Focșani, the Glossary

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1. 76 relations: Alexander Suvorov, Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Alin Moldoveanu, Anghel Saligny, Armistice of Focșani, Balkans, Basel, Battle of Focșani, Battle of Târgu Frumos, Bucharest, Camil Baltazar, Carl Grünberg, Central Powers, Cilibi Moise, Coal, Constantin C. Giurescu, Copper, Crimean War, Curvature Sub Carpathians, Danubian Principalities, Epicenter, Fault (geology), Fault block, Focșani Gate, Galați, George Simion, Gheorghe Tattarescu, Habsburg monarchy, History of the Jews in Romania, Hungarians, Iași, Ion Mincu, Ion Nestor, Iron, Kingdom of Romania, Land of Israel, Leon Kalustian, Majdanpek, Milcov (Siret), Moldavia, National Institute of Statistics (Romania), Nămoloasa, Odobești, Ottoman Empire, Petroleum, Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Red Army, Richter scale, Romani people, Romania, ... Expand index (26 more) »

2. Capitals of Romanian counties
3. Jewish communities in Romania
4. Market towns in Moldavia
5. Populated places in Vrancea County

Alexander Suvorov

Count Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov-Rymniksky, Prince of Italy (Kni͡az' Italiyskiy graf Aleksandr Vasil'yevič Suvorov-Rymnikskiy), was a Russian general and military theorist in the service of the Russian Empire.

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Alexandru Ioan Cuza

Alexandru Ioan Cuza (or Alexandru Ioan I, also anglicised as Alexander John Cuza; 20 March 1820 – 15 May 1873) was the first domnitor (ruler) of the Romanian Principalities through his double election as prince of Moldavia on 5 January 1859 and prince of Wallachia on 24 January 1859, which resulted in the unification of the two states.

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Alin Moldoveanu

Alin Moldoveanu (born 3 May 1983, in Focșani) is a Romanian 10 m Air Rifle sport shooter, Olympic champion at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

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Anghel Saligny

Anghel Saligny (19 April 1854, Șerbănești, Moldavia – 17 June 1925, Bucharest, Romania) was a Romanian engineer, most famous for designing the Fetești-Cernavodă railway bridge (1895) over the Danube, the longest bridge in Europe at that time.

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Armistice of Focșani

The Armistice of Focșani (Armistițiul de la Focșani, also called the Truce of Focșani) was an agreement that ended the hostilities between Romania (member of the Allied Powers) and the Central Powers in World War I. It was signed on 9 December 1917 in Focșani in Romania.

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Balkans

The Balkans, corresponding partially with the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographical area in southeastern Europe with various geographical and historical definitions.

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Basel

Basel, also known as Basle,Bâle; Basilea; Basileia; other Basilea.

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Battle of Focșani

The Battle of Focșani (also Battle of Fokschani or Battle of Focsani; Foksányi csata) took place during the Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792) on 1 August 1789 (Old Style 21 July) between the Ottoman Empire and the alliance of the Russian Empire and the Habsburg monarchy near Focșani, Moldavia (now in Romania).

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Battle of Târgu Frumos

The Battle of Târgu Frumos, also known as the Târgu Frumos Operation, occurred during Spring 1944 in World War II in and around the town of Târgu Frumos in Iași County, Moldavia, Romania.

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Bucharest

Bucharest (București) is the capital and largest city of Romania. Focșani and Bucharest are capitals of Romanian counties and Cities in Romania.

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Camil Baltazar

Camil Baltazar (pen name of Leibu Goldenstein or Leopold Goldstein; August 25, 1902 in Focșani – April 27, 1977 in Bucharest) was a Romanian-Jewish poet.

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Carl Grünberg

Carl Grünberg (10 February 1861 – 2 February 1940) was an Austrian Marxist economist, economic historian and sociologist.

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Central Powers

The Central Powers, also known as the Central Empires,Mittelmächte; Központi hatalmak; İttıfâq Devletleri, Bağlaşma Devletleri; translit were one of the two main coalitions that fought in World War I (1914–1918).

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Cilibi Moise

Cilibi Moise or Cilibi Moisi (born Froim Moise; 1812 – January 31, 1870) was a Moldavian-born Wallachian and Romanian peddler, humorist, aphorist, and raconteur.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams.

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Constantin C. Giurescu

Constantin C. Giurescu (26 October 1901 – 13 November 1977) was a Romanian historian, member of the Romanian Academy, and professor at the University of Bucharest.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29.

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Crimean War

The Crimean War was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between the Russian Empire and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom, and Sardinia-Piedmont.

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Curvature Sub Carpathians

The Curvature Sub-Carpathians (Subcarpații de Curbură), are the foothills of the Curvature Carpathians.

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Danubian Principalities

The Danubian Principalities (Principatele Dunărene, translit) was a conventional name given to the Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, which emerged in the early 14th century.

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Epicenter

The epicenter, epicentre, or epicentrum in seismology is the point on the Earth's surface directly above a hypocenter or focus, the point where an earthquake or an underground explosion originates.

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Fault (geology)

In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements.

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Fault block

Fault blocks are very large blocks of rock, sometimes hundreds of kilometres in extent, created by tectonic and localized stresses in Earth's crust.

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Focșani Gate

The Focșani Gate (Poarta Focșani or Poarta Focșanilor) is a militarily and strategically vulnerable area in Romania and NATO.

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Galați

Galați (also known by other alternative names) is the capital city of Galați County in the historical region of Western Moldavia, in eastern Romania. Focșani and Galați are capitals of Romanian counties, Cities in Romania, Jewish communities in Romania, localities in Western Moldavia and Market towns in Moldavia.

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George Simion

George Nicolae Simion (born 21 September 1986) is a Romanian right-wing politician and civic activist.

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Gheorghe Tattarescu

Gheorghe Tattarescu (October 1818 – October 24, 1894) was a Moldavian, later Romanian painter and a pioneer of neoclassicism in his country's modern painting.

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Habsburg monarchy

The Habsburg monarchy, also known as Habsburg Empire, or Habsburg Realm, was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities that were ruled by the House of Habsburg.

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History of the Jews in Romania

The history of the Jews in Romania concerns the Jews both of Romania and of Romanian origins, from their first mention on what is present-day Romanian territory.

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Hungarians

Hungarians, also known as Magyars (magyarok), are a Central European nation and an ethnic group native to Hungary and historical Hungarian lands (i.e. belonging to the former Kingdom of Hungary) who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language.

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Iași

Iași (also known by other alternative names), also referred to mostly historically as Jassy, is the third largest city in Romania and the seat of Iași County. Focșani and Iași are capitals of Romanian counties, Cities in Romania, Jewish communities in Romania, localities in Western Moldavia and Market towns in Moldavia.

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Ion Mincu

Ion Mincu (December 20, 1852 – December 6, 1912 in Bucharest) was a Romanian architect known for having a leading role in the development of the Romanian Revival style.

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Ion Nestor

Ion Nestor (25 August 1905, Focșani – 29 November 1974, Bucharest) was a Romanian historian and archaeologist.

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Iron

Iron is a chemical element.

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Kingdom of Romania

The Kingdom of Romania (Regatul României) was a constitutional monarchy that existed from 13 March (O.S.) / 25 March 1881 with the crowning of prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen as King Carol I (thus beginning the Romanian royal family), until 1947 with the abdication of King Michael I and the Romanian parliament's proclamation of the Romanian People's Republic.

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Land of Israel

The Land of Israel is the traditional Jewish name for an area of the Southern Levant.

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Leon Kalustian

Leon or Levon Kalustian, also known as Calustian (Լևոն Գալուստեան, Levon Kalustyan; October 17, 1908 – January 24, 1990), was a Romanian journalist, essayist and memoirist.

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Majdanpek

Majdanpek (Мајданпек; Maidan) is a town and municipality located in the Bor District of the eastern Serbia, and is not far from the border of Romania.

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Milcov (Siret)

The Milcov is a right tributary of the river Putna in eastern Romania.

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Moldavia

Moldavia (Moldova, or Țara Moldovei, literally "The Country of Moldavia"; in Romanian Cyrillic: Молдова or Цара Мѡлдовєй) is a historical region and former principality in Central and Eastern Europe, corresponding to the territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester River.

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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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Nămoloasa

Nămoloasa is a commune in Galați County, in the Western Moldavia region of Romania. Focșani and Nămoloasa are localities in Western Moldavia.

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Odobești

Odobești is a town in Vrancea County, Western Moldavia, Romania. Focșani and Odobești are localities in Western Moldavia and Populated places in Vrancea County.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

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Petroleum

Petroleum or crude oil, also referred to as simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations.

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Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Prince Frederick Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (Friedrich Josias von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld) (26 December 1737 – 26 February 1815) was an Austrian nobleman and military commander.

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Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.

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Richter scale

The Richter scale, also called the Richter magnitude scale, Richter's magnitude scale, and the Gutenberg–Richter scale, is a measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed by Charles Richter in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, and presented in Richter's landmark 1935 paper, where he called it the "magnitude scale".

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Romani people

The Romani, also spelled Romany or Rromani and colloquially known as the Roma (Rom), are an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin who traditionally lived a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle.

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Romania

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

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Romania in World War I

The Kingdom of Romania was neutral for the first two years of World War I, entering on the side of the Allied powers from 27 August 1916 until Central Power occupation led to the Treaty of Bucharest in May 1918, before reentering the war on 10 November 1918. It had the most significant oil fields in Europe, and Germany eagerly bought its petroleum, as well as food exports.

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Romania in World War II

The Kingdom of Romania, under the rule of King Carol II, was initially a neutral country in World War II.

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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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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Simona Gogîrlă

Simona Gogîrlă (born as Tutuianu; 11 April 1975) is a retired Romanian handball player.

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Sister city

A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties.

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Solomon Schechter

Solomon Schechter (שניאור זלמן הכהן שכטר‎; 7 December 1847 – 19 November 1915) was a Moldavian-born British-American rabbi, academic scholar and educator, most famous for his roles as founder and President of the United Synagogue of America, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and architect of American Conservative Judaism.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Tivoli, Lazio

Tivoli (Tibur) is a town and comune in Lazio, central Italy, north-east of Rome, at the falls of the Aniene river where it issues from the Sabine hills.

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United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia

The United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia (Principatele Unite ale Moldovei și Țării Românești), commonly called United Principalities or Wallachia and Moldavia, was the personal union of the Principality of Moldavia and the Principality of Wallachia.

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Valentina Ardean-Elisei

Valentina-Neli Ardean-Elisei (born 5 June 1982) is a Romanian handballer for Gloria Bistrița.

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Vrancea County

Vrancea is a county (județ) in Romania, with its seat at Focșani.

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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).

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Western Moldavia

Western Moldavia (Moldova Occidentală, Moldova de Apus, Moldova de Vest), also called Romanian Moldavia, or simply just Moldova is the core historic and geographical part of the former Principality of Moldavia situated in eastern and north-eastern Romania. Until its union with Wallachia in 1859, the Principality of Moldavia also included, at various times in its history, the regions of Bessarabia (with the Budjak), all of Bukovina, and Hertsa; the larger part of the former is nowadays the independent state of Moldova, while the rest of it, the northern part of Bukovina, and Hertsa form territories of Ukraine.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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World Zionist Organization

The World Zionist Organization (הַהִסְתַּדְּרוּת הַצִּיּוֹנִית הָעוֹלָמִית; HaHistadrut HaTzionit Ha'Olamit), or WZO, is a non-governmental organization that promotes Zionism.

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Zionism

Zionism is an ethno-cultural nationalist movement that emerged in Europe in the late 19th century and aimed for the establishment of a Jewish state through the colonization of a land outside of Europe.

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1738 Vrancea earthquake

The 1738 Vrancea earthquake occurred on, during the third rule of Constantin Mavrocordat.

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1802 Vrancea earthquake

The 1802 Vrancea earthquake occurred in the Vrancea Mountains of today's Romania (then Moldavia) on, on St. Paraskeva's Day.

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1838 Vrancea earthquake

The 1838 Vrancea earthquake struck the western part of Vrancea County on 23 January (O.S. 11 January) with a magnitude of 7.5.

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1940 Vrancea earthquake

The 1940 Vrancea earthquake, also known as the 1940 Bucharest earthquake, (Cutremurul din 1940) occurred on Sunday, 10 November 1940, in Romania, at 03:39 (local time), when the majority of the population was at home.

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1944 Romanian coup d'état

The 1944 Romanian coup d'état, better known in Romanian historiography as the Act of 23 August (Actul de la 23 august), was a coup d'état led by King Michael I of Romania during World War II on 23 August 1944.

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1977 Vrancea earthquake

The 1977 Vrancea earthquake occurred on 4 March 1977, at 21:22 local time, and was felt throughout the Balkans.

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1986 Vrancea earthquake

Striking central Romania on August 30 at 21:28 UTC, the 1986 Vrancea earthquake killed more than 150 people, injured over 500, and damaged over 50,000 homes.

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2011 Romanian census

The 2011 Romanian census was a census held in Romania between 20 and 31 October 2011.

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See also

Capitals of Romanian counties

• Alba Iulia
• Alexandria, Romania
• Arad, Romania
• Bacău
• Baia Mare
• Bistrița
• Botoșani
• Brașov
• Brăila
• Bucharest
• Buzău
• Cluj-Napoca
• Constanța
• Craiova
• Călărași
• Deva, Romania
• Drobeta-Turnu Severin
• Focșani
• Galați
• Giurgiu
• Iași
• Miercurea Ciuc
• Oradea
• Piatra Neamț
• Pitești
• Ploiești
• Râmnicu Vâlcea
• Reșița
• Satu Mare
• Sfântu Gheorghe
• Sibiu
• Slatina, Romania
• Slobozia
• Suceava
• Târgoviște
• Târgu Jiu
• Târgu Mureș
• Timișoara
• Tulcea
• Vaslui
• Zalău

Jewish communities in Romania

• Beclean
• Borșa
• Botoșani
• Bucecea
• Câmpulung Moldovenesc
• Carei
• Cehu Silvaniei
• Focșani
• Fălticeni
• Galați
• Gura Humorului
• Huedin
• Huși
• Iași
• Mihăileni, Botoșani
• Moinești
• Măeriște
• Oradea
• Poienile de sub Munte
• Râmnicu Sărat
• Rădăuți
• Sighetu Marmației
• Siret
• Săpânța
• Târgu Neamț
• Vatra Dornei
• Șimleu Silvaniei
• Ștefănești, Botoșani

Market towns in Moldavia

• Adjud
• Bârlad
• Baia
• Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi
• Botoșani
• Briceni
• Bucecea
• Buhuși
• Bălți
• Cahul
• Chernivtsi
• Chișinău
• Călărași, Moldova
• Căușeni
• Dorohoi
• Focșani
• Fălești
• Fălticeni
• Galați
• Hârlău
• Huși
• Iași
• Izmail
• Khotyn
• Leova
• Lipcani
• Moinești
• Orhei
• Otaci
• Reni, Ukraine
• Roman, Romania
• Siret
• Soroca
• Târgu Frumos
• Târgu Neamț
• Târgu Ocna
• Telenești
• Vaslui
• Ștefănești, Botoșani

Populated places in Vrancea County

• Adjud
• Focșani
• Mărășești
• Odobești
• Panciu

References

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

Also known as Coat of arms of Focsani, Coat of arms of Focşani, Focsani, Focșani Congress, Foksány, Fokschan, Foxshany, History of Focșani, Mandresti Moldova, Mandresti Munteni, Mandresti-Moldova, Mandresti-Munteni, Mândreşti Moldova, Mândreşti Munteni, Mândreşti-Moldova, Mândreşti-Munteni.

, Romania in World War I, Romania in World War II, Romanians, Russian Empire, Simona Gogîrlă, Sister city, Solomon Schechter, Soviet Union, Tivoli, Lazio, United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, Valentina Ardean-Elisei, Vrancea County, Wallachia, Western Moldavia, World War I, World War II, World Zionist Organization, Zionism, 1738 Vrancea earthquake, 1802 Vrancea earthquake, 1838 Vrancea earthquake, 1940 Vrancea earthquake, 1944 Romanian coup d'état, 1977 Vrancea earthquake, 1986 Vrancea earthquake, 2011 Romanian census.