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Duiliu Zamfirescu
Duiliu Zamfirescu (; 30 October 1858 – 3 June 1922) was a Romanian novelist, poet, short story writer, lawyer, nationalist politician, journalist, diplomat and memoirist. In 1909, he was elected a member of the Romanian Academy, and, for a while in 1920, he was Foreign Minister of Romania. Zamfirescu is best remembered for his ''Comăneștenilor'' literary cycle, comprising his novels ', ', ''În război'', ''Îndreptări'', and ''Anna''. Biography Born in Plăinești, Râmnicu Sărat County (present-day Dumbrăveni, Vrancea County), he attended elementary school and then gymnasium in Focșani. He later studied at the Matei Basarab High School in Bucharest (1873–1876), before entering the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Law.Săndulescu, p.XLIII He graduated in 1880. Zamfirescu made his debut with a series of poems in '' Ghimpele'' review (1877), and, later in the same year, became an enthusiastic supporter of the Romanian war effort during the Independence War, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dumbrăveni, Vrancea
Dumbrăveni is a Commune in Romania, commune located in Vrancea County, Romania. It is composed of four villages: Alexandru Vlahuță, Cândești, Dragosloveni, and Dumbrăveni. During the interwar period, the commune was named Plăinești and was the headquarters of Plasă, plasa Marginea de Sus, in Râmnicu Sărat County. From 1948 to 1964, during the rule of Romanian Communist Party, Communist dictator Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, the commune was called ''Generalisimul Suvorov'', after Alexander Suvorov, the 18th-century Russian Empire, Russian general who won several battles in the area. Dumbrăveni lies in a hilly area of southern Vrancea County, on the banks of the river Râmna (Putna), Râmna. It is traversed by Roads in Romania, national road DN2, which connects the county seat, Focșani, to the north, to Râmnicu Sărat, Buzău County, to the south. Natives * Gheorghe Plagino (1876–1949), sports shooter * George Ștefănescu (1914–2007), painter * Duiliu Zamfirescu (18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandru Averescu
Alexandru Averescu (; 9 March 1859 – 2 October 1938) was a Romanian marshal, diplomat and Populism, populist politician. A Romanian Armed Forces Commander during World War I, he served as List of Prime Ministers of Romania, Prime Minister of three separate cabinets (as well as being ''interim'' List of Romanian Foreign Ministers, Foreign Minister in January–March 1918 and Minister without portfolio in 1938). He first rose to prominence during the 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt, peasants' revolt of 1907, which he helped repress with violence. Credited with engineering the defense of Moldavia in the Romanian Campaign (World War I), 1916–1917 Campaign, he built on his popularity to found and lead the successful People's Party (interwar Romania), People's Party, which he brought to power in 1920–1921, with backing from King of Romania, King Ferdinand I of Romania, Ferdinand I and the National Liberal Party (Romania, 1875), National Liberal Party (PNL), and with the notable parti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matei Basarab National College
Matei Basarab National College () is a high school in Bucharest, Romania, located at 32 Matei Basarab Street, Sector 3. It opened in November 1860, one of two secondary schools to open that year in the Romanian capital, the other being Gheorghe Lazăr Gymnasium, in order to supplement the older Saint Sava High School. Alumni include Constantin Antoniade, Aurel Baranga, Nicolae Cajal, Paul Georgescu, Alexandru Graur, Petre V. Haneș, Petre Iorgulescu-Yor, Ștefan Octavian Iosif, Constantin Levaditi, Adrian Maniu, Gheorghe Marinescu, Constantin Miculescu, , Ion Mincu, Costin Murgescu, Ștefan S. Nicolau, Miron Nicolescu, Dimitrie Paciurea, Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu, Radu D. Rosetti, George Topîrceanu, Ilarie Voronca, George Vraca, Duiliu Zamfirescu, George Oprescu, and Nicolae Secăreanu. Former faculty include Emanoil Bacaloglu, George Călinescu, Mitiță Constantinescu, Eugen Lovinescu Eugen Lovinescu (; 31 October 1881 – 16 July 1943) was a Romanian mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unirea National College (Focșani)
__NOTOC__ Unirea National College Unirea National College () is a high school located at 15 Cezar Bolliac Street, Focșani, Romania. In 1865, ''Domnitor'' Alexandru Ioan Cuza ordered the establishment of a gymnasium in Focșani, which took place the following January, making it among the country's first such institutions. Within two years, the school had four grades, and the teachers were collecting materials for science, history and geography, as well as old coins. In 1880, work on the first dedicated building began; at the same time, the name changed from Cuza to Unirea, reflecting the association of Focșani with the union of the Principalities. A fifth grade was added in 1884, and the gymnasium soon became a high school. It moved into the new building in 1900. As early as the 1890s, students formed various literary and cultural societies. During World War I, when the area was under German occupation, the school closed and a hospital was set up inside. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Râmnicu Sărat County
Râmnicu Sărat County is one of the historic counties of Muntenia, Romania. The county seat was Râmnicu Sărat. Geography Râmnicu Sărat County covered 3,324 km2 and was located in central-south-eastern part of Greater Romania, in the northeastern part of the historical region of Muntenia. Currently, the territory that comprised Râmnicu Sărat County is now included in the Brăila, Buzău and Vrancea counties. In the interwar period, the county neighbored Putna and Tecuci counties to the north, Covurlui County to the east, Brăila County to the southeast, and Buzău County to the southwest. History Slam Râmnic County (the old name of Râmnicu Sărat County) dates back to the period of the medieval organization of Wallachia. At first, the county's seat was at Focșanii Munteni, located on the right bank of the Milcov River, separating it from the city of Focșani proper that belonged to Moldavia. In 1542, when the Ottoman Empire annexed Brăila and its surrounding ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literature Cycle
A literary cycle is a group of stories focused on common figures, often (though not necessarily) based on mythical figures or loosely on historical ones. Cycles which deal with an entire country are sometimes referred to as matters. A fictional cycle is often referred to as a mythos. Examples from folk and classical literature Western Europe The three great western cycles: * The Matter of Britain (or the "Arthurian cycle"), which centers on King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table ** Historia Regum Britanniae ** The Vulgate cycle (also known as the Lancelot-Grail) ** The Post-Vulgate cycle * The Matter of France (or the "Carolingian cycle"), which centers on Charlemagne and the Twelve Peers ** Chanson de Geste *** La Geste de Garin de Monglane *** Doon de Mayence *** Garin le Loherain *** Crusade cycle **** Knight of the Swan *The Matter of Rome (or the "cycle of Rome"), which centers on Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great ** Alexander Romance *** '' Roma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Romanian Foreign Ministers
The Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs () is the ministry responsible for external affairs of the Government of Romania, Romanian Government. The current foreign minister is Emil Hurezeanu. List of ministers of foreign affairs (1862–1989) List of ministers of foreign affairs (1989–present) Notes Romania used the Julian calendar until 1919, but all dates are given in the Gregorian calendar. The following party abbreviations are used: Additionally, the political stance of prime ministers prior to the development of a modern party system is given by C (Conservative), MC (Moderate Conservative), RL (Radical Liberal) and ML (Moderate Liberal). Interim officeholders are denoted by ''italics''. For those who held office multiple times, their rank of service is given by a Roman numeral. References External links MAE.roGUV.ro {{DEFAULTSORT:Ministry Of Foreign Affairs (Romania) Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Romania), Government ministries of Romania, F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Members Of The Romanian Academy ...
This is a list of members of the Romanian Academy. References * Academia RomânăMembrii Academiei Române din 1866 până în prezent External links {{commons category-inline, Members of the Romanian Academy Members of the Romanian Academy Academicians Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nationalism
Nationalism is an idea or movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, it presupposes the existence and tends to promote the interests of a particular nation, Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: Theory, Ideology, History''. Polity, 2010. pp. 9, 25–30; especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining its sovereignty ( self-governance) over its perceived homeland to create a nation-state. It holds that each nation should govern itself, free from outside interference (self-determination), that a nation is a natural and ideal basis for a polity, and that the nation is the only rightful source of political power. It further aims to build and maintain a single national identity, based on a combination of shared social characteristics such as culture, ethnicity, geographic location, language, politics (or the government), religion, traditions and belief in a shared singular history, and to promote national unity or solidarity. There are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mihail Orleanu
Mihail G. Orleanu (November 20, 1859–January 31, 1942) was a Romanian magistrate and politician. Orleanu's family were originally Ottoman Greeks of Phanariote descent who entered the Wallachian ''boyar'' class.Constantin Iordachi, "From Imperial Entanglements to National Disentanglement: The 'Greek Question' in Moldavia and Wallachia, 1611-1863", in Roumen Dontchev Daskalov, Tchavdar Marinov (eds.), ''Entangled Histories of the Balkans'', vol. I, pp. 138-39. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Wealthy people, they settled in Buzău County and then Focșani, where Orleanu was born, ultimately moving to Galați. He graduated from the private ''Institutele Academice'' in Iași in 1876. Orleanu then studied law at the University of Paris, obtaining a doctorate in 1881. His thesis, published the following year, deals with illegitimate children in Roman law, and is his chief written work. After returning home, he entered the magistracy, holding a series of posts: prosecutor at the Iași tribunal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolae Iorga
Nicolae Iorga (17 January 1871 – 27 November 1940) was a historian, politician, literary critic, memoirist, Albanologist, poet and playwright. Co-founder (in 1910) of the Democratic Nationalist Party (PND), he served as a member of Parliament, President of the Deputies' Assembly and Senate, cabinet minister and briefly (1931–32) as Prime Minister. A child prodigy, polymath and polyglot, Iorga produced an unusually large body of scholarly works, establishing his international reputation as a medievalist, Byzantinist, Latinist, Slavist, art historian and philosopher of history. Holding teaching positions at the University of Bucharest, the University of Paris and several other academic institutions, Iorga was founder of the International Congress of Byzantine Studies and the Institute of South-East European Studies (ISSEE). His activity also included the transformation of Vălenii de Munte town into a cultural and academic center. In parallel with his academic contributi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand I Of Romania
Ferdinand I (Ferdinand Viktor Albert Meinrad; 24 August 1865 – 20 July 1927), nicknamed ''Întregitorul'' ("the Unifier"), was King of Romania from 10 October 1914 until his death in 1927. Ferdinand was the second son of Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, and Infanta Antónia of Portugal, (daughter of Queen Maria II of Portugal and of Ferdinand II of Portugal, Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Kohary). His Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, family was part of the Catholic branch of the Prussian royal family Hohenzollern. In 1886, Ferdinand became heir presumptive to the Romanian throne, following the renunciation of his father (in 1880) and William, Prince of Hohenzollern, older brother. From the moment he settled in Romania, he continued his military career, gaining a series of honorary commands and being promoted to the rank of corps general. He married in 1893 Marie of Romania, Princess Marie of Edinburgh, granddaughter of both Queen Victoria and Alexander II of Russia, Emperor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
