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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 ...
Universitatea de Artă și Design Cluj-Napoca. The Art and Design University ( Romanian: Universitatea de Artă şi Design, UAD ;) is an art university located in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. It was founded on November 15, 1925, as the Fine Arts School of Cluj. It was formerly known as Academy of Visual Arts "Ioan Andreescu" until 30 June 2000.
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
The Cluj-Napoca monument, brought to Cluj by a delegation of 200 Italians, mostly students, is a faithful copy of the Capitoline Wolf, with Romulus and Remus beneath her. To it was added a bas-relief of Emperor Trajan, executed by sculptor Ettore Ferrari, along with the inscription Alla citta di Cluj, Roma Madre, MCMXXI ("To the City of Cluj ...
After World War I, when Austria-Hungary broke up and Transylvania (including Cluj) joined Romania, a Romanian university was founded in 1920; it used the existing Central University Library (dedicated in the presence of the royal family and renamed the Library of King Ferdinand I University) and the Library of the Transylvanian Museum, still ...
The modern city of Cluj-Napoca was founded by German settlers as Klausenburg in the 13th Century. The name "Napoca" was added to the traditional Romanian city name "Cluj" by dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu in 1974 as a means of asserting Romanian claims to the region on the basis of the theory of Daco-Roman Continuity.
Octavian Goga Library. Besides banks, Cluj-Napoca features several modern buildings constructed under the aegis of the local government. The most recent is the Octavian Goga Library Building, which also houses information centers for the European Union and NATO. This building was started in 2000 and completed in 2003.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cluj-Mănăștur Calvaria Church. 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 ...