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Kornis Castle
Kornis Castle is a castle begun in the 16th century and located in Mănăstirea village, Cluj County, Romania. It is listed as a historic monument by the country's Culture Ministry. History The main building was built by Kristóf Keresztúri between 1573 and 1593 in the Renaissance style. Over time, the castle was filled with secondary buildings in a quadrilaterally shaped enclosure. After the domain became the property of the Kornis family around 1673, Kornis Gaspar (1641-1683) raised the second floor of the main building on the south side. In 1680, his son, Zsigmond Kornis, renovated the castle. He also repaired the castle after it was damaged during the Curuti uprising in the early 18th century and in 1720 added two new octagonal bastions on the northern side and restored the tower at the castle entrance on the west side. The tower still exists today. During this period the castle rooms were redecorated with frescoed ceilings. The wooden frame works of the top floor and sta ...
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Mica, Cluj
Mica () is a commune in Cluj County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of seven villages: Dâmbu Mare (''Nagydomb''), Mănăstirea (''Szentbenedek''), Mica, Nireș (''Szásznyíres''), Sânmărghita (''Szentmargita''), Valea Cireșoii (''Décseipataktanya'') and Valea Luncii (''Lunkatanya''). Mănăstirea village is the site of Kornis Castle. Demographics According to the census from 2002 there was a total population of 3,836 people living in this commune. Of this population, 70.77% are ethnic Romanians, 28.12% are ethnic Hungarians and 0.06% ethnic Romani Romani may refer to: Ethnicities * Romani people, an ethnic group of Northern Indian origin, living dispersed in Europe, the Americas and Asia ** Romani genocide, under Nazi rule * Romani language, any of several Indo-Aryan languages of the Roma .... References Communes in Cluj County Localities in Transylvania {{ClujCounty-geo-stub ...
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Cluj County
Cluj County (; german: Kreis Klausenburg, hu, Kolozs megye) is a county ( județ) of Romania, in Transylvania. Its seat ( ro, Oraș reședință de județ) is Cluj-Napoca (german: Klausenburg). Name In Hungarian, it is known as ''Kolozs megye'', and in German as ''Kreis Klausenburg''. Under Kingdom of Hungary, a county with an identical name (Kolozs County, ro, Comitatul Cluj) existed since the 11th century. Demography At the 2011 census, Cluj County had a population of 691,106 inhabitants, down from the 2002 census. On 1 January 2015, an analysis of the National Institute of Statistics revealed that 13.7% of the county population was between 0 and 14 years, 69.8% between 15 and 64 years, and 16.4% 65 years and over. 66.3% of the population lives in urban areas, having the fourth-highest rate of urbanization in the country, after Hunedoara (75%), Brașov (72,3%), and Constanța (68,8%). Ethnic composition At the 2011 census, the ethnic composition was as follows: * Ro ...
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Monumente Istorice
''Monument istoric'' (plural: ''Monumente istorice''), a " historic monument", is the Romanian term of designation for national heritage sites in Romania. Classifications A ''Monument istoric'' is defined as: *an architectural or sculptural work, or archaeological site. *having significant cultural heritage value, and of immovable scale. *perpetuating the memory of an event, place, or historical personality. ''Monumente istorice'' cultural properties include listed Romanian historical monuments from the National Register of Historic Monuments in Romania. They may also include places that are not specifically listed in whole, but which contain listed entities, such as memorial statues and fountains in parks and cemeteries. ;Inventory There are 29,540 designated ''monumente istorice'' (historical monuments) entries listed individually in Romania, as of 2010. Of these, 2,621 are in Bucharest; 1,630 in Iaşi County; 1,381 in Cluj County; 1,239 in Dâmboviţa County; 1,069 in ...
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Ministry Of Culture And National Patrimony
The Ministry of Culture of Romania ( ro, Ministerul Culturii) is one of the ministries of the Government of Romania. The current position holder is Lucian Romașcanu from the Social Democratic Party (PSD). The ''Romanian National Institute of Historical Monuments'', part of this ministry, maintains the list of historical monuments in Romania. The list, created in 2004–2005, contains historical monuments entered in the National Cultural Heritage of Romania. List of Culture Ministers See also * Culture of Romania * List of historical monuments in Romania References External links MCC.ro* GUV.roRomanian National Institute of Historical MonumentsList of Historical Monumentsat Romanian Ministry of Culture and National Patrimony (in Romanian) at Romanian National Institute of Historical Monuments (in Romanian) Culture Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgari ...
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Renaissance Architecture
Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of Ancient Greece, ancient Greek and Ancient Rome, Roman thought and material culture. Stylistically, Renaissance architecture followed Gothic architecture and was succeeded by Baroque architecture. Developed first in Florence, with Filippo Brunelleschi as one of its innovators, the Renaissance style quickly spread to other Italian cities. The style was carried to Spain, France, Germany, England, Russia and other parts of Europe at different dates and with varying degrees of impact. Renaissance style places emphasis on symmetry, proportion (architecture), proportion, geometry and the regularity of parts, as demonstrated in the architecture of classical antiquity and in particular ancient Roman architecture, of which many examples remained. Orderly arrangements of columns, pi ...
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, ma ...
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Romanian Orthodox Church
The Romanian Orthodox Church (ROC; ro, Biserica Ortodoxă Română, ), or Patriarchate of Romania, is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church in full communion with other Eastern Orthodox Christian denomination, Christian churches, and one of the nine patriarchates in the Eastern Orthodox Church organization, Eastern Orthodox Church. Since 1925, the church's Primate (bishop), Primate bears the title of Patriarch. Its jurisdiction covers the territories of Romania and Moldova, with additional dioceses for Romanians living in nearby Serbia and Hungary, as well as for diaspora communities in Central Europe, Central and Western Europe, North America and Oceania. It is the only autocephalous church within Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodoxy to have a Romance languages, Romance language for liturgical use. The majority of Romania's population (16,367,267, or 85.9% of those for whom data were available, according to the 2011 census data), as well as some 720,000 Moldovans, belo ...
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Unicorn
The unicorn is a legendary creature that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a single large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead. In European literature and art, the unicorn has for the last thousand years or so been depicted as a white horse-like or goat-like animal with a long straight horn with spiralling grooves, cloven hooves, and sometimes a goat's beard. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, it was commonly described as an extremely wild woodland creature, a symbol of purity and grace, which could be captured only by a virgin. In encyclopedias, its horn was described as having the power to render poisoned water potable and to heal sickness. In medieval and Renaissance times, the tusk of the narwhal was sometimes sold as a unicorn horn. A bovine type of unicorn is thought by some scholars to have been depicted in seals of the Bronze Age Indus Valley civilization, the interpretation remaining controversial. An equine form of the unicorn ...
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Houses Completed In 1593
A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems.Schoenauer, Norbert (2000). ''6,000 Years of Housing'' (rev. ed.) (New York: W.W. Norton & Company). Houses use a range of different roofing systems to keep precipitation such as rain from getting into the dwelling space. Houses may have doors or locks to secure the dwelling space and protect its inhabitants and contents from burglars or other trespassers. Most conventional modern houses in Western cultures will contain one or more bedrooms and bathrooms, a kitchen or cooking area, and a living room. A house may have a separate dining room, or the eating area may be integrated into another room. Some large houses in North America have a recreation room. In traditional agriculture-oriented societies, domestic animals such ...
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Castles In Romania
This is a list of castles and fortresses declared historic monuments by Romania's Ministry of Culture. Banat ; Caraș-Severin (6) * Bey's Fortress, Socolari * Caransebeș Fortress, Caransebeș * Cuiești Fortress, Bocșa * Ladislau Fortress, Coronini * Mehadia Fortress, Mehadia * Turk's Fortress (''Turski Grad''), Carașova ; Timiș (10) * Ciacova Fortress, Ciacova * Făget Fortress, Făget * Huniade Castle, Timișoara * Jdioara Fortress, Jdioara * Karátsonyi Castle, Banloc * Margina Fortress, Margina * Castle of Count de Mercy, Carani * Morisena Fortress, Cenad * Nákó Castle, Sânnicolau Mare * Timișoara Fortress, Timișoara Bukovina ; Suceava (3) * Șcheia Fortress, Suceava * Princely Fortress, Suceava * Seat Fortress of Suceava, Suceava Crișana ; Arad (22) * Agrișu Mare Fortress, Agrișu Mare * Arad Fortress, Arad * Bohus Castle, Șiria * Csernovics Castle, Macea * Dezna Fortress, Dezna * Hălmagiu Fortress, Hălmagiu * Hindec Fortress, Covăsà ...
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