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LDTG Trip to Romania

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September 9th 2011
Announcing the 2011 destination of the Literary Drinking and Travel Guild (LDTG) ---- Romania! Literary Itinerary: The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova The Dean's December, by Saul Bellow The Balkan Trilogy, by Olivia Manning They Were Counted, by Miklós Bánffy Embers, by Sandor Marai Kitty and Virgil, by Paul Bailey The Dead Travel Fast, by Eric Nuzum ... read more

Europe » Romania

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The principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia - for centuries under the suzerainty of the Turkish Ottoman Empire - secured their autonomy in 1856; they united in 1859 and a few years later adopted the new name of Romania. The country gained recognitio... ... read more