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Romanians
Romanians (români), Romance-speaking people of Romania and Moldova; Latin-derived language from Roman Dacia (conquered 106 CE), Orthodox faith, and contested Moldovan identity (76% Moldovan vs 2-3% Romanian, 2004 census).
Romanichal
Romanichal are a Romani subgroup native to the British Isles, especially England, also called Romany Gypsies or English Gypsies; first recorded in Britain in 1505, speaking Angloromani, and legally recognised as a racial group since 1988.
Romanivska Terhromada
Romanivska Terhromada (Романівська територіальна громада), a settlement-type hromada in Zhytomyr raion, Zhytomyr oblast, centered on Romaniv; 51 settlements, 19,301 residents, 718.6 km², distinct from the Romny hromada of Sumy oblast.
Romanization
Romanization converts writing from non-Roman scripts into the Latin (Roman) script by transliteration or transcription. Also called romanisation, it spans UN, ISO, ALA-LC, BGN/PCGN and CLDR systems, differing in reversibility and informal use.
Romanization of Arabic
Romanization of Arabic converts Arabic script into Latin letters via transliteration or transcription. Competing standards include ISO 233, DIN 31635, ALA-LC, and the UN 2017 system; Arabizi is the informal chat alphabet.
Romanization of Greek
Romanization of Greek converts Greek-script text to the Latin alphabet by transliteration or transcription. Main systems: ELOT 743, UN 1987 resolution V/19, ISO 843:1997, BGN/PCGN, and ALA-LC, plus informal Greeklish.
Romanization of Japanese
Romanization of Japanese (ローマ字表記) writes Japanese in the Latin alphabet. Main systems: Hepburn (ヘボン式), Kunrei-shiki, Nihon-shiki. A December 22, 2025 Cabinet Notification replaced the 1954 Kunrei-based rule with a Hepburn-based spelling.
Romanization of Russian
Romanization of Russian converts Cyrillic text to the Latin alphabet. No single official system exists; standards include ISO 9:1995/GOST 7.79-2000 (2002), the UN 1987 system, BGN/PCGN 1947, ALA-LC 1997, passport rules, and informal translit.
Romano Floriani Mussolini
Romano Floriani Mussolini (b. 2003), Italian right-back for Lazio, loaned to Pescara, Juve Stabia and Cremonese; Serie A debutant 2025; great-grandson of Benito Mussolini.
Romano Prodi
Romano Prodi (born 1939) is an Italian economist and center-left politician, twice Prime Minister (1996–1998, 2006–2008) and 10th President of the European Commission (1999–2004), overseeing Italy's euro entry, euro launch, and EU enlargement to 25 members.
Romano Sgheiz
Romano Sgheiz (born 28 June 1937, Colico) is an Italian rower of Canottieri Moto Guzzi who won coxed-four gold at Melbourne 1956, bronze at Rome 1960, and competed through 1968.
Romano-British Bath House
Romano-British bath house: hypocaust-heated Roman bathing building in Britain (AD 43 to early 5th century), with frigidarium, tepidarium, caldarium sequence; examples at Chesters, Wroxeter, Jewry Wall, Ravenglass.
Romano-British settlement
Romano-British settlement: rural and semi-urban sites of Roman Britain (AD 43-410), including enclosed farmsteads, villas, roadside settlements, and small towns; most numerous type was the ditched farmstead, with villas and towns abandoned after Rome but lowland rural land use largely continuing.
Romano-British villa 250m south of Park Farm
Romano-British villa 250m south of Park Farm (Snettisham Roman villa) is a scheduled monument (NHLE 1020860) in Norfolk with 3rd-4th century occupation and rare evidence of extensive Roman iron working, confirmed by 1931 excavation and a 1995 geophysical survey.
Romano-Carthaginian treaties
The Romano-Carthaginian treaties, also called the Carthage–Rome treaties, are agreements between Rome and Carthage concluded in 509/8, 348, and 279 BC, chiefly regulating trade and recorded by Polybius.
Romano–Ward syndrome
Romano–Ward syndrome is the most common, autosomal dominant form of congenital long QT syndrome, in which the heart recharges slowly between beats, risking fainting and sudden death without deafness.
Romanov impostors
Romanov impostors were roughly 200 people who claimed after the 1918 execution of Nicholas II's family to be surviving Romanovs, chiefly Anna Anderson as Anastasia, exposed by DNA as Franziska Schanzkowska.
Romansh language
Romansh (rumantsch), Switzerland's fourth national language since 1938, is a Romance language of Graubünden with five idioms and the 1982 standard Rumantsch Grischun; semi-official federally, about 40,000 main-language speakers.
Romantic (film)
Romantic (రొమాంటిక్) is a 2021 Telugu action romance set in the Goa drug underworld, directed by Anil Paduri, written by Puri Jagannadh, starring Akash Puri and Ketika Sharma, released October 29, 2021.
Romantic art
Romantic art, the visual branch of Romanticism (le romantisme), arose in late-18th-century Germany against Neoclassicism and Enlightenment rationalism, exalting emotion, imagination, the sublime in nature, and the individual artist, with Delacroix, Géricault, Turner, Constable, and Friedrich as leading painters.
Romantic comedy
Romantic comedy (rom-com): comedic film or TV genre centered on a love story moving toward a positive resolution. From Shakespeare and 1930s screwball to Crazy Rich Asians, the streaming-era decline, and the 2025-2026 scripted-romance resurgence.
Romantic drama
Romantic drama is the dramatic literature of the Romantic movement that replaced classicist tragedy on European stages, abandoning the unities for mixed styles, historical subjects, and heroes rebelling against society.
Romantic fantasy
Romantic fantasy, or romantasy, is a fiction genre blending fantasy worlds with a central love story that drives the plot. Key titles include Emma Bull's War for the Oaks (1987), Maas's ACOTAR, and Yarros's Fourth Wing; the genre generated an estimated $610 million in 2024.
Romantic friendship
Romantic friendship: historically documented same-sex bonds, passionate, intense, and sometimes sexual, common in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and America; related to the Boston marriage and debated against lesbian identity categories.
Romantic Killer
Romantic Killer (ロマンティック・キラー), Wataru Momose's four-volume Shonen Jump+ romantic-comedy manga, follows Anzu Hoshino resisting the wizard Riri's forced romance; adapted as a 12-episode Netflix anime premiering October 27, 2022.
Romantic literature
Romantic literature: writing of European Romanticism, c. 1785–1848, rejecting neoclassical restraint for emotion and imagination; founded in England by Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads (1798), in Germany by Sturm und Drang and Goethe's Werther.
Romantic literature in English
Romantic literature in English: British writing c.1780–1830, launched by Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads (1798), centered on the Big Six poets, feeling, nature, and imagination, alongside Austen, Scott, and Shelley's fiction.
Romantic love (mental state)
Romantic love, also called passionate love, is a mental state of intense longing for union with a preferred partner. It is near-universal, dopamine-driven, measured by the Passionate Love Scale, and contrasts with calmer companionate love.
Romantic music
Romantic music: nineteenth-century Western classical music (c. 1820-1910), also called the Romantic period, defined by expressive emotion, program music, larger orchestras, expanded chromatic harmony, public concerts, parlor music, and nationalist opera.
Romantic nationalism
Romantic nationalism, also called organic nationalism, exalts the nation as inspiration for art and uses that art to awaken political awareness, shaping Europe between 1800 and 1850.