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Râmnicu Sărat Prison
Râmnicu Sărat Prison is a former prison located in Râmnicu Sărat, Buzău County, Romania. The building is listed as a historic monument by Romania's Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs. Before World War II The prison was built at the end of the 19th century, and first attested in a document of October 1901. From its establishment until 1938, it housed common criminals with sentences of up to two years. After the onset of King Carol II's royal dictatorship in 1938, the prison began to be used for political prisoners, namely the leadership of the Iron Guard, including Corneliu Zelea Codreanu. During the communist period From 1955 to 1963, a significant number of prominent political prisoners were held there by the communist regime. Alexandru Vișinescu was the commander of the prison from 1956 to 1963. In 2015 he was convicted of crimes against humanity for his treatment of detainees, and sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment. Unlike the much larger prisons at Gherla, Aiu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Râmnicu Sărat
Râmnicu Sărat (also spelled ''Rîmnicu Sărat'', , german: Rümnick or ''Rebnick''; tr, Remnik) is a city in Buzău County, Romania, in the historical region of Muntenia. It was first attested in a document of 1439, and raised to the rank of ''municipiu'' in 1994. The city rises from a marshy plain, east of the Carpathians, and west of the cornlands of southern Moldavia. It lies on the left bank of the river Râmnicul Sărat. Salt and petroleum are worked in the mountains, and there is a considerable trade in agricultural produce and preserved meat. Population History Râmnicu Sărat was the scene of battles between the Wallachians and Ottomans in 1634, 1434 and 1573. It was also here that, in 1789 (during the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–1792), an army of Imperial Russian and Habsburg troops, commanded by Alexander Suvorov, defeated the Ottoman forces in the Battle of Rymnik. For this victory, Suvorov was awarded the victory title of "Count of Rymnik" or "Rimniksky" (г ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Romania International
Radio România Internaţional ( ro, Radio România Internaţional, or ) is a Romanian radio station owned by the Romanian public radio broadcaster Societatea Română de Radiodifuziune (SRR, the national public radio in Romania) that broadcasts abroad. Prior to 1989, the station was known as Radio Bucharest. According to the Romanian law nr. 41/1994, republished, the SRR produces and broadcasts programmes in the Romanian language and other languages, for worldwide auditorium, to promote the image of Romania, and her internal and external politics. As a result, inside the SRR there is ''Departamentul Radio România Internaţional'' (The Department Radio Romania International) (RRI), that owns two radio stations. Stations *RRI 1 – "Romania Live": As of March 2001, RRI 1 has broadcast daily shows under the heading “Romania, live”, a summary of the shows produced by the main departments in the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation. This summary is broadcast around the clock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ion Petrovici
Ion (Ioan) Petrovici (June 14, 1882 – February 17, 1972) was a Romanian professor of philosophy at the University of Iași and titular member of the Romanian Academy. He served as Minister of National Education in the Goga cabinet and Minister of Culture and Religious Affairs in the Third Antonescu cabinet. Biography Education Petrovici was born in 1882, in Tecuci, the son of Dumitru and Ortansa Petrovici, and the grandchild of Junimist poet Theodor Șerbănescu's sister. Between 1892 and 1899 he attended secondary school at Saint Sava College in Bucharest. He enrolled at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Bucharest in autumn 1899, having Titu Maiorescu and Nicolae Iorga as teachers. He proposed his rhymed play ''O sărutare'' to the National Theatre of Bucharest during the same autumn. As Ion Luca Caragiale commended it, the play was performed on 21 March 1900. (He later became a board member of the National Theatre.) As a member of a student delega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constantin Titel Petrescu
Constantin Titel Petrescu (5 February 1888 – 2 September 1957) was a Romanian politician and lawyer. He was the leader of the Romanian Social Democratic Party. He was born in Craiova, the son of an employee of the National Bank in Bucharest. After completing high school at Saint Sava College in 1903, he studied Philosophy and Law at the University of Bucharest, earning a J.D. degree. After auditing some penal law courses at Sorbonne University in Paris, he returned to Bucharest and registered in 1911 with the Ilfov County Bar as a defense lawyer. He defended before the Ilfov Court socialist militant Alexandru Nicolau, who was eventually acquitted by the jury. In 1923, Petrescu stood trial for alleged insults addressed to the Romanian Army; with the help of a defense team that included Dem I. Dobrescu, he was acquitted. That same year, he joined Constantin Rădulescu-Motru, Virgil Madgearu, Constantin Costa-Foru, Victor Eftimiu, Grigore Iunian, Radu D. Rosetti, Dem Dobresc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Pauker
Ana Pauker (born Hannah Rabinsohn; 13 February 1893 – 3 June 1960) was a Romanian communist leader and served as the country's foreign minister in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Ana Pauker became the world's first female foreign minister when entering office in December 1947. She was also the unofficial leader of the Romanian Communist Party immediately after World War II. Biography Early life and political career Pauker was born into a poor, religious Orthodox Jewish family in Codăești, Vaslui County (in central Moldavia), the daughter of Sarah and (Tsvi-)Hersh Kaufman Rabinsohn. Her father was a traditional slaughterer and synagogue functionary, her mother a small-time food seller. They had four surviving children; two more died in infancy. As a young woman, she became a teacher in a Jewish elementary school in Bucharest. While her younger brother was a Zionist and remained religious, she opted for Socialism, joining the Social Democratic Party of Romania in 1915 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ion Mihalache
Ion Mihalache (; March 3, 1882 – February 5, 1963) was a Romanian agrarian politician, the founder and leader of the Peasants' Party (PȚ) and a main figure of its successor, the National Peasants' Party (PNȚ). Early life A schoolteacher born into a peasant family of Topoloveni, Muscel County, he served as a lieutenant in the Romanian Army during World War I.Rouček, p.84-85 Mihalache, who soon became popular among Orthodox priests and village teachers, served as president of the local teachers' association. He founded the PȚ in the Romanian Old Kingdom in 1918; under his leadership, it emerged from northern Muntenia and became a grouping with national appeal. The PȚ had much success in the elections of November 1919, forming a coalition government with the Transylvanian Romanian National Party (PNR), under Alexandru Vaida-Voevod. As a politician, Mihalache made himself known for supporting a political option that mixed traditionalist reserve towards industrialization and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horia Macellariu
Horia Macellariu (10 May 1894, Craiova – 11 July 1989, Bucharest) was a Romanian rear admiral, commander of the Royal Romanian Navy's Black Sea Fleet during the Second World War. Early life Horia Ion Pompiliu Macellariu was born in Craiova on 28 April/10 May 1894. After undergoing military studies, he became a marine officer in 1915. During World War I, he served as the captain of the Romanian command ship ''Principele Nicolae''. Throughout the war, he distinguished himself, being decorated with the Order of the Romanian Crown, Knight rank. In 1927–1928, he studied at the Naval War School in Paris, where the French President also decorated him with the Legion of Honour, Knight rank. After returning to Romania, he commanded several Romanian warships throughout the 1930s: the torpedo boat ''Vârtejul'', the river monitor ''Lascăr Catargiu'', the monitor ''Mihail Kogălniceanu'' and the destroyer ''Regina Maria''. Career during World War II When Romania entered the war with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasile Luca
Vasile Luca (born László Luka; 8 June 1898 – 23 July 1963) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian and Soviet communist politician, a leading member of the Romanian Communist Party (PCR) from 1945 and until his imprisonment in the 1950s. Noted for his activities in the Ukrainian SSR in 1940–1941, he sided with Ana Pauker during World War II, and returned to Romania to serve as the minister of finance and one of the most recognizable leaders of the Communist regime. Luca's downfall, coming at the end of a conflict with Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, signaled that of Pauker. He was married to Elisabeta Luca (née Betty Birman), a volunteer in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, who was also imprisoned following her husband's arrest. Biography Early activities A native of Szentkatolna, Transylvania, Austria-Hungary ((today part of Catalina, Covasna County, Romania). Luca was an ethnic Hungarian from the Székely community, of "proletarian" origin.Tismănean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gheorghe N
Gheorghe is a Romanian given name and surname. It is a variant of George, also a name in Romanian but with soft Gs. It may refer to: Given name * Gheorghe Adamescu * Gheorghe Albu * Gheorghe Alexandrescu * Gheorghe Andriev * Gheorghe Apostol * Gheorghe Apostoleanu * Gheorghe Argeşanu * Gheorghe Arsenescu * Gheorghe Asachi * Gheorghe Băgulescu * Gheorghe Balș * Gheorghe Bănciulescu * Gheorghe Banu * Gheorghe Barbu * Gheorghe Benga * Gheorghe Bengescu * Gheorghe Bibescu * Gheorghe Bogdan-Duică * Gheorghe Brăescu * Gheorghe Brega * Gheorghe Briceag * Gheorghe Bucur * Gheorghe Buruiană * Gheorghe Buzatu * Gheorghe Buzdugan * Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa * Gheorghe Călugăreanu * Gheorghe Caranda * Gheorghe Cardaș * Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino * Gheorghe Cartianu-Popescu * Gheorghe Catrina * Gheorghe Cialâk * Gheorghe Cipăianu * Gheorghe E. Cojocaru * Gheorghe Cosma * Gheorghe Danielov * Gheorghe Dănilă * Gheorghe Derussi * Gheorghe Dinică * Gheorghe Duca * Gheorghe Gh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
