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Lipova, Arad
Lipova (; German and Hungarian: ''Lippa''; Serbian: Липова, ''Lipova''; Turkish: ''Lipva'') is a town in Romania, Arad County, located in the Banat region. It is situated at a distance of from Arad, the county capital, at the contact zone of the river Mureș with the , the Western Plateau, and the Lipova Hills. It administers two villages, Radna (''Máriaradna'') and Șoimoș (''Solymosvár''), and its total surface is . The first written record of the town dates back to 1315 under the name ''Lipwa''. In 1324 the settlement was mentioned as castellanus de Lypua, a place-name that reflects its reinforced character of that time. Population According to the census of 2011 the population of the town was 9,648 inhabitants. The ethnic groups were: 94% Romanians, 2.89% Hungarians, 1.47% Roma, 1.27% Germans, 0.07% Slovaks, 0.18% Ukrainians and 0.1% of other or undeclared nationalities. Etymology Its name is derived from the Slavic word '' lipa'', linden tree, with the '' - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Language
German ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and Official language, official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italy, Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also a co-official language of Luxembourg and German-speaking Community of Belgium, Belgium, as well as a national language in Namibia. Outside Germany, it is also spoken by German communities in France (Bas-Rhin), Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Poland (Upper Silesia), Slovakia (Bratislava Region), and Hungary (Sopron). German is most similar to other languages within the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch language, Dutch, English language, English, the Frisian languages, Low German, Luxembourgish, Scots language, Scots, and Yiddish. It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages in the North Germanic languages, North Germanic group, such as Danish lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthias Corvinus
Matthias Corvinus, also called Matthias I ( hu, Hunyadi Mátyás, ro, Matia/Matei Corvin, hr, Matija/Matijaš Korvin, sk, Matej Korvín, cz, Matyáš Korvín; ), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1458 to 1490. After conducting several military campaigns, he was elected King of Bohemia in 1469 and adopted the title Duke of Austria in 1487. He was the son of John Hunyadi, Regent of Hungary, who died in 1456. In 1457, Matthias was imprisoned along with his older brother, Ladislaus Hunyadi, on the orders of King Ladislaus the Posthumous. Ladislaus Hunyadi was executed, causing a rebellion that forced King Ladislaus to flee Hungary. After the King died unexpectedly, Matthias's uncle Michael Szilágyi persuaded the Estates to unanimously proclaim the 14-year-old Matthias as king on 24 January 1458. He began his rule under his uncle's guardianship, but he took effective control of government within two weeks. As king, Matthias waged wars against the Czech mercenaries who domina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ion Vincze
Ion Vincze (born Vincze János and also called Ion or Ioan Vințe; September 1, 1910 – 1996) was a Romanian communist politician and diplomat. An activist of the Romanian Communist Party (PCR), he was married to Constanța Crăciun, herself a prominent member of the party. Pál Bodor"Revoluţia ungară şi România, Transilvania" in ''Observator Cultural''; retrieved September 1, 2007 Constantin Coroiu"Un sfînt în puturoasa Valahie" in '' Evenimentul'', June 30, 2003; retrieved September 1, 2007 Biography Born to an ethnic Hungarian family in Lipova, Arad County (then Lippa, Austria-Hungary), he became a member of the Union of Communist Youth in 1930 and of the then-outlawed PCR the following year.''Membrii C.C. al P.C.R., 1945-1989: Dicționar'', CNSAS, Editura Enciclopedică, Bucharest, 2004, p.618 An accountant by profession, he attended Școala Superioară de Comerț and Academia Comercială din Cluj. In 1935, he was briefly imprisoned for his activities in support ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Tenecki
Stefan Tenecki (In Serbian Стефан Тенецки; in Romanian Ștefan Tenețchi; Lipova, Arad, Habsburg monarchy, 1720 – Certege, Alba (near Câmpeni), Habsburg Monarchy, 1798) was a prolific Serbian icon painter of Aromanian origin who developed a rich artistic activity in Vojvodina, Romania and Hungary in the eighteenth century. Tenecki is regarded as the first painter who adapted the Byzantine tradition with the style of the Baroque to the needs of Orthodox Serbs and Romanians. Biography Stefan Tenecki was born in the town of Lipova, near the city of Arad, in 1720. He was among the first Serbian artists to study painting in Kiev and at the Vienna Academy. His work was sought by several Serbian bishops in the course of his long career as an artist, Tenecki was an example of the Russian and Ukrainian Baroque style. Observing the talent of this young painter, Serbian Orthodox Bishop Isaja Antonović of Arad and Metropolitan of Karlovci (1731-1749) sent Tenecki to stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pahomije Tenecki
Pahomije Tenecki (Serbian Cyrillic: Пахомије Тенецки) was a Serbian painter born in the 17th-century. Pahomije Tenecki comes from an aristocratic pedigree from Lipova on his paternal side. His mother's people came from Poland. Pahomije Tenecki was of the Teneckis who had produced two excellent painters (Stefan Tenecki and Georgije Tenecki) in two generations. He was of the Teneckis who knew that Velazquez had twenty-seven shades of black. This family talent is evident in Pahomije's industriousness and the qualities of his paintings. He naturally became a painter to the Arad Bishops Isaija Antonović, Sinesija Živanović (1749-1768) and Pahomije Knežević (1769-1783). Moreover, he was a senator in the municipal council of Arad, in which status he portrayed himself in what would become the first self-portrait in Serbian painting. The Family home in Arad and his loyalty to that town did not lessen his mobility, and he was willing to work on a great number of commiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vojvodina
Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Војводина}), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia. It lies within the Pannonian Basin, bordered to the south by the national capital Belgrade and the Sava and Danube Rivers. The administrative center, Novi Sad, is the second-largest city in Serbia. The historic regions of Banat, Bačka, and Syrmia overlap the province. Modern Vojvodina is multi-ethnic and multi-cultural, with some 26 ethnic groups and six official languages. About two million people, nearly 27% of Serbia's population, live in the province. Naming ''Vojvodina'' is also the Serbian word for voivodeship, a type of duchy overseen by a voivode. The Serbian Voivodeship, a precursor to modern Vojvodina, was an Austrian province from 1849 to 1860. Its official name is the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. Its name in the province's six official languages is: * Croatian: ''Autonomna Pokrajina Vojvodina'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jovan Nenad
Jovan Nenad ( sr-cyr, Јован Ненад; hu, Fekete Iván or ; ca. 1492 – 26 July 1527), known as ''the Black'' was a Serb military commander in the service of the Kingdom of Hungary who took advantage of a Hungarian military defeat at Mohács and subsequent struggle over the Hungarian throne to carve out his own state in the southern Pannonian Plain. He styled himself emperor (tsar). Jovan Nenad is attributed by Serbian historians as the founder of Vojvodina and the leader of the last independent Serbian state before the Ottoman conquest. Origin An ethnic Serb, he was born ca. 1492 in Lipova near the Mureş River in northern Banat (present-day Romania). Other facts about his origins are uncertain; he himself claimed to be "a descendant of Serbian and Byzantine rulers", although other contemporaries thought that he was a descendant of the Serbian despots or that he was a man of low rank. He was of medium height, slender, and highly moral and pious. His contemporaries ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atanasie Marian Marienescu
Atanasie Marian Marienescu (–) was an Austro-Hungarian ethnic Romanian folklorist, ethnographer and judge. Born in Lipova, Arad County, in the Banat region, his father Ion Marian was a trader, while his mother Persida (''née'' Șandor) came from Nădlac. After completing the Romanian-language primary school in his native town in 1842, he enrolled in the Minorite gymnasium of Arad.Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române'', vol. II, p. 48. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004. He finished six grades there, interrupting his studies for a year due to the 1848 revolution. He took grade seven in Timișoara and the final year in Pest, prior to entering the law faculty of the Royal University of Pest.Nicoară-Horia, p. 5 While in the city, he frequently visited Emanoil Gojdu. He studied there for three years before transferring to the University of Vienna, from which he graduated in 1856. He received a doctorate in 1861 and settled in Lugoj, working as de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alajos Degré
Alajos Degré ( Lippa, Hungary (today in Romania), January 6, 1819 – Budapest, November 1, 1896) was Hungarian lawyer, legal historian, author and one of the key figures of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. Life He was born to a middle-class, urban family. His father was a Frenchman who worked as the chief physician of Temes County, Hungary. His mother was Anna Rácz, the raised daughter of a Hungarian nobleman, György Návay. He had a half-brother, Ignác from his father's first marriage and a sister, Franciska. Because of his father's early death Temes County took over the costs of the education of the Degré children. He did his secondary-school studies in Arad and Szeged. Then he went to Nagyvárad where he studied law for two years. In 1842 he started to work as a jurist in Pest where he got interested in politics and made friends with Lajos Kossuth. The liberal ideas inflamed his thinking so he joined these political circles and took part on their events where he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmen-Francesca Banciu
Carmen-Francesca Banciu (born October 25, 1955) is a Romanian novelist and lecturer. Biography Born in Lipova, Arad County, she was the daughter of a high-ranking Romanian Communist Party and government official. Banciu studied church mural painting and foreign trade at schools in Bucharest. In 1985, she won the International Short Story Prize of the city of Arnsberg, Germany, an achievement which prompted a publication ban in Romania. In 1990, after the fall of the communist regime in Romania (the Romanian Revolution of 1989), Banciu moved to Berlin, and since 1996, she has not only written in Romanian, but also in German. In addition to writing, she works as a freelance editor and commentator for various news media and regularly teaches seminars on creative writing. In 2005, Banciu was writer-in-residence at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teodor Șerb
Teodor is a masculine given name. In English, it is a cognate of Theodore. Notable people with the name include: *Teodor Muzaka III, Albanian nobleman who was born in 1393. * Teodor Andrault de Langeron (19th century), President of Warsaw * Teodor Andrzej Potocki (1664-1738), Polish nobleman * Teodor Anghelini (born 1954), retired Romanian football player and coach * Teodor Anioła (1925-1993), Polish footballer * Teodor Atanasov (born 1987), Bulgarian footballer * Teodor Axentowicz (1859-1938), Polish painter * Teodor Bujnicki (1907-1944), Polish poet * Teodor Calmășul (18th century), Romanian boyar * Teodor Filipović (1778-1807), Serbian lawyer * Teodor Frunzeti (born 1955), Romanian Land Forces general * Teodor Ilić Češljar (1746-1793), Serbian painter * Teodor Ilincăi (born 1983), Romanian opera tenor * Teodor Kazimierz Czartoryski (1704-1768), bishop of Poznań * Teodor Keko (1958-2002), Albanian writer * Teodor Koskenniemi (1887-1965), Finnish athlete * Teodor K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasile Goldiș
Vasile Goldiș (12 November 1862 – 10 February 1934) was a Romanian politician, social theorist, and member of the Romanian Academy. Early life He was born on 12 November 1862 in his grandfather's (Teodor Goldiș) house in the village of Mocirla. His parents were Isaia and Floarea Goldiș. The family of his father had its origins in the Chișcău village, Bihor County. Around 1740 Teodor Goldiș moved with his family to Mocirla where Vasile Goldiș was born. The first years of his life were spent in the villages of Mocirla, Seleuș, and Cermei in the house of his parents and grandparents. He started primary school in the village of Cermei in 1869 where he studied the first two grades in Romanian with his teacher Nicolae Albu. He studied the third grade at the general school in Padanul Nou (now Horea, Arad County). Between 1873 and 1881, he was a student of the Theoretical High School in Arad, being especially interested in history, literature, and philosophy. On 1 Septe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
