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D. The Danube is Europe's second longest river after the Volga. It originates in the Black Forest in Germany and empties into the Black Sea through the Danube Delta in Romania and Ukraine.
B. Bram Stoker placed his vampire character Count Dracula in Romania's Carpathian Mountains. The character's name is believed to derive from a medieval Romanian ruler, Vlad Dracula. He also was known as Vlad the Impaler and is said to have killed from 40,000 to 100,000 civilians.
C. In World War II, the Kingdom of Romania allied itself with Nazi Germany to invade the Soviet Union. At the end of the war, occupying Soviet troops forced Romania to become a Communist republic, which Ceausescu ruled with an iron hand for 24 years before the 1989 revolution.
C. Bucharest also is Romania's largest city, with a population of nearly 2 million people.