The Danube Delta has been the birthplace of many people who would eventually grow to become important characters in the Romanian life. Here are some of them.
Ivan Patzaichin is arguably one of the top Romanian sports figures in history and definitely the best canoeist in the world … he’s way up there, with Nadia Comăneci, Gică Hagi and Ilie Năstase. [adsense]He compeeted in five Summer Olympic games where he won seven medals: four gold and three silver. His biggest successes in…
If you ask anybody in Sulina who’s the most popular person who ever lived here, you’ll get only one answer: Jean Bart. That is the pseudonym that writer Eugeniu P. Botez took when he published his works in the early twentieth century. [adsense]He is best known for writing the novel Europolis which documents the cosmopolite…