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Ilie Motrescu
Ilie Motrescu (18 August 1941 – 26 July 1969) was a Romanian writer and publicist in Soviet Ukraine. Born in Crasna Putnei, he became teacher of Romanian language and literature and later editor at the Romanian-language newspaper '' Zorile Bucovinei'' following his graduation from the Alecu Russo Pedagogical Institute in Bălți in 1964. He disappeared in the summer of 1969, having reportedly been killed by the KGB, and is today a martyr among the Romanian minority in Ukraine. Biography Ilie Motrescu was born on 18 August 1941 in Crasna Putnei, in the Kingdom of Romania (now in Ukraine). He was the son of peasants Ana (née Pleșca) and Ion Motrescu. He completed middle school in Chudei () in 1959, after which he graduated from the Alecu Russo Pedagogical Institute (now the Alecu Russo State University) in Bălți in the Moldavian SSR (now Moldova) in 1964. Motrescu was then teacher of Romanian language and literature at a middle school in Krasna Ilska () from 1964 to 196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krasnoilsk
Krasnoilsk (; or ) is a Populated places in Ukraine#Rural settlements, rural settlement in Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Krasnoilsk settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: Krasnoilsk is located from the Ukrainian border with Romania and according to the 2001 Ukrainian census, the settlement had 9,122 peopl out of which almost all are ethnic Romanians. According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, the majority of the population of the urban settlement of Crasna was Romanian -speaking (92.64%), with Ukrainian (5.49%) and Russian (1.45%) speakers in the minority. History Starting in 1968, Krasnoilsk was designated an urban-type settlement. Until 18 July 2020, Krasnoilsk belonged to Storozhynets Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Chernivtsi Oblast to three. The area of Storoz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Editor
A literary editor is a editor responsible for refining and overseeing the quality of written content in a newspaper, magazine or other publication. Literary editor deals with aspects concerning literature and books, especially reviews. A literary editor may also help with editing books themselves, by providing services such as proof reading, copy-editing, and literary criticism. Their work often involves reviewing literary pieces, book reviews, and essays to ensure clarity, coherence, and adherence to editorial standards. Literary editors are sometimes referred to as copy editors or production editors, depending on their specific role within a publication. Responsibilities Literary editor is responsible for overseeing content related to literature and books in newspapers, magazines, and other publications. A literary editor is primarily concerned with the mechanics of writing and the overall structure of the content rather than its technical subject matter. Their responsibilitie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1941 Births
The Correlates of War project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 3.49 million. However, the Uppsala Conflict Data Program estimates that the subsequent year, 1942, was the deadliest such year. Death toll estimates for both 1941 and 1942 range from 2.28 to 7.71 million each. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Euthanasia Centre in Germany, in the first phase of mass killings under the Aktion T4 program here. * January 1 – Thailand's Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram decrees January 1 as the official start of the Thai solar calendar new year (thus the previous year that began April 1 had only 9 months). * January 3 – A decree (''Normalschrifterlass'') promulgated in Germany by Martin Bormann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contrafort
''Contrafort'' was a Moldovan magazine focused on the contemporary Moldovan literature and culture and published from 1994 until 2021 in Chișinău, Moldova. References External links * Contrafort - 15 ani (Ce înseamnă și ce a însemnat pentru Dumneavoastră revista "Contrafort"?)* Romanian Cultural InstituteCONTRAFORT* Radio Free Europe Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a media organization broadcasting news and analyses in 27 languages to 23 countries across Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Middle East. Headquartered in Prague since 1995, RFE/RL ...Contrafort - o revistă emancipată, îndrăzneață, performantă Magazines established in 1994 Romanian-language magazines Literary magazines published in Moldova Mass media in Chișinău Monthly magazines published in Romania {{Europe-lit-mag-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hora (dance)
Hora, also known as horo and oro, is a type of circle dance traditionally performed in Southeast Europe. Circle dances with similar names are found in Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, North Macedonia, Greece and Turkey Acculturation, culturally adopted by Minority group, ethnic minorities such as the Ashkenazi Jews (Yiddish: האָרע ''hore''), Sephardic Jews (Judaeo-Spanish, Ladino: הורו ''horo'') and the Romani people, Roma. Etymology The name, spelled differently in various countries, is derived from the Greek language, Greek (''Choros (dance), khorós''): "dance", which is cognate with the Ancient Greek art form of (''Choreia, khoreía''). The original meaning of the Greek word may have been "circle". Also, the words ''hora'' and ''oro'' are found in many Slavic languages and have the meaning of "round (dance)"; the verb ''oriti'' means "to speak, sound, sing" and previously meant "to celebrate". The Greek language, Greek () is cognate with Pontic Greek (), and has a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almanac
An almanac (also spelled almanack and almanach) is a regularly published listing of a set of current information about one or multiple subjects. It includes information like weather forecasting, weather forecasts, farmers' sowing, planting dates, tide tables, and other table (information), tabular data often arranged according to the calendar. Celestial figures and various statistics are found in almanacs, such as the sunrise, rising and sunset, setting times of the Sun and Moon, dates of eclipses, hours of high and low tides, and religious festivals. The set of events noted in an almanac may be tailored for a specific group of readers, such as farmers, sailors, or astronomers. Name The etymology of the word is unclear. The earliest documented use of the word in something like its current sense is in Latin in 1267. Roger Bacon used it to mean a set of tables detailing movements of heavenly bodies including the Moon. It has been suggested that the word ''almanac'' derives fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literatura și Arta
''Literatura şi Arta'' (Romanian for "Literature and Art") is a weekly newspaper from Chişinău, Moldova. History The first edition was printed in 1977. The first editor in chief was Victor Teleucă Victor Teleucă (19 January 1933 – 12 August 2002) was a Moldovan writer and poet from Bessarabia (now Republic of Moldova Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a Landlocked country, landlocked country in Eastern Europe, with ... (1977–1983), Valeriu Senic (1983–1986). Among the authors were: Dinu Mihail, Mircea Blajinu, Vlad Zbârciog, Mihail Ion Cibotaru, Iacob Burghiu, Iulian Nicuţă, Eugen Gheorghiţă, Haralambie Moraru, Ion Caţaveică. Nicolae Dabija has been the editor in chief of Literatura şi Arta since 1986. External links *Literatura şi Arta Footnotes Newspapers established in 1977 Romanian-language newspapers Newspapers published in Moldova Mass media in Chișinău Weekly newspapers {{Moldova-newspaper-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 the east, and the Black Sea to the southeast. It has a mainly continental climate, and an area of with a population of 19 million people. Romania is the List of European countries by area, twelfth-largest country in Europe and the List of European Union member states by population, sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Europe's second-longest river, the Danube, empties into the Danube Delta in the southeast of the country. The Carpathian Mountains cross Romania from the north to the southwest and include Moldoveanu Peak, at an altitude of . Bucharest is the country's Bucharest metropolitan area, largest urban area and Economy of Romania, financial centre. Other major urban centers, urban areas include Cluj-Napoca, Timiș ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Bukovina
Bukovina or ; ; ; ; , ; see also other languages. is a historical region at the crossroads of Central and Eastern Europe. It is located on the northern slopes of the central Eastern Carpathians and the adjoining plains, today divided between Romania and Ukraine. Inhabited by many cultures and peoples, settled by both Ukrainians (Ruthenians) and Romanians (Moldavians), it became part of the Kievan Rus' and Pechenegs' territory early on during the 10th century and an integral part of the Principality of Moldavia in the 14th century where the capital of Moldavia, Suceava, was founded, eventually expanding its territory all the way to the Black Sea. Consequently, the culture of the Kievan Rus' spread in the region during the Early Middle Ages, early Middle Ages. During the time of the Golden Horde, namely in the 14th century (or in the High Middle Ages), Bukovina became part of Moldavia under Hungarian suzerainty (i.e. under the medieval Kingdom of Hungary). According to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arcadie Suceveanu
Arcadie Vasile Suceveanu (born 16 November 1952) is a Soviet Ukrainian-born Romanian poet, essayist, translator and journalist in Moldova. Suceveanu was born in Sucheveny (), in the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine). He completed his secondary education in Karapchiv ( or ) in 1969, after which he entered Chernivtsi University, studying in the Romanian Language and Literature section of the Faculty of Philology. Suceveanu debuted as a poet in 1968 in ''Zorile Bucovinei'', a Romanian-language newspaper in Ukraine. He became executive vice president of the Moldovan Writers' Union after 1990, later becoming its president in 2010. He also became secretary and president of the Writers' Union of Romania's branch in Chișinău in 2005. Suceveanu is a founding member of PEN Moldova, the Moldovan branch of PEN International. He has received numerous awards, including an award from the Romanian Academy The Romanian Academy ( ) is a cultural forum founded in Bucharest, Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chernivtsi
Chernivtsi (, ; , ;, , see also #Names, other names) is a city in southwestern Ukraine on the upper course of the Prut River. Formerly the capital of the historic region of Bukovina, which is now divided between Romania and Ukraine, Chernivtsi serves as the administrative center for the Chernivtsi urban hromada, the Chernivtsi Raion, and the Chernivtsi Oblast, oblast itself. The Chernivtsi population is and the latest Ukrainian Census (2001), census in 2001 was 240,600. The first document that refers to this city dates back to 1408, when Chernivtsi was a town in the region of Moldavia, formerly as a defensive fortification, and became the center of Bukovina in 1488. In 1538, Chernivtsi was under the control of the Principality of Moldavia under Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Polish suzerainty, later under Ottoman Empire suzerainty, and the Moldavian control lasted for two centuries until 1774, when Archduchy of Austria, Austria took control of Bukovina in the aftermath of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prut
The Prut (also spelled in English as Pruth; , ) is a river in Eastern Europe. It is a left tributary of the Danube, and is long. Part of its course forms Romania's border with Moldova and Ukraine. Characteristics The Prut originates on the eastern slope of Mount Hoverla, in the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine ( Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast). At first, the river flows to the north. Near Yaremche it turns to the northeast, and near Kolomyia to the south-east. Having reached the border between Moldova and Romania, it turns even more to the south-east, and then to the south. It eventually joins the Danube near Giurgiulești, east of Galați and west of Reni. Between 1918 and 1939, the river was partly in Poland and partly in Greater Romania (Romanian: ''România Mare''). Prior to World War I, it served as a border between Romania and the Russian Empire. After World War II, the river once again denoted a border, this time between Romania and the Soviet Union. Nowadays, for a length of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
