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ArieÈ™
The Arieș ( hu, Aranyos) is a left tributary of the river Mureș in Transylvania, Romania. It discharges into the Mureș in Gura Arieșului, southwest of Luduș. Its total length (including its headwater Arieșul Mare) is , and its drainage basin area is . Most probably "Arieș" means "Gold River", the name being derived from the Latin "Aureus". The Hungarian name "Aranyos" means "Golden" and it was first mentioned in 1177. Course The source of the river is in the Bihor Mountains, part of the Apuseni Mountains, which translates as The Western Mountains. The Arieș is formed near the village of Mihoești at the confluence of two headwaters: Arieșul Mare and Arieșul Mic. It flows through the Alba and Cluj counties and flows into the Mureș River near the village of Gura Arieșului, which is close to the town of Luduș. The towns of Câmpeni, Baia de Arieș, Turda, and Câmpia Turzii lie on the river Arieș. The upper valley of the river, Țara Moților, is a beautiful rusti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arieșul Mare
The ArieÈ™ul Mare ( hu, Nagy-Aranyos) is a river in the Apuseni Mountains, Alba County, western Romania. It is the left headwater of the river ArieÈ™. It flows through the villages ArieÈ™eni, Gârda de Sus, ScăriÈ™oara, Albac and Vadu MoÈ›ilor, and joins the ArieÈ™ul Mic (the other headwater) in MihoeÈ™ti near Câmpeni Câmpeni (German: ''Topesdorf''; Hungarian: ''Topánfalva'') is a town in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. The town administers 21 villages: BonceÈ™ti, BorleÈ™ti, BoteÈ™ti (''Botesbánya''), Certege (''Csertés''), Coasta Vâscului, DănduÈ .... e-calauza.ro Its length is about and its basin size is about . Tributaries The following rivers are tributaries to the river ArieÈ™ul Mare (from source to mouth): *Left:[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Țara Moților
Țara Moților (german: Motzenland), also known as ''Țara de Piatră'' ("The Stone Land") is an ethnogeographical region of Romania in the Apuseni Mountains, on the upper basin of the Arieș and Crișul Alb River rivers. It covers parts of the Alba, Arad, Bihor, Cluj, and Hunedoara counties of Romania and a section of it forms the Apuseni Natural Park. Țara Moților's inhabitants are known as "''moți''" (german: Motzen, hu, mócok). Some scholars consider the 'moți' as descendants of the Celts, because of their blonde hair and blue eyes, elements more frequent here than among other Romanians; however, the hypothesis is not accepted by mainstream historians due to its lack of consistency. Other scholars believe that they are the descendants of Slavs, for the same very reasons, or of the Alans. Yet another group of scholars consider them the descendants of Germanic tribes (the Gepids). Due to their blonde hair and blue eyes, so far seventeen theories regarding their origins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OcoliÈ™
Ocoliș (german: Zaundorf; hu, Alsóaklos) is a commune located in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of four villages: Lunca Largă (''Lunkalárga''), Ocoliș, Runc (''Aronyosronk'') and Vidolm (''Vidaly''). The commune is situated in the northern part of the county, between the Trascău Mountains and . It lies on the border with Cluj County, some from Baia de Arieș and from the county seat, Alba Iulia. The river Arieș flows through Vidolm village for a length of . The river Ocoliș Ocoliș (german: Zaundorf; hu, Alsóaklos) is a commune located in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of four villages: Lunca Largă (''Lunkalárga''), Ocoliș, Runc (''Aronyosronk'') and Vidolm (''Vidaly''). The commune is si ... is a left tributary of the Arieș; it flows through the commune, and joins the Arieș in Ocoliș village. In July 2021, rains and storms destroyed three houses and severely damaged another 20 in Ocoliș. More than 220 liters o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arieșul Mic
The ArieÈ™ul Mic ( hu, Kis-Aranyos) is a river in the Apuseni Mountains, Alba County, western Romania. It is the right headwater of the river ArieÈ™. It flows through the villages Avram Iancu and Vidra, and joins the ArieÈ™ul Mare (the other headwater) in MihoeÈ™ti near Câmpeni Câmpeni (German: ''Topesdorf''; Hungarian: ''Topánfalva'') is a town in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. The town administers 21 villages: BonceÈ™ti, BorleÈ™ti, BoteÈ™ti (''Botesbánya''), Certege (''Csertés''), Coasta Vâscului, DănduÈ .... e-calauza.ro Its length is and its basin size is . Tributaries The following rivers are tributaries to the river ArieÈ™ul Mic (from source to mouth): *Left: Micoaia, LibărÈ›ana, Valea Boului, DrăghiÈ›a, Slatina and Valea Lungă *Right: Divaia, Cioha ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iara (ArieÈ™)
The Iara is a river in the Apuseni Mountains, Cluj County, western Romania. It is a left tributary of the river Arieș. It flows through the villages Valea Ierii, Băișoara and Iara, and joins the Arieș in Buru Buru (formerly spelled Boeroe, Boro, or Bouru) is the third largest island within the Maluku Islands of Indonesia. It lies between the Banda Sea to the south and Seram Sea to the north, west of Ambon and Seram islands. The island belongs to .... e-calauza.ro Its length is and its basin size is . Tributaries The following rivers are tributaries to the river Iara (from source to mouth): *Left: Șoimul, Valea Calului and Agriș *Right: Măruț,[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baia De ArieÈ™
Baia de Arieș ( Hungarian: ''Aranyosbánya'' or ''Offenbánya''; German: ''Offenburg'') is a town in Alba County, Romania. It administers five villages: Brăzești (''Berzesd''), Cioara de Sus (''Felsőcsóra''), Muncelu (''Muncsal''), Sartăș (''Szártos'') and Simulești. With a population of 3,461 (2011), it was until 2004 a mining centre extracting, mainly for base metals but also arsenopyrite and pyrite-rich concentrate containing gold. The first writing about it is in a document of Charles I of Hungary since 1325. In the beginning of the 15th century it was declared free town. It lost town status later, but regained it in 1998. Baia de Arieș's tourist objectives are the monument of nature tree known as the "Emperor's beech" and the Muncel Monastery. Climate Baia de Arieș has a warm-summer humid continental climate (''Dfb'' in the Köppen climate classification). Demographics According to the census from 2011 there was a total population of 3,433 people living ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lunca Mureșului
Lunca Mureșului ( hu, Székelykocsárd; german: Holten) is a commune located in the north-east of the Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Gura Arieșului (''Vajdaszeg''; ''Walddorf'') and Lunca Mureșului. Geography Lunca Mureșului has an area of 31.35 km² and is located on the Mureș River, in the north-east corner of Alba County, approximately 10 km from the town of Ocna Mureș on the Romanian County Road 107F, from the towns of Câmpia Turzii and Luduș, and 60 km from the county capital, Alba Iulia. The commune is bordered by Cluj County in the north, Mureș County in the north-west, the town of Ocna Mureș in the west, and the commune of Noșlac in the south. The commune is important from a geographical point of view because on its territory (in the village of Gura Arieșului) the river Arieș flows into the Mureș. Demographics The 2002 Romanian census recorded 2,669 people living in the commune, of which 1719 Romani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sălciua
Sălciua ( hu, Szolcsva; german: Sundorf) is a commune located in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of six villages: Dealu Caselor (''Hegyik''), Dumești, Sălciua de Jos (the commune center; ''Alsószolcsva''), Sălciua de Sus (''Felsőszolcsva''), Sub Piatră (''Búvópatak'') and Valea Largă (''Malompataka''). It has a population of 1,428. Geography The commune is located the ethnogeographical region of Țara Moților, in the middle of the Apuseni Mountains. It is situated in the north of Alba County, from the county seat, Alba Iulia, and from Baia de Arieș, the nearest town, close to the national road joining Câmpeni to Turda. Lying on the banks of the Arieș River, in between the Trascău Mountains and Muntele Mare, Sălciua has a specific mountain landscape developed on limestone and crystalline schists. The altitude of the surrounding mountains varies between . The big Arieș meadow offers favorable conditions for agriculture, the large crop fields ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abrud (river)
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Poșaga
Poșaga (german: Puschendorf; hu, Podsága) is a commune located in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It has a population of 1,383, and is composed of seven villages: Corțești, Incești (''Jencsest''), Lunca (''Aranyoslonka''), Orăști (''Orest''), Poșaga de Jos (the commune center; ''Alsópodsága''), Poșaga de Sus (''Felsőpodsága'') and Săgagea (''Szegázs''). The commune is situated in the Apuseni Mountains, between the Trascău Mountains and , at the confluence of the Poșaga and Arieș rivers. It is located in the northern part of the county, on the border with Cluj County. The villages of Lunca and Poșaga de Jos are crossed by national road ; Baia de Arieș is to the west and Turda is to the east. Leon Șușman, the leader of an armed anti-communist resistance group from the 1950s, died in Poșaga de Sus in a shootout with Securitate The Securitate (, Romanian for ''security'') was the popular term for the Departamentul Securității Statului (Department ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turda
Turda (; hu, Torda, ; german: link=no, Thorenburg; la, Potaissa) is a city in Cluj County, Transylvania, Romania. It is located in the southeastern part of the county, from the county seat, Cluj-Napoca, to which it is connected by the European route E81, and from nearby Câmpia Turzii. The city consists of three neighborhoods: Turda Veche, Turda Nouă, and Oprișani. It is traversed from west to east by the Arieș River and north to south by its tributary, Valea Racilor. History Ancient times There is evidence of human settlement in the area dating to the Middle Paleolithic, some 60,000 years ago. The Dacians established a town that Ptolemy in his ''Geography'' calls ''Patreuissa'', which is probably a corruption of ''Patavissa'' or ''Potaissa'', the latter being more common. It was conquered by the Romans, who kept the name ''Potaissa'', between AD 101 and 106, during the rule of Trajan, together with parts of Decebal's Dacia. The name Potaissa is first recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cluj County
Cluj County (; german: Kreis Klausenburg, hu, Kolozs megye) is a county ( județ) of Romania, in Transylvania. Its seat ( ro, Oraș reședință de județ) is Cluj-Napoca (german: Klausenburg). Name In Hungarian, it is known as ''Kolozs megye'', and in German as ''Kreis Klausenburg''. Under Kingdom of Hungary, a county with an identical name (Kolozs County, ro, Comitatul Cluj) existed since the 11th century. Demography At the 2011 census, Cluj County had a population of 691,106 inhabitants, down from the 2002 census. On 1 January 2015, an analysis of the National Institute of Statistics revealed that 13.7% of the county population was between 0 and 14 years, 69.8% between 15 and 64 years, and 16.4% 65 years and over. 66.3% of the population lives in urban areas, having the fourth-highest rate of urbanization in the country, after Hunedoara (75%), Brașov (72,3%), and Constanța (68,8%). Ethnic composition At the 2011 census, the ethnic composition was as follows: * Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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