What is the history of Romania?
Romania, country of southeastern Europe. … Romania was occupied by Soviet troops in 1944 and became a satellite of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) in 1948. The country was under communist rule from 1948 until 1989, when the regime of Romanian leader Nicolae CeauČ™escu was overthrown. What was Romania originally called? In English,…