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Caloian, the Glossary

Caloian (also Calian(i), Caloiță, Scaloian, Gherman, or Iene) was a rainmaking and fertility rite in Romania, similar in some ways to Dodola.^[1]

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Children's poetry
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Sculptures in Moldova
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Adevărul

(meaning "The Truth", formerly spelled Adevĕrul) is a Romanian daily newspaper, based in Bucharest.

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Adonis

In Greek mythology, Adonis was the mortal lover of the goddesses Aphrodite and Persephone.

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Alexandru Rosetti

Alexandru Rosetti (October 20, 1895 – February 27, 1990) was a Romanian linguist, editor, and memoirist.

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Alms

Alms are money, food, or other material goods donated to people living in poverty.

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Ancient Greek folklore

Ancient Greek folklore includes genres such as mythology (Greek mythology), legend, and folktales.

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The ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia (modern Iraq, southeast Turkey, southwest Iran, and northeastern Syria), ancient Egypt, ancient Persia (Elam, Media, Parthia, and Persis), Anatolia and the Armenian highlands (Turkey's Eastern Anatolia Region, Armenia, northwestern Iran, southern Georgia, and western Azerbaijan), the Levant (modern Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus) and the Arabian Peninsula.

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Arctium

Arctium is a genus of biennial plants commonly known as burdock, family Asteraceae.

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Argei

The rituals of the Argei were archaic religious observances in ancient Rome that took place on March 16 and March 17, and again on May 14 or May 15.

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Attis

Attis (Ἄττις, also Ἄτυς, Ἄττυς, Ἄττης) was the consort of Cybele, in Phrygian and Greek mythology.

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Baldr

Baldr (Old Norse also Balder, Baldur) is a god in Germanic mythology.

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Barley

Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally.

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Bartolomeu Anania

Bartolomeu Anania (born Valeriu Anania; March 18, 1921 – January 31, 2011) was a Romanian Orthodox bishop, translator, writer, and poet.

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Basil

Basil (Ocimum basilicum), also called great basil, is a culinary herb of the family Lamiaceae (mints).

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Bessarabia

Bessarabia is a historical region in Eastern Europe, bounded by the Dniester river on the east and the Prut river on the west.

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Brăila County

Brăila County is a county (județ) of Romania, in Muntenia, with the capital city at Brăila.

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Broscăuți

Broscăuți is a commune in Botoșani County, Western Moldavia, Romania.

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Bucharest

Bucharest (București) is the capital and largest city of Romania.

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Bukovina

BukovinaBukowina or Buchenland; Bukovina; Bukowina; Bucovina; Bukovyna; see also other languages.

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Bulgarian customs

The main Bulgarian celebration events are.

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Buzău County

Buzău County is a county (județ) of Romania, in the historical region Muntenia, with the capital city at Buzău.

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Capra (goat dance)

Capra is the name of a traditional Romanian dance, performed around New Year.

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Catholic Church in Romania

Romanian Catholics, like Catholics elsewhere, are members of the Catholic Church under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and Curia in Rome.

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Călușari

The Călușari (Călușarii,; Калушари or Русалии; Русалии, singular: Călușar) are the members of a fraternal secret society who practice a ritual acrobatic dance known as the căluș. Caloian and Călușari are Moldovan traditions.

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Childlore

Childlore is the folklore or folk culture of children and young people.

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Church Slavonic in Romania

Church Slavonic was the main language used for administrative (until the 16th century) and liturgical purposes (until the 17th century) by the Romanian principalities, being still occasionally used in the Orthodox Church until the early 18th century.

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Clay oven

The primitive clay oven, or earthen oven / cob oven, has been used since ancient times by diverse cultures and societies, primarily for, but not exclusive to, baking before the invention of cast-iron stoves, and gas and electric ovens.

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Colindă

A colindă (pl. colinde; also colind, pl. colinduri) is a traditional Christmas carol in Romania and the Republic of Moldova. Caloian and colindă are Moldovan traditions.

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Concești

Concești is a commune in Botoșani County, Western Moldavia, Romania.

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Csángós

The Csángós (Csángók; Ceangăi) are ethnic Hungarians of Roman Catholic faith living mostly in the Romanian region of Moldavia, especially in Bacău County.

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Dacians

The Dacians (Daci; loc Δάοι, Δάκαι) were the ancient Indo-European inhabitants of the cultural region of Dacia, located in the area near the Carpathian Mountains and west of the Black Sea.

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Danube

The Danube (see also other names) is the second-longest river in Europe, after the Volga in Russia.

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Dodola and Perperuna

Dodola (also spelled Dodole, Dudola, Dudula, Diva-Dodola etc.) and Perperuna (also spelled Peperuda, Preperuda, Preperuša, Prporuša, Papaluga, Peperuna etc.), are ancient Slavic rainmaking pagan customs practiced until the 20th century. Caloian and Dodola and Perperuna are Moldovan traditions, rainmaking (ritual) and Romanian traditions.

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Dough

Dough is a thick, malleable, sometimes elastic paste made from grains or from leguminous or chestnut crops.

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Drought

A drought is a period of drier-than-normal conditions.

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Dumuzid

Dumuzid or Dumuzi or Tammuz (𒌉𒍣|Dumuzid; italic; Tammūz), known to the Sumerians as Dumuzid the Shepherd (𒌉𒍣𒉺𒇻|Dumuzid sipad) and to the Canaanites as '''Adon''' (Proto-Hebrew: 𐤀𐤃𐤍), is an ancient Mesopotamian and Levantine deity associated with agriculture and shepherds, who was also the first and primary consort of the goddess Inanna (later known as Ishtar).

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Dying-and-rising god

A dying-and-rising god, life–death–rebirth deity, or resurrection deity is a religious motif in which a god or goddess dies and is resurrected. Caloian and dying-and-rising god are life-death-rebirth deities.

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Easter

Easter, also called Pascha (Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary.

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Easter egg

Easter eggs, also called Paschal eggs, are eggs that are decorated for the Christian holiday of Easter, which celebrates the resurrection of Jesus.

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Effigy

An effigy is a sculptural representation, often life-size, of a specific person or a prototypical figure.

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Feast of the Ascension

The Feast of the Ascension of Jesus Christ (also called the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, Ascension Day, Ascension Thursday, or sometimes Holy Thursday) commemorates the Christian belief of the bodily Ascension of Jesus into Heaven.

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Ferești

Ferești is a commune in Vaslui County, Western Moldavia, Romania.

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Fertility rite

Fertility rites or fertility cult are religious rituals that are intended to stimulate reproduction in humans or in the natural world.

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Fetească neagră

Fetească Neagră; Black Maiden) is an old pre-phylloxeric variety of Romanian grape, cultivated mainly in several areas in the Romanian regions of Moldavia, Muntenia, Oltenia, Banat, Northern Dobruja and also in the Republic of Moldova. These grapes produce dry, demi-dry or sweet wines, with an alcohol content of 12-14%, a deep red colour with ruby shades, and a black currant flavour, which becomes richer and smoother with aging.

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Focuri

Focuri is a commune in Iași County, Western Moldavia, Romania.

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Folklore of Romania

The folklore of Romania is the collection of traditions of the Romanians.

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Gagauz people

The Gagauz (Gagauzlar) are a Turkic ethnic group native to southern Moldova (Gagauzia, Taraclia District, Basarabeasca District) and southwestern Ukraine (Budjak). Gagauz are mostly Eastern Orthodox Christians. The term Gagauz is also often used as a collective naming of Turkic people living in the Balkans, speaking the Gagauz language, a language separated from Balkan Gagauz Turkish.

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Gagauzia

Gagauzia or Gagauz-Yeri, officially the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia (ATUG), is an autonomous territorial unit of Moldova.

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George Giuglea

George Giuglea (January 29, 1884 – April 7, 1967) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian linguist and philologist.

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George's Day in Spring

George's Day in Spring, or Saint George's Day (Đurđevdan,; Gergyovden; Ǵurǵovden; Yegoriy Veshniy, or George's Day in Spring), is a Slavic religious holiday, the feast of Saint George celebrated on 23 April by the Julian calendar (6 May by the Gregorian calendar).

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German (mythology)

German (GER-man) is a South Slavic mythological being, recorded in the folklore of eastern Serbia and northern Bulgaria. Caloian and German (mythology) are Romanian traditions.

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Greek name

In the modern world, Greek names are the personal names among people of Greek language and culture, generally consisting of a given name and a family name.

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Grivița, Galați

Grivița is a commune in Galați County, Western Moldavia, Romania with a population of 3,665 people.

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Havârna

Havârna is a commune in Botoșani County, Western Moldavia, Romania.

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Heleșteni

Heleșteni is a commune in Iași County, Western Moldavia, Romania.

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Homeopathy

Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine.

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Hora (dance)

Hora, also known as horo and oro, is a type of circle dance originating in Aromanian and Romanian communities, especially in Romania and Moldova.

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Horodniceni

Horodniceni is a commune located in Suceava County, Romania.

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Human sacrifice

Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more humans as part of a ritual, which is usually intended to please or appease gods, a human ruler, public or jurisdictional demands for justice by capital punishment, an authoritative/priestly figure or spirits of dead ancestors or as a retainer sacrifice, wherein a monarch's servants are killed in order for them to continue to serve their master in the next life.

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Iași County

Iași County is a county (județ) of Romania, in Western Moldavia, with the administrative seat at Iași.

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Ialomița County

Ialomița County is a county (județ) of Romania, in Muntenia, with the capital city at Slobozia.

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Informant (linguistics)

An informant or consultant in linguistics is a native speaker or member of a community who acts as a linguistic reference for a language or speech community being studied.

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Io (princely title)

Io (Church Slavonic: Ιω, Їѡ and Иѡ, also Iωан and Iωнь; Romanian Cyrillic: Iѡ; Ίω) is the contraction of a title used mainly by the royalty (hospodars or voivodes) in Moldavia and Wallachia, preceding their names and the complete list of titles.

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John the Baptist

John the Baptist (–) was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early 1st century AD.

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Kaloyan of Bulgaria

Kaloyan or Kalojan, also known as Ivan I, Ioannitsa or Johannitsa (Калоян, Йоаница; 1170 – October 1207), the Romanslayer, was emperor or tsar of Bulgaria from 1196 to 1207.

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Khorugv

Khorugv (хоругвь, хоругва, хорѫгꙑ, хоругва, chorągiew, prapur, kirkkolippu, sometimes translated as gonfalon) is a religious banner used liturgically in the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches.

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Lăutari

The Romanian word lăutar (plural: lăutari) denotes a class of musicians.

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Leordina

Leordina (Lerdine) is a commune in Maramureș County, Maramureș, Romania.

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Leu, Dolj

Leu is a commune in Dolj County, Oltenia, Romania with a population of 5,468 people.

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List of Bulgarian monarchs

The monarchs of Bulgaria ruled Bulgaria during the medieval First (680–1018) and Second (1185–1422) Bulgarian empires, as well as during the modern Principality (1879–1908) and Kingdom (1908–1946) of Bulgaria.

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Litany

Litany, in Christian worship and some forms of Jewish worship, is a form of prayer used in services and processions, and consisting of a number of petitions.

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Luceafărul (magazine)

Luceafărul ("Lucifer") was a Romanian-language literary and cultural magazine that appeared in three series: 1902-1914 and 1919-1920; 1934-1939; and 1941-1945.

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Lungani

Lungani is a commune in Iași County, Western Moldavia, Romania.

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Maramureș County

Maramureș County is a county (județ) in Romania, in the Maramureș region.

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Marcu Beza

Marcu Beza (June 30, 1882 in Kleisoura, Ottoman Empire – May 6, 1949 in Bucharest, Romania) was a Romanian poet, writer, essayist, literary critique, publicist, folklorist, and diplomat of Aromanian origin.

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Măcin

Măcin is a town in Tulcea County, in the Northern Dobruja region of Romania.

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Merlot

Merlot is a dark blue–colored wine grape variety that is used as both a blending grape and for varietal wines.

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Miorița

"Miorița" (ad. mioriță, lit. 'The Little Ewe Lamb'), also transliterated as "Mioritza", is an old Romanian pastoral ballad considered to be one of the most important pieces of Romanian folklore. Caloian and miorița are Romanian folk poetry and Romanian mythology.

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Moldavian dialect

The Moldavian dialect is one of several dialects of the Romanian language (Daco-Romanian).

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Moldova

Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova (Republica Moldova), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, on the northeastern corner of the Balkans.

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Morana (goddess)

Marzanna (in Polish), Morė (in Lithuanian), Marena (in Russian), Mara (in Ukrainian), Morana (in Czech, Slovene and Serbo-Croatian), Morena (in Slovak and Macedonian) or Mora (in Bulgarian) is a pagan Slavic goddess associated with seasonal rites based on the idea of death and rebirth of nature.

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Muntenia

Muntenia (also known in English as Greater Wallachia) is a historical region of Romania, part of Wallachia (also, sometimes considered Wallachia proper, as Muntenia, Țara Românească, and the seldom used Valahia are synonyms in Romanian).

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Mythopoeia

Mythopoeia (μυθοποιία||myth-making), or mythopoesis, is a narrative genre in modern literature and film where an artificial or fictionalized mythology is created by the writer of prose, poetry, or other literary forms.

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New Year's Eve

In the Gregorian calendar, New Year's Eve, also known as Old Year's Day, is the evening or the entire day of the last day of the year, 31 December.

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Nicolae Bălcescu, Călărași

Nicolae Bălcescu is a commune in Călărași County, Muntenia, Romania.

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Niculițel

Niculițel is a commune in Tulcea County, Northern Dobruja, Romania.

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Northern Dobruja

Northern Dobruja (Dobrogea de Nord or simply Dobrogea; Северна Добруджа, Severna Dobrudzha) is the part of Dobruja within the borders of Romania.

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Oituz

Oituz (formerly Grozești; Gorzafalva) is a commune in Bacău County, Western Moldavia, Romania.

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Oltenia

Oltenia (also called Lesser Wallachia in antiquated versions, with the alternative Latin names Wallachia Minor, Wallachia Alutana, Wallachia Caesarea between 1718 and 1739) is a historical province and geographical region of Romania in western Wallachia.

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Omek Tannou

Omek tannou, Ommk tangou or Amuk taniqu is an ancient Tunisian rainmaking ritual which was inherited from Punic and Berber traditions involving invocations of the goddess Tanit. Caloian and Omek Tannou are rainmaking (ritual).

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Paleo-Balkan mythology

Paleo-Balkan mythology is the group of religious beliefs held by Paleo-Balkan-speaking peoples in ancient times, including Illyrian, Thracian and Dacian mythologies.

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Pericle Papahagi

Pericle Papahagi (1872 – January 20, 1943) was an Aromanian literary historian and folklorist.

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Petasites

Petasites is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family, Asteraceae, that are commonly referred to as butterburs and coltsfoots.

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Plantago

Plantago is a genus of about 200 species of flowering plants in the family Plantaginaceae, commonly called plantains or fleaworts.

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Ploiești

Ploiești, formerly spelled Ploești, is a city and county seat in Prahova County, Romania.

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Potlogi

Potlogi is a commune in Dâmbovița County, Muntenia, Romania with a population of 8,981 people.

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Professional mourning

Professional mourning or paid mourning is an occupation that originates from Egyptian, Chinese, Mediterranean and Near Eastern cultures.

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Rain and snow mixed

Rain and snow mixed (American English) or sleet (Commonwealth English) is precipitation composed of a mixture of rain and partially melted snow.

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Rainmaking (ritual)

Rainmaking is a weather modification ritual that attempts to invoke rain.

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Reformation

The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.

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Roman Dacia

Roman Dacia (also known as; or Dacia Felix) was a province of the Roman Empire from 106 to 271–275 AD.

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Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.

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Romania in the Middle Ages

The Middle Ages in Romania began shortly after the withdrawal of the Roman legions from the former Roman province of Dacia in the late 3rd century and with the start of the Early Middle Ages and the Migration Period that followed afterwards respectively.

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Romanian Academy

The Romanian Academy (Academia Română) is a cultural forum founded in Bucharest, Romania, in 1866.

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Romanian calendar

The Romanian calendar is the Gregorian, adopted in 1919.

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Romanian literature

Romanian literature is the entirety of literature written by Romanian authors, although the term may also be used to refer to all literature written in the Romanian language or by any authors native to Romania.

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Romanian Orthodox Church

The Romanian Orthodox Church (ROC; Biserica Ortodoxă Română, BOR), or Patriarchate of Romania, is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church in full communion with other Eastern Orthodox Christian churches, and one of the nine patriarchates in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

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Romanian wine

Romania is one of the world's largest wine producers and fifth-largest among European wine-producing countries, after Italy, France, Spain, and Germany.

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Romanians in Hungary

The Romanians in Hungary (Românii din Ungaria, Magyarországi románok) constituted a small minority.

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Rosé

A rosé is a type of wine that incorporates some of the color from the grape skins, but not enough to qualify it as a red wine.

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Sambucus ebulus

Sambucus ebulus, also known as danewort, dane weed, danesblood, dwarf elder or European dwarf elder, walewort,Westwood, Jennifer (1985).

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Santa Mare

Santa Mare is a commune in Botoșani County, Western Moldavia, Romania.

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Scythia Minor (Dobruja)

The Scythian kingdom on the lower Danube (Ancient Greek: Μικρα Σκυθια, romanized:; Latin: Scythia Minor) was a kingdom created by the Scythians during the 3rd century BCE in the western Eurasian Steppe.

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Second Bulgarian Empire

The Second Bulgarian Empire was a medieval Bulgarian state that existed between 1185 and 1396.

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Second Sunday of Easter

The Second Sunday of Easter is the eighth day of the Christian season of Eastertide, and the seventh after Easter Sunday.

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Shapsugs

The Shapsug (шапсыгъ, шапсуги, Şapsığlar, الشابسوغ, שפסוגים) (also known as the Shapsugh or Shapsogh) are one of the twelve major Circassian tribes.

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Slavic paganism

Slavic paganism, Slavic mythology, or Slavic religion is the religious beliefs, myths, and ritual practices of the Slavs before Christianisation, which occurred at various stages between the 8th and the 13th century.

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Suharău

Suharău is a commune in Botoșani County, Western Moldavia, Romania.

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Teodor Burada

Teodor T. Burada (3 October 1839 – 17 February 1923) was a Romanian folklorist, ethnographer and musicologist and member of the Romanian Academy (elected in 1878, the first musician to achieve this position).

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Thracians

The Thracians (translit; Thraci) were an Indo-European speaking people who inhabited large parts of Southeast Europe in ancient history.

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Transylvania

Transylvania (Transilvania or Ardeal; Erdély; Siebenbürgen or Transsilvanien, historically Überwald, also Siweberjen in the Transylvanian Saxon dialect) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania.

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Trifești, Iași

Trifești is a commune in Iași County, Western Moldavia, Romania.

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Tudor Vladimirescu, Galați

Tudor Vladimirescu is a commune in Galați County, Western Moldavia, Romania with a population of 4,612 people.

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Tulcea County

Tulcea County is a county (județ) of Romania, in the historical region Dobruja, with the capital city at Tulcea.

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Vasile Bogrea

Vasile Bogrea (October 8, 1881–September 8, 1926) was a Romanian philologist and linguist.

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Vatra (Romanian magazine)

The Vatra literary magazine was founded in 1885 by Ion Luca Caragiale, George Coşbuc and Ioan Slavici and was published in Romanian in the city of Târgu Mureş, Transylvania, Austria-Hungary (now in Romania).

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Viața Românească

Viața Românească ("The Romanian Life") is a monthly literary magazine published in Romania.

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Victor Eftimiu

Victor Eftimiu (24 January 1889 – 27 November 1972) was a Romanian poet and playwright.

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Viziru

Viziru is a commune located in the central part of Brăila County, Muntenia, Romania.

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Vlachs

Vlach, also Wallachian (and many other variants), is a term and exonym used from the Middle Ages until the Modern Era to designate speakers of Eastern Romance languages living in Southeast Europe—south of the Danube (the Balkan peninsula) and north of the Danube.

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Vorona, Botoșani

Vorona is a commune in Botoșani County, Western Moldavia, Romania.

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Vulcănești

Vulcănești (Valkaneş) is a town in Gagauzia, Moldova.

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Wallachian dialect

The Wallachian dialect (//) is one of the several dialects of the Romanian language (Daco-Romanian).

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Wayside crosses in Romania

Wayside crosses in Romania are a cultural and religious phenomenon. Caloian and Wayside crosses in Romania are Romanian mythology.

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Western Moldavia

Western Moldavia (Moldova Occidentală, Moldova de Apus, Moldova de Vest), also called Romanian Moldavia, or simply just Moldova is the core historic and geographical part of the former Principality of Moldavia situated in eastern and north-eastern Romania. Until its union with Wallachia in 1859, the Principality of Moldavia also included, at various times in its history, the regions of Bessarabia (with the Budjak), all of Bukovina, and Hertsa; the larger part of the former is nowadays the independent state of Moldova, while the rest of it, the northern part of Bukovina, and Hertsa form territories of Ukraine.

See Caloian and Western Moldavia

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caloian

Also known as Caliani, Caloianul, Caloieni, Caloiță, Iene, Scaloian, Scaloianul, Scaloieni.

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Caloian, the Glossary

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See also

Children's poetry

Clay

Easter traditions

Fertility deities

Life-death-rebirth deities

Moldovan traditions

Rainmaking (ritual)

Romanian folk poetry

Romanian mythology