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Romania (Romanian România) is a state of Eastern Europe at the crossroads of Central Europe, member of the European Union and NATO. With a Latin heritage, the country is surrounded by Slavic countries like Bulgaria, Serbia or Ukraine, and Hungary. It is bordered by the Black Sea to the southeast. North-east, a small country also in Romanian-speaking majority, the Republic of Moldova, is no longer part of Romania since 1944. Romania, which is the 7th most populous country of the European Union and the 9th by its size, is also a strategic country for the European Union because of its close relations with the countries of the Black Sea. The creation of the modern Romanian state in the nineteenth century, its current territory of the twentieth century, and follows the meeting of the old medieval principalities: Wallachia, Moldavia (1859) and Transylvania (1918). But the Romanians identify themselves primarily by their Latin language and consider themselves happy as the heirs of the ancient Dacian (Thracian country's north, conquered by the Roman emperor Trajan in 106) and the Roman Empire. Another component of the Romanian identity derives from the Byzantine Empire, which the Romanians have inherited their faith, Orthodox over 85%. In modern times, is the France of the Enlightenment that inspired the creation of modern Romania, with its ideals of emancipation and progress. Totalitarianism were subsequently marked the country: nationalism and fascism in the 1930s and communism of the Soviet Union in the second half of the twentieth century until 1989.