Limba noastră
"Deșteaptă-te, române!"[a] (Romanian pronunciation: [deʃˈte̯aptəte roˈmɨne] (
listen); variously translated as "Awaken thee, Romanian!", "Awaken, Romanian!", or "Wake up, Romanian!") is the national anthem of Romania.
| English: Awaken thee, Romanian! | |
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| National anthem of |  Romania
Former national anthem of  Moldova |
| Also known as | Un răsunet English: An echo |
| Lyrics | Andrei Mureșanu, 1848 |
| Music | Anton Pann, 1848 |
| Adopted | 1917 (Moldavian D.R.)[1] 1990 (Romania) 1991 (Moldova) |
| Until | 1918 (Moldavian D.R.) 1994 (Moldova) |
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The lyrics were composed by Andrei Mureșanu (1816–1863) and the music was popular (it was chosen for the poem by Gheorghe Ucenescu, as most sources say).[2] It was written and published during the 1848 revolution, initially with the name "Un răsunet" (English: "An echo"). It was first sung in late June in the same year in the city of Brașov, on the streets of the Șcheii Brașovului neighborhood.[3] It was immediately accepted as the revolutionary anthem and renamed "Deșteaptă-te, române!"
Since then, this song, which contains a message of liberty and patriotism, has been sung during all major Romanian conflicts, including during the 1989 anti-communist revolution. After the revolution, it became the national anthem on 24 January 1990, replacing the communist-era national anthem "Trei culori" (English: "Three colors").
July 29 is now the "National Anthem Day" (Ziua Imnului național), an annual observance in Romania.[4]
The song was also used on various solemn occasions in the Moldavian Democratic Republic during its brief existence between 1917 and 1918.[1] Furthemore, between 1991 and 1994, Deșteaptă-te, române! also was the national anthem of Moldova, but it was subsequently replaced by the current Moldovan anthem, "Limba noastră" (English: "Our language").
NotesEdit
- ↑ The Moldovan Cyrillic transliteration is Дештяптэ-те, ромыне!
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Andrieș-Tabac, Silviu (2008). "Simbolurile Republicii Democratice Moldovenești (1917-1918). Interpretări semantice". Tyragetia (in Romanian). 2 (2): 291–294.
- ↑ The anthem's history Archived July 22, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Vasile Oltean - Imnul Național Deșteaptă-te, române!, Ed. Salco, Brașov, 2005, ISBN 973-87502-1-0
- ↑ "Romania - Deșteaptă-te, române!". NationalAnthems.me. Retrieved 2011-11-08.