When you’re discovering ancient buildings (like the Palatul Republicii at București) you will come across the coat of arms of Romania. It shows a golden aquila holding a Christian cross, a crown, a mace and a sword. It is colored in the national colors of Romania: blue, yellow and red. But you can also find other animals on it like dolphins. Wait, what?
The shield in front of the large eagle shows the different regions of Romania that you can also find in other depictions, and it is therefore worth to know them:
| Wallachia | Eagle |
| Moldova | Aurochs |
| Dobruja | Two dolphins |
| Oltenia and Banat | Golden lion and Trajan’s Bridge |
| Transylvania | Seven castles and a black eagle |
Dobruja is the region at the Black Sea – and three different kinds of dolphins are living in that sea. The regions shown in the coat of arms weren’t the same over time, they have been added continuously. During communist times the coat of arms was different, it showed oil drilling, a tractor of the farmers and the rising sun. The old coat of arms was restored in 1992.
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