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Boris Palotai, born Boris Pollák on () 23 May 1904 in Nagyvárad, and died on 13 September 1983 (aged 79) in Budapest, was a Hungarian writer and poet, laureate of the József Attila Prize, mother of the director Péter Bacsó, and sister of the artist and writer Erzsi Palotai.
In the 11th century when St. King Ladislaus I of Hungary founded a bishopric settlement near the city of Oradea, the present Roman Catholic Diocese of Oradea. [6] The city flourished during the 13th century in particular. The Citadel of Oradea, the ruins of which remain today, was first mentioned in 1241 during the Mongol invasion of Europe.
Mobila. The Mobila were a tribe of Native Americans that inhabited Mobile Bay and the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta. [1] It is believed they are descended from the inhabitants of the village of Mabila destroyed by Hernando De Soto in 1540.
The Ottomans first demolished the Temple of Athena Nike to erect a cannon battery, and on 25 September, a Venetian cannonball exploded a powder magazine in the Propylaea. The most important damage caused was the destruction of the Parthenon. The Turks used the temple for ammunition storage, and when, on the evening of 26 September 1687, a ...
The Great National Assembly of Alba Iulia (December 1, 1918) First page of Transilvania newspaper from December 1918, referring to the event. On December 1, 1918 (N.S., November 18 O.S.), the National Assembly of Romanians of Transylvania and Hungary, consisting of 1,228 elected representatives of Romanians in Transylvania, Banat, Crișana and Maramureș, convened in Alba Iulia and decreed (by ...
Coordinates: 47.068°N 21.93122°E. The Baroque Palace of Oradea. The Baroque Palace of Oradea ( Romanian: Palatul Baroc din Oradea ), also known as the Roman Catholic Episcopal Palace of Oradea ( Romanian: Palatul Episcopiei Romano-Catolice din Oradea ), of the city of Oradea in Bihor County, Romania, is a building that dates to the Baroque times.
Traian Vuia or Trajan Vuia ( Romanian pronunciation: [traˈjan ˈvuja]; 17 August 1872 – 3 September 1950) was a Romanian inventor and aviation pioneer who designed, built, and tested the first tractor monoplane. He was the first to demonstrate that a flying machine could rise into the air by running on wheels on an ordinary road. [2]
Oradea metropolitan area (Romanian: Zona Metropolitană Oradea or short ZMO) is a metropolitan area located in Western Romania, in the County of Bihor, Crișana, Transylvania, Romania and was founded on 9 May 2005. According to Eurostat, in 2007 Oradea had a larger urban zone of 218,518 residents on an area of 125 km 2 (48 sq mi).