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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 following detailed sequence of events covers the timeline of Cluj-Napoca, a city in Transylvania, Romania.. Cluj-Napoca (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈkluʒ naˈpoka] ⓘ, German: Klausenburg; Hungarian: Kolozsvár, Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈkoloʒvaːr] ⓘ; Medieval Latin: Castrum Clus, Claudiopolis; and Yiddish: קלויזנבורג, Kloiznburg), commonly known as Cluj, is located in the ...
History. First Romanian advertising material, Nov 1919. The Romanian National Theatre was officially opened on 18 September 1919, simultaneously with the Romanian Opera and the Gheorghe Dima National Music Academy. The inaugural performance, Poemul Unirei (English: The Unification Poem) by Zaharia Bârsan, took place on 1 December 1919.
Untold Festival. Untold Festival is the largest [2] electronic music festival held in Romania, taking place in Cluj-Napoca at the Cluj Arena. It is held annually [3] and has been designated Best Major Festival in the European Festival Awards 2015. [4] Guests come from a vast range of European countries, as well as Asia and North America.
Main façade, lateral view. The Piarist Church (Romanian: Biserica Piariștilor, also known as the Jesuit Church (Biserica Iezuiților) or the University Church (Biserica Universității); Hungarian: piarista templom), located at 5 Str. Universității, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was the first Roman Catholic church built in Transylvania after the Protestant ...
The Gheorghe Dima Music Academy. Gheorghe Dima National Music Academy is an educational institution located in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The institution was founded in 1919, and currently comprises various departments including composition, conducting, musicology, musical pedagogy, canto, [clarification needed] choreographic pedagogy, and opera.
The Palace of Justice in Cluj-Napoca, on Dorobanţilor Street, no.2, is an eclectic structure, built between 1898 and 1902, after the plans of the association Epitotarsasag, Kotsis, Smiel, Fodor es Reisinger. The Palace, with a total area of 19,950 m 2 (214,700 sq ft), [1] was projected by the architect Gyula Wagner. [2]