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List Of Mayors Of Timișoara
This is a list of mayors of Timișoara from 1718, when Banat, including Timișoara, were incorporated into the Kingdom of Hungary, to the present day when it is part of Romania. The position was created on 1 January 1718 by Count Claude Florimond de Mercy, governor of Banat, under the name of magistrate. Until 1780, Timișoara had two magistrates, one German for the German population settled here and one Illyrian or Rascian for the local population. The first German magistrate of the city was , a campaign medical doctor from Bavaria and among the first foreign, Western settlers to arrive in Timișoara. 18th century * , 1718–1719 * Florian Blam, 1719–1720 * , 1720–1722 * , 1722–1742 * Andreas Pfann, 1742–1745 * Peter Mayer, 1745–1749 * Joseph Leibnitzer, 1749–1754 * Michael Auer, 1754–1756 * Anton Klang, 1756–1758 * Pietro Antonio Delpondio, 1758–1761 * Adam Ebelshauser, 1761–1762 * Joseph Anton Kulterer, 1762–1771 * Bartholomäus Lederer, 1771–1774 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coat Of Arms Of Timișoara
The current coat of arms of Timișoara was adopted in 1995 and modified in 2009. Description and symbolism The shield is divided into two parts by a horizontal line ( parted per fess), and the upper half is further divided into two equal parts by a vertical line ( parted per pale). On the heraldic right (viewers' left) of the upper part, on a crimson field, over natural waves, a double-arched silver bridge built of hewn stone ( Trajan's Bridge) is represented, from which a golden lion emerges. The golden lion is the historical symbol of Banat, as depicted on the coat of arms of Banat and Oltenia designed in 1921 by . On the left side (viewer's right), on a sky blue field stands a stone water tower over a body of water, with double cornices, two round windows upstairs and a gate revealing an iron water wheel downstairs. The tower symbolizes to be an 18th-century construction, providing water to the city from the Bega Canal. On the tower are two flags: the historical flag of T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bavaria
Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total land area of Germany. With over 13 million inhabitants, it is second in population only to North Rhine-Westphalia, but due to its large size its population density is below the German average. Bavaria's main cities are Munich (its capital and largest city and also the third largest city in Germany), Nuremberg, and Augsburg. The history of Bavaria includes its earliest settlement by Iron Age Celtic tribes, followed by the conquests of the Roman Empire in the 1st century BC, when the territory was incorporated into the provinces of Raetia and Noricum. It became the Duchy of Bavaria (a stem duchy) in the 6th century AD following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. It was later incorporated into the Holy Roman Empire, became an ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolae Robu
Nicolae Robu (born May 28, 1955) is a Romanian politician, engineer, computer science professor. He was mayor of Timișoara from 2012 until 2020 and the former president of PNL Timiș. He served as rector of the Politehnica University of Timișoara from 2004 to 2012 and prorector from 1990 to 2000 and sat in the Senate for Timiș County from 2008 to 2012. He is a member of the National Liberal Party (PNL). Born in Bocsig, Arad County,Prof.dr.ing. Nicolae Robu at the Politehnica University of Timișoara site; accessed February 18, 2014 he attended the from 1975 to 1980, earning a |
Gheorghe Ciuhandu
Gheorghe Coriolan Ciuhandu (; born 15 June 1947) is a Romanian politician. A building engineer by profession, he graduated from the Traian Vuia Polytechnic Institute in 1970, earning a doctorate in 1986 and joining the faculty in 1993. He was the mayor of Timișoara from 1996 to 2012 and was one of the losing candidates for president in the 2004 presidential elections, in which he represented the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNȚCD). He replaced Victor Ciorbea as president of the PNȚCD in 2004, and, in 2007 he was replaced by Marian Petre Miluț as president of PNȚCD. Honours * Romanian Royal Family The Romanian royal family ( ro, Familia regală a României) was the ruling dynasty of the Kingdom of Romania, a constitutional monarchy in Central-Eastern Europe. The kingdom existed from 1881, when Carol I of Romania was proclaimed king, until ...: 42nd Knight of the Royal Decoration of the Cross of the Romanian Royal House Electoral history Pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viorel Oancea
Viorel Oancea (born 8 December 1944 in Brașov, Brașov County, Romania) is a retired Romanian politician and a retired major general in the Romanian Armed Forces. He was advanced in rank by Presidential decree issued by former President Traian Băsescu on 21 October 2010. Romanian Revolution of 1989 Viorel Oancea was the first Army officer to take a stance against the Communist regime during the Romanian Revolution on 22 December 1989. This act led to his imprisonment under General Ștefan Gușă In 1992, he was awarded the PL Foundation Freedom Award, shared with Radu Filipescu for his fight against the Romanian regime led by Nicolae Ceaușescu and his human rights advocacy. Political career Viorel Oancea was the first freely elected Mayor of Timișoara, an office he held from 1992 to 1996. In 1997, he became General Secretary of Ministry of Interior, a position he held until 1998. He then returned to Timisoara, to take up the position of Local Councillor until 2004. Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gheorghe Crăciun
Gheorghe Crăciun (8 May 1950, Zărnești – 30 January 2007, Constanța) was a Romanian writer and translator. Crăciun was born in Tohanu Vechi, now part of Zărnești, Brașov County. In addition to being a novelist and a translator, he was also a literary theorist. He graduated from High School in Sighișoara, and later studied at the Philology Department of the University of Bucharest. From 1990 he taught at the Department of Literature at Braşov University. In 2002 he received a doctorate in literature from Bucharest University for his thesis on ''Transitivity in Modernist and Post-Modernist Romanian Poetry''. He is considered an important author among Romanian literary figures from the 1980s. An article in English explaining the concept of generation in Romanian contemporary literature Bibliography Romanian novels *' ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucian Georgevici
Lucian Georgevici (January 16, 1875–February 9, 1940) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian lawyer and politician. Born in Ictar, Timiș County, in the Banat region, his parents were George and Cristina Georgevici. He attended the primary grades at a church school in his native village, followed by high school in Timișoara, Lugoj and Beiuș, taking his graduating examination at Samuil Vulcan High School in the latter town. His parents would have liked him to be a priest, but he chose to attend the law academy in Oradea, and took his examination at the law faculty of Franz Joseph University in Cluj. After performing his military service, he returned to the Banat upon his parents' insistence, settling in Timișoara. He was a lawyer's intern from January 1902 to August 1905; he spent the second half of this period in the office of activist Emanuil Ungurianu. Subsequently, admitted to the bar, he opened a lawyer's office in Recaș in November 1905 and became involved in the Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Leopold Von Möller
Count, Karl von Möller AOL O (11 October 1876 – 21 February 1943) was an officer, journalist, author and politician from Banat. He was an enthusiastic supporter of Hitler's National Socialism. In 1932, he published the antisemitic newspaper "Der Stürmer" in Timișoara, an imitation of the German Nazi publication. He was married to Margarete Jung, with whom he had two children. Life and early work The von Möller family is believed to be from the Lüneburg Heath. Karl von Möller's grandfather volunteered in the Wars of Liberation and was disarmed in Sibiu (Transylvania). Von Möller's grandfather is believed by some to have been an early developer of the camera who is generally not given credit because he didn't submit a patent application on a timely basis. His father came to Vienna from Sibiu. Karl von Möller was born in Vienna, where he attended the cadet school and the war school after high school. During the First World War, he served as a major and chief of staff o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Telbisz
Carol Telbisz ( hu, Telbisz Károly, german: Karl Telbisz, ro, Carol Telbisz, bg, Карол Телбиз) (1853 – 14 July 1914) was an Austro-Hungarian public figure of Banat Bulgarian origin and a long-time Mayor of Temesvár (modern Timișoara, Romania). Born in Cenad, Austrian Empire, (today in Romania) and descending from the old Banat Bulgarian family of Telbiz from Stár Bišnov (today Dudeștii Vechi, Romania), Telbisz graduated in law from the University of Budapest and later took a doctor's degree in administrative law from the University of Vienna. He was awarded the noble title of Baron. Between 1885 and 1914, Telbisz was mayor of Temesvár, the capital of the Banat. During his term in office, he contributed a great deal to the city's modernization, destroying the old fortifications and reshaping the city according to a new Western European urbanization plan, with wide boulevards, sewerage, water supply, electrification and an electric-powered rail public transpor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rascians
Rascians ( sr, Раши, Рашани / ''Raši, Rašani''; la, Rasciani, Natio Rasciana) was a historical term for Serbs. The term was derived from the Latinized name for the central Serbian region of Raška ( la, Rascia; sr-Cyrl, Рашка). In medieval and early modern Western sources, exonym ''Rascia'' was often used as a designation for Serbian lands in general, and consequently the term ''Rasciani'' became one of the most common designations for Serbs. Because of the increasing migratory concentration of Serbs in the southern Pannonian Plain, since the late 15th century, those regions also became referred to as ''Rascia'', since they were largely inhabited by ''Rasciani'' (Rascians). Among those regions, term ''Rascia'' (Raška) was most frequently used for territories spanning from western Banat to central Slavonia, including the regions of Syrmia, Bačka, and southern Baranja. From the 16th to the 18th century, those regions were contested between the Ottoman Empire and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominic Fritz
Dominic Samuel Fritz (born 28 December 1983) is a German (more specifically Badensian) politician who has been serving as the mayor of Timișoara since 2020, following the latest Romanian local elections. He is the only mayor in Romania without Romanian citizenship. Prior to becoming the mayor of Timișoara in 2020, Fritz was a member of Alliance 90/The Greens between 2009 and 2019 and also a political advisor to former German president Horst Köhler (whose parents were relocated to Nazi Germany from Rîșcani, northern Bessarabia, now Republic of Moldova) between 2016 and 2019. Fritz is a conductor by profession. Early life and education Fritz was born on 28 December 1983 in Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany. His parents were both teachers. Fritz grew up as the third child of a total of eight siblings in Görwihl in the Southern Black Forest. In 1999, at the age of 16, a scholarship from the Bundestag enabled him to spend a year in the United States. He passed hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Illyrians
The Illyrians ( grc, Ἰλλυριοί, ''Illyrioi''; la, Illyrii) were a group of Indo-European languages, Indo-European-speaking peoples who inhabited the western Balkan Peninsula in ancient times. They constituted one of the three main Paleo-Balkan languages, Paleo-Balkan populations, along with the Thracians and Ancient Greece, Greeks. The territory the Illyrians inhabited came to be known as Illyria to later Greek and Roman Republic, Roman authors, who identified a territory that corresponds to most of Albania, Montenegro, Kosovo, much of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, western and central Serbia and some parts of Slovenia between the Adriatic Sea in the west, the Drava river in the north, the Great Morava, Morava river in the east and in the south the Aous (modern Vjosa) river or possibly the Ceraunian Mountains. The first account of Illyrian peoples dates back to the 6th century BC, in the works of the ancient Greek writer Hecataeus of Miletus. The name "Illyrians", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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