

[@oopsimovedagain]

Looks like we just got a DNA expert here. What are you, a DNA Lab scientist 👩‍🔬 👨‍🔬 😅? Also, could you provide the source of your information, I’m interested to learn more (genuinely 🥰)

[@oopsimovedagain]

Thank you for the comment. Tons of valuable info 🥰

[@fatmaahmed4592]

Hi, sorry for bothering you. Were you at the Christmas market in Romania, Bucharest on the 10th of December? Because a man who looked like you interviewed me, with a blonde woman and a man holding a camera. This man asked me about Schengen and told me that he was from Austria. I commented about that on your tiktok but you didn’t answer me.

[@daviesplaerz9055]

Who is she?? Quite lively!!

[@CosminSandu2907]

Well, Cluj was not so much communist.

[@oopsimovedagain]

Interesting. Do you know why it wasn’t ?

[@silverbolbo]

Yeah sure it wasn't communist 😂

[@normanvalentin3633]

No one calls it the Switzerland of Romania, no one has ever called anything in Romania as Swiss. Just some of the cheese. The Silicon Valley of Eastern Europe is called by American newspapers. Sometimes Westerners call Romania the "Switzerland of Eastern Europe", this is about the last after Silicon Valley. Recently. Paris of the East or Little Vienna have old names, and they were never assigned by Romanians but by foreigners. As a relief, geography, I would compare Romania to France. Regarding Cluj, there is currently no number 1 city in Romania. And we have enough to visit, probably not at the level of France, but unlike other countries with only 1-2 cities, we have: Cluj, Oradea, Timisoara, Sibiu, Brasov, Iasi, Constanta with Mamaia, Bucharest, etc. And small towns like Targu Mures, Baia Mare, Arad, Deva, Alba Iulia, Piatra Neamt, etc. are ok.

[@oopsimovedagain]

surely Romania is a diverse country, with a lot of places to visit. I've visited most of the cities you mentioned. I guess Iasi, Craiova, Alba Iulia, and Piatra Neamt are my next "must visit" places. Thanks for the feedback buddy !

[@dacian_1346]

@@oopsimovedagaincraiova is a city you need desperately to avoid… little to nothing to do and very dangerous since it’s full of random crimes everywhere, Piatra Neamț is also a city where there is nothing to do… just old rundown communist buildings. In Moldova ( north-east ) the only great cities to visit are Iasi and Suceava ( even tho Suceava is quite ugly but it has interesting historical sites like medieval churches and a fortress ), instead of Craiova I’ll go northern to Târgu Jiu, Way better than Craiova with way more history and the surrounding are better since it’s close to the carpathians.

[@alexandrupatru2892]

​@@dacian_1346 Craiova, which occupied the site of the Dacian and Roman city Pelendava, was formerly the capital of Oltenia. Its ancient bans, the highest ranking boyars of the Wallachian state, were initially those of the Craiovești family. The bans had the right of minting coins stamped with their own effigies - the origin of the Romanian word ban as used for coins. rom the Craiovești family there were chosen a lot of hospodars to rule the country: Neagoe Basarab, Radu de la Afumați, Radu Șerban (1602-1611), Matei Basarab, Constantin Șerban, Șerban Cantacuzino, Constantin Brâncoveanu. In 1395 Craiova was probably the scene of a victory won by the Wallachian Prince Mircea I of Wallachia over Bayezid I, Sultan of the Ottomans (see Battle of Rovine). Mihai Viteazu (Michael The Brave), who managed to reunify the 3 Romanian countries for the 1st time since Burebista's time, in 1600, was a ban of Craiova. This is were his most important boyars also came from (Buzești brothers) and this is were Valahia got the most well trained and payed armies. It was the Capitol of the Oltenia region and it's still considered as such. This is where Constantin Brâncuși studied. Most visited landmarks: 1. Madona Dudu Church - built between 1750 and 1756, renovated in 1844, after being destroyed by an 1831 earthquake. Murals were completed by Gheorghe Tattarescu. 2. St. Demetrius Cathedral The Church of Coșuna Monastery - the oldest building preserved in Craiova, dating from 1483. 3. Băniei House - the oldest non-religious building that exists in Craiova, dating from 1699. Today it hosts the Museum of Ethnography and Folk Art. 4. Craiova Art Museum - the building that houses the museum was built in 1896, following the plans of the French architect Paul Gotereau. Its main attraction is the art gallery dedicated to Constantin Brâncuși, exhibiting six of his early sculptures (including variants of his best-known works) 5. Museum of Oltenia - founded in 1915 and divided into three sections: ethnography, history and natural science. The collection is based on donations made in 1908. 6. Nicolae Romanescu Park (formerly Bibescu Park) - the largest and most well-known park in Craiova. Through the initiative of Nicolae P. Romanescu, the mayor of Craiova at that time, the park was designed by French architect Émile Rendont. Plans for the park were awarded the gold medal at the 1900 World Fair; work began in 1901 and was completed in 1903. 7. Botanical Garden - The garden was laid out by the botanist Alexandru Buia and was opened in 1952. 8. Jiu Meadow 9. Centrul Vechi (Old Town) 10. The Marin Sorescu National Theatre (which also holds the biggest Shakespeare Festival in the world every 2 years). There is ALOT to see in Craiova, it's an amazingly beautiful city with warm, welcoming and hard working people. We have alot of immigrants settling here, students of Medicine, basketball and football players from the Middle East and Africa, people from UK who moved and praise the city and its people in their youtube videos. Crime Index: 47.00 Safety Index: 53.00. Way safer than New York and London. No amount of ignorance or hate towards this ancient beautiful place is going to make fake assumptions true. Romania is one of the safest countries on the Planet. Stats are brought down by the corruption part of the index and some petty crimes now and then, violent crimes are very scarce and that is why they are shocking to the population here. We're simply not used to them.

[@masterlee005]

Well about the part with Nikola Tesla, he was half romanian because his mother Duca Tesla was romanian and his father serbian and she was the one who encouraged him to be a scientist and inventor , so dunno what the controversy is about. On the other hand romanians are fed up with people that doesn't recognize their true "rights" due to the so called "complicated history " in Ardeal aka Translivania. To summaries it really quick" austro-hungarians became an empire took some land were the majority of people was the ancestors of modern day romanians, oppressed them really bad, they banned orthodox religion (romanians weren't allowed to build stone churches only the ones made from wood) that's why you see allot of wood churches in Maramures county for example, banned romanian names on new borns, forced them to fight in their army, forced them to convert to catholicism, they weren't allowed to enter big cities and if they could they were to pay a tax and the law said romanians weren't allow to walk on the sidewalk just on the road with the horses. Anyway this is not a rant or something like that :D just a piece of history.

[@oopsimovedagain]

You see ! I knew that someone will claim Tesla to be Romanian, and that his Romanian part is the reason why he was a genius, and that Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia and the USA 🇺🇸 have nothing to do with the success of Nikola Tesla 😂😂😂!

[@masterlee005]

@@oopsimovedagain I never said that those countries didn't had an impact to his education and upbringing, i just said his mother who happened to be romanian encouraged him to go on this route at an early age. Btw my wife is half greek and half italian but born and raised in Bucharest, she considers herself to be romanian in first place then the other 2 nationalities, what i'm trying to say is you cant deny your genetic heritage, same thing with Tesla.

[@MihalyKozak]

Man Transilvania was under Hungarian rule for more than 1000 years, the first romanians who have been invite after the mongol invasion of Hungary was recorded in the 13th century together with the sachsons into the Southern parte of Transilvania - Sibiu, Hunedoara, Alba. Ortodox religios was or banned, it never existed in Transylvania until the settling of Romanians did not come to criticat levels - orthodoxy was the state religios of the Moldova or Walahia, never transylvania. Call it oppression, but think about it if France is opperssing the islam , because does not take it to the level of state religion in todays France? Furthermore, after 1863 when Transilvania was left under fully Hungarian administration within the dual monarchy, one of the first acts of the Hungarian government was to recognise orthodoxy and build up its episcopilal system, including schools. Minority education and political rights were garantez, so much so , that the senators of minority origin were free to use their mother tongue for their appeals in the parliament. Sorry to Say, but you are married to romanian that has absolutely no clue about Transilvania’s history nor that of Hungary or AustroHungary as facts are not taught even today about neither the origins of romanians, nor their actual status/ rights along centuries. They are all left to belive the propaganda history invented in the late 19th centuries, with additional fakes on dacoromanian continuity and more of the Ceausescu regime. Time to look around and checkout Lucian boia’s or the recent new editions of Transilvania history that clarify the facts without the political propaganda.There is plenty of Western european historians as well who discuss Transilvania as well, its easy to find the truth once someone seeks it!

[@annaandrea8320]

😂😂😂 Thud is the biggest BS I have ever read.

[@madalinaanton3253]

I just find your assumptions about Romania really tiring, there's no need to repeat over and over again this is communist, let's see if this is communist, let's see if they're clean, let's see if they lie, let's see if they're advanced, let's see if they're poor. It's a weird type of poverty porn that you go into a city stating your assumptions you want to proove and disproove as if Romania is a backwards no man's land that's just there for people to comment on, I've never seen romanians behaving like this in a foreign country they are visiting, it's exausting and it's telling of your intentions of capitalizing on romanian hospitality. By the way, even Vlad the Impaler married into a hungarian family, they were our main christian allies against the ottomans so all these personalities like Iancu de Hunedoara and Matei Corvin are both taught about in Romania and Hungary. You have such a weird way of expressing yourself that is so grating to someone that is no longer 12 years old and watching your videos.

[@oopsimovedagain]

Madalina… there are better things than my videos you could spend your life on. Life is so short to get mad, agree ?! None of this real 😉

[@m.b.5421]

As a romanian, I can't ignore the hanging national flags every 100 m. They don't look nice at all and they make us look nationalist. I hope the administration will take them down as soon as possible. Otherwise, Cluj is a nice city, but still has a lot to improve.

[@razza118]

Glumesti?

[@oopsimovedagain]

That’s true I noticed that too. Why they do that ? Is it a tradition or you think it’s more political ?

[@oanceaioana]

Dude you haven’t been to the US to see how many flags they have 😂😂😂😂😂

[@m.b.5421]

@@oanceaioana I feel better to know this😅

[@dacian_1346]

We don’t usually have them in cluj, maybe it was close to the national day or military day

[@puertoricanpapi1356]

Lmao Cluj is not expensive Bucarest is

[@oopsimovedagain]

I think both are… at least from my experience 😊

[@dacian_1346]

Bucharest is very cheap compared to cluj.

[@ginastanciu8110]

that's why there are hungarians in Romania :)) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Transylvania