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The Romanian Olympiad in History ("olimpiada de istorie") is an yearly competition in Romania, in which both middle school and high school students partake. It, like other Romanian olympiads, has a local, regional and national stage, which are held in this order. Students may only participate in the contest from the eighth grade and upwards, however, as currently grades five-seven in Romania only cover international history, while the olympiad focuses entirely on the history of the Romanian people with the necessary elements of other regional history.

The 2023 national olympiad was held in the city of Râmnicu Vâlcea, in Southern Romania. Comparing it to other previous such contests, a participating student has said that the conditions provided this year were remarkably better than those from the years prior. Participants were taken to and housed in some of the city's best hotels. Besides the day of the only examination of the olympiad, in which such activities are interrupted by said examination, which lasted three hours, students participated in free touristic activities and were even able to roam around the host city freely, if allowed by their supervisors. Such activities include shopping at the city mall, visiting historical locations or museums, relaxing in parks etc.

Currently, students which are first, second or third in the assessment of the results of a regional (county level) olympiad receive a larger scholarship than they would otherwise ("bursa de merit"). Moreover, students which are first, third or second in a national olympiad receive an even larger scholarship ("bursa de performanță"). Besides these, which are given out monthly to theirs recipients, the students which are among the first are also given money by hand, usually in the range of 500-1000 lei. Students with a lesser prize ("mențiune") receive a smaller amount of money, around 300 lei in this case. However, in 2023, besides these prizes, which are common among all Romanian olympiads, students with remarkable scores were also given a geranium by the daughter of the city's mayor, who owns a flower shop. Another special prize was a 50% price reduction for history books from the book publisher Corint. Besides these, all participants were freely given a bag at the beginning of the competition, which included some food items, a shirt with the olympiad's logo and name written on it, a pen, a blue agenda and a stick PC which included a short montage of beautiful sights and locations in Vâlcea County.