Amzacea
Amzacea () is a commune in ConstanÈ›a County, Northern Dobruja Northern Dobruja ( ro, Dobrogea de Nord or simply ; bg, Северна Добруджа, ''Severna Dobrudzha'') is the part of Dobruja within the borders of Romania. It lies between the lower Danube river and the Black Sea, bordered in the south ..., Romania. It includes three villages: * Amzacea (historical names: Amuza-aci,Amzacea Village Hall, , accessed on February 22, 2012 tr, Hamzaça, ''Amzaça'') * Casicea (historical name: ''Maior Chiriacescu'') * General ScăriÈ™oreanu (historical names: ''Enghez'', tr, Engez) - named after the Romanian World War I General . ScăriÈ™oreanu received the promotion from Colonel to Brigadier General on the battlefield after the fierce defense of the Topraisar-Amzacea sector of the front by his division during the Second Battle of Cobadin. Cristian NegreaThe Death of A Hero: General Stan PoetaÈ™ accessed on February 22, 2012 Demographics At the 2011 census, Amzacea ha ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Constanța County
ConstanÈ›a () is a county (judeÈ›) of Romania on the border with Bulgaria, in the Dobruja region. Its capital city is also named ConstanÈ›a. Demographics In 2011, it had a population of 684,082 and the population density was 96/km2. The degree of urbanization is much higher (about 75%) than the Romanian average. In recent years the population trend is: The majority of the population are Romanians. There are important communities of Turks and Tatars, remnants of the time of Ottoman rule. Currently the region is the centre of the Muslim minority in Romania. A great number of Aromanians have migrated to Dobruja in the last century, and they consider themselves a cultural minority rather than an ethnic minority. There are also Romani. Geography * CălăraÈ™i County and IalomiÈ›a County are to the west. * Tulcea County and Brăila County are to the north. *Bulgaria ( Dobrich Province and Silistra Province) are to the south. Economy The predominant industries in the cou ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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. From the point of view of its belligerent status, Romania was a neutral country between 28 July 1914 and 27 August 1916, a belligerent country on the part of the Entente from 27 August 1916 to 9 December 1917, in a state of armistice with the Central Powers from 10 December 1917 to 7 May 1918, a non-combatant country between 7 May 1918 and 10 November 1918, and finally a belligerent country in the Entente between 10 and 11 November 1918. At the start of World War I, King Carol I of Romania favored Germany, while the nation's political elite favored the Entente. As such, the crown council took the decision to ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tatars Of Romania
The Tatars of Romania ( ro, Tătarii din România; Crimean Tatar and Nogai: Romaniya tatarları), Dobrujan Tatars ( Crimean Tatar and Nogai: Dobruca tatarları) or Nogay (Nogai) Tatars ( Crimean Tatar and Nogai: NoÄŸay tatarları) are a Turkic ethnic group that have been present in Romania since the 13th century. According to the 2011 census, 20,282 people declared themselves as Tatar, most of them being Crimean TatarsUyÄŸur, Sinan (2011)Dobruca Tatar Türklerinde abece ve yazım sorunu ''Karadeniz AraÅŸtırmaları'', Yaz 2011, Sayı 30, sayfa: 71-92 and living in ConstanÈ›a County. They are one of the main components of the Muslim community in Romania. History Middle Ages The roots of the Crimean Tatar community in Romania began with the Cuman migration in the 10th century. Even before the Cumans arrived, other Turkic peoples like the Huns and the Bulgars settled in this region. The Tatars first reached the Danube Delta in the mid-13th century during the power peak of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Commune In Romania
A commune (''comună'' in Romanian) is the lowest level of administrative subdivision in Romania. There are 2,686 communes in Romania. The commune is the rural subdivision of a county. Urban areas, such as towns and cities within a county, are given the status of ''city'' or ''municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality ...''. In principle, a commune can contain any size population, but in practice, when a commune becomes relatively urbanised and exceeds approximately 10,000 residents, it is usually granted city status. Although cities are on the same administrative level as communes, their local governments are structured in a way that gives them more power. Some urban or semi-urban areas of fewer than 10,000 inhabitants have also been given city status. Each ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Northern Dobruja
Northern Dobruja ( ro, Dobrogea de Nord or simply ; bg, Северна Добруджа, ''Severna Dobrudzha'') is the part of Dobruja within the borders of Romania. It lies between the lower Danube river and the Black Sea, bordered in the south by Southern Dobruja, which is part of Bulgaria. History Around 600 BC, the Greeks colonized the Black Sea shore and founded numerous fortresses: Tomis (today's Constanta), Callatis, Histria, Argamum, Heracleea, Aegysus. Greeks have commerce with dacians who lived there on main land. Dobruja became a Roman province after conquest of Dacian Tribes. One of the best preserved remnants of this period is the Capidava citadel. Between the 7th and 14th century, Dobruja was part of the First Bulgarian Empire and the Second Bulgarian Empire. For a long period in the 14-15th century, Dobruja became part of Wallachia. The territory fell under Ottoman rule from the mid-15th century until 1878, when it was awarded to Romania for its role in the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and the Black Sea to the southeast. It has a predominantly temperate- continental climate, and an area of , with a population of around 19 million. Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, followed by IaÈ™i, Cluj-Napoca, TimiÈ™oara, ConstanÈ›a, Craiova, BraÈ™ov, and GalaÈ›i. The Danube, Europe's second-longest river, rises in Germany's Black Forest and flows in a southeasterly direction for , before emptying into Romania's Danube Delta. The Carpathian Mountains, which cross Romania from the north to the southwest, include Moldoveanu Peak, at an altitude of . Settlement in what is now Romania began in the Lower Pale ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Topraisar
Topraisar is a commune in the ConstanÈ›a County, Northern Dobruja, Romania. The commune includes four villages: *Topraisar (historical name: crh, Topraysar) *BiruinÈ›a (historical name: crh, Muratan, probably rounded out phonetically from ''Murat Han'') *MoviliÈ›a (historical name: crh, Musurat, probably rounded out phonetically from ''Musavvirat''; for short periods in the 20th century it has also been named ''Regele Mihai'' and '' Filimon Sîrbu'' (1948-1964) ) *Potârnichea (historical name: crh, Abdullahköy) Topraisar and the surrounding areas were the site of fierce fighting in 1916 during two battles of the World War I: the First and Second Battle of Cobadin. Etymology Topraysar is of Tatar origin and is rounded out phonetically from Top Rayis Hisar meaning ''The Fortress of the President of the Union''. Top Rayis meaning ''The Elected Leader of the Union'' or ''The President of the Union'' appears to designate ''Queen Tomyris'' and it seems to stand also at the orig ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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9th Mechanized Brigade (Romania)
The 9th Mechanized Brigade " MărășeÈ™ti" (''Brigada 9 Mecanizată "MărășeÈ™ti"'') is a mechanized infantry brigade of the Romanian Land Forces. History The unit was initially formed in 1879, after the Romanian War of Independence, as ''Divizia Activă de Dobrogea'' (Dobruja Active Division). In 1903 it was renamed to ''9th Infantry Division'', designation under which it participated in both world wars. In World War I it fought during the Battle of MărășeÈ™ti where it defended the most difficult sector, being under constant attacks for two weeks. For its heroic actions in this battle, the 9th Infantry Division received the honorific name "MărășeÈ™ti". In World War II, the division fought on both the Eastern Front, where it took part in the Battle of Stalingrad, and on the Western Front, participating in the liberation of Hungary and Czechoslovakia. After World War II, the division went through some changes becoming the IXth Army Corps and eventually the 9th Mec ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Second Battle Of Cobadin
The Second Battle of Cobadin was a battle fought from 19 to 25 October 1916 between the Central Powers, chiefly the Bulgarian Third Army, and the Entente, represented by the Russo–Romanian Dobruja Army. The battle ended in a decisive victory for the Central Powers; it resulted in the occupation of the strategic port of ConstanÈ›a and the capture of the railway between that city and Cernavodă. Aftermath Battle of the Danube Delta Despite the loss of most of Dobruja to the Central Powers, the Romanian defensive victory at Tulcea in January 1917, combined with the actions of the Romanian cruiser '' Elisabeta'' at the mouths of the Danube, ensured Romanian control over the entire Danube Delta throughout the rest of the War.Mihai Giurescu, ''Warship International, Volume 21'' , p. 166 See also *First Battle of Cobadin The First Battle of Cobadin, also known as the First Battle of the Rasova–Cobadin–Tuzla Line, was a battle fought from 17 to 19 of September 1916 between th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Turks Of Romania
The Turks of Romania ( tr, Romanya Türkleri, ro, Turcii din România) are ethnic Turks who form an ethnic minority in Romania. According to the 2011 census, there were 27,698 Turks living in the country, forming a minority of some 0.15% of the population. Of these, 81.1% were recorded in the Dobruja region of the country's southeast, near the Black Sea, in the counties of ConstanÈ›a (21,014) and Tulcea (1,891), with a further 8.5% residing in the national capital Bucharest (2,388).. History Turkic settlement has a long history in the Dobruja region, various groups such as Bulgars, Pechenegs, Cumans and Turkmen settling in the region between the 7th and 13th centuries, and probably contributing to the formation of a Christian autonomous polity in the 14th century. The existence of a strictly Turkish population in the territories of modern Romania can possibly be tracked down to the 13th century. In 1243, the Seljuk Turks in Anatolia (most of modern Turkey) were defeate ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lipovans
, flag = Flag of the Lipovans.png , flag_caption = Flag of the Lipovans , image = Evstafiev-lipovane-slava-cherkeza.jpg , caption = Lipovans during a ceremony in front of the Lipovan church in the Romanian village of Slava Cercheză in 2004 , population = , region1 = , pop1 = 23,487 , ref1 = , region2 = , pop2 = , ref2 = , region3 = , pop3 = , ref3 = , region4 = , pop4 = 700–800 , ref4 = , religions = Old Believers (Eastern Orthodox Christianity) , languages = Russian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian , related = Russians , footnotes = The Lipovans or Lippovans (russian: Липовáне; ro, Lipoveni; uk, Липовани; bg, Липованци) are ethnic Russian Old Believers living in Romania, Ukraine, Moldova and Bulgaria who settled in the Principality of Moldavia, in the east of the Principality of Wallachia (Muntenia), and in the regions of Dobruja and Budjak during the 17th and 18th centuries. According to the 2011 Romanian ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Communes In Constanța County
An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork from the start. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, or spiritual vision, and typically share responsibilities and property. This way of life is sometimes characterized as an "alternative lifestyle". Intentional communities can be seen as social experiments or communal experiments. The multitude of intentional communities includes collective households, cohousing communities, coliving, ecovillages, monasteries, survivalist retreats, kibbutzim, hutterites, ashrams, and housing cooperatives. History Ashrams are likely the earliest intentional communities founded around 1500 BCE, while Buddhist monasteries appeared around 500 BCE. Pythagoras founded an intellectual vegetarian commune in about 525 BCE in southern Italy. Hundreds of modern intentional communities were formed ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |