Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

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
Map: Socialist Republic of Romania in 1948, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Socialist Republic of Romania in 1948, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 237,600 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Romania: 1989 – 2026Socialist Republic of Romania: 1965 – 1989

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.

Nicolae Ceaușescu · 1965 – 1989 · no death date to read the end againstIon Iliescu · 1989 – 1989 · no death date to read the end against19651970197519801985
ending not on record

1 terms are shared from [object Object].

RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Nicolae Ceaușescu1965 – 198924 yearsending not on record
Ion Iliescu1989 – 1989under a yearending 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 Văcăroiulived 1943 – …
Manea Mănescu1974 – 1979
Nicolae Ceaușescu1974 – 1989
Ilie Verdeț1979 – 1982
Constantin Dăscălescu1982 – 1989
Ion Iliescu1990 – 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.

19651970197519801985

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.

  • Flag of Romania (1965–1989)
    flag, undatedFlag of Romania (1965–1989) · Public domain
  • Coat of arms of Romania (1965–1989)
    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

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.

Eastern Front · Recorded · 1941 – 1955Eastern FrontRomanian People's Republic · Linked · 1947 – 1965Romanian People's RepublicSocialist Republic of Romania · 1965 – 1989Socialist Republic of RomaniaRomania · Linked · 1989 – 2026Romania19401960198020002020
recordedlinked

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

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.