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Borcea
Borcea is a commune situated in the eastern part of Călărași County, Muntenia, Romania. It is one of the most populous communes in the county and it is situated on the west bank of the Borcea branch (a section of the Danube). The commune was formed as a result of the administrative reform of 1968 by joining two neighboring villages, Cocargeaua and Pietroiu. Today, it is composed of two villages, Borcea and Pietroiu. The commune is home to the Romanian Air Force 86th Air Base. History Antiquity The oldest archaeological findings in Borcea date from III-IV BC and consist of ancient pottery, Macedonian amphorae and a silver drachma issued by the ancient city of Histria. The presence of numerous archaeological evidence in Borcea which originated from the Greek colonies in Dobruja lead to the conclusion that between Getic settlements that were strung along the Borcea branch and the Greek colonies there were cultural and economic exchanges. This layer of archaeological find ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RoAF 86th Air Base
The Romanian Air Force 86th Air Base "Lieutenant Aviator Gheorghe Mociorniță" (), also known as Fetești or Borcea Air Base, is located in Communes of Romania, commune Borcea, Călărași County near the town of Fetești. It is currently the home of the 53rd Fighter Squadron "Warhawks", 53rd Fighter Squadron (operating General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon, F-16 Fighting Falcons). The current commander of the base is ''General de flotilă aeriană'' Iulian Pațilea. History On the current grounds of the airbase, a military aerodrome was established in 1939 following an order of the General Staff. Known as the Cocargeaua aerodrome, it was to be used as a reserve landing and deployment base of the Royal Romanian Air Force during World War II. In 1940, wooden barracks, and fuel storage facilities were built on the airfield. Over the years, the name of the base varied between Cocargeaua, Bărăganu, Borcea, and Fetești. In February 1944, the 51st Fighter Squadron of the 5th Fighte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romanian Air Force
The Romanian Air Force (RoAF) () is the air force branch of the Romanian Armed Forces. It has an air force headquarters, an operational command, five air bases, a logistics base, an air defense brigade, an air defense regiment and an ISR (Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance), ISR brigade. Reserve forces include one air base and two airfields. In 2022, the Romanian Air Force employed 11,700 personnel. The current chief of the Romanian Air Force Staff is Lieutenant general Leonard-Gabriel Baraboi, who succeeded Lieutenant general Viorel Pană on 29 November 2023. The Romanian Air Force was first formed as the Military Aeronautics Service on 1 April 1913, transformed into the Romanian Air Corps in 1915. The Romanian Land Forces, Army-subordinated Air Corps was reorganized as the independent Royal Romanian Air Force on 1 January 1924, then converted to the present-day Air Force in 1949. The Air Force went through a modernization plan in the 1990s and early 2000s, dropping ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Călărași County
Călărași () is a county (județ) of Romania on the border with Bulgaria, in Muntenia, with the county seat at Călărași. Demographics In 2011, it had a population of 285,050 and a population density of 56.02/km2. * Romanians – 94.1% * Romani people, Romani – 5.7% * Turkish people, Turks - 0.1% * Unknown - 0.1% List of cities by population All the data, except Călărași, is as of 2002. * Călărași (county's capital and largest city) – 73,823 (as of 2005) * Oltenița – 27,217 * Modelu (county's largest village) – 9,804 * Budești (with Crivăț village) – 9,709 * Borcea (village) – 9,676 * Dragalina, Călărași, Dragalina (village) – 8,760 * Chirnogi (village) – 8,131 The other two towns of Călărași county (Lehliu Gară and Fundulea) have a population under 8,000 inhabitants. Geography This county has an area of 5,088 km2. The entire area lies in the southern part of the Bărăgan Plain and is crossed by small rivers with deep vall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ialomița County
Ialomița County () is a county () of Romania, in Muntenia, with the capital city at Slobozia. Demographics In 2011, the county had a population of 258,669 and the population density was 58.08/km2. Romanians make up 95.6% of the population, the largest minority being the Romani people (4.1%). Geography Ialomița County has a total area of . The county is situated in the Bărăgan Plain. The area is flat crossed by small rivers with small but deep valleys. Its eastern border is on the Danube. The Ialomița (river), Ialomița River crosses the county from West to East about the middle. The Danube is split around the Ialomița Pond into the Old Danube branch and the Borcea branch. Until 1940 (in the western part) and 1967 (in the eastern part) the county/plain was home of the great bustard (''dropie'' in Romanian language, Romanian), with large populations of this bird. The birds disappeared because of the massive village buildout and hunting them for food. Neighbours *Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secularization Of Monastic Estates In Romania
The law on the secularization of monastic estates in Romania was proposed in December 1863 by ''Domnitor'' Alexandru Ioan Cuza and approved by the Parliament of Romania. By its terms, the Romanian United Principalities (as the state was then known) confiscated the large estates owned by the Eastern Orthodox Church in Romania (which was in strict obedience to the Greek Orthodox Church at the time). One of the measures ensuring secularism and the separation of church and state, it was also designed to provide an arable land reserve for land reform, without raising the issue of boyar estates. Probably more than a quarter of Romania's farmland was controlled by untaxed Eastern Orthodox " Dedicated Monasteries", which supported Greek and other foreign monks in shrines such as Mount Athos and Jerusalem. These estates, which were mostly formed under Phanariote reigns in Wallachia and Moldavia respectively, had a low productivity and were also a substantial drain on state revenues. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charter
A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified. It is implicit that the granter retains superiority (or sovereignty), and that the recipient admits a limited (or inferior) status within the relationship, and it is within that sense that charters were historically granted, and it is that sense which is retained in modern usage of the term. In early medieval Britain, charters transferred land from donors to recipients. The word entered the English language from the Old French ', via -4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... ', via Latin ', and ultimately from Ancient Greek">Greek (', meaning "layer of papyrus"). It has come to be synonymous with a document that sets out a grant of rights or privileges. Other usages The term is used for a special case (or as an exception) of an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vlad VI Înecatul
Vlad VI of Wallachia (c. 1508 – September 1532) was the voivode (prince) who ruled Wallachia between June 1530 and September 1532. He has been historically referenced as Vlad Înecatul ("Vlad the Drowned"), as a description of the manner of his death. One of three (along with Moldavia and Transylvania) primary historic and geographic regions of Romania, Wallachia was founded as a principality in the early 14th century by Basarab I but, by 1417, had accepted the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire, albeit with considerable self-rule. Descendants of the House of Basarab continued to rule Wallachia and, as recounted in surviving records from the time of Mihnea Turcitul (the young voivode in 1577–83 and 1585–91), the chronology of a century earlier indicates that the grandfather of Vlad VI, Vlad IV Călugărul lad the Monkwas voivode from 1481 until his death in 1495. His son Vlad cel Tânăr lad V, the Younger(ca. 1488–1512) became voivode in 1510, at the age of about 22 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plumbuita Monastery
The Plumbuita Monastery () is a Romanian Orthodox monastery located at 58 Plumbuita Street in Bucharest, Romania. Its church is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist. History One narrative holds that the monastery was founded by Prince Vlad VI Înecatul in 1531. In order to rid himself of ''boyar'' opponents, the ruler had sent them to support his Moldavian counterpart in fighting Poland at the Battle of Obertyn. Work in masonry began on the very spot from which the standard-bearers had ridden away. Mircea the Shepherd served as '' Ispravnic'', while the head workman was Dan of Argeș. Reportedly, after Vlad was assassinated by drowning the following year, his widow Ana ordered that the construction site be sealed with lead (''plumbuită''). It remained thus until the reign of her nephew, Peter the Younger, with involvement from Doamna Chiajna, her sister and Peter's mother. Another version suggests Radu Paisie as '' ktetor''. The oldest known printing press in Bucharest was establ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radu Mihnea
Radu Mihnea (1586 – 13 January 1626) was the voivode (prince) of Wallachia between September 1601 and March 1602, and again between March and May 1611, September 1611 and August 1616, and August 1620 and August 1623. He was also the voivode (prince) of Moldavia from 1616 to 1619 and 1623 to 1626. He was the illegitimate son of Mihnea Turcitul by Voica Bratcul. Modern-style prince & family man Radu Mihnea spent part of his early years in Koper (Capodistria), on Mount Athos and in Greece. His stay in the Serenissima accounts for the pro-Venetian character of his rule and his interest in reforming the institutions of Wallachia and Moldavia. After completing his studies in Istanbul, Radu became prince of Wallachia at a very important time in Romanian history: following the union of the three principalities of Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania under Michael the Brave. Radu would rule no less than four times in Wallachia and twice in Moldavia. He was loved due to his Renai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communes Of Romania
A commune (''comună'' in Romanian language, 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 Counties of Romania, county. Urban areas, such as towns and cities within a county, are given the status of ''Cities in Romania, city'' or ''Municipality in Romania, 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 commune is administered by a mayor (''primar'' in Romanian). A commune is made up of one or more villages which do not themselves have an administrative function. Communes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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'' (prince) of the Romanian Principalities through his double election as List of monarchs of Moldavia#Post-Phanariote period, Prince of Moldavia on 5 January 1859 and List of princes of Wallachia#Post-Phanariote period, Prince of Wallachia on 24 January 1859, which resulted in Unification of Moldavia and Wallachia, the unification of the two states. He was a prominent figure of the Moldavian Revolution of 1848. Following his double election, he initiated a series of liberalism, liberal and progressivism, progressive reforms that contributed to the modernization of Romanian society and of state structures. As ruler of the Romanian Principalities, he supported a political and diplomatic activity for the recognition of the union of Moldavia and Wallachia by the suzerain Ottoman Empire and achieved constitutional and administrative unity betw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socialist Republic Of Romania
The Socialist Republic of Romania (, RSR) was a Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist One-party state, one-party socialist state that existed officially in Romania from 1947 to 1989 (see Revolutions of 1989). From 1947 to 1965, the state was known as the Romanian People's Republic (, RPR). The country was an Eastern Bloc state and a member of the Warsaw Pact with a dominant role for the Romanian Communist Party enshrined in :Template:RomanianConstitutions, its constitutions. Geographically, RSR was bordered by the Black Sea to the east, the Soviet Union (via the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukrainian and Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, Moldavian SSRs) to the north and east, Hungarian People's Republic, Hungary and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia (via Socialist Republic of Serbia, SR Serbia) to the west, and People's Republic of Bulgaria, Bulgaria to the south. As World War II ended, Kingdom of Romania, Romania, a former Axis powers, Axis membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
