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A short list of misconceptions related to Romania:

Wrong	Right
Romania is located in east of the Europe	Romania is located in the center of Europe, if we consider the geographical limits of Europe, from Atlantic Ocean to the Ural mountains
the capital of Romania is Budapest	the real capital is Bucharest (in romanian Bucuresti)
the name of Romania comes from Rroms (gipsies)	the name of Romania comes from Rome, the capital of Italy and of the ancient Roman Emporium
Transylvania is a territorial part of Hungary	Transylvania is part of Romania from 1918, with an interruption between 1940-1944; Transylvania was part of Hungary between 1866-1918
to be continued ...

Some interesting maps of Romania and the so called Eastern Europe, offered by CIA and Library of Congress!!! To see the maps, right click on a link and choose 'Save Link As...' to download it.

Political map of Eastern Europe (1993) 148KB
Ethnical map of Eastern Europe (1995) 173KB
Ethnic groups in Eastern Europe (1993) 169KB
Balkan countries 123KB
Political map of Romania (1996) 341KB
Political map of Romania (1996) 630KB
Geographical map of Romania (1982) 319KB
Small map of Romania (1997) 51KB

Some useful links about Romania, Transilvania and Cluj-Napoca (my city), also some links related to Transilvania from Hungarian sources :

Academy of Economic Studies

All Romania

Cybershop

Diaspora Romana

Discover Romania

ENGLISH - ROMANIAN DICTIONARY

Eunet

Friends and Partners Romania

Imago

Institute for Computing Technology (ITC)