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Romancero nacional
Romancero nacional is an 1885 book of ballad-form narrative poems by Mexican poet Guillermo Prieto retelling the events and heroes of Mexico's war of independence.
Romances
Romances (传奇, Chuanqi) is a 1944 short story collection by the Chinese writer Eileen Chang, first published in Shanghai and the book that established her fame.
Romances de los señores de la Nueva España
Romances de los señores de la Nueva España is a sixteenth-century manuscript collection of Nahuatl songs compiled around 1582, preserving lyric poetry attributed to Nahua lords like Nezahualcóyotl.
Romances sans paroles
Romances sans paroles (Romances without words) is an 1874 collection of 21 poems by the French poet Paul Verlaine, written during his liaison with Arthur Rimbaud.
Romancham (റോമാഞ്ചം)
Romancham (റോമാഞ്ചം), also listed as Goosebumps, is a 2023 Malayalam horror-comedy directed by debutant Jithu Madhavan, based on his 2007 Bengaluru Ouija-board experience, starring Soubin Shahir, grossing over ₹50 crore.
Romancing in Thin Air (高海拔之恋II)
Romancing in Thin Air (高海拔之恋II) is a 2012 Hong Kong-Chinese romantic comedy-drama directed by Johnnie To, starring Louis Koo and Sammi Cheng, set in the mountains of Yunnan.
Romancing Mister Bridgerton
Romancing Mister Bridgerton is Julia Quinn's 2002 fourth Bridgerton novel, pairing Colin Bridgerton with Penelope Featherington in a friends-to-lovers Regency romance that reveals Penelope as Lady Whistledown and inspired Netflix's Bridgerton season 3.
Romancing SaGa
Romancing SaGa (ロマンシング サガ) is Square Enix's Super Famicom RPG trilogy (1992, 1993, 1995) by Akitoshi Kawazu, known for free scenario non-linear play, glimmer skill learning, and about 4 million copies sold, later remade as Minstrel Song, Revenge of the Seven, and Destinies United.
Romancing the Stone
Romancing the Stone is a 1984 romantic adventure comedy directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Diane Thomas, starring and produced by Michael Douglas with Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito; a $10 million Fox release that grossed about $80 million and won two Golden Globes.
Romand literature
Romand literature is the French-language literature of Suisse romande, French-speaking Switzerland, a field whose existence is debated and whose central figures include Rousseau, Benjamin Constant, and Ramuz.
Romanda Hombir
Romanda Hombir, South African clinical audiologist from Mpumalanga, Miss World South Africa 2026; finished Top 6 at Miss World 2026 in Vietnam and was crowned Miss World Africa 2026, South Africa's best placement since 2014 or 2017.
Romandy
Romandy (Suisse romande, Romandie) is the French-speaking western region of Switzerland, about 23% of the population, covering Geneva, Vaud, Neuchâtel, Jura and bilingual cantons, with a stable language border and Franco-Provençal heritage.
Romane Dicko
Romane Dicko, French judoka born 1999 in Clamart, +78 kg heavyweight with PSG Judo. Double Olympic mixed-team champion (Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024), individual bronze both Games, world champion 2022, five-time European champion.
Romanée-Conti
Romanée-Conti: 1.81-hectare Grand Cru monopole in Vosne-Romanée, Burgundy, planted with Pinot Noir, owned by Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC), producing about 6,000 bottles yearly and holding the wine auction record.
Romanesco broccoli
Romanesco broccoli, also called Roman cauliflower, is an Italian Brassica oleracea cultivar from around Rome, noted since the 1500s, with light green cone-shaped florets in logarithmic Fibonacci spirals forming a four-scale fractal pattern, tasting mild and nutty like cauliflower.
Romanesque architecture
Romanesque architecture is the style of building that prevailed in western Europe from the late 10th to the 12th century, characterized by round arches and thick walls.
Romanesque art
Romanesque art: western European art and architecture of the 10th to 12th centuries, also called Norman in Britain; round arches, thick walls, barrel vaults, revived monumental sculpture, tympanums, pilgrimage churches, and monastic patronage before Gothic.
Romanesque sculpture
Romanesque sculpture is the figurative stone, wood, and metal carving produced in western Europe in the 11th and 12th centuries, when monumental sculpture revived for church facades, doorways, and capitals, especially in France, Spain, and Italy.
Romani Americans
Romani Americans, also called American Roma or American Gypsies, are US residents of Romani descent from groups such as the Vlax Kalderasha, Machwaya, and Romanichal; present since 1498, numbering roughly one million by Hancock's estimate, largely invisible to the census.
Romani language
Romani (Romanes, romani ćhib) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Roma, originating in northern India and spread across Europe as many contact-shaped dialects, with no single standard and growing use in education and assessment.
Romani people
Romani people: an ethnic minority of Indian origin, largest in Europe (up to 10 million), speaking Romani, with subgroups Roma, Sinti, Kale; history of slavery, Nazi genocide, and ongoing antigypsyism.
Romani people in Romania
The Romani people in Romania, also called Romanian Roma, form the country's largest recognized national minority; the 2021 census counted 569,477, with real numbers estimated two to three times higher.
Romania
Romania: southeastern European semi-presidential republic, 19 million people, 238,398 km², EU (2007), NATO (2004), Schengen fully from 2025; Carpathian-Danubian state with €353.8 billion GDP, large diaspora, and 2024-2025 electoral crisis.
Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026
Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026: TVR returned after missing 2024 and 2025; Selecția Națională on 4 March 2026 chose Alexandra Căpitănescu's "Choke Me" by jury vote (82 points); she qualified second in semi-final two and finished third in the Vienna Grand Final with 296 points, Romania's record total.
Romania in World War I
Romania in World War I covers the Kingdom of Romania's participation from 1916 to 1918, fighting for the Entente against Austria-Hungary, then rejoining the Allies in November 1918.
Romania in World War II
Romania in World War II: Kingdom of Romania as third-largest European Axis power 1941–44, Ploiești oil supplier, perpetrator in Transnistria, then King Michael's August 1944 switch to the Allies and Soviet-dominated postwar fate.
România literară
România literară is a weekly literary magazine in Bucharest under the Writers' Union of Romania, dedicated to criticism, literary history, and new book reviews since 1968.
Romania national football team
Romania national football team (Echipa națională de fotbal a României), men's side of the Romanian Football Federation. Debuted 1922 vs Yugoslavia; 7 World Cups, best quarter-finals 1994; Hagi and Mutu 35 goals each; last World Cup 1998, last Euro 2016.
Romania's entry into World War I
Romania's entry into World War I came on 27 August 1916, when the Kingdom of Romania abandoned neutrality and declared war on Austria-Hungary as an Entente ally.
Romanian Academy
The Romanian Academy (Academia Română) is Romania's highest national body for science and culture, founded in Bucharest in 1866; it elects scholars and awards 75 prizes annually.