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Balș () is a town in Olt County, Oltenia, Romania. The town administers three villages: Corbeni, Româna, and Teiș. Geography The town is situated on the Wallachian Plain and lies on the banks of the river Olteț. It is located in the northwestern part of the county, on the border with Dolj County, west of the county seat, Slatina. Etymology There are three hypotheses about the town's name: # The locality was named after the Balșița brook. # The name comes from the Turkish word "Baliş" (honey), as there is a large apiculture area there. # A boyar named Balș settled here in the 5th or 6th century. Population At the 2002 census, the town had a population of 21,195; there were 20,552 Romanians, 619 Roma, and 27 others. Listed by religion: 21,043 were Eastern Orthodox, 47 Seventh-Day Adventists, 36 Baptists, 19 Pentecostalists, 8 Roman-Catholics, 5 Atheists, and 32 other religions. At the 2021 census, Balș had a population of 16,114; of those, 81.73% were Romanians and ...
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Olt County
Olt County () is a county (județ) of Romania on the border with Bulgaria, in the Historical regions of Romania, historical regions of Oltenia and Muntenia (the regions are separated by the Olt River, Olt river). The capital city is Slatina, Romania, Slatina. History On 24 August 2017, the Olt County Council decided to hold 2018 Olt County name referendum, a name referendum on 15 October 2017 for the proposal to change the county name to "Olt-Romanați County, Romanați". The referendum was eventually held on 6 and 7 October 2018. The vote was nullified, as turnout was 27.19%, below the required threshold of 30%; therefore, the Olt County retains its current name. Demographics In 2011, the county had a population of 415,530 and the population density was . * Romanians - 98.01% * Romani people in Romania, Romani - 1.9% * The county is a mainly rural one, with over 60% of the population living in villages. Geography The county lies in a flat area on the western part of ...
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Atheism
Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the Existence of God, existence of Deity, deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no deities. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which is the belief that at least one deity exists. Historically, evidence of atheistic viewpoints can be traced back to classical antiquity and Nāstika, early Indian philosophy. In the Western world, atheism declined after Christianity gained prominence. The 16th century and the Age of Enlightenment marked the resurgence of atheistic thought in Europe. Atheism achieved a significant position worldwide in the 20th century. Estimates of those who have an absence of belief in a god range from 500 million to 1.1 billion people. Atheist organizations have defended the autonomy of science, freedom of thought, secularism, and secular ethics. Arguments for atheism range from p ...
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Populated Places In Olt County
Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region or area. Governments conduct a census to quantify the resident population size within a given jurisdiction. The term is also applied to non-human animals, microorganisms, and plants, and has specific uses within such fields as ecology and genetics. Etymology The word ''population'' is derived from the Late Latin ''populatio'' (a people, a multitude), which itself is derived from the Latin word ''populus'' (a people). Use of the term Social sciences In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined feature in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Ecology In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species which inhabit the same geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where interbreeding is possible between any opposite-sex pair within the area ...
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Towns In Romania
This is a list of cities and towns in Romania, ordered by population (largest to smallest) according to the Demographic history of Romania, 2002, 2011 and 2021 censuses. For the major cities, average elevation is also given. Cities in bold are county capitals. The list includes major cities with the status of ''municipiu'' (103 in total), as well as cities and towns with the status of ''oraș'' (216 in total). Romania has 319 cities and towns: one city with over 1 million inhabitants, 17 other cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants, 153 cities with a population between 10,000 and 100,000 inhabitants, 110 towns between 5,000 and 10,000 inhabitants, and 38 towns with less than 5,000 inhabitants. Complete list See also *Metropolitan areas in Romania *List of cities in Europe *List of city listings by country References

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Daniel Stana
Ionel Daniel Stana (born 2 December 1982) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as a left midfielder In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an outfield position primarily in the middle of the pitch. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. .... External links * * 1982 births Living people People from Balș Romanian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders FC Internațional Curtea de Argeș players AFC Rocar București players CS Minerul Motru players FC Petrolul Ploiești players CS Otopeni players CSM Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț players CFR Cluj players SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea players CS Pandurii Târgu Jiu players Liga I players Liga II players Footballers from Olt County 21st-century Romanian sportsmen {{Romania-footy-midfielder-1980s-stub ...
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Cerasela Pătrașcu
Cerasela Pătrașcu (born 23 December 1992 in Balș, Olt County, Romania) is a Romanian artistic gymnast. She is a bronze world medalist and a gold European medalist with the team. Early life and gymnastic career Cerasela was a member of the national team at Deva and had a successful junior career medaling at various competitions. She was a silver medalist with the team at the 2006 Junior European Championships. In 2007, she won the 7th Lugano International ThrophyInternational Gymnast Magazine
Patrascu, Sabot win in Switzerland, 2007
and medaled gold on vault, silver for all around and bronze on balance beam at the European Youth Olympic Festival.
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Petre Pandrea
Petre Pandrea, pen name of Petre Ion Marcu, also known as Petru Marcu Balș (26 June 1904 – 8 July 1968), was a Romanian social philosopher, lawyer, and political activist, also noted as an essayist, journalist, and memoirist. A native of rural Oltenia, he was always a promoter of its regional identity, which blended into peasant populism. Other than these two traits, and his iconoclastic irreverence that bordered on Anarchism in Romania, anarchism, his political opinions fluctuated several times between extremes—from right-wing conservatism to Marxism-Leninism. Beginning from the 1910s, when Pandrea was training as a cadet at Dealu Monastery, he was intimately acquainted with the power structures and ideologies of the Romanian Kingdom; it was also here that he first met the anti-liberal ideologue Nae Ionescu, who became the object of his fascination, and, for a while, an intellectual mentor. Eventually dropping out of the Romanian Land Forces, he was an award-winning student at ...
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Cornel Feruță
Cornel Feruță (born 21 August 1975) is a Romanian diplomat. Born in Balș, Olt County, he holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest and a Master of Arts in international relations from the University of Bucharest. He became a member of the Diplomatic Corps of Romania in 1998 and has the diplomatic rank of Ambassador. Between 2007 and 2012 he was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of Romania to International Organizations in Vienna and from September 2013 he held the position of Assistant Director General, Chief Coordinator of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). From 25 July 2019 to December 2019, he was acting Director General of IAEA in Vienna. From 2020 to 2022 he served as State Secretary for Global Affairs and Diplomatic Strategies with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania. On 16 September 2022, he became the Permanent Represent ...
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Ion Dumitra
Ion Dumitra (born 30 January 1976) is a Romanian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder for teams such as Bihor Oradea, Jiul Petroșani, Minerul Lupeni Clubul Sportiv Viitorul Minerul Lupeni, commonly referred to as Minerul Lupeni, is a Romanian football club based in Lupeni, Hunedoara County, which competes in Liga III , the third tier of the Romanian football league system. Established in 192 ... or Alro Slatina, among others. References External links * * 1976 births Living people People from Balș Romanian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders FC Bihor Oradea (1958) players CSM Jiul Petroșani players FC UTA Arad players ACS Minerul Lupeni players ACF Gloria Bistrița players CS Lotus Băile Felix players Liga I players Liga II players Romanian football managers ACS Minerul Lupeni managers Romanian expatriate men's footballers Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate men's footballers in Germany ...
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Claudia Constantinescu
Claudia Maria Constantinescu (born 18 June 1994) is a Romanian handballer who plays for SCM Craiova. Achievements *Cupa României: **''Winner'': 2019 * Liga Națională: **''Golden Medalist'': 2022 **''Silver Medalist'': 2019 **''Bronze Medalist'': 2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ... References 1994 births Living people People from Balș Romanian female handball players Sportspeople from Olt County 21st-century Romanian sportswomen {{Romania-handball-bio-stub ...
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Eugen Căpățînă
Marian Eugen Căpăţână (born 18 June 1986) is a Romanian rugby union footballer. He plays the position of Hooker. He played for Steaua București during the 2011/12 season. He has been playing for Timișoara Saracens since 2012, in the SuperLiga. He also played for București Wolves. He has 18 caps for Romania, since 2012, with 2 tries scored, 10 points on aggregate. He has won a European Champion Trophy. He was called for the 2015 Rugby World Cup, but was not capped. References External links * * * * at Timișoara Saracens Timișoara (, , ; , also or ; ; ; see #Etymology, other names) is the capital city of Timiș County, Banat, and the main economic, social and cultural center in Western Romania. Located on the Bega (Tisza), Bega River, Timișoara is consider ... website {{DEFAULTSORT:Capatana, Eugen 1986 births Living people București Wolves players CSA Steaua București (rugby union) players SCM Rugby Timișoara players Romanian rugby union players ...
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Nicușor Bănică
Nicușor Răzvan Bănică (born 7 January 1984) is a Romanian former footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Metalurgistul Cugir. In his career, he also played for teams such as FC U Craiova, Poiana Câmpina, FC Drobeta Turnu-Severin or Metalurgistul Cugir, among others. In 2010, for a short period, he was the assistant manager of Pandurii II Târgu Jiu.Nicușor Bănică, antrenor
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Liga III The Liga 3, most often spelled as Liga III, is the third level of the Romanian football league system. It was founded in 1936 and was called Divizia C until 2006. An exception was the seasons 1992–93 to 1996–97, in which the lea ...
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