"Deșteaptă-te, române!" (Romanian: [deʃˈte̯aptəte roˈmɨne] ; lit. 'Awaken Thee, Romanian!') is the national anthem of Romania. It originated from a poem written during the Wallachian Revolution of 1848.
The lyrics were composed by Andrei Mureșanu and published during the 1848 revolution, initially with the name "Un răsunet" ('An Echo'), as a lyrical response to Vasile Alecsandri's poem "Către Români" ('To Romanians'), later known as "Deșteptarea României" ('The Awakening of Romania'), from which Mureșanu took inspiration for many of the themes and motifs of his own lyrics, a fact that is reflected in the overall similarity between the two poems. The original text was written in the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet. It was first sung in late June in the same year in the city of Brașov, on the streets of the Șcheii Brașovului neighborhood and it became immediately the revolutionary anthem.
