Editing Deșteaptă-te, române! (section)

== History ==
{{National anthems of Moldova}}
The melody was originally a [[romance (music)|sentimental song]] called "Din sânul maicii mele" composed by [[Anton Pann]] after hearing the poem.<ref name="Adevarul">{{cite web|url=http://adevarul.ro/news/societate/cazimir-mie-place-traiasca-patria-1_50ad7ad77c42d5a66395f171/index.html|title=Cazimir: "Mie îmi place ''Trăiască Patria!''"|newspaper=[[Adevărul]]|date=October 4, 2011|access-date=September 10, 2014|language=ro|archive-date=September 10, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910195917/http://adevarul.ro/news/societate/cazimir-mie-place-traiasca-patria-1_50ad7ad77c42d5a66395f171/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1848 Andrei Mureșanu wrote the poem "Un răsunet" and asked Gheorghe Ucenescu, a Șcheii Brașovului Church singer, to find him a suitable melody.<ref name="Adevarul"/> After Ucenescu sang him several lay melodies, Mureșanu chose Anton Pann's song instead.

First sung during [[Wallachian Revolution of 1848|the uprisings of 1848]], "Deșteaptă-te române!" became a favourite among [[Romanians]] and it has seen play during various historical events, including as part of Romania's declaration of independence from the [[Ottoman Empire]] during the  [[Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)]], and during [[World War I]]. The song received particularly heavy radio broadcast in the days following [[1944 Romanian coup d'état|Romanian coup d'état]] of 23 August 1944, when Romania switched sides, turning against [[Nazi Germany]] and joining the [[Allies of World War II|Allies]] in [[World War II]].

After the [[Romanian Communist Party|Communist Party]] abolished the [[King of Romania|monarchy]] on 30 December 1947, "Deșteaptă-te române!" and other patriotic songs closely associated with the previous regime were outlawed.{{cn|date=January 2020}} [[Nicolae Ceaușescu]]'s government permitted the song to be played and sung in public, but it was not given state recognition as the national anthem of the [[Socialist Republic of Romania]].

The song was officially adopted as the national anthem on 24 January 1990, shortly after the [[Romanian Revolution]] of December 1989.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.digi24.ro/special/campanii-digi24/centenar-100-de-ani-de-viitor/cum-a-devenit-desteapta-te-romane-imnul-national-al-romaniei-921173|title=Cum a devenit "Deșteaptă-te, române!" imnul național al României|newspaper=[[Digi24]]|date=5 May 2018|language=ro|archive-date=29 June 2020|access-date=26 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629112243/https://www.digi24.ro/special/campanii-digi24/centenar-100-de-ani-de-viitor/cum-a-devenit-desteapta-te-romane-imnul-national-al-romaniei-921173|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.rfi.ro/cultura-104150-pagina-de-istorie-povestea-cantec-desteapta-romane-devenit-imn|title=Pagina de istorie: Povestea cântecului "Deșteaptă-te, române!" și cum a devenit el "Marseilleza românilor"|first=Bianca|last=Pădurean|newspaper=[[RFI România]]|date=21 June 2018|language=ro|access-date=26 June 2020|archive-date=15 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211015202858/https://www.rfi.ro/cultura-104150-pagina-de-istorie-povestea-cantec-desteapta-romane-devenit-imn|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The overall message of the anthem is a "call to action"; it proposes a "now or never" urge for change present in many national anthems like the [[French Revolution|French revolutionary]] song "[[La Marseillaise]]" – hence why [[Nicolae Bălcescu]] called it the "Romanian Marseillaise".

===Another anthem===
"[[Hora Unirii]]" ('[[wikt:hora|Hora]] of the Union'), written by poet [[Vasile Alecsandri]], which was sung a great deal on the occasion of the [[Kingdom of Romania#Unification and monarchy|Union of the Principalities]] (1859) and on other occasions. "Hora Unirii" is sung on the Romanian folk-like tune of a slow but energetic round dance written by [[Alexandru Flechtenmacher]], joined by the whole attendance ([[chorea (dance)|hora]]).