Description

“Romania” designates the lands where a Romance language, derived from the Latin of Rome, is spoken. Its peoples are for the most part of Celtic, Germanic, or Hispanic origin. Romania is not to be confused with the Roman Empire: it endured only in Europe.
Formed from layered dialects stretching from Hispania to Champagne, a bridge between the Latin South and the Celtic or Germanic North, Romania naturally embodies the idea of Imperium, revived at the end of Antiquity by the conquering Visigoths, Franks, Burgundians, Suebi, and Lombards.

A common emblem for Romania can be constructed from the imperial sign of the Labarum, modeled after the Roman military vexillum and cantabrum, dating from the period when the linguistic Romania was beginning to take shape (R. Egger, Das Labarum. Die Kaiserstandarte der Spätantike, Vienna, 1960).

► In the symbolic tradition of the Romance South, it is customary to use the letters of the Latin alphabet (for example, for cities, with the formula SPQ followed by the initial, imitating SPQR; thus in Palermo, SPQP).
This practice of using acronymic letters may, with moderation, be followed in the Romance-speaking South when simple graphic forms are lacking to establish a logotype.