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Certeju De Sus
Certeju de Sus ( hu, Felsőcsertés) is a commune in Hunedoara County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of nine villages: Bocșa Mare (''Boksatelep''), Bocșa Mică, Certeju de Sus, Hondol (''Hondol''; german: Hondolen), Măgura-Toplița (''Magura''), Nojag (''Nozság''), Săcărâmb (''Nagyág''; ''Gross-Astdorf''), Toplița Mureșului (''Toplica'') and Vărmaga (''Vormága''). The commune is the site of the Certej Mine and of the 1971 Certej dam failure The 1971 Certej dam failure was a flood due to the failure of a tailings dam at the Certej mine which led to the death of 89 people. It occurred on 30 October 1971 in Certeju de Sus commune, Hunedoara County, Romania. Background The tailing pond .... Natives * Ioan Moța References Communes in Hunedoara County Localities in Transylvania Certeju {{Hunedoara-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commune In Romania
A commune (''comună'' in Romanian) is the lowest level of administrative subdivision in Romania. There are 2,686 communes in Romania. The commune is the rural subdivision of a county. Urban areas, such as towns and cities within a county, are given the status of ''city'' or ''municipality''. In principle, a commune can contain any size population, but in practice, when a commune becomes relatively urbanised and exceeds approximately 10,000 residents, it is usually granted city status. Although cities are on the same administrative level as communes, their local governments are structured in a way that gives them more power. Some urban or semi-urban areas of fewer than 10,000 inhabitants have also been given city status. Each commune is administered by a mayor (''primar'' in Romanian). A commune is made up of one or more villages which do not themselves have an administrative function. Communes, like cities, correspond to the European Union's level 2 local administrative uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hunedoara County
Hunedoara County () is a county (''județ'') of Romania, in Transylvania, with its capital city at Deva. The county is part of the Danube–Criș–Mureș–Tisa Euroregion. Name In Hungarian, it is known as , in German as , and in Slovak as . The county got its name from the city of Hunedoara (), which is the Romanian transliteration of the Hungarian (, archaic: ), old name of the municipality. That most likely originated from the Hungarian verb meaning 'to close' or 'to die', but may also come from wear the name of the Huns, who were headquartered near for a time and were the first to establish solid rule over the land since the Dacians. Demographics In 2011, the county had a population of 396,253 and the population density was 56.1/km2. * Romanians - 93.31% * Hungarians - 4.09% * Romani - 1.9% * Germans (Transylvanian Saxons) - 0.25% Hunedoara's Jiu River Valley is traditionally a coal-mining region, and its high level of industrialisation drew many people fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transylvania
Transylvania ( ro, Ardeal or ; hu, Erdély; german: Siebenbürgen) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and south its natural border is the Carpathian Mountains, and to the west the Apuseni Mountains. Broader definitions of Transylvania also include the western and northwestern Romanian regions of Crișana and Maramureș, and occasionally Banat. Transylvania is known for the scenery of its Carpathian landscape and its rich history. It also contains Romania's second-largest city, Cluj-Napoca, and other iconic cities and towns such as Brașov, Sibiu, Târgu Mureș, Alba Iulia and Sighișoara. It is also the home of some of Romania's UNESCO World Heritage Sites such as the Villages with fortified churches, the Historic Centre of Sighișoara, the Dacian Fortresses of the Orăștie Mountains and the Roșia Montană Mining Cultural Landscape. It was under the rule of the Agathyrsi, part of the Dacian Kingdom (168 BC–106 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and the Black Sea to the southeast. It has a predominantly Temperate climate, temperate-continental climate, and an area of , with a population of around 19 million. 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. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, followed by Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați. The Danube, Europe's second-longest river, rises in Germany's Black Forest and flows in a southeasterly direction for , before emptying into Romania's Danube Delta. The Carpathian Mountains, which cross Roma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1971 Certej Dam Failure
The 1971 Certej dam failure was a flood due to the failure of a tailings dam at the Certej mine which led to the death of 89 people. It occurred on 30 October 1971 in Certeju de Sus commune, Hunedoara County, Romania. Background The tailing pond of Certej was used between 1936 and 1971 to hold the cyanide-laced acid tailings resulting from the gold mine exploitation of Certej. The disaster At 4:55 AM, the dam broke for a length of and from the tailings pond, of residue flowed towards the town of Certej, flooding a radius of around around the pond. The flood completely destroyed six apartment buildings, a dormitory building and seven individual houses, resulting in 89 deaths and 76 people being wounded. Due to the early hour, most of the victims were sleeping, which resulted in the high death toll. Aftermath The Romanian Communist authorities announced in the press only 48 deaths, in order to avoid a National day of mourning. The survivors were compensated for the loss of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ioan Moța
Ioan Moța (; Nojag, Hunedoara County, 15 December 1868 - Bucharest, 20 November 1940) was a Romanian Orthodox priest, nationalist politician, and journalist, as well as father to prominent Iron Guard personality Ion Moța. Biography Ioan Moța was born in Nojag, Austria-Hungary (today Certeju de Sus, Hunedoara County, Romania), on 15 December 1868, although some sources list his date of birth as 31 December. His father was a priest. Moța attended school in Nojag, Brad, and Brașov. After completing secondary school, he attended a theological seminary in Sibiu. He was ordained a priest in 1899. While in Sibiu, he became interested in journalism, and founded the journal ''Foaia Poporului'' ("The People's Paper"). He also became involved in Romanian nationalist politics, seeking the unification of Transylvania with Romania. After moving to Oraștie in 1899, he wrote for the newspapers ''Bunul Econom'' ("The Good Economist") and ''Libertatea'' ("Freedom"), the latter of whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communes In Hunedoara County
An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork from the start. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, or spiritual vision, and typically share responsibilities and property. This way of life is sometimes characterized as an "alternative lifestyle". Intentional communities can be seen as social experiments or communal experiments. The multitude of intentional communities includes collective households, cohousing communities, coliving, ecovillages, monasteries, survivalist retreats, kibbutzim, hutterites, ashrams, and housing cooperatives. History Ashrams are likely the earliest intentional communities founded around 1500 BCE, while Buddhist monasteries appeared around 500 BCE. Pythagoras founded an intellectual vegetarian commune in about 525 BCE in southern Italy. Hundreds of modern intentional communities were formed across Europ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Localities In Transylvania
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