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Hunting Romania has a long history. The country remains a remarkable hunting destination, drawing many a hunters because of its large numbers of brown bears, wolves, wild boars, red deer, and chamois. The concentration of brown bears (Ursus arctos) in the Carpathian Mountains of central Romania is the largest in the world and contains half of all Europe's population, except Russia.
Remnants of hunting romania implements and wild game bones in Stone Age dwellings and burial sites or animal cave paintings like ones in Cuciulat, Pestera cu Oase or Pestera Muierilor indicate the humans have been hunting in Romania for thousands of years. In the Mesolithic age, antlers and animal skulls were used for jewelry and burial sites, and the bow began to be the common hunting tool for all types of games.
The Dacians, ancient inhabitants of today's Romania, adopted the wolf (Canis lupus) as a symbol and carried wolf heads and skins on poles as totemic battle flags. Ancient Greek and Roman chronicles also mention hunting as an occupation.
The medieval chronicle Descriptio Moldaviae recorded that Moldavia, one of the three historic provinces of Romania, was founded by Prince Dragos in 1351 while hunting. He was chasing an aurochs or a wisent (European bison), who gored and trampled his favourite dog, a female dog named Molda, across his lands of Maramures. After killing the aurochs, impressed with the riches and beauty of the land, he named it after his dog, brought his people and settled the lands. The aurochs' head remains until today the heraldic symbol of Moldovans.
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Hunting Romania - Animals Hunting Romania - Danube Delta Hunting Romania - Period