14th November 2017
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The story of how the United Kingdom played a central role in the building of the city of Constanta has its origins in the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s and the growing realisation that the British Isles were no longer self–sufficient in food. Across Western Europe other governments were grappling with similar challenges of […]
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19th September 2017
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One of the strands of the Embassy’s current #BritainInRomania campaign is to highlight all of the cities in Romania in which the UK has ever had a consulate or other form of diplomatic representation. This took me earlier this month to Focșani, capital of the county of Vrancea, some three hours drive to the north […]
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