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Gheorgheni ( Romanian pronunciation: [ɡe̯orˈɡenʲ]; Hungarian: GyergyószentmiklósHungarian pronunciation: [ˈɟɛrɟoːsɛntmikloːʃ] ⓘ) is a municipality in Harghita County, Romania, with a population of 15,844, as of 2021. It lies in the Székely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania. The city administers four ...
Someșeni (formerly known as Someșfalău; German: Mikelsdorf; Hungarian: Szamosfalva) is a largely residential neighbourhood of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. History [ edit ] In the 5th century, the area was inhabited by Gepids , as evidenced by the Treasure of Someșeni which was discovered in 1963.
The Cluj-Napoca Botanical Garden, officially Alexandru Borza Cluj-Napoca University Botanic Garden ( Romanian: Grădina Botanică Alexandru Borza a Universităţii Cluj-Napoca ), is a botanical garden located in the south part of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. It was founded in 1872 by Hungarian linguist Sámuel Brassai, known as the "Last Transylvanian ...
Gheorgheni, Cluj-Napoca. / 46.76472°N 23.62028°E / 46.76472; 23.62028. Gheorgheni ( Hungarian: Györgyfalvi-negyed [1]) is a district located in the south-east of Cluj-Napoca in Romania. It has inherited its name from the nearby village of Gheorghieni ( Hungarian: Györgyfalva ), part of Feleacu commune.
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 ...
The Mauksch–Hintz House is a historic building on the Main Square of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, which houses the first pharmacy in the city. The classicist façade dates back to the 1820s; the ground-floor and the basement however were built in the Renaissance era. A fresco from 1752 in the former office tells about the history of the pharmacy in ...
Kolozsvár Ghetto. Coordinates: 46°47′45.47″N 23°36′57.86″E. Iris brickyard, the site of the ghetto (May 2007) The Kolozsvár Ghetto was one of the lesser-known Jewish ghettos of the World War II era. The ghetto was located in the city of Kolozsvár, then Kingdom of Hungary (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania ). Between the signing of the ...