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Făgăraș, the Glossary

Făgăraș (Fogarasch, Fugreschmarkt, Fogaras) is a city in central Romania, located in Brașov County.^[1]

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Capitals of former Romanian counties
Geographical centres
Populated places in Brașov County

Andrew II of Hungary

Andrew II (II., Andrija II., Ondrej II., Андрій II; 117721 September 1235), also known as Andrew of Jerusalem, was King of Hungary and Croatia between 1205 and 1235.

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Aron Densușianu

Aron Densușianu (pen name of Aron Pop; November 19, 1837 –) was an Austrian Empire-born Romanian critic, literary historian, folklorist and poet.

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Aron Pumnul (27 November 1818 – 12 January O.S. (24 January N.S.) 1866) was a Romanian philologist and teacher as well as a national and revolutionary activist in Transylvania and later in Bukovina (then in the Habsburg monarchy).

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Badea Cârțan

Badea Cârțan (roughly: Brother Cârțan – the common nickname of Gheorghe Cârțan; 24 January 1849 – 7 August 1911) was a self-taught ethnic Romanian shepherd who fought for the independence of the Romanians of Transylvania (then under Hungarian rule inside Austria-Hungary), distributing Romanian-language books that he secretly brought from Romania to their villages.

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Basarab I of Wallachia

Basarab I, also known as Basarab the Founder (Basarab Întemeietorul; c. 1270 – 1351/1352), was a voivode and later the first independent ruler of Wallachia who lived in the first half of the.

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Beech

Beech (Fagus) is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Eurasia and North America.

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Berivoi

The Berivoi (also: Făgărășel) is a right tributary of the river Racovița in Romania.

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Brașov

Brașov (Kronstadt, also Brasau; Brassó; Corona; Transylvanian Saxon: Kruhnen) is a city in Transylvania, Romania and the county seat (i.e. administrative centre) of Brașov County. Făgăraș and Brașov are Cities in Romania, Localities in Transylvania and Populated places in Brașov County.

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Brașov County

Brașov County is a county (județ) of Romania, in Transylvania.

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Burzenland

Țara Bârsei (Burzenland,; Barcaság) is a historic and ethnographic area in southeastern Transylvania, Romania with a mixed population of Romanians, Germans, and Hungarians.

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Coat of arms

A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the last two being outer garments).

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Conducător

Conducător ("Leader") was the title used officially by Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu during World War II, also occasionally used in official discourse to refer to Carol II and Nicolae Ceaușescu.

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Cumans

The Cumans or Kumans (kumani; Kumanen;; Połowcy; cumani; polovtsy; polovtsi) were a Turkic nomadic people from Central Asia comprising the western branch of the Cuman–Kipchak confederation who spoke the Cuman language.

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Dauphiné

The Dauphiné is a former province in southeastern France, whose area roughly corresponded to that of the present departments of Isère, Drôme and Hautes-Alpes.

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Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania

The Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (Das Demokratische Forum der Deutschen in Rumänien or Demokratisches Forum der Deutschen in Rumänien, DFDR; Forumul Democrat al Germanilor din România, FDGR; in short Forumul German or Das Forum) is a political party (legally recognized as an association of public utility according to the governmental decision HG 599 as per 4 June 2008) organised on ethnic criteria representing the interests of the German minority in Romania.

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Digi24

Digi24, often known as Digi 24, is a 24-hour Romanian news television channel which was launched on 1 March 2012 by Digi TV.

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Dissident

A dissident is a person who actively challenges an established political or religious system, doctrine, belief, policy, or institution.

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DN1

DN1 (Drumul Național 1) is an important national road in Romania which links Bucharest with the northwestern part of the country and the border with Hungary via Borș.

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Embroidery

Embroidery is the art of decorating fabric or other materials using a needle to stitch thread or yarn.

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Ștefan Câlția

Ștefan Câlția (born 15 May 1942) is a contemporary Romanian painter.

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Țara Făgărașului

Țara Făgărașului (also Țara Oltului; Fogaraschland or Fogarascherland, Fogarasföld, terra Fugaras or terra Alutus) is a historical region in central Romania, located in the southern part of Transylvania.

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Fascism

Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

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Făgăraș Citadel

Făgăraș Citadel (Cetatea Făgărașului, Fogarasi vár, Fogarascher Burg) is a historic monument in Făgăraș, Brașov County, Romania.

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Făgăraș Mountains

The Făgăraș Mountains (Munții Făgărașului; Fogarasi-havasok) are the highest mountains of the Southern Carpathians, in Romania.

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Foix

Foix (Fois; Foix) is a commune, the former capital of the County of Foix.

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Folk etymology

Folk etymology – also known as (generative) popular etymology, analogical reformation, (morphological) reanalysis and etymological reinterpretation – is a change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more familiar one through popular usage.

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Foreign worker

Foreign workers or guest workers are people who work in a country other than one of which they are a citizen.

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Fraxinus

Fraxinus, commonly called ash, is a genus of plants in the olive and lilac family, Oleaceae, and comprises 45–65 species of usually medium-to-large trees, most of which are deciduous trees, although some subtropical species are evergreen trees.

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Gabriel Bethlen

Gabriel Bethlen (Bethlen Gábor; 15 November 1580 – 15 November 1629) was Prince of Transylvania from 1613 to 1629 and Duke of Opole from 1622 to 1625.

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Geographical centre

In geography, the centroid of the two-dimensional shape of a region of the Earth's surface (projected radially to sea level or onto a geoid surface) is known as its geographic centre or geographical centre or (less commonly) gravitational centre. Făgăraș and geographical centre are geographical centres.

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George I Rákóczi

George I Rákóczi (8 June 1593 – 11 October 1648) was Prince of Transylvania from 1630 until his death in 1648.

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Germans of Romania

The Germans of Romania (Rumäniendeutsche; Germanii din România or germani-români; romániai németek) represent one of the most significant historical ethnic minorities of Romania from the modern period onwards.

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Horia Sima

Horia Sima (3 July 1906 – 25 May 1993) was a Romanian fascist politician, best known as the second and last leader of the fascist paramilitary movement known as the Iron Guard (also known as the Legion of the Archangel Michael).

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Humid continental climate

A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers, and cold (sometimes severely cold in the northern areas) and snowy winters.

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Hungarian language

Hungarian is a Uralic language of the proposed Ugric branch spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighbouring countries.

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Hungarians in Romania

The Hungarian minority of Romania (romániai magyarok; maghiarii din România) is the largest ethnic minority in Romania.

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Inocențiu Micu-Klein

Ioan Inocențiu Micu-Klein, also known by his lay name Ioan Micu (1692 – 22 September 1768), was a Bishop of Făgăraș and Primate of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church from 1730 to his resignation in 1751.

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Ioan Pușcariu

Ioan Pușcariu (September 28, 1824 – December 24, 1911) was an Austro-Hungarian ethnic Romanian historian, genealogist and administrator.

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Ion Gavrilă Ogoranu

Ion Gavrilă Ogoranu (January 6, 1923 – May 1, 2006) was a member of the fascist paramilitary organization Iron Guard, who between 1948 and 1955, after the Soviet occupation of Romania and the establishment of the Romanian People's Republic, became the leader of an underground anti-communist paramilitary group in the Făgăraș Mountains.

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Iorgu Iordan

Iorgu Iordan (also known as Jorgu Jordan or Iorgu Jordan; –September 20, 1986) was a Romanian linguist, philologist, diplomat, journalist, and left-wing agrarian, later communist, politician.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.

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Iron Guard

The Iron Guard (Garda de Fier) was a Romanian militant revolutionary fascist movement and political party founded in 1927 by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu as the Legion of the Archangel Michael (Legiunea Arhanghelul Mihail) or the Legionary Movement (Mișcarea Legionară).

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István Kniezsa

István Kniezsa (1 December 1898, Trsztena, Austria-Hungary, now Trstená, Slovakia – 15 March 1965, Budapest, Hungary) was a Hungarian linguist and Slavist, corresponding (1939) and regular (1947) member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Johanna Korner

Johanna Korner known as Madame Korner (21 July 1891 – 30 March 1969) was born in the Kingdom of Hungary and she became a beauty salon proprietor in Budapest, Paris and finally Sydney.

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Kata Bethlen

Countess Kata Bethlen de Bethlen (1700–1759), sometimes referred to as Katherine Bethlen, was one of the earliest Hungarians to write memoirs.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Kingdom of Hungary

The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from the Middle Ages into the 20th century.

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Laurențiu Streza

Laurențiu Streza (born Liviu Streza; October 12, 1947) is a Romanian cleric, a metropolitan bishop in the Romanian Orthodox Church.

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List of castles and fortresses in Romania

This is a list of castles and fortresses declared historic monuments by Romania's Ministry of Culture.

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List of members of the Romanian Academy

This is a list of members of the Romanian Academy.

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Lists of political office-holders in Transylvania

These are lists of political office-holders in Transylvania, from the 10th century, until 1867.

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Louis I of Hungary

Louis I, also Louis the Great (Nagy Lajos; Ludovik Veliki; Ľudovít Veľký) or Louis the Hungarian (Ludwik Węgierski; 5 March 132610 September 1382), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370.

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Michael I Apafi

Michael Apafi (Apafi Mihály; 3 November 1632 – 15 April 1690) was Prince of Transylvania from 1661 to his death.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Mihai Eminescu

Mihai Eminescu (born Mihail Eminovici; 15 January 1850 – 15 June 1889) was a Romanian Romantic poet from Moldavia, novelist, and journalist, generally regarded as the most famous and influential Romanian poet.

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Mihail Neamțu

Mihail Neamțu, born 1978, is a Romanian conservative politician.

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Mihály Babits

Mihály Babits (26 November 1883 – 4 August 1941) was a Hungarian poet, writer, essayist, and translator.

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Mircea Dincă

Mircea Dincă (born 1980) is a Romanian-American inorganic chemist.

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Mircea Frățică

Mircea Frăţică (born 14 July 1957) is a Romanian retired middleweight judoka who won the European title in 1982.

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Municipiu

A municipiu (from Latin municipium; English: municipality) is a level of administrative subdivision in Romania and Moldova, roughly equivalent to city in some English-speaking countries. Făgăraș and municipiu are Cities in Romania.

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National Institute of Statistics (Romania)

The National Institute of Statistics (Institutul Național de Statistică, INS) is a Romanian government agency which is responsible for collecting national statistics, in fields such as geography, the economy, demographics and society.

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National Liberal Party (Romania)

The National Liberal Party (Partidul Național Liberal, PNL) is a Christian-democratic and socially conservative political party in Romania (and the second largest overall political party in the country as of mid 2023).

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Neolog Judaism

Neologs (neológ irányzat, "Neolog faction") are one of the two large communal organizations among Hungarian Jewry.

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New York University Press

New York University Press (or NYU Press) is a university press that is part of New York University.

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Nicolae Densușianu

Nicolae Densușianu (18 April 1846 – 24 March 1911) was a Romanian ethnologist and collector of Romanian folklore.

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Nicușor Dan

Nicușor Dan (born 20 December 1969) is a Romanian activist, mathematician, former member of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania as well as founder and former leader of the Romanian political party Save Romania Union (USR).

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Octavian Paler

Octavian Paler (or; July 2, 1926 – May 7, 2007) was a Romanian writer, journalist, politician in Communist Romania, and civil society activist in post-1989 Romania.

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Olt (river)

The Olt (Romanian and Hungarian; Alt; Aluta or Alutus, Oltu, Ἄλυτος Alytos) is a river in Romania.

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Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox Judaism is the collective term for the traditionalist branches of contemporary Judaism.

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Ovid Densusianu

Ovid Densusianu (also known under his pen name Ervin; 29 December 1873, Făgăraș – 9 June 1938, Bucharest) was a Romanian poet, philologist, linguist, folklorist, literary historian and critic, chief of a poetry school, university professor and journalist.

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Partridge

A partridge is a medium-sized galliform bird in any of several genera, with a wide native distribution throughout parts of Europe, Asia and Africa.

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Party of the Roma

The Party of the Roma (Partida Romilor „Pro Europa”, PRPE; Partida le Romenge), known until 2008 as Social Democratic Party of the Roma (Partida Romilor Social-Democrată, PRS-D), is a political party in Romania representing the Romani minority.

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Pecheneg language

Pecheneg is an extinct Turkic language spoken by the Pechenegs in Eastern Europe (parts of Southern Ukraine, Southern Russia, Moldova, Romania and Hungary) in the 7th–12th centuries.

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Pechenegs

The Pechenegs or PatzinaksPeçeneq(lər), Peçenek(ler), Middle Turkic: بَجَنَكْ, Pecenegi, Печенег(и), Печеніг(и), Besenyő(k), Πατζινάκοι, Πετσενέγοι, Πατζινακίται, პაჭანიკი, pechenegi, печенези,; Печенези, Pacinacae, Bisseni were a semi-nomadic Turkic people from Central Asia who spoke the Pecheneg language.

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Pokuttia

Pokuttia, also known as Pokuttya or Pokutia, (Покуття; Pokucie; Pocuția) is an historical area of East-Central Europe, situated between the Dniester and Cheremosh rivers and Carpathian Mountains, in the southwestern part of modern Ukraine.

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PRO Romania

PRO Romania (PRO) is an extra-parliamentary social liberal political party in Romania.

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Racovița (Făgăraș)

The Racovița is a left tributary of the river Olt in Romania.

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Radu Negru

Negru Vodă (" Black Voivode" or " Black Prince"), also known as Radu Negru ("Radu Black"), was, according to the legend, the founder and the first Voievode of Wallachia.

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Radu Negru National College

Radu Negru National College (Colegiul Național Radu Negru) is a high school located at 1 Școlii Street, Făgăraș, Romania.

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Reformed Church in Hungary

The Reformed Church in Hungary (Magyarországi Református Egyház, MRE) is the largest Protestant church in Hungary, with parishes also among the Hungarian diaspora abroad.

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Revolutions of 1848

The revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the springtime of the peoples or the springtime of nations, were a series of revolutions throughout Europe over the course of more than one year, from 1848 to 1849.

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Romani people in Romania

Roma, traditionally Țigani (often called "Gypsies" though this term is typically considered a slur), constitute one of Romania's largest minorities.

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Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.

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Romanian Academy

The Romanian Academy (Academia Română) is a cultural forum founded in Bucharest, Romania, in 1866.

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Romanian Greek Catholic Major Archeparchy of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia

The Romanian Catholic Archeparchy of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia (Archidioecesis Fagarasiensis et Albae Iuliensis Romenorum; in Romanian Arhieparhia de Făgăraș și Alba Iulia), is an ecclesiastical territory or archeparchy (equivalent to an archdiocese in the Latin Church) of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church, a particular Eastern Catholic Church, that is located in Romania.

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Romanian language

Romanian (obsolete spelling: Roumanian; limba română, or românește) is the official and main language of Romania and Moldova.

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Romanian revolution

The Romanian revolution (Revoluția română) was a period of violent civil unrest in Romania during December 1989 as a part of the revolutions of 1989 that occurred in several countries around the world, primarily within the Eastern Bloc.

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Romanians

Romanians (români,; dated exonym Vlachs) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation native to Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Sharing a common culture and ancestry, they speak the Romanian language and live primarily in Romania and Moldova. The 2021 Romanian census found that 89.3% of Romania's citizens identified themselves as ethnic Romanians.

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Save Romania Union

The Save Romania Union (Uniunea Salvați România, USR) is a centre to centre-right political party in Romania.

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Saxons

The Saxons, sometimes called the Old Saxons, were the Germanic people of "Old" Saxony (Antiqua Saxonia) which became a Carolingian "stem duchy" in 804, in what is now northern Germany.

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Săliște

Săliște (Großendorf or Selischte; Szelistye) is a town in Sibiu County, in the centre of Romania, west of the county capital, Sibiu. Făgăraș and Săliște are Localities in Transylvania.

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Sibiu

Sibiu (Hermannstadt, Cibinium, Transylvanian Saxon: Härmeschtat or Hermestatt, Nagyszeben) is a middle-sized, well-preserved fortified medieval town in central Romania, situated in the historical region of Transylvania (Transilvania, Siebenbürgen or Transsilvanien). Located some north-west of Bucharest, the town straddles the Cibin River, a tributary of the Olt River. Făgăraș and Sibiu are Cities in Romania and Localities in Transylvania.

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Silk

Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles.

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The Social Democratic Party (Partidul Social Democrat, PSD) is the largest political party in Romania, though in the European Parliament, it is the second largest by total number of political representatives (i.e. MEPs), after the National Liberal Party (PNL).

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The Socialist Republic of Romania (Republica Socialistă România, RSR) was a Marxist–Leninist one-party socialist state that existed officially in Romania from 1947 to 1989 (see Revolutions of 1989).

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Southern Carpathians

The Southern Carpathians (also known as the Transylvanian Alps; Carpații Meridionali; Déli-Kárpátok) are a group of mountain ranges located in southern Romania.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Teutonic Order

The Teutonic Order is a Catholic religious institution founded as a military society in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem.

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Tourism in Romania

Romania's tourism sector had a direct contribution of EUR 5.21 billion to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2018, slightly higher than in 2017, placing Romania on the 32nd place in the world, ahead of Slovakia and Bulgaria, but behind Greece and the Czech Republic.

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Transylvania

Transylvania (Transilvania or Ardeal; Erdély; Siebenbürgen or Transsilvanien, historically Überwald, also Siweberjen in the Transylvanian Saxon dialect) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania.

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Transylvanian Diet

The Transylvanian Diet (Siebenbürgischer Landtag; erdélyi országgyűlés; Dieta Transilvaniei) was an important legislative, administrative and judicial body of the Principality (from 1765 Grand Principality) of Transylvania between 1570 and 1867. The general assemblies of the Transylvanian noblemen and the joint assemblies of the representatives of the "Three Nations of Transylvania"the noblemen, Székelys and Saxonsgave rise to its development.

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Transylvanian Saxons

The Transylvanian Saxons (Siebenbürger Sachsen; Transylvanian Saxon: Siweberjer Såksen or simply Soxen, singularly Sox or Soax; Transylvanian Landler: Soxn or Soxisch; Sași ardeleni, sași transilvăneni/transilvani; erdélyi szászok) are a people of mainly German ethnicity and overall Germanic origin —mostly Luxembourgish and from the Low Countries initially during the medieval Ostsiedlung process, then also from other parts of present-day Germany— who settled in Transylvania (Transilvania or Ardeal, Hungarian: Erdély, Siebenbürgen or Transsilvanien, historically also Überwald, Transsilvania, Septem Castra or Septem Castrensis, Medieval Latin: Trānsylvānia) in various waves, starting from the mid and mid-late 12th century until the mid 19th century.

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University of Bucharest

The University of Bucharest (UB) (Universitatea din București) is a public research university in Bucharest, Romania.

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Veszprém

Veszprém (Weißbrünn, Slovak: Bezperín/Bezprím, Belomost) is one of the oldest urban areas in Hungary, and a city with county rights.

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Villages with fortified churches in Transylvania

The south-eastern Transylvania region in Romania currently has one of the highest numbers of existing fortified churches from the 13th to 16th centuries. Făgăraș and Villages with fortified churches in Transylvania are Localities in Transylvania.

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Vlachs

Vlach, also Wallachian (and many other variants), is a term and exonym used from the Middle Ages until the Modern Era to designate speakers of Eastern Romance languages living in Southeast Europe—south of the Danube (the Balkan peninsula) and north of the Danube.

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Vladislav I of Wallachia

Vladislav I of the Basarab dynasty, also known as Vlaicu or Vlaicu-Vodă, was the Voivode of Wallachia between 1364 and 1377.

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Wallachia

Wallachia or Walachia (lit,; Old Romanian: Țeara Rumânească, Romanian Cyrillic alphabet: Цѣра Рꙋмѫнѣскъ) is a historical and geographical region of modern-day Romania. It is situated north of the Lower Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians. Wallachia was traditionally divided into two sections, Muntenia (Greater Wallachia) and Oltenia (Lesser Wallachia).

See Făgăraș and Wallachia

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Făgăraș

Also known as Fagaras, Fagaras Castle, Fogarasch, Făgăraş Castle, Făgăraș Country, History of Făgăraș.

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Făgăraș, the Glossary

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Capitals of former Romanian counties

Geographical centres

Populated places in Brașov County

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