Stadionul Minerul (Lupeni)
Minerul Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Lupeni, Romania. It is currently used mostly for football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ... matches and is the home ground of Hercules Lupeni. The stadium holds 3,000 people. Football venues in Romania {{Romania-sports-venue-stub ...
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Lupeni
Lupeni (; German: ''Schylwolfsbach'', Hungarian: ''Lupény'') is a mining city in the Jiu Valley in Hunedoara County, Romania, in the historical region of Transylvania. It is one of the oldest and largest cities in the Jiu Valley. It is located on the banks of the West Jiu river within the Jiu Valley, at a height varying between (in the east) and . The distance from Lupeni to Petroșani is (DN66A), and to Deva (the capital of Hunedoara County) is . The name is derived from the Romanian "''lup''", meaning "wolf". Throughout the second part of the 19th century and most of the 20th century, the city's economy was based on mining, but since the 1990s the economy has become more diverse, after many mines were closed. History The first records of people inhabiting this area date back to prehistorical times, as evidenced by the discoveries made at the Straja-Lupeni hill cave, where old pottery objects were found. The city of Lupeni was first attested in 1770. During the Middle Ages, ...
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