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Miercurea Sibiului
Miercurea Sibiului (; Transylvanian Saxon: ''Ruzmargt''; ) is a town in the west of Sibiu County, in southern Transylvania, central Romania, to the west of the county capital, Sibiu. Administration Miercurea Sibiului was declared a town in 2004. It is the 16th-smallest town in the country. The town administers two villages: * The village of Apoldu de Sus (''Großpold''; ''Nagyapold''), away * The village of Dobârca (''Dobring''; ''Doborka''), away. Also, 5 km away there is a small spa district, Băile Miercurea. At the 2011 census, 83.1% of inhabitants were Romanians, 14.7% Roma, and 1.9% Germans. Geography The town lies on the contact area between the Transylvanian Plateau and the Cindrel Mountains, a massif in the Parâng Mountains group in the Southern Carpathians, on a small depression formed by the Secaș River. The river Dobârca is a left tributary of the Secaș that flows through the eponymous village. The river Apold and its left tributary, the Rod, flo ...
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Transylvanian Saxon Dialect
Transylvanian Saxon is the native German dialects, German dialect of the Transylvanian Saxons, an ethnic Germans of Romania, German minority group from Transylvania in central Romania, and is also one of the three oldest ethnic German and Geographical distribution of German speakers, German-speaking groups of the German diaspora in Central and Eastern Europe, along with the Baltic Germans and Zipser Germans. In addition, the Transylvanian Saxons are the eldest ethnic German group of all constituent others forming the broader community of the Germans of Romania. The dialect is known by the Endonym and exonym, endonym or just ; in German as , , or (obsolete German spelling: ''Siebenbürgisch Teutsch''); in Transylvanian Landler dialect as ''Soksisch''; in Hungarian language, Hungarian as ; and in Romanian language, Romanian as , , or . Linguistically, the Transylvanian Saxon dialect is very close to Luxembourgish (especially regarding its vocabulary). This is because many ance ...
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Șpring
Șpring (; ) is a Commune in Romania, commune located in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of six villages: Carpen (''Árvádtanya''), Carpenii de Sus (''Gyertyános''), Cunța (''Konca''; ''Zeckesdorf''), Drașov (''Drassó''; ''Troschen''), Șpring, and Vingard (''Vingárd''; ''Weingartskirchen''). Geography The commune is situated at the western edge of the Transylvanian Plateau, at an altitude of , on the banks of the river Secaș (Sebeș), Secaș and its tributaries, the rivers Câlnic (Secaș), Câlnic and Boz (Secaș), Boz, with the river Șpring (river), Șpring flowing into the latter. Șpring commune is located in the southeastern part of Alba County, from the county seat, Alba Iulia, on the border with Sibiu County. Immediately to the south of Cunța village three major roads go east to west. The first is the A1 motorway (Romania), A1 motorway, which links Bucharest with the Banat and Crișana regions in western Romania. The second and the third, runn ...
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Căile Ferate Române
Căile Ferate Române (; abbreviated as the CFR) was the state railway carrier of Romania. The company was dissolved on 1 October 1998 by splitting into several successor companies. CFR as an entity existed from 1880, even though the first railway on current Romanian territory was opened in 1854. CFR was divided into four autonomous companies: * ''CFR Călători'', responsible for passenger services; * ''CFR Marfă'', responsible for freight transport; * ''Compania Națională de Căi Ferate CFR'', manages the infrastructure on the Romanian railway network; and * ''Societatea Feroviară de Turism'', or SFT, which manages Heritage railway, scenic and tourist railways. CFR was headquartered in Bucharest and had regional divisions centered in Bucharest, Brașov, Cluj-Napoca, Constanța, Craiova, Galați, Iași, and Timișoara. Its International Union of Railways code is 53-CFR. History Railways in the nineteenth century The first railway line on Romania's present-day territory w ...
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European Route
The international E-road network is a numbering system for roads in Europe developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). The network is numbered from E1 up and its roads cross national borders. It also reaches Central Asian countries like Kyrgyzstan, since they are members of the UNECE. Main international traffic arteries in Europe are defined by ECE/TRANS/SC.1/2016/3/Rev.1 which consider three types of roads: motorways, Limited-access road, limited access roads, and ordinary roads. In most countries, the roads carry the European route designation alongside national designations. Belgium, Norway and Sweden have roads which only have the European route designations (examples: European route E18, E18 and European route E6, E6). The United Kingdom, Albania and the Asian part of Russia only use national road designations and do not show the European designations at all. All route numbers in Andorra are unsigned. Denmark only uses the European designations ...
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European Route E81
European route E 81 is a road part of the International E-road network. It begins in Constanța, Romania and ends in Mukachevo, Ukraine. The road is long. The road follows the route: Mukachevo – Halmeu – Satu Mare – Zalău – Cluj-Napoca – Turda – Sebeș – Sibiu – Pitești – București – Lehliu – Fetești – Cernavodă – Constanța. Itinerary *: Mukachevo () () (Start of concurrency with ) – Berehove *: Berehove – Vylok *: Vylok – Nevetlenfolu *: Halmeu – Livada *: Livada (End of concurrency with ) – Satu Mare *: Satu Mare () – Supuru de Sus *: Supuru de Sus – Zalău – Cluj-Napoca *: Cluj-Napoca (Start of concurrency with ) – Turda (End of concurrency with ) – Alba Iulia – Sebeș (Start of concurrency with ) – Sibiu (End of concurrency with ) *: Sibiu *: Sibiu (Start of concurrency with ) – Veștem (End of concurrency with ) *: Veștem – Râmnicu Vâlcea – Pitești *: Pitești () – Bucharest () () *: ...
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European Route E68
European route E68 forms part of the United Nations International E-road network, linking Hungary with Romania. It starts in Szeged, Hungary, and ends in Brașov, Romania. Its total length is of which are in Hungary and in Romania. Its route is: Szeged – Makó – Nădlac – Pecica – Arad – Lipova – Deva – Simeria – Orăștie – Sebeș – Sibiu – Șelimbăr – Făgăraș – Brașov. Itinerary *: Szeged () – Makó – Csanádpalota *: Nădlac *: Nădlac *: Nădlac – Arad () – Lipova – Ilia (Start of concurrency with ) – Deva (Start of concurrency with , end of concurrency with ) – Simeria (End of concurrency with ) – Orăștie – Sebeș (Start of concurrency with ) – Sibiu – Veștem (End of concurrency with ) *: Veștem – Făgăraș – Brașov Brașov (, , ; , also ''Brasau''; ; ; Transylvanian Saxon dialect, Transylvanian Saxon: ''Kruhnen'') is a city in Transylvania, Romania and the county seat (i.e. administrat ...
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Sebeș
Sebeș (; German: ''Mühlbach''; Hungarian: ''Szászsebes''; Transylvanian Saxon: ''Melnbach'') is a city in Alba County, central Romania, southwestern Transylvania. Geography The city lies in the Mureș River valley and straddles the river Sebeș. It is at the crossroads of two main highways in Romania: the A1 motorway coming from Sibiu and going towards Deva and the A10 motorway going towards Alba Iulia and Cluj-Napoca. Their national road counterparts passing through the city are the DN1 ( E81) and the DN7 ( E68), both of which also come from Sibiu. Sebeș is situated south of the county capital, Alba Iulia. It has three villages under its administration: * Petrești (''Petersdorf''; ''Péterfalva'') – south * Lancrăm (''Langendorf''; ''Lámkerék'') – north * Răhău (''Reichau''; ''Rehó'') – east. Climate Sebeș has a humid continental climate (''Cfb'' in the Köppen climate classification). History It is believed that there has been an earli ...
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Apoldu De Jos
Apoldu de Jos (; ) is a commune located in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Apoldu de Jos and Sângătin (''Kleinenyed''; ''Kisenyed''). The municipality Apoldu de Jos is located in the historic Unterwald in the southwest of the Transylvanian Basin The Transylvanian Plateau (; ) is a plateau in central Romania. Description The plateau lies within and takes its name from the historical region of Transylvania, and is almost entirely surrounded by the Eastern, Southern and Romanian Weste .... History Apoldu de Jos was founded by Transylvanian Saxons and first documented in 1289. According to J. M. Ackner, C. Goos and V. Christescu, archaeological finds suggesting a colonization in Roman times were made in the area of Apoldu de Jos - called by the locals Intre Apoalde and La Rodeni. In 1750, 1236 Romanians lived in Kleinpold,  in 1773 about 60 landlords from Austria settled in Kleinpold. The inhabitants are engaged in mainly agricultu ...
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Săliște
Săliște ( or ''Selischte''; ) is a town in Sibiu County, in the centre of Romania, west of the county capital, Sibiu. Declared a town in 2003, it is the main locality in the Mărginimea Sibiului area. Geography The town is situated at the edge of the Cindrel Mountains, on a series of river valleys which flow into the Cibin River, in the southwestern part of the Transylvanian Plateau. The main town of Săliște has a population of 2,830; it also administers nine villages: * Aciliu (; ) – 268 inhabitants, 8 km away. * Amnaș (; ) – 369 inhabitants, 9 km away; Saxon fortified church. * Crinț () – 2 permanent inhabitants, 18 km away; military base. * Fântânele (until 1964 ''Cacova Sibiului''; ; ) – 251 inhabitants, 6 km away. * Galeș (; ) - 331 inhabitants, 2 km away. * Mag () – 439 inhabitants, 9 km away. * Săcel (; ) – 520 inhabitants, 4 km away. * Sibiel (; ) – 402 inhabitants, 6 km away. * Vale (; ) – 384 inhabitan ...
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Jina, Sibiu
Jina (; ) is a commune in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania, in the Cindrel Mountains, west of the county seat, Sibiu, in the Mărginimea Sibiului ethnographic area. It is composed of a single village, Jina. The commune is located in the southwestern part of Sibiu County; it borders Alba County to the west and Vâlcea County to the south. Close-by towns are Sebeș at , Săliște at , and Miercurea Sibiului at . Jina is crossed by county road DJ106E, which branches off national road DN1 in Cristian and joins the Transalpina road (DN67C) in Șugag Șugag (; ) is a commune located in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of seven villages: Arți (''Arctelep''), Bârsana (''Barzonatelep''), Dobra (''Dobratelep''), Jidoștina (''Jidostinatelep''), Mărtinie (''Martiniatelep''), � .... References Communes in Sibiu County Localities in Transylvania {{Sibiu-geo-stub ...
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Tilișca
Tilișca (; ) is a commune in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania, in the Cindrel Mountains, west of the county capital Sibiu, in the Mărginimea Sibiului Mărginimea Sibiului () is an area which comprises 18 Romanian localities in the south-western part of Sibiu County, in southern Transylvania, all of them having a unique ethnological, cultural, architectural, and historical heritage. Position T ... ethnographic area. It is composed of two villages, Rod (''Rod''; ''Ród'') and Tilișca. Natives * Aaron Florian (1805–1887), historian, journalist, and revolutionary References Communes in Sibiu County Localities in Transylvania {{Sibiu-geo-stub ...
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Poiana Sibiului
Poiana Sibiului (; ) is a commune in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of a single village, Poiana Sibiului. The name means "the glade of Sibiu". Position The village is situated in the Cindrel Mountains at an altitude of about 900 meters, 35 km west of the county capital Sibiu, in the Mărginimea Sibiului ethnographic area. History The first written account dates from 1537. Compared with the neighbouring villages, Poiana is a later settlement of Romanian population that moved higher in the mountains presumably dislocated by Saxon The Saxons, sometimes called the Old Saxons or Continental Saxons, were a Germanic people of early medieval "Old" Saxony () which became a Carolingian " stem duchy" in 804, in what is now northern Germany. Many of their neighbours were, like th ... settlements. The occupation shifted from agriculture to sheep-herding, which remains even today the main occupation. References Communes in Sibiu County Localities in Tra ...
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