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Săcuieu
Săcuieu () is a commune in Cluj County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Rogojel (''Havasrogoz''), Săcuieu, and Vișagu (''Viság''). Geography The commune lies in the northern foothills of the Apuseni Mountains, at an altitude of , on the banks of the river Săcuieu. It is situated at the western extremity of Cluj County, in the Țara Călatei historical region of Transylvania, on the border with Bihor County. Săcuieu is located southwest of the town of Huedin and west of the county seat, Cluj-Napoca. It is crossed by county road DJ103H, which connects it to Bologa to the north and to Scrind-Frăsinet to the south. Demographics According to the census from 2011, there was a total population of 1,441 people living in this commune; of those, 86.81% were ethnic Romanians Romanians (, ; dated Endonym and exonym, exonym ''Vlachs'') are a Romance languages, Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation native to Central Europe, Central, Easter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Săcuieu (river)
The Săcuieu (in its upper course also ''Valea Răchițele'', in its lower course also ''Pârâul Hențu'' or ''Henț'') is a left tributary of the river Crișul Repede in Romania. Its source is in the Apuseni Mountains. It discharges into the Crișul Repede near Bologa, Cluj, Bologa. e-calauza.ro Its length is and its basin size is . Tributaries The following rivers are tributaries to the Săcuieu: *Left: Valea Stanciului (river), Valea Stanciului, Seciu, Răcad, Aluniș, Vișag *Right: MărgăuțaReferences Rivers of Romania Rivers of Cluj County {{Cluj-river-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cluj County
Cluj County () is a county () of Romania, in Transylvania. Its seat is Cluj-Napoca. Name In Hungarian language, Hungarian it is known as ''Kolozs megye''. Under the Kingdom of Hungary, a county with an identical name (Kolozs County, ) existed since the 11th century. Geography Cluj County lies in the northwestern half of the country, between parallels 47°28' in north and 46°24' in south, meridians 23°39' in west and 24°13' in east, respectively. It covers an area of unfolded in the contact zone of three representative natural units: the Apuseni Mountains, the Transylvanian Plateau, Someș Plateau, and the Transylvanian Plain. Cluj County is the 12th largest in the country and occupies 2.8% of Romania's area. It is bordered to the northeast with Maramureș County, Maramureș and Bistrița-Năsăud County, Bistrița-Năsăud counties, to the east with Mureș County, to the south with Alba County, and to the west with Bihor County, Bihor and Sălaj County, Sălaj counties. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poieni, Cluj
Poieni (; ) is a commune in Cluj County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of eight villages: Bologa (''Sebesvár''), Cerbești (''Kecskéstanya''), Hodișu (''Hodosfalva''), Lunca Vișagului (''Viságmező''), Morlaca (''Marótlaka''), Poieni, Tranișu (''Tarányos''), and Valea Drăganului (''Nagysebes''). Villages Bologa Bologa (; ) is a village in the Poieni commune, with a population of 687 people in 2002. Geography The village is situated at the confluence of the Crișul Repede and Săcuieu rivers (the confluence is known as "''gura apelor''" – "the mouth of the waters" – in the local toponymy) and at the foot of the (1863 m), part of the Apuseni Mountains, in the western Carpathian Mountains. The closest town is Huedin. Transportation links: on the European route E60. Small railway stop ("''haltă''") for regional trains ("''Personal''") on the Oradea-Cluj-Napoca main Romanian railroad. On the national road DN128 which heads south towards Săcuieu. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Potra
George Potra (March 16, 1907 – December 19, 1990) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian teacher and historian. He was one the founders of the historical study of Bucharest. He was born in 1907 in Săcuieu, Cluj County, but in 1911 his family moved to Bucharest, capital of the Romanian Old Kingdom, where his father worked as a glazier. For completed his secondary studies at the Matei Basarab High School, where Constantin Noica and Barbu Brezianu were his schoolmates. He then studied at the University of Bucharest, having as teachers Nicolae Iorga, Constantin Moisil, Nicolae Cartojan, and Constantin C. Giurescu. He graduated in 1932 ''magna cum laude'' and obtained his Ph.D. in history four years later from the same university. From 1932 to 1967 he taught history at some of the best high schools in Bucharest, including Matei Basarab, Mihai Viteazu, and Aurel Vlaicu high schools, as well as the one in Găești Găești () is a town in Dâmbovița County, Muntenia, Romania with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apuseni Mountains
The Apuseni Mountains (, "Western Mountains"; , "Transylvanian Mountains") are a mountain range in Transylvania, Romania, which belongs to the Western Romanian Carpathians. The highest peak is the Bihor Peak at . The Apuseni Mountains have about 400 caves. Geography The Apuseni Mountains do not present an uninterrupted chain of mountains, but possess many low and easy passes towards the Crișana and the Pannonian Plain. Going from south to north the principal groups are: the Munții Metaliferi ("Ore Mountains") with the basaltic masses of the Detunata () near Abrud; the Bihor Mountains, with numerous caverns, with the highest peak the Bihorul (); to the east of this group are the Muntele Mare (highest peak ), to the southwest of Cluj-Napoca; the northernmost chain is the Seș and Meseș Mountains. Boundaries *To the north: the Barcău River. *To the south: the Mureș River. *To the east: the Transylvanian Plateau. *To the west: the Crișana plains. Subdivisions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Romanian Census
The 2011 Romanian census was a census held in Romania between 20 and 31 October 2011. It was performed by some 120,000 census takers in around 101,000 statistic sectors throughout the country established by the National Institute of Statistics (INS) of Romania. Preparations started already in 2009, and it was announced that the process would not end until 2014. Anyone who did not answer questions in the census questionnaire would be fined between 1,500 and 4,500 Romanian lei, although 4 of the 100 questions related to the respondent's ethnicity, mother language, religion, and possible disabilities were not mandatory. Preliminary results were released once on 2 February 2012 and again on 20 August 2012. The final definitive result of the census came out on 4 July 2013, showing that, among other things, Romania had lost 1,559,300 people since the 2002 census, consequently having 20,121,641 inhabitants. Some people like sociologist Vasile Ghețău, director of the Center of Demog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hydropower
Hydropower (from Ancient Greek -, "water"), also known as water power or water energy, is the use of falling or fast-running water to Electricity generation, produce electricity or to power machines. This is achieved by energy transformation, converting the Potential energy, gravitational potential or kinetic energy of a water source to produce power. Hydropower is a method of sustainable energy production. Hydropower is now used principally for Hydroelectricity, hydroelectric power generation, and is also applied as one half of an energy storage system known as pumped-storage hydroelectricity. Hydropower is an attractive alternative to fossil fuels as it does not directly produce Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere, carbon dioxide or other Air pollution, atmospheric pollutants and it provides a relatively consistent source of power. Nonetheless, it has economic, sociological, and environmental downsides and requires a sufficiently energetic source of water, such as a river or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mărgău
Mărgău (; ) is a commune in Cluj County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of six villages: Bociu (''Bocs''), Buteni (''Kalotabökény''), Ciuleni (''Incsel''), Mărgău, Răchițele (''Havasrekettye''), and Scrind-Frăsinet (''Kőrizstető''). Răchițele village is the birthplace of former Prime Minister of Romania, Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc, currently Mayor of Cluj-Napoca, while Mărgău village is the birthplace of Iosif Capotă, a noted Romanian anti-communist resistance movement, anti-communist resistance fighter from the early Socialist Republic of Romania, Communist era. Mărgău is notable for the Gumuțeasca, an argot spoken in the commune created by the natives to speak between each other without outsiders understanding them when travelling around the country to sell their glass products, a traditional profession of the commune. Geography Mărgău is located in the western part of Cluj County, on the border with Bihor County. It is situated at an altitude ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
