State · 1965 – 1989
Socialist Republic of Romania
A state of 1965 – 1989 — 24 years in Europe. It replaced Romanian People's Republic. It was replaced by Romania. The atlas records 6 things within it — wars and battles 1 · natural disasters 1 · people 4. Its line of rulers holds 2 people.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 24 years
- 1965 – 1989
- Rulers
- 2
- the De facto leader
- Most ground
- 237,600 km²
- in 1948
- Within it
- 6
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- Romanian People's Republic · replaces
After it
- Romania · replaced by · 1989 – present
Rulers
The leaders of its ruling party, read from English Wikipedia, List of de facto leaders of the Socialist Republic of Romania, revision 1377306416 - the line the atlas measures; its formal heads of state are listed with the government below.
1 terms are shared from [object Object].
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nicolae Ceaușescu | 1965 – 1989 | 24 years | ending not on record | |
| Ion Iliescu | 1989 – 1989 | under a year | ending not on record |
2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1965 – 1989. Only 24 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 0 of 1 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Formal heads of state and heads of government
The line of Prime Minister of Romania, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Nicolae Văcăroiu | lived 1943 – … |
| Manea Mănescu | 1974 – 1979 |
| Nicolae Ceaușescu | 1974 – 1989 |
| Ilie Verdeț | 1979 – 1982 |
| Constantin Dăscălescu | 1982 – 1989 |
| Ion Iliescu | 1990 – 1996 |
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
237,600 km² in 1965, 237,600 km² in 1989; at its largest 237,600 km² in 1965. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
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flag, undatedFlag of Romania (1965–1989) · Public domain .svg/120px-Coat_of_arms_of_Romania_(1965%E2%80%931989).svg.png)
coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of Romania (1965–1989) · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1900 – 19996 rows · 1 wars and battles
- Nicolae Ceaușescu · ruler · 1918 – 1989
- Victor Ponta · politician · 1972 – present
- Dacian Cioloș · inventor · 1969 – present
- 1977 Vrancea earthquake · disaster · 1977
- Adrian Cioroianu · politician · 1967 – present
- Brașov rebellion · battle · 1987
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood24 years
stood longer than 24% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held237,600 km²
held more ground at its peak than 62% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- Rulers on record2
has more rulers on record than 34% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 77 causes the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Theories that apply to its ending
Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.
Demographic-structural breakdown
Goldstone 1991 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: 2 of its 3 conditions held here (it needs 2), and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — unrest, adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- famine, plague or disaster within 30 y in the state, or population up 25% over 50 y — prior
- a war the state is fighting, still under way, or a war the state fought, ended within 10 y — warOngoing
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1955 – 1999, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1948, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q842794 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.