Raluca Ioniţǎ
Raluca () is a common Romanian female given name, a Latinized diminutive of the Greek name Ralloú', a rare form of the Greek name Heracleia. It may refer to: * Raluca Băbăligea (born 1984), Romanian aerobic gymnast * Raluca Băcăoanu (born 1989), Romanian handballer *Raluca Haidu (born 1994), Romanian gymnast *Raluca Ioniță (born 1976), Romanian sprint canoeist * Raluca Izbașa, (born 1990), Romanian artistic gymnast *Raluca Olaru (born 1989), Romanian tennis player * Raluca Onel, (born 1982), Romanian artistic gymnast * Raluca Presadă, (born 1978), Romanian activist and politician *Raluca Radulescu, professor of medieval literature *Raluca Ripan (1894–1972), Romanian chemist *Raluca Saita (born 1979), Romanian film editor *Raluca Sandu (born 1980), Romanian tennis player *Raluca Sârghe (born 1987), Romanian footballer *Raluca Sbîrcia (born 1989), Romanian épée fencer *Raluca Șerban (born 1997), Romanian tennis player *Raluca Strămăturaru (born 1985), Romanian l ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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]   |
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Raluca Ripan
Raluca Ripan (27 June 1894 – 5 December 1972) was a Romanian chemist, and a titular member of the Romanian Academy. She wrote many treatises, especially in the field of analytical chemistry. Biography She was born in Iași, in the Moldavia region of Romania; her parents were Constantin and Smaranda Ripan, both originally from Huși. She attended the local girl's high school, after which she enrolled in the Faculty of Science of the University of Iași, graduating in 1919. For her graduate studies she went to the University of Cluj in Transylvania, obtaining her PhD in 1922 under the direction of Gheorghe Spacu, with thesis "Double amines corresponding to double sulphates in the magnesium series". She is recognized as the first woman from Romania to earn a Ph.D. in the chemical sciences. After obtaining in 1930 her Habilitation and the title of Docent, Ripan became an associate professor of analytic chemistry at the Faculty of Science of the University of Cluj. During World War ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Raluca Udroiu
Raluca Antonia Udroiu (born 12 May 1982 in Baia Mare, Maramureş, Romania) is an international backstroke swimmer from Romania, who represented her native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Prior to that tournament, at the 2000 European Aquatics Championships in Helsinki, Finland Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the capital, primate, and most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of . The city' ..., she was on the women's relay team, that won the bronze medal in the 4×100 m freestyle. External links Profile on Romanian Olympic Committee 1982 births Living people Sportspeople from Baia Mare Olympic swimmers of Romania Romanian female freestyle swimmers Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Romanian female backstroke swimmers European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming {{Romania-swimming-bio-stu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Raluca Turcan
Raluca Turcan (née Tatarcan; 2 April 1976) is a Romanian politician. A member of the National Liberal Party (PNL), she has been a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Sibiu County since 2004. She has been married to Valeriu Turcan, a former adviser to Romanian President Traian Băsescu, since 2004. The couple have a son, Eric, born in 2007. Biography She was born in Botoșani to Dumitru and Maria-Margareta Tatarcan; her father is a high school principal. She studied in the Faculty of International Economic Relations at the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, graduating in 1999. She was also enrolled at Moscow's Pushkin Institute from 1996 to 1999, and earned a degree in business Russian from there. In 2006, she began work on a master's degree in political marketing at the National School of Administration and Political Science of Bucharest, and that year she also began a doctorate at the Transylvania University of Braşov. She has also pursued studies in Austria ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Raluca Strămăturaru
Raluca Nicoleta Strămăturaru (born 22 November 1985 in Sinaia) is a Romanian luger who has competed since 1996. Her younger sister Violeta Strămăturaru is also a luger. Strămăturaru's best Luge World Cup season finish was 23rd in women's singles in 2007–08. Her best finish at the FIL World Luge Championships was 22nd in women's singles at Oberhof in 2008. Her best finish at the FIL European Luge Championships was 17th in women's singles at Cesana Pariol in 2008. Strămăturaru qualified for the 2010 Winter Olympics where she finished 21st. At her 3rd successive appearance at the Olympics, she ended up with her best career result and the best result for Romania in Winter Olympics in the last 24 years: 7th place at 2018 Winter Olympics , nations = 93 , athletes = 2,922 (1,680 men and 1,242 women) , events = 102 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = , closing = , opened_by = President Moon Jae-in , cauldron = Kim Yun-a , stadium = Pyeongchang Olympic S ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Raluca Șerban
Raluca Georgiana Șerban (born 17 June 1997) is a Romanian-born professional tennis player, who since 2018 has represented Cyprus. Career She has career-high WTA rankings of 173 in singles and 176 in doubles. Șerban has won 13 singles and 13 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2018 Luxembourg Open, in the doubles event partnering Isabella Shinikova. At the 2022 Budapest Grand Prix, she made her WTA Tour The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's Circuit. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour. WTA Tour tourna ... singles debut. Grand Slam singles performance timeline ITF Circuit finals Singles: 19 (13 titles, 6 runner–ups) Doubles: 26 (13 titles, 13 runner–ups) National representation Games of the Small States of Europe Singles: 1 (1 win) Doubles: 2 (2 wins) Mixed doub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Raluca Sbîrcia
Raluca Sbîrcia (born 14 July 1989) is a Romanian épée fencer, bronze medallist in the 2013 World Fencing Championships. Sbârcia joined the Romanian national team in 2012 after Simona Gherman, Loredana Dinu, and Anca Măroiu took a post-Olympic break. Together with Maria Udrea, Simona Pop, and captain Ana Maria Brânză, she won a bronze medal in the Leipzig, Saint-Maur, and Rio stages of the team World Cup. She was replaced by Amalia Tătăran for the European Championships in Zagreb, but was selected again for the World Championships A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ... in Budapest. In the individual event, she was defeated by a single hit in the first round by Poland's Renata Knapik. In the team event, Romania reached easily the quarter-finals, where they d ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Raluca Sârghe
Monica Raluca Sârghe is a Romanian football midfielder. She played in the Turkish Women's First League for the Turkish club Konak Belediyespor in Izmir. Playing career Sârghe performed athletics before she switched over to football playing. "This advantage makes her one of the fastest wingers in Europe" as noted in a Turkish newspaper. Club Sârghe played in the Romanian 1st League for Olimpia Cluj, She enjoyed twice her team's league champion title, and took part at the Champions League. She took part in three qualification and two knockout round matches of the 2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League matches. Sârghe played in three qualifying matches and one knockout stage matches of the 2012–13 UEFA Women's Champions League, scoring one goal. She later transferred to CFF Clujana. During her time, the time became five times league champion. In November 2012, she moved together with her fellow countrywoman Cosmina Dușa to Turkey to join the Konak Belediyespor in I ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Raluca Sandu
Raluca Sandu (born 3 February 1980) is a Romanian retired tennis player and professional padel player. On 18 January 1999, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 68 whilst her best doubles ranking was 228 on 13 September 1999. Raluca turned pro at the age of 15 and reached WTA top 100 by the time she was 17 years old. She was also ranked top 10 in the world ITF juniors ranking, reaching the semifinals at the 1995 US Open. Raluca was forced to retire early due to shoulder injury (2004). Personal Raluca is the daughter of former Romanian football player and former president of the Romanian Football Federation, Mircea Sandu and her late mother, Simona Arghir former handball player and captain of Romanian national handball team. Raluca has one more sibling, older brother Dan Mircea. In her youth she was dating former world number 1 Carlos Moya for two years. ITF Circuit finals Singles (4–7) Doubles (1–2) Head-to-head records ''Players who have been ranked wo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Raluca Saita
Raluca Saita (born October 9, 1979 in Bucharest) is a Romanian film editor. Biography Raluca Saita is a film editor working in narrative, television and documentary, with over 8 years experience and an artistically background which complements her film education. From the age of 13 Raluca attends the art high school where she studies history of art, drawing and painting, and in 2002 she earns a BFA in Film Editing at The National University of Theater and Film in Bucharest (Awarded “Best Film School” at 2000 Munchen and Karlovy Vary Film Festivals). In 2009 she graduates The Edit Center in New York City and earns a Certificate of Art of Editing. After receiving the BFA in Film Editing she works on several short movies and begins her work as an assistant film editor on features. Also after a few years Raluca has her own editing studio and starts freelancing for the largest production company in Romania, MediaPro Pictures, working on TV series and TV features. In the same time s ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Raluca Radulescu
Raluca L. Radulescu is professor of medieval literature at Bangor University. She is a specialist in Arthurian and non-Arthurian romances including Sir Thomas Malory and pious romances, medieval chronicles, political culture and gentry studies.Raluca Radulescu, BA, MPhil, PhD. Bangor University. Retrieved 23 October 2015. Radulescu received her BA at the University of Bucharest and her MPhil and PhD at the . She has held fellowships at New ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Heracleia (festival)
The Heracleia ( grc-gre, Ἡράκλεια ἐν Κυνοσάργει ''Herakleia en Kynosargei'') were ancient festivals honoring the divine hero Heracles. The ancient Athenians celebrated the festival, which commemorated the death of Heracles, on the second day of the month of Metageitnion (which would fall in late July or early August), at the Cynosarges gymnasium at the demos Diomeia outside the walls of Athens, in a sanctuary dedicated to Heracles. His priests were drawn from the list of boys who were not full Athenian citizens ('' nothoi''). Many famous nothoi exercised there (such as Demosthenes) but it was probably not exclusively set aside for them. The Attic cults of Herakles were often closely connected with youth: at several of his cult sites there was a gymnasium attached, and there was a mythological tradition (perhaps originating in Boeotia) that after Heracles died he was translated to Olympus, where he married Hebe, the personification of youth. Because of th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |