- Trăiască Regele
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Trăiască Regele English: Long Live The King 
Music sheet of the anthem
National and Royal anthem of
Romania
Lyrics Vasile Alecsandri, 1881 Music Eduard Hübsch, 1862 Adopted 10 May 1881 Relinquished 30 December 1947 Trăiască Regele (Long live the King) was the national anthem of the Principality of Romania and later Kingdom of Romania between 1866 and 1947. The music was composed in 1862 by Eduard Hübsch, an army captain who later became the chief of the music department of the Minister of War. The lyrics were written by the Romanian poet Vasile Alecsandri in 1881, when Romania became a Kingdom.
Lyrics
National anthems of Romania
Marş triumfal (1862 - 1884) Trăiască Regele (1884-1948) Zdrobite cătuşe (1948-1953) Te slăvim, Românie (1953-1977) Trei culori (1977-1989) Deşteaptă-te, române! (1989-present) - Trăiască Regele
- În pace şi onor
- De ţară iubitor
- Şi-apărător de ţară.
- Fie Domn glorios
- Fie peste noi,
- Fie-n veci norocos
- În război.
- O! Doamne Sfinte,
- Ceresc părinte,
- Susţine cu a Ta mână
- Coroana Română!
- Trăiască Patria
- Cât soarele ceresc,
- Rai vesel pământesc
- Cu mare, falnic nume.
- Fie-n veci el ferit
- De nevoi,
- Fie-n veci locuit
- De eroi.
- O! Doamne Sfinte,
- Ceresc Părinte,
- Întinde a Ta mână
- Pe Ţara Română!
English translation
- Long live the King
- In peace and honour
- Loving his country
- And defending it
- May he be a glorious Lord
- May he be over us
- May he forever be lucky
- In war
- O! Holy Lord
- Our father in the sky
- Hold with your hand
- The Romanian Crown
- Long live the Fatherland
- As long as the Sun in the sky,
- Happy heaven on Earth
- With a great and famous name
- May it forever be spared
- Of necessities,
- May it forever be inhabited
- By heroes.
- O! Holy Lord
- Our father in the sky
- Hold your hand
- Over the Romanian Land
References
- Evenimentul Zilei, 15 October 2005, "Cinci regimuri, cinci imnuri"
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- National symbols of Romania
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