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Perșinari
Perșinari is a Communes of Romania, commune in Dâmbovița County, Muntenia, Romania. It is composed of a single village, Perșinari. The commune was established in 2004, when the village was split off from Văcărești, Dâmbovița, Văcărești Commune to form a separate entity. History At the end of the 19th century, Perșinari was part of Dâmbovița County and comprised only the residence village with 1,053 inhabitants. There was a school, a church and a Watermill, water mill. In 1925, the Anuarul Socec noted that 1,521 inhabitants lived in one village of the commune of Perșinari in the Titu side of the same county. In 1950, the commune was moved to the Titu district of București Region, and in 1968 it returned to Dâmbovița County. The municipality of Perșinari was re-established in 2004, in accordance with the village of Perșinari's old composition. Natives * Ion Dolănescu References Communes in Dâmbovița County Localities in Muntenia {{Dâmboviţa-g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dâmbovița County
Dâmbovița County (also spelt ''Dîmbovița'', ) is a county ( județ) of Romania, in Muntenia, with the capital city at Târgoviște, the most important economic, political, administrative and cultural center of the county. It has an area of 4,054 km (1.7% of the country's area). Demographics In 2011, it had a population of 518,745 and the population density was 127/km2. It is one of the most densely populated counties in Romania. * Romanians – 96% * Roma (Gypsies) and others – 4% Name The county is named after the Dâmbovița River, which is a name of Slavic origin, derived from ''Дъб, dâmb'', meaning "oak", as it once flowed through the oak forests of the Wallachian Plain. Geography Dâmbovița county has a total area of 4,054 km2. The county's landscape has three main forms. In the north there are mountains from the Southern Carpathians group – the Bucegi Mountains and the Leaotă Mountains. In the center there are the sub-Carpathian hills an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Văcărești, Dâmbovița
Văcărești is a commune in Dâmbovița County, Muntenia, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Bungetu, Brăteștii de Jos and Văcărești. Until 2004, it also included Perșinari Perșinari is a Communes of Romania, commune in Dâmbovița County, Muntenia, Romania. It is composed of a single village, Perșinari. The commune was established in 2004, when the village was split off from Văcărești, Dâmbovița, Văcărești ... village, split off that year to form a separate commune. References Communes in Dâmbovița County Localities in Muntenia {{Dâmboviţa-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ion Dolănescu
Ion Dolănescu (; 25 January 1944 – 19 March 2009) was a Romanian singer of folk music and a politician. He was married to singer Maria Ciobanu. He was a member of the Greater Romania Party and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies from 2000 to 2004. Songs * ''M-am născut printre Carpați'' * ''Gorjule, grădină dulce * ''De când sunt pe-acest pământ'' * ''Mândro, când ne iubeam noi'' * ''Să-mi trăiască nevestica'' * ''Neuitata mea, Maria'' * ''Au, lele, vino-ncoa (with Maria Ciobanu Maria Ciobanu (born 3 September 1937 in Roșiile) is a Romanian folk music, folk singer. Her repertoire include more than 700 recorded songs for Romanian, Yugoslavian and Holland Record Companies, Romanian Radio and TV... Some of her famous so ...)'' * ''Face-m-aș privighetoare (with Maria Ciobanu)'' * ''Pe sub dealul cu izvorul (with Maria Ciobanu)'' * ''Pe sub creanga vișinie'' * ''Tare-i dulce porcul de Crăciun (with Vali Vijelie)'' * ''Mare ți-e grădina Doamne, iar eu din ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communes Of 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] |
Muntenia
Muntenia (, also known in English as Greater Wallachia) is a historical region of Romania, part of Wallachia (also, sometimes considered Wallachia proper, as ''Muntenia'', ''Țara Românească'', and the seldom used ''Valahia'' are synonyms in Romanian). It is situated between the Danube (south and east), the Carpathian Mountains (the Transylvanian Alps branch) and Moldavia (both north), and the Olt River to the west. The latter river is the border between Muntenia and Oltenia (or ''Lesser Wallachia''). Part of the traditional border between Wallachia/Muntenia and Moldavia was formed by the rivers Milcov and Siret. Geography Muntenia includes București - Ilfov, Sud - Muntenia, and part of the Sud-Est development regions. It consists of ten counties entirely: * Brăila * Buzău * Călărași * Argeș * Dâmbovița * Giurgiu * Ialomița * Ilfov * Prahova And parts of four others: * Teleorman (the entire county with the exception of Islaz) * Vrancea (southern part) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and the Black Sea to the southeast. It has a predominantly Temperate climate, temperate-continental climate, and an area of , with a population of around 19 million. Romania is the List of European countries by area, twelfth-largest country in Europe and the List of European Union member states by population, sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, followed by Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați. The Danube, Europe's second-longest river, rises in Germany's Black Forest and flows in a southeasterly direction for , before emptying into Romania's Danube Delta. The Carpathian Mountains, which cross Roma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watermill
A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower. It is a structure that uses a water wheel or water turbine to drive a mechanical process such as milling (grinding), rolling, or hammering. Such processes are needed in the production of many material goods, including flour, lumber, paper, textiles, and many metal products. These watermills may comprise gristmills, sawmills, paper mills, textile mills, hammermills, trip hammering mills, rolling mills, wire drawing mills. One major way to classify watermills is by wheel orientation (vertical or horizontal), one powered by a vertical waterwheel through a gear mechanism, and the other equipped with a horizontal waterwheel without such a mechanism. The former type can be further divided, depending on where the water hits the wheel paddles, into undershot, overshot, breastshot and pitchback (backshot or reverse shot) waterwheel mills. Another way to classify water mills is by an essential trait about their location: tide mills ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Titu
Titu () is a town in Dâmbovița County, Muntenia, Romania, with a population of 9,658 . Location The town in located in the southern part of the county, in the center of the Wallachian Plain. It lies at a distance of from the county seat, Târgoviște, from Bucharest, and from Pitești. Titu îs surrounded by several communes: Produlești and Braniștea to the north, Odobești and Potlogi to the south, Conțești and Lungulețu to the east, and Costeștii din Vale to the west. Zones and administration Titu is divided into three main zones: * ''Titu-gară'' – The main part of the city, it contains the town hall, the main school, the train station and most important buildings. * ''Titu-târg'' – A rural zone which includes the town's library and the second school. It was also the former center town. * ''Sălcuța'' – The smallest zone and a village in its own right, it is rural and features a church. It is also the place where the ''bâlci'' is held. The town a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
București Region
Regiunea București (București/Bucharest region) was one of the newly established (in 1950) administrative Regions of the RPR, divisions of the Communist Romania, People's Republic of Romania, copied after the Oblast#Soviet Union, Soviet style of territorial organization. History The capital of the region was Bucharest, and at first, its territory comprised an area similar to the nowadays Ilfov County, Ilfov and Giurgiu County, Giurgiu counties. In 1952 it assimilated the dissolved Ialomița Region (without raions Fetești, to Constanța Region, and Urziceni, to Prahova Region, Ploiești Region; both taken in 1960) and Regiunea Teleorman, Teleorman regions, reaching an area slightly smaller than nowadays Ialomița County, Ialomița, Călărași County, Călărași, Ilfov County, Ilfov, Giurgiu County, Giurgiu, and Teleorman County, Teleorman counties. Neighbors București region had as neighbors: *1950–1952: East: Ialomița Region; South: People's Republic of Bulgaria; West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communes In Dâmbovița 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 Europ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
