RUMANIA 



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RUMP PARLIAMENT 



Outline and Questions 

 on Rumania 



I. Position 



(1) Latitude 



(2) Longitude 



(3) Bound.; 



(4) Importance of position 



(a) Helatimi to Russia and Aus- 



tria-Hungary 



(b) approach to Balkan 

 peninsula 



(c) Contains mouth of Danube 



II. SUe 



(1) Actual, f, ;',,-! S3 square miles 



(2) Compar 



(3) Population 



(4) Addition of the Dobrudja 



III. Country and ItM People 



(1) Physical features 



(a) Carpathian Mountains 



(b) Danube plain 

 (_') Extremes of climate 



(3) Rainfall 



( 4 ) The people 



I laces 



(b) Language 



(c) Education 



(d) Religion 



IV. Resources and Industries 



(1) Agriculture 



(a) Methods 



(b) Chief crops 



(c) "We want land" 



(2) Forests 



( 3 ) Minerals 



(a) Oil 



(b) Other products 



(4) Commerce and transportation 



V. Government and History 



(1) Constitutional hereditary mon- 



archy 



( 2 ) Legislative branch 

 ( 3 ) Early history 



(4) Independence achieved 



(5) Balkan Wars 



(6) War of the Nations 



Questions 



Why has the capital of this country 

 l>een called "Little Paris" (see Bucha- 

 rest ) ? 



Give three ways in which the geo- 

 graphic position of Rumania makes it 

 of importance. 



What is the Dobrudja, and when did 

 it come into the possession of this coun- 

 try? 



What state of the American Union 

 does Rumania most closely resemble in 

 si/.r? 



Js it more or less densely populated 

 than is that state? 



Is the state which it most closely re- 

 sembles in number of inhabitants larger 

 <>r smaller than the country? 



What poem has become the rallying 

 song of the Rumanian peasants? 



How many countries produce more 

 corn than does Rumania? How do 

 these countries which surpass it in pro- 

 duction compare with it in size? 



For what are plums chiefly used in 

 Rumania? 



By what name was this territory 

 known to the Romans? What part did 

 it play in Roman history? 



What part did it play in the War of 

 the Nations? 



at the peace conference. In the summer of 1919 

 a Rumanian army occupied Budapest, Hungary. 

 See HUNGARY. O.B. 



Consult Kirke's Domestic Life in Rumania; 

 Miller's The Balkans, in Story of the Nations 

 Series. 



Related Subject**. The reader of this article 

 on Rumania is referred to the following topics 

 in these volumes : 

 Balkan Wars Danube 



Bucharest Greek Church 



Carpathian Mountains Russo-Turkish War 

 Corn W a r of the Nations 



RUMELIA, roo me' Ha, a name formerly 

 given to that part of the Balkan Peninsula, 

 which was under the rule of the Turkish Em- 

 pire. 



RUMINANTS, roo'minants, the name ap- 

 plied to grazing animals which chew the cud, 

 and which are further characterized by their 

 split hoofs. They include camels, llamas, deer, 

 sheep, goats, giraffes, pronghorns, antelopes, 



,-f 



CROSS SECTION OF STOMACH 

 (a) Oesophagus; (b) psalterium ; (c) duode- 

 num; (rf) abomasum; (e) reticulum ; (/) ru- 

 men, or first stomach. 



cattle; that is, nearly all the mammals of 

 greatest economical importance. With the ex- 

 ception of the camel they have no incisor, or 

 cutting, teeth in the upper jaw, the place being 

 occupied by a callous gum, against which the 

 lower incisors bite. The mouthful of grass is 

 mixed with saliva and swallowed into the 

 paunch. Later, when the animal is resting, the 

 mass of food is propelled upward into the 

 mouth by a muscular action similar to vomit- 

 ing, and the food is slowly masticated by a kind 

 of rotary motion of the jaws, called "chewing 

 the cud." The cud is swallowed again and 

 passes at once into the second cavity, called the 

 honeycomb bag, a name referring to the cells 

 which form its lining, and which are like those 

 of a honeycomb. The food is then assimilated. 

 The ruminants are a division of that group of 

 the animal kingdom known as ungulates (which 

 see). 



RUMP PARLIAMENT, pahr'liment, in Eng- 

 lish history, the name given to the remnant of 



