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Găești
Găești () is a town in Dâmbovița County, Muntenia, Romania with a population of 12,767. History The name of the town comes from a family of nobles (boyars) who owned most of the lands on which the town is now situated. Their name was Găești. It was first mentioned on 19 July 1498 during the rule of Radu cel Mare, the son of Vlad Călugărul, who donated the land around Găești to the Monastery of Râncăciov. In 1807, most of the buildings of Găești were destroyed by a fire, then in 1812, it was hit by the plague. Demographics According to the census conducted in 2011, the population of Găești is of 13,317 inhabitants. The majority of the inhabitants are Romanians (93.41%), with a minority of Roma (1.71%). For 4.68% of the population, the ethnicity is unknown. Most of the inhabitants are Orthodox (93.97%). Economy Arctic S.A. company is headquartered in the town. Natives * Victor Bădulescu, economist * Florentin Cruceru, footballer * , musician * Mihai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mihai Popescu
Mihai Popescu (born 15 March 1985 in Găești) is a Romanian handballer who plays for French team Saint-Raphaël Var Handball and the Romanian national team. He was given the award of ''Cetățean de onoare'' ("Honorary Citizen") of his hometown Găești in 2009. Achievements *LNH Division 1: **''Runner-up'': 2016 * Liga Națională: **''Winner'': 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 *Cupa României: **''Winner'': 2006, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 *Supercupa României: **''Winners:'' 2008, 2011, 2013, 2014 *EHF Cup Winners' Cup: **''Semifinalist'': 2006 *EHF Cup: **''Finalist:'' 2018 **''Semifinalist:'' 2014 *EHF Challenge Cup: **''Semifinalist'': 2004 Individual awards * Romanian Handballer of the Year: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 * LNH Division 1 Best Foreign Goalkeeper: 2015–16 *Best Goalkeeper of the EHF Cup's Final 4: 2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dâmbovița County
Dâmbovița County (also spelt ''Dîmbovița'', ) is a county ( județ) of Romania, in Muntenia, with the capital city at Târgoviște, the most important economic, political, administrative and cultural center of the county. It has an area of 4,054 km (1.7% of the country's area). Demographics In 2011, it had a population of 518,745 and the population density was 127/km2. It is one of the most densely populated counties in Romania. * Romanians – 96% * Roma (Gypsies) and others – 4% Name The county is named after the Dâmbovița River, which is a name of Slavic origin, derived from ''Дъб, dâmb'', meaning "oak", as it once flowed through the oak forests of the Wallachian Plain. Geography Dâmbovița county has a total area of 4,054 km2. The county's landscape has three main forms. In the north there are mountains from the Southern Carpathians group – the Bucegi Mountains and the Leaotă Mountains. In the center there are the sub-Carpathian hills an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristian Ristea
Cristian Ristea (born February 9, 1992) is a Romanian professional kickboxer, currently competing in the heavyweight division. He is the current GFC Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion. Ristea is ranked the #2 light heavyweight in the world by Enfusion Live. As of May 2020, Ristea is ranked the #5 heavyweight in the world by Enfusion Live. Kickboxing career Ristea fought Florent Kaouachi for the vacant ISKA World Heavyweight K1 title. Kaouachi won the fight by a fourth round TKO. He fought Vladimir Toktasynov during the OSS Fighter 4 event. Ristea won the fight by a unanimous decision. Ristea fought Jürgen Dolch during Mix Kombat 5. He won the fight by TKO, after knocking Dolch down three times in the first round. Ristea took part in the 2020 OSS Fighters Heavyweight tournament. In the quarter finals he knocked Thomas Froschauer out with a right hook. In the semifinals he defeated Marco Pisu by a unanimous decision. Ristea lost the final bout to Fabio Kwasi by a third r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florentin Cruceru
Florentin Cruceru (born 25 March 1981) is a Romanian former football midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ... who played in his career for teams such as: Sportul Studențesc, Argeș Pitești or Farul Constanța. References * * Living people 1981 births People from Găești Romanian footballers Association football midfielders Liga I players Liga II players FC Sportul Studențesc București players FC Argeș Pitești players FCV Farul Constanța players ASC Daco-Getica București players {{Romania-footy-midfielder-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florin Tănase
Florin Lucian Tănase (; born 30 December 1994) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or a forward for UAE Pro League club Al Jazira. He started out as a senior in the third league at Voluntari, where he was loaned from Viitorul Constanța in 2013. Tănase went on to appear in over 80 games in all competitions for the latter, before transferring to FCSB in 2016. Internationally, he made his full debut for Romania in a 1–0 friendly victory over Albania in May 2014, aged 19. Club career Viitorul Constanța On 23 February 2014, aged 19, Tănase scored his first Liga I goal in Viitorul Constanța's 2–1 away win against Dinamo București. FCSB On 8 August 2016, FC Steaua București signed Tănase on a five-year deal for a reported €1.5 million transfer fee, with his former club retaining 25% interest on a future move. He was assigned the number 10 jersey and scored on debut four days later, his goal aiding to a 2–0 away victory ove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Bădulescu
Victor Bădulescu (July 28, 1892–December 1953 or January 1954) was a Romanian economist. Born in Găești, Bădulescu was undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance of Romania from February 7, 1935 to August 29, 1936, when he was appointed secretary general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1945 he was elected corresponding member of the Romanian Academy, but was expelled in 1948 after the onset of Communist rule A communist state, also known as a Marxist–Leninist state, is a one-party state that is administered and governed by a communist party guided by Marxism–Leninism. Marxism–Leninism was the state ideology of the Soviet Union, the Comint .... After being arrested by the Communist authorities, he died in Sighet Prison in December 1953 or January 1954. See also * List of purged members of the Romanian Academy References * * 1892 births 1954 deaths People from Găești 20th-century Romanian economists Corresponding members of the Romanian Acad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Towns In Romania
This is a list of cities and towns in Romania, ordered by population (largest to smallest) according to the 2002 and 2011 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 towns with the status of ''oraș'' (217 in total). Romania has 1 city with more than 1 million residents (Bucharest with 1,883,425 people), 19 cities with more than 100,000 residents, and 178 towns with more than 10,000 residents. Complete list }) , - , , , City ( ro, oraș) , - , Bold , County capital ( ro, reședință de județ) , - See also *List of cities in Europe * List of city listings by country References {{Authority control * Cities in Romania Towns in Romania Romania 2 Romania Romania Cities A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gheorghe Zamfir
Gheorghe Zamfir (; born April 6, 1941) is a Romanian nai (pan flute) musician. Zamfir is known for playing an expanded version of normally 20-pipe nai, with 22, 25, 28 or even 30 pipes, to increase its range, and obtaining as many as eight overtones (additional to the fundamental tone) from each pipe by changing his embouchure. He is known as "The Master of the Pan Flute". Career Zamfir came to the public eye when he was approached by Swiss ethnomusicologist Marcel Cellier, who extensively researched Romanian folk music in the 1960s. The composer Vladimir Cosma brought Zamfir with his pan flute to Western European countries for the first time in 1972 as the soloist in Cosma's original music for the movie ''Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire''. The movie received several awards, including the ''Top Foreign Film'' from the National Board of Review in 1973. Zamfir continued to perform as a soloist in movie soundtracks by composers Francis Lai, Ennio Morricone and many others ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragomirești, Dâmbovița
Dragomirești is a commune in Dâmbovița County, Muntenia, 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, S .... It is composed of six villages: Decindeni, Dragomirești, Geangoești, Mogoșești, Râncăciov and Ungureni. References Communes in Dâmbovița County Localities in Muntenia {{Dâmboviţa-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caragea's Plague
Caragea's plague ( ro, Ciuma lui Caragea) was a bubonic plague epidemic that occurred in Wallachia, mainly in Bucharest, in the years 1813 and 1814. It coincided with the rule of the Phanariote Prince Ioan Caragea. Alleged source As Caragea came to Bucharest in 1812 after being appointed prince, the plague was already claiming victims in Istanbul, the Ottoman capital. A man in Caragea's retinue grew sick and died. It is alleged that this was the source of the plague in Wallachia, although the next reported death from plague in Wallachia occurred in June 1813. The plague was expected and in January 1813, Caragea founded two quarantine hospitals, one in Teleorman and one in Giurgiu County.Ionescu, p. 287-293 Outbreak and measures taken There were reports of people with the plague on the streets of Bucharest as early as in April, but the first death attributed to bubonic plague was on 11 June 1813 in Văcăreşti. Quarantine was established, the gates of the city of Buchare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arctic S
The Arctic ( or ) is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean, adjacent seas, and parts of Canada (Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut), Danish Realm (Greenland), Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia (Murmansk, Siberia, Nenets Okrug, Novaya Zemlya), Sweden and the United States (Alaska). Land within the Arctic region has seasonally varying snow and ice cover, with predominantly treeless permafrost (permanently frozen underground ice) containing tundra. Arctic seas contain seasonal sea ice in many places. The Arctic region is a unique area among Earth's ecosystems. The cultures in the region and the Arctic indigenous peoples have adapted to its cold and extreme conditions. Life in the Arctic includes zooplankton and phytoplankton, fish and marine mammals, birds, land animals, plants and human societies. Arctic land is bordered by the subarctic. Definition and etymology The word Arctic comes from the Greek word ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muntenia
Muntenia (, also known in English as Greater Wallachia) is a historical region of Romania, part of Wallachia (also, sometimes considered Wallachia proper, as ''Muntenia'', ''Țara Românească'', and the seldom used ''Valahia'' are synonyms in Romanian). It is situated between the Danube (south and east), the Carpathian Mountains (the Transylvanian Alps branch) and Moldavia (both north), and the Olt River to the west. The latter river is the border between Muntenia and Oltenia (or ''Lesser Wallachia''). Part of the traditional border between Wallachia/Muntenia and Moldavia was formed by the rivers Milcov and Siret. Geography Muntenia includes București - Ilfov, Sud - Muntenia, and part of the Sud-Est development regions. It consists of ten counties entirely: * Brăila * Buzău * Călărași * Argeș * Dâmbovița * Giurgiu * Ialomița * Ilfov * Prahova And parts of four others: * Teleorman (the entire county with the exception of Islaz) * Vrancea (southern part) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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