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Slatina, Romania
Slatina (, ) is the capital city of Olt County, Romania, on the river Olt. It is located in the south of Romania, on the eastern side of the river Olt, in the historical region of Muntenia. The population was 63,487 in 2021; the urban area has around 85,000 inhabitants. It is an important industrial center. The city administers one village, Cireașov. History The town of Slatina was first mentioned on January 20, 1368 in an official document issued by Vladislav I Vlaicu, Prince of Wallachia. The document stated that merchants from the Transylvanian city of Brașov would not pay customs when passing through Slatina. The word ''Slatina'' is of Slavic origin, and means "''marsh, swamp, watery plain''". Economy Alro Slatina, the largest aluminum producing factories in Southeastern Europe, is located in the city. Other companies based in Slatina include ALPROM (which, like ALRO, is a subsidiary of VIMETCOGROUP), Altur (engine set manufacturer), Pirelli Tires Romania (tire-manufa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lotru Bridge
The Lotru Bridge is a bridge that spans the Olt River connecting the cities of Piatra-Olt and Slatina. The bridge is in length with 4 spans of 50 m, each being constructed as a steel truss bridge. The bridge carries the national road , which connects Craiova to Pitești. See also *List of bridges in Romania This list of bridges in Romania lists bridges of particular historical, scenic, architectural or engineering interest. Road and railway bridges, viaducts, aqueducts and footbridges are included. Historical and architectural interest bridges M ... External links Description Bridges in Romania Bridges completed in 1899 Road-rail bridges Railway bridges in Romania Truss bridges Steel bridges 1899 establishments in Romania 19th-century architecture in Romania {{Romania-bridge-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pirelli
Pirelli & C. S.p.A. is an Italian multinational tyre manufacturer based in the city of Milan, Italy. The company, which has been listed on the Borsa Italiana since 1922, is the 5th-largest tyre manufacturer, and is focused on the consumer production of tyres for cars, motorcycles and bicycles. It is present in Europe, the Asia-Pacific, Latin America, North America, and the post-Soviet states, operating commercially in over 160 countries. It has 19 manufacturing sites, across 13 countries, and a network of around 14,600 distributors and retailers. In 2015, China National Chemical Corp. Ltd. ( ChemChina) took controlling interest of Pirelli; with the Chinese state-owned company agreeing to maintain the tyre company's ownership structure until 2023. Pirelli has been sponsoring sport competitions since 1907 and is the exclusive tyre partner and supplier for the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series for 2008–2010, FIA Formula One World Championship for 2011–present and for the FI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugène Ionesco
Eugène Ionesco (; ; born Eugen Ionescu, ; 26 November 1909 – 28 March 1994) was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre#Avant-garde, French avant-garde theatre in the 20th century. Ionesco instigated a revolution in ideas and techniques of drama, beginning with his "anti play", ''The Bald Soprano'' which contributed to the beginnings of what is known as the Theatre of the Absurd, which includes a number of plays that, following the ideas of the philosopher Albert Camus, explore concepts of absurdism and surrealism. He was made a member of the Académie française in 1970, and was awarded the 1970 Austrian State Prize for European Literature, and the 1973 Jerusalem Prize. Biography Ionesco was born in Slatina, Romania, Slatina, Romania. His father belonged to the Romanian Orthodox Church, Orthodox Christian church. His mother was of French and Romanian heritage. According to some sources, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mădălina Diana Ghenea
Mădălina Diana Ghenea (; born 8 August 1987) is a Romanian actress and model. Ghenea started her career in modelling when she was 15 years old, and started presenting for Gattinoni in Milan, Italy. Biography During her career, Ghenea did fashion shows in Romania, Italy, Germany, Japan, Austria, Spain, France and South Africa, and appeared in several advertisements including Peroni, New Yorker and Quelle. She was also selected for the international calendar along with two other models from MRA agency, Catrinel Menghia and Carmen Prodan. In 2007, she appeared in a video for Eros Ramazzotti's album ''The New Best of Eros Ramazzotti – Il tempo tra di noi'' where she appeared as Ramazotti's girlfriend. In 2010, Ghenea appeared in the sixth edition of the Italian talent show '' Ballando con le Stelle'', her partner becoming dancer Simone Di Pasquale. In 2011, she became the brand ambassador of TRE-Italy mobile company, of the dance clothing brand DEHA, and of vintage racing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iulian Filipescu
Iulian Sebastian Filipescu (born 29 March 1974) is a Romanian former professional footballer who played as a centre back. Club career Filipescu was born in Slatina, Olt County. He debuted in Divizia A with Steaua București in 1992, where he won seven domestic trophies. In 1997, he moved abroad joining Turkish team Galatasaray where he won three trophies. Later he joined Primera División club Real Betis, and played four and a half seasons there before joining FC Zürich. He retired in 2008 after he spent to seasons at MSV Duisburg. During the 2006 Swiss Championship FC Basel 1893 were atop the league table, leading Zürich by three points heading into the last game of the season. Both teams met at that last game at St. Jakob Park, where Zürich needed to win to tie with Basel on points and take the title on superior goal differential. Alhassane Keita scored in the 31st minute and gave Zurich the advantage, Mladen Petrić tying it at 1–1 in the 73rd minute. In the 93rd, Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicia Filip
Ana Felicia Filip (; born 20 March 1959, Slatina) is a Romanian operatic soprano. She has sung in the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Vienna State Opera and the Liceu in Barcelona. Since 2014, she is the director of the Comic Opera for Children in Bucharest. Awards *1983 Francisco Viñas Singing Contest Barcelona First Prize and Mozart Prize *1985 International Tchaikovsky Competition - Moscow Second Prize *1987 Belvedere International Singing Competition The International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition is an annual competition for young opera Opera is a form of History of theatre#European theatre, Western theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken b ...s - Vienna Second Prize, Mozart Prize and Japanese Prize *1991 "The Glory of Mozart" Singing Competition - Toronto First Prize References External links * http://feliciafilip.wifeo.com Unofficial website 1959 births Living people People from Slatina, Romania Romania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ionel Dănciulescu
Ionel Daniel Dănciulescu (born 6 December 1976) is a Romanian former professional association football, footballer who played as a forward (association football), forward, currently head of youth development at Liga III club CS Dinamo București (football), CS Dinamo București. He holds the all-time record for the most competitive appearances in Liga I, with 515 games played over the course of twenty years. He is the second-highest goalscorer in the history of Liga I with 214 goals, only behind Dudu Georgescu with 252. He also scored 35 goals in the Cupa României and he is the player with the most appearances, 36 in the Eternal derby (Romania), Dinamo – Steaua derby in which he scored 13 goals (8 for Steaua and 5 for Dinamo) which makes him the top-goalscorer alongside Florea Voinea. Club career Early years and Electroputere Craiova Born on 6 December 1976 in Slatina, Romania, Slatina, Romania, Dănciulescu started playing football in his hometown as a youngster for CSȘ Sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aurelia Brădeanu
Aurelia Brădeanu (née Stoica; born 5 May 1979) is a Romanian handballer who last played for CSM Bucharest. She participated at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. She is among the top 10 all-time league goalscorers of Győri ETO KC, with 656 goals in 155 appearances. Brădeanu was the captain of Romania and retired from the national team on 27 November 2016. International honours Club *EHF Champions League: **''Winner'': 2016 **''Silver Medalist'': 2009 **''Bronze Medalist'': 2017 *EHF Cup: **''Finalist'': 2005 *EHF Cup Winners' Cup: **''Finalist'': 2006 **''Semifinalist'': 2002 National team * Youth World Championship: **''Gold Medalist'': 1999 * Youth European Championship: **''Gold Medalist'': 1998 *European Championship: **''Bronze Medalist'': 2010 **''Fourth Place'': 2000 *World Championship A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petre S
Petre is a surname and given name derived from Peter. Notable persons with that name include: People with the given name Petre * Charles Petre Eyre (1817–1902), English Roman Catholic prelate * Ion Petre Stoican (circa 1930–1990), Romanian violinist * Marian Petre Miluț (born 1955), Romanian politician, engineer and businessman * Petre Andrei (1891–1940), Romanian sociologist * Petre Antonescu (1873–1965), Romanian architect * Petre S. Aurelian (1833–1909), Romanian politician * Petre Cameniță (1889–1962), Romanian general during World War II * Petre P. Carp (1837–1919), Romanian conservative politician and literary critic * Petre Crowder (1919–1999), British Conservative politician and barrister * Petre Dulfu (1856–1953), Romanian poet * Petre Dumitrescu (1882–1950), Romanian general during World War II * Petre Gruzinsky (1920–1984), Georgian poet * Petre Ispirescu (1830–1887), Romanian printer and publicist * Petre Mais (1885–1975), English writer and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liga II
The Liga 2, most commonly spelled as Liga II, is the second level of the Romanian football league system. The league changed its name from Divizia B just before the start of the 2006–07 Liga II, 2006–07 football season. It is currently Sponsor (commercial), sponsored by Casa Pariurilor, a betting company under the official name Liga 2 Casa Pariurilor. Format Since its inception in 1934, Liga II has had between 2 and 9 parallel divisions, with clubs divided based on geographic regions. But since the 2016–17 Liga II, 2016-17 Liga II, it changed to one group of 20 teams. Currently, the top six teams goes in the promotion play-off, in which the top 2 teams get promoted and the next 2 play a promotion play-off against teams from Liga I. In the play-out, there are 2 groups, 7th, 10th, 11th, etc. in group 1, 8th, 9th, 12th, etc. in group 2. the bottom 2 teams from each group gets relegated and the 3rd worst places in the 2 groups play each other home and away to decide the last tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CSM Slatina (football)
Clubul Sportiv Municipal Slatina (), commonly known as CSM Slatina or simply Slatina, is a Romanian football club based in Slatina, Olt County, which competes in the Liga II. The club was founded in 2009 as CSM Slatina, quickly obtaining two consecutive promotions to reach the Liga II in 2011. That summer, it merged with FC Piatra Olt and moved from Slatina to Piatra Olt, also changing its name to ''FC Olt Slatina''. At the end of its debut season in the second league, ''FC Olt'' was relegated, but then merged again with another club from Slatina, Alro Slatina. Technically, the new entity was a continuation of Alro Slatina, but with the name of FC Olt Slatina, whereas the original ''FC Olt Slatina''—or the former CSM Slatina—was dissolved. The former Alro Slatina was also dissolved four years later. In February 2018, the club was refounded and enrolled directly in the Liga V, where it played 15 matches from the remainder of that season. History The club was founded un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
