The National Anthem of Romania is Deșteaptă-te, române!. The music was presented by Andrei Mureșanu. It was written during the revolution of 1848. July 29 is now observed as “National Anthem Day” in Romania.

Romanian, awaken your Spirit from the sleep of Death

Impressed upon you by Tyrannies of barbarians;

Now or never, fashion a new destiny,

Stronger than your foes’, a fate for them to bow to.

Now or never, our legacy prove to all,

That through our veins still flows the Blood of Ancient Rome

That in our chests we proudly hail a Name,

Triumphant in battle, the Name of Trajan.

Raise your strong brow and gaze around you

As trees stand in a forest, brave youths, a hundred thousand

An order they await, ready to pounce, as wolves among the sheep

Old men, and young, from mountains high and open plains.

Gaze mightily, glorious shadows, Michael, Stephen, Corvine

The Romanian nation, your descendants,

With weapons in their hands, with your Fire burning

“Life in Liberty or Death”, all shout together.

You were vanquished by the evils of envy

By the blind disunity at the Milcov and Carpathians

But we, our Spirit touched by saintly Liberty,

Swear allegiance, to be forever Brothers.

A widowed mother from the time of Michael the Great

Asks of her sons a helping hand today

And curses, with tears in her eyes, whosoever

In times of such great danger, proves to be a traitor.

May lightning bolts, thunder and brimstone kill

Whoever retreats from the glorious battle

When motherland or mother, with a tender heart,

Will ask us to pass through sword and flame.

Is not enough the yatagan of the barbaric crescent

Whose fatal wounds we feel burning today;

Now, the knout intrudes on our ancestral lands,

But with God as witness, we will fight it to the Death

Is not enough the despotism and its unseeing eye

Which for centuries enslaved us, as cattle?

Now, attempt the cruel, in their blind haughtiness,

To steal our Language, but we will fight them to the Death

Romanians of the four corners, now or never,

Be United in your Thoughts, United in your Feelings

Shout out to the world that the Danube is stolen

Through intrigue and coercion, malicious plots.

Priests, with the Cross before you, as the army is Christian,

The motto is Liberty and its goal eternal

Better dead in battle, in full glory

Than be enslaved again in our ancestral homeland.