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Ion Th. Simionescu
Ion Th. Simionescu (born Ion Gheorghiu; 10 July 1873—7 January 1944) was a Romanian geologist, paleontologist and naturalist. Born in Hemeiuș, Fântânele, Bacău County, his parents Maria and Toader Gheorghiu died when he was a young child. He moved to Botoșani to be raised by his maternal grandmother. There, between 1879 and 1883, he attended the same primary school as Nicolae Iorga, who was two grades ahead. Subsequently, between 1883 and 1890, he attended A. T. Laurian National College, A. T. Laurian High School. In the autumn of 1890, he enrolled in Iași University's sciences faculty. Among his professors were Grigore Cobălcescu and Petru Poni. After graduation in 1894, he briefly worked as a substitute teacher at his high school. In 1895, with a scholarship from the Romanian Academy, he left for the University of Vienna. There, he specialized in paleontology and geology, defending his thesis in the latter subject in 1898. He then went to the University of Grenoble, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Bucharest
The University of Bucharest ( ro, Universitatea din București), commonly known after its abbreviation UB in Romania, is a public university founded in its current form on by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princely Academy into the current University of Bucharest, making one of the oldest modern Romanian universities. It is one of the five members of the ''Universitaria Consortium'' (the group of elite Romanian universities). The University of Bucharest offers study programmes in Romanian and English and is classified as an ''advanced research and education university'' by the Ministry of Education. In the 2012 QS World University Rankings, it was included in the top 700 universities of the world, together with three other Romanian universities. History The University of Bucharest was founded by the Decree no. 765 of 4 July 1864 by Alexandru Ioan Cuza and is a leading academic centre and a significant point of reference in society. The Unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gheorghe Macovei
Gheorghe Macovei (September 25, 1880–May 31, 1969) was a Romanian geologist. Born in Tansa, Iași County, he attended primary school in his native village, where his father was a teacher. He graduated from the National College in 1899 and from the science faculty of the University of Iași in 1905,Ionel Maftei, ''Personalități ieșene'', p. 349. Iași: Comitetul de cultură și educație socialistă al județului Iași, 1972 where his mentor was Ion Th. Simionescu.Ion Văduva-Poenaru, ''Enciclopedia marilor personalități'', p. 293. Bucharest: Editura Geneze, 2000. He then worked as an assistant in the geology and paleontology laboratory, beginning field studies in Bahna and Broșteni. In 1908, he was an intern at the Vienna Museum of Natural History. He defended a doctoral thesis about the geology of the tertiary basin at Bahna in 1909. Macovei was then hired as assistant geologist at the Romanian Geological Institute in Bucharest,Gheorghe Ivănuș, ''Istoria petrolu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moldavian Plateau
The Moldavian Plateau ( ro, Podișul Moldovei) is a geographic area of the historical region of Moldavia, spanning nowadays east and northeast of Romania, most of Moldova (except the south), and most of the Chernivtsi Oblast of Ukraine (where it is known as the ''Pokuttyan-Bessarabian Upland''). Limits The Moldavian Plateau is bounded (in clockwise order): * to the west by the Eastern Carpathian Mountains ( ro, Carpații Orientali), * to north and north-east by the Podolian Plateau ( ro, Podișul Podoliei), * to the east and south east by Black Sea Lowland across which to the east stretches the Pontic Plain ( ro, Câmpia Pontică), part of the Eurasian steppe ( ro, Stepa Eurasiatică) and to the south towards the Black Sea the Bugeac Plain ( ro, Câmpia Bugeacului, Câmpia Moldovei de sud), (3,210 km2 in Moldova) * to the south by the Romanian Plain, also known as Wallachian Plain and Bărăgan Plain ( ro, Câmpia Română, Câmpia Bărăganului), and * to the southwest b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dobrudja
Dobruja or Dobrudja (; bg, Добруджа, Dobrudzha or ''Dobrudža''; ro, Dobrogea, or ; tr, Dobruca) is a historical region in the Balkans that has been divided since the 19th century between the territories of Bulgaria and Romania. It is situated between the lower Danube River and the Black Sea, and includes the Danube Delta, Romanian coast, and the northernmost part of the Bulgarian coast. The territory of Dobruja is made up of Northern Dobruja, which is part of Romania, and Southern Dobruja, which is part of Bulgaria. The territory of the Romanian region Dobrogea is organised as the counties of Constanța and Tulcea, with a combined area of and a population of slightly less than 900,000. Its main cities are Constanța, Tulcea, Medgidia and Mangalia. Dobrogea is represented by dolphins in the coat of arms of Romania. The Bulgarian region Dobrudzha is divided among the administrative regions of Dobrich and Silistra; the following villages of Razgrad Province ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dâmbovicioara
Dâmbovicioara is a commune in Argeș County, Muntenia, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Ciocanu, Dâmbovicioara and Podu Dâmboviței. The Dâmbovița River has its source in Podu Dâmboviței, on the Curmătura Oticului, a mountain pass that separates the Iezer Mountains from the Făgăraș Mountains. Villages Dâmbovicioara Dâmbovicioara is the village of residence of the commune of the same name in Argeș County, Muntenia, Romania. Podu Dâmboviței Podu Dâmboviței is a village with 745 inhabitants, located on DN73 29 km from Câmpulung. The was for the first time mentioned in 16th-17th centuries. Ciocanu Geography The village’s name, meaning “the hammer”, derives from its shape, with the tip pointing towards Dâmbovicioara village. It is surrounded by the Bucegi, Piatra Craiului and Leaota Mountains. The village is located at the northern edge of the commune, at the foot of the Piatra Craiului Mountains, on the Rucăr-Bran Pass. To the north, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarmatian (stage)
The Serravallian is, in the geologic timescale, an List of time periods, age or a stage (stratigraphy), stage in the middle Miocene epoch (geology), Epoch/series (stratigraphy), Series, which spans the time between 13.82 annum, Ma and 11.63 Ma (million years ago). The Serravallian follows the Langhian and is followed by the Tortonian. It overlaps with the middle of the Astaracian European Land Mammal Mega Zone, the upper Barstovian and lower Clarendonian North American Land Mammal Ages and the Laventan and lower Mayoan South American Land Mammal Ages. It is also coeval with the Sarmatian and upper Badenian Stages of the Paratethys time scale of Central and eastern Europe. Definition The Serravallian Stage was introduced in stratigraphy by the Italy, Italian geologist Lorenzo Pareto in 1865. It was named after the town of Serravalle Scrivia in northern Italy. The base of the Serravallian is at the first occurrence of fossils of the Plankton#Size groups, nanoplankton species ''Sph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stage (stratigraphy)
In chronostratigraphy, a stage is a succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic timescale, which usually represents millions of years of deposition. A given stage of rock and the corresponding age of time will by convention have the same name, and the same boundaries. Rock series are divided into stages, just as geological epochs are divided into ages. Stages can be divided into smaller stratigraphic units called chronozones. (See chart at right for full terminology hierarchy.) Stages may also be divided into substages or indeed grouped as superstages. The term faunal stage is sometimes used, referring to the fact that the same fauna (animals) are found throughout the layer (by definition). Definition Stages are primarily defined by a consistent set of fossils (biostratigraphy) or a consistent magnetic polarity (see paleomagnetism) in the rock. Usually one or more index fossils that are common, found worldwide, easily recognized, and limited to a sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taxon
In biology, a taxon (back-formation from ''taxonomy''; plural taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. Although neither is required, a taxon is usually known by a particular name and given a particular ranking, especially if and when it is accepted or becomes established. It is very common, however, for taxonomists to remain at odds over what belongs to a taxon and the criteria used for inclusion. If a taxon is given a formal scientific name, its use is then governed by one of the nomenclature codes specifying which scientific name is correct for a particular grouping. Initial attempts at classifying and ordering organisms (plants and animals) were set forth in Carl Linnaeus's Linnaean taxonomy, system in ''Systema Naturae'', 10th edition (1758), as well as an unpublished work by Bernard de Jussieu, Bernard and Antoine Laurent de Jussieu. The idea of a unit-based system of biological classification was first mad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humanitas Publishing House
Humanitas ( ro, Editura Humanitas) is an independent Romanian publishing house, founded on February 1, 1990 (after the Romanian Revolution) in Bucharest by the philosopher Gabriel Liiceanu, based on a state-owned publishing house, Editura Politică. Its slogan is ''Humanitas, bunul gust al libertăţii'' ("Humanitas, the good taste of freedom"). During its first years, Humanitas mainly published authors from the Romanian diaspora, whose works had been subject to censorship or banning in Communist Romania; they include Emil Cioran, Mircea Eliade, and Eugène Ionesco. Currently, Humanitas publishes literature, books on philosophy, religion, social and political sciences, history, memoirs, popular science, children's literature, and self-help books. Main Romanian authors published by Humanitas * Lucian Blaga * Lucian Boia * Mircea Cărtărescu * Emil Cioran * Lena Constante * Petru Creţia * Neagu Djuvara * Mircea Eliade * Paul Goma * Virgil Ierunca * Eugène Ionesco * Gabriel L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucian Boia
Lucian Boia (born 1 February 1944 in Bucharest) is a Romanian historian. He is mostly known for his debunking of historical myths about Romania, for purging mainstream Romanian history from the deformations due to ideological propaganda. I.e. as a fighter against pseudohistory. Awards * 2018 – Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in rank of knight * 2020 – Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary Works * ''Eugen Brote: (1850–1912)'' Litera, 1974 * ''Relationships between Romanians, Czechs and Slovaks: (1848–1914)'', translated by Sanda Mihailescu, Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, 1977 *''L'exploration imaginaire de l'espace'', La Découverte, 1987 ISBN, 2707117269 *''La fin du monde'', La Découverte, 1989 ** ''Sfîrşit'', translated by Walter Fotescu, Humanitas, 1999 * ''Great Historians from Antiquity to 1800: An International Dictionary'' (editor-in-chief), Greenwood Press, 1989 * ''Great Historians of the Modern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transnistria Governorate
The Transnistria Governorate ( ro, Guvernământul Transnistriei) was a Romanian-administered territory between the Dniester and Southern Bug, conquered by the Axis Powers from the Soviet Union during Operation Barbarossa and occupied from 19 August 1941 to 29 January 1944. Limited in the west by the Dniester river (separating it from Bessarabia), in the east by the Southern Bug river (separating it from the German Reichskommissariat Ukraine), and in the south by the Black Sea, it comprised the present-day region of Transnistria (which compared to the World War II whole is only a small strip along the bank of the Dniester) and territories further east (modern Odesa Oblast eastward of the Dniester, southern Vinnytsia Oblast and a small part of eastern Mykolaiv Oblast), including the Black Sea port of Odesa, which became the administrative capital of Transnistria during World War II. In World War II, the Kingdom of Romania, persuaded and aided by Nazi Germany, took control of Transn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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