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Mehedinți County. / 44.63; 22.88. Mehedinți County ( Romanian pronunciation: [meheˈdint͡sʲ] ⓘ) is a county ( Romanian: județ) of Romania on the border with Serbia and Bulgaria. It is mostly located in the historical province of Oltenia, with one municipality ( Orșova) and three communes ( Dubova, Eșelnița, and Svinița) located in ...
Upon the proposal of a teacher from Transylvania, it was named after Gheorghe Șincai. It became a high school in 1919. [1] The present building was begun in 1924, and was ready for use in 1928. In 1948, the new communist regime dropped the Șincai name, which was restored in 1957. Meanwhile, a girls’ high school functioned in the same ...
The history of Cluj-Napoca covers the time from the Roman conquest of Dacia, when a Roman settlement named Napoca existed on the location of the later city, through the founding of Cluj and its flourishing as the main cultural and religious center in the historical province of Transylvania, until its modern existence as a city, the seat of Cluj County in north-western Romania.
Cluj-Napoca ( Romanian: [ˈkluʒ naˈpoka] ⓘ ), or simply Cluj ( Hungarian: Kolozsvár [ˈkoloʒvaːr] ⓘ, German: Klausenburg ), is the second-most populous city in Romania [5] and the seat of Cluj County in the northwestern part of the country. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant from Bucharest (445 kilometres (277 miles)), Budapest ...
Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County seat, is the second largest city in Romania. With a population of more than 47,000 inhabitants, Turda is the second largest city in Cluj County. Dej Gherla Huedin. Cluj County has 5 municipalities, 1 town and 75 communes. Municipalities: Câmpia Turzii; pop. 22,223 (as of 2011) Cluj-Napoca – county seat; pop. 324,576
Calvaria Church ( Romanian: Biserica Romano-Catolică Calvaria de la Cluj-Mănăștur, Hungarian: Kolozsmonostori apátság) was built in the small village of Mănăștur near Cluj-Napoca (today a district of Cluj-Napoca). A small Benedictine abbey surrounded by defensive walls, Calvaria Church was built starting in the 9th-10th centuries.
The University of Bucharest (UB) (Romanian: Universitatea din București) is a public research university in Bucharest, Romania.It was founded in its current form on 4 July 1864 (159 years ago) () by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princely Academy into the current University of Bucharest, making it one of the oldest Romanian universities.
Politehnica University of Bucharest is the largest technical university in Romania. Its traditions are connected to the founding of the first higher technical school in Wallachia, in 1818, by Gheorghe Lazăr. Born in Avrig, Transylvania, Gheorghe Lazăr studied in Sibiu, Cluj, and Vienna. In 1817–1818 he endeavored to convince the local ...