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Hida, Sălaj
Hida ( hu, Hidalmás; yi, הידאלמאש, translit=Hidalmash) is a Commune in Romania, commune located in Sălaj County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of eight villages: Baica (''Bányika''), Hida, Miluani (''Milvány''), Păduriș (''Tyikló''), Racâș (''Almásrákos''), Sânpetru Almașului (''Füzesszentpéter''), Stupini (''Füzes'') and Trestia (''Komlósújfalu''). Miluani The village of Miluani had 112 inhabitants in 2002 and is famous for its grain and sunflower production. The settlement was first mentioned in Hungarian documents in 1320 as ''Miluad''. From the 13th century the area was property of the Hungarian Zsombor clan. In the 14th century it was donated to the Elefánthy family. A Romanian Orthodox Church, Romanian Orthodox church was built in the 16th century and a new one in 1920. Miluani is the filia of the Roman Catholic parish of Chidea; traditionally its vicars were Franciscans until 1897. Local Unitarianism, Unitarians also belongs to Chidea. Milu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commune In Romania
A commune (''comună'' in Romanian language, 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 Counties of Romania, county. Urban areas, such as towns and cities within a county, are given the status of ''Cities in Romania, city'' or ''Municipality in Romania, 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kolozs
Kolozs County was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary, of the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom and of the Principality of Transylvania. Its territory is now in north-western Romania (north-western Transylvania). The capital of the county was Kolozsvár (present-day Cluj-Napoca). Geography After 1876, Kolozs County shared borders with the Hungarian counties Bihar, Szilágy, Szolnok-Doboka, Beszterce-Naszód, Maros-Torda, and Torda-Aranyos. The rivers Crișul Repede and Someșul Mic flowed through the county. Its area was in 1910. History Kolozs County was formed in the 11th century. In 1876, when the administrative structure of Transylvania was changed, the territory of Kolozs was modified and some villages of Doboka County (which was then disbanded) were annexed to it. In 1920, by the Treaty of Trianon, the county became part of Romania. Following the Second Vienna Award, large part of it was retaken by Hungary in 1940 and the county was recreated; howev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communes In Sălaj 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 Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugen Ciucă
Eugen Ciucă (; 27 February 1913 – 26 September 2005) was a Romanian-American artist known for his monumental sculptures, vivid paintings and drawings of delicate feminine figures. He spent the most successful years of his career in Italy, where he created many works inspired by the ''Divine Comedy'' and its author Dante Alighieri. Ciucă's art has been displayed in nearly 100 exhibitions across Europe and the United States. Education and career Born in Miluani village, Sălaj County, Ioana Vlasiu (ed.)"Ciucă Eugen"in ''Dicționarul sculptorilor din România secolele XIX-XX'', vol. I, A-G, p.138-39. Editura Academiei Române, Bucharest, 2011 he studied Economics at the University of Cluj (1934–1938) and later went to the Bucharest Academy of Fine Arts (1942–1946) and the Pedagogical Institute of the University of Bucharest (1945–1947). During World War II he served as a military officer and went on to create a monument to the heroes of the Romanian army at Piešťany, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
József Nyírő
József Nyírő (July 18, 1889 – October 16, 1953) was a Hungarian writer of popular short stories and novels; a politician associated with fascism who was accused of war crimes; and briefly a Catholic priest in Miluani. Biography Nyírő was born July 18, 1889, in the village of Székelyzsombor, Udvarhely County, Kingdom of Hungary (today Jimbor, Brașov County). He was ordained in 1912, taught theology in Nagyszeben (today Sibiu), and became a priest in 1915. He left the priesthood in 1919 and married, operating a grist mill for a time. He then found success publishing short stories in magazines and newspapers and worked as a journalist for 10 years. In 1931 he inherited a farm estate and took it over. Nyirő's political career is considered as controversial. He was a great admirer of Joseph Goebbels and was a member of the Fascist 'Arrow-Cross caucus' of the Arrow Cross Party. Nyírő joined the "''Europäische Schriftstellervereinigung''" (i.e., European Writers' League) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sándor Kendi
Sándor Kendi de Szarvaskend (''Kendy''; ? – 30 August 1594)Markó 2006, p. 113. was a Hungarian noble in the Principality of Transylvania, member of the Royal Council, who served as Governor of Transylvania for the underage voivode Sigismund Báthory from 6 March 1583 to 1 May 1585. Family His father was Mihály Kendi, brother of voivode Ferenc Kendi and Antal Kendi who were executed by Isabella Jagiellon in 1558. His mother was Mihály's first (Zsófia Szilvásy) or second wife (Katalin Bánffy). Sándor Kendi married twice: his wives were Klára Patóchi and Anna Almádi. He had four children: * Zsuzsanna, her first husband was Balthasar Báthory * Krisztina, her second husband was Farkas Kovacsóczy * Zsófia * István, Chancellor of Transylvania (1608–1610), probably he was the last male member of the Kendi family. Career He started his work at the Transylvanian Chancellery in 1565. He became secretary of the Chancellery in 1568. He served as envoy of John Sigi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second Vienna Arbitration
The Second Vienna Award, also known as the Vienna Diktat, was the second of two territorial disputes that were arbitrated by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. On 30 August 1940, they assigned the territory of Northern Transylvania, including all of Maramureș and part of Crișana, from Romania to Hungary. Background After World War I, the multiethnic Kingdom of Hungary was divided by the 1920 Treaty of Trianon to form several new nation states, but Hungary noted that the new state borders did not follow ethnic boundaries. The new nation state of Hungary was about a third the size of prewar Hungary, and millions of ethnic Hungarians were left outside the new Hungarian borders. Many historically-important areas of Hungary were assigned to other countries, and the distribution of natural resources was uneven. The various non-Hungarian populations generally saw the treaty as justice for their historically-marginalised nationalities, but the Hungarians considered the treaty to have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Treaty Of Trianon
The Treaty of Trianon (french: Traité de Trianon, hu, Trianoni békeszerződés, it, Trattato del Trianon) was prepared at the Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920), Paris Peace Conference and was signed in the Grand Trianon château in Versailles on 4 June 1920. It formally ended World War I between most of the Allies of World War I and the Kingdom of Hungary. French diplomats played the major role in designing the treaty, with a view to establishing a French-led coalition of the newly formed states. It regulated the status of the Kingdom of Hungary and defined its borders generally within the #Borders of Hungary, ceasefire lines established in November–December 1918 and left Hungary as a Landlocked country, landlocked state that included , 28% of the that had constituted the pre-war Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, Kingdom of Hungary (the Hungarian half of the Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian monarchy). The truncated kingdom had a population of 7.6 million, 36% ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fighting occurring throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia. An estimated 9 million soldiers were killed in combat, plus another 23 million wounded, while 5 million civilians died as a result of military action, hunger, and disease. Millions more died in genocides within the Ottoman Empire and in the 1918 influenza pandemic, which was exacerbated by the movement of combatants during the war. Prior to 1914, the European great powers were divided between the Triple Entente (comprising France, Russia, and Britain) and the Triple Alliance (containing Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy). Tensions in the Balkans came to a head on 28 June 1914, following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doboka County
Doboka County was a county in 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 Ap ... between the 11th or 12th century and 1876. {{coord missing, Hungary Kingdom of Hungary counties in Transylvania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sălaj County
Sălaj County () (also known as ''Land of Silvania'', ''silva, -ae'' means "forest") is a county ('' județ'') of Romania, located in the north-west of the country, in the historical regions of Crișana and Transylvania. It is bordered to the north by Satu Mare and Maramureș counties, to the west and south-west by Bihor County, and to the south-east by Cluj County. Zalău is the county seat, as well as its largest city. Etymology In Hungarian, it is known as ''Szilágy megye'', in Slovak as ''Salašská župa'', and in German as ''Kreis Zillenmarkt''. The county is named after the river Sălaj, which gets its name from Hungarian ''Szilágy'' "elm creek", composed from '' szil'', "elm" and '' ágy'' "riverbed". History Antiquity On 28 July 1978, a team of speleologists discovered in the cave of Cuciulat Paleolithic paintings about 12,000 years old, unique in Romania. Called the "Romanian Altamira", this cave features several red paintings of animals, including horses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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