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Feldioara (Ucea), Brașov
Ucea (; ) is a commune in Brașov County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of four villages: Corbi (''Korb''), Feldioara (''Barcaföldvár''), Ucea de Jos (the commune center), and Ucea de Sus (''Felsőucsa''). Geography The commune is located at the western edge of the county, on the border with Sibiu County, in the historic Țara Făgărașului region. It sits on the left bank of the Olt River, and is traversed south to north by the Ucea River, which flows into the Olt a short distance away. Transportation Ucea de Jos is crossed by the DN1 road; Făgăraș is to the east while Sibiu is to the west. The Ucea railway station serves the CFR Main Line 200, which runs from Brașov to the Hungarian border at Curtici. The Ucea–Victoria railway line branches off towards the city of Victoria, to the south. Demographics At the 2021 census, the commune had a population of 2,084; of those, 87.5% were Romanians and 3% were Roma. See also * Castra of Feldioara ...
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Brașov County
Brașov County () is a county (județ) of Transylvania, Romania. Its capital city is Brașov. The county incorporates within its boundaries most of the Medieval "lands" (''țări'') Burzenland and Făgăraș. Name In Hungarian language, Hungarian, it is known as ''Brassó megye'', and in German language, German as ''Kreis Kronstadt''. Under Austria-Hungary, a county with an identical name (Brassó County, ) was created in 1876, covering a smaller area. Demographics At the 2011 Romanian census, 2011 census, the county had a population of 549,217 and the population density was . * Romanians – 87.4% * Hungarians in Romania, Hungarians – 7.77% * Romani people in Romania, Romas – 3.5% * Germans of Romania, Germans (Transylvanian Saxons) – 0.65% At the 2021 Romanian census, 2021 census, Brașov County had a population of 546,615 and the population density was . * Romanians – 88.33% * Hungarians in Romania, Hungarians – 5,98% * Romani people in Romania, Romas – 4.98% ...
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Curtici
Curtici ( Hungarian: ''Kürtös'', German: ''Kurtitsch'') is a town located in Arad County, in western Romania. The town is situated at a distance from the county capital, Arad, in the western part of Arad County. It is the most important railway meeting point of Central Europe with the western part of Romania. Its administrative territory extends on a area, on the Sântana Plateau, a plateau characterized in the zone of the town by the sand hills formed by the old branches of the river Mureș. Curtici is a border town between Hungary and Romania, on the Romanian side. It is an especially important rail border crossing, as it is the main crossing between trains going from Hungary and Romania, especially those between Budapest and Bucharest. The town administered the village of Dorobanți until 2004, when it was split off to form a separate commune. The town borders Hungary and Macea commune to the north, Zimandu Nou commune to the east, Șofronea commune to the south, and ...
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Ucea De Sus Solar Park
Ucea de Sus Solar Park is a large thin-film photovoltaic (PV) power system, built on a plot of land located in Ucea in Romania. The solar park has around 332,000 state-of-the-art thin film PV panels for a total nameplate capacity of 82-megawatts, and was finished in December 2013. The solar park is expected to supply around 115 GWh of electricity per year enough to power some 126,000 average homes. The installation is located in the Brașov County in central Romania in Ucea. The investment cost for the Ucea de Sus solar park amounts to some Euro 100 million. See also *Energy policy of the European Union *Photovoltaics *Renewable energy commercialization *Renewable energy in the European Union *Solar power in Romania Solar power in Romania had an installed capacity of 1,374 megawatt (MW) as of the end of 2017. The country had in 2007 an installed capacity of 0.30 MW, which increased to 3.5 MW by the end of 2011, and to 6.5 MW by the end of 2012. Ho ... Refer ...
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Castra Of Feldioara
The castra of FeldioaraPop, I. I. & Gudea, N. (1974). Castrul roman de la Feldioara. Cumidava, VIII, 39-55 was a castra, fort in the Roman province of Roman Dacia, Dacia See also *List of castra External linksRoman castra from Romania - Google MapsEarth Notes

Roman auxiliary forts in Romania Ancient history of Transylvania Historic monuments in Brașov County Limes Alutanus {{Dacia-stub ...
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National Institute Of Statistics (Romania)
The National Institute of Statistics (, INS) is a Romanian government agency which is responsible for collecting national statistics, in fields such as geography, the economy, demographics and society. The institute is also responsible for conducting Romania's census every ten years, with the latest census being organised in 2022. Leadership The head of the NIS is currently Tudorel Andrei, while the three vice-presidents are: * Ioan-Silviu VÎRVA, in charge of economic and social statistics * Marian Chivu, in charge of national accounts and the dissemination of statistical information * Beatrix Gered, in charge of IT activities and statistical infrastructure History Romania's first official statistics body was the Central Office for Administrative Statistics (''Oficiul Central de Statistică Administrativă''), established on July 12, 1859, under the reign of Alexandru Ioan Cuza. The organisation, one of the first national statistics organisations in Europe, conducted its ...
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Romani People In Romania
Romani people in Romania, locally and pejoratively referred to as the (), constitute the second largest ethnic minority in the country (the first being Hungarians). According to the 2021 census, their number was 569,477 people and 3.4% of the total population. The size of the total population of people with Romani ancestry in Romania is even more, with different estimates varying from 4.6 percent to over 10 percent of the population, because many people of Romani descent do not declare themselves Roma. For example, in 2007 the Council of Europe estimated that approximately 1.85 million Roma lived in Romania, based on an average between the lowest estimate (1.2 to 2.2 million people) and the highest estimate (1.8 to 2.5 million people) available at the time. This figure is equivalent to 8.32% of the population. On the other hand, less than half are native speakers of the Romani language. Origins History, genetics and linguistics all indicate the Roma originate from northern Indi ...
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Romanians
Romanians (, ; dated Endonym and exonym, exonym ''Vlachs'') are a Romance languages, Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation native to Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Sharing a Culture of Romania, common culture and Cultural heritage, 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. In one interpretation of the 1989 census results in Moldova, the majority of Moldovans were counted as ethnic Romanians as well.''Ethnic Groups Worldwide: A Ready Reference Handbook By'' David Levinson (author), David Levinson, Published 1998 – Greenwood Publishing Group.At the time of the 1989 census, Moldova's total population was 4,335,400. The largest nationality in the republic, ethnic Romanians, numbered 2,795,000 persons, accounting for 64.5 percent of the population. Source U.S. Library of Congres ...
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2021 Romanian Census
The 2021 Romanian census () was a census held in Romania between 1 February and 31 July 2022, with the reference day for the census data set at 1 December 2021. The census was supposed to be done in 2021, but it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Romania in order to avoid census takers from getting infected when coming into contact with ill or quarantined people. It was the first census held in Romania in which data was collected online, something that had support among Romanian youth. The census was divided into three phases: one in which personal data of the Romanian population was collected from various sites; another in which the population was to complete more precise data such as religion, in which town halls would help the natives of rural areas to answer the census; and a third one in which census takers would go to the homes and households of those who did not register their data online. Data for this census was planned not to be collected on paper, but inste ...
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Victoria, Brașov
Victoria (; ; ) is a town in the western part of Brașov County, Transylvania, Romania. It had a population of 6,446 at the 2021 census. Geography The town is located in the western part of Brașov County, from the county seat, Brașov, on the border with Sibiu County. In lies in the historical region of Țara Făgărașului, halfway between the Olt River to the north and the Făgăraș Mountains to the south. History In 1939, the Romanian state signed a contract with the German company Ferrostaal of Essen to build a factory (called "Ucea") on the site of what is now Victoria. The contract was canceled after Romania declared war on Germany in 1944, during World War II. The building of the town began in 1949 and it had the provisional names of "Colonia Ucea" and "Ucea Roșie" (Red Ucea), only to be changed in November 1954 to Victoria. Climate Victoria has a warm-summer humid continental climate (''Dfb'' in the Köppen climate classification). Twin towns * Chevilly-Larue ...
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Ucea–Victoria Railway Line
The Ucea–Victoria railway line is a Romanian standard gauge single-track railway branching from Ucea railway station on Căile Ferate Române, CFR Căile Ferate Române Line 200, line 200, at Metres above sea level, above sea, and heading South towards Victoria, Brașov, Victoria city, at above sea. It is currently used only for Rail freight transport, freight transport by Viromet S.A. in Victoria. History Construction The birth and development of the railway was closely linked to that of ''Ucea'' (later ''Ucea-Fabrică'' and then ''Victoria'') town and chemical plant. As a preliminary work, by Decree-Law nr. 3456 from 20 September 1939, the Armament Endowment Ministry was allowed to lend CFR 90 million lei for repairing and strengthening the railway between Podu Olt and Ucea in order for it to sustain heavier traffic. The birth certificate of the line was Decree-Law nr. 3667 from 7 October 1939, allowing the construction of a new railway line for Ucea-Fabrică in Făgă ...
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Hungary–Romania Border
The Hungary–Romania border (; ) refers to the state border between Hungary and Romania. It was established in 1920 by an international commission, the "Lord Commission", presided over by geographers including Emmanuel de Martonne and Robert Ficheux, and historians Robert William Seton-Watson and Ernest Denis. The border was set by the Treaty of Trianon which was signed on 4 June 1920. The border has been stable since the end of the World War II, Second World War, when it received its current shape, and is no longer officially in dispute between the countries. In the current form, the border is about 448 kilometers long, or about 278 miles. It is demarcated by pillars, and about 20 kilometers of the border are marked by the Mureș (river), Mureș River (”''Maros''” in Hungarian). At the moment, the border is an internal border of the European Union, having once been an external border until 2004 enlargement of the European Union, Hungary's accession to the alliance on May 1 ...
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Transylvania
Transylvania ( or ; ; or ; Transylvanian Saxon dialect, Transylvanian Saxon: ''Siweberjen'') is a List of historical regions of Central Europe, historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and south its natural border are the Carpathian Mountains and to the west the Apuseni Mountains. Broader definitions of Transylvania also include the western and northwestern Romanian regions of Crișana and Maramureș, and occasionally Banat. Historical Transylvania also includes small parts of neighbouring Western Moldavia and even a small part of south-western neighbouring Bukovina to its north east (represented by Suceava County). Transylvania is known for the scenery of its Carpathian landscape and its rich history, coupled with its multi-cultural character. It also contains Romania's second-largest city, Cluj-Napoca, and other very well preserved medieval iconic cities and towns such as Brașov, Sibiu, Târgu Mureș, Bistrița, Alba Iuli ...
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