Lake Brâncoveanu (Romanian: Lacul Brâncoveanu) is a natural salt lake in the town of
Ocna Sibiului
Ocna Sibiului (; ) is a town in the centre of Sibiu County, in southern Transylvania, central Romania, 10 km to the north-west of the county capital Sibiu. The town administers a single village, Topârcea (''Tschapertsch''; ''Toporcsa'').
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Sibiu County
Sibiu County () is a county ( ro, județ) of Romania, in the historical region of Transylvania. Its county seat ( ro, reședință de județ) is the namesake town of Sibiu (german: Hermannstadt).
Name
In Hungarian, it is known as ''Szeben ...
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Transylvania
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Romania
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. It is one of the many lakes of the
Ocna Sibiului mine
The Ocna Sibiului mine is a large salt mine located in central Romania, in Sibiu County, close to Ocna Sibiului. The mine represents one of the largest salt reserves in Romania, having estimated reserves of 61 billion tonnes of NaCl.
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, a large salt mine which has one of the largest salt reserves in Romania.
The lake has the biggest salinity out of every lake in the mine and is one of Romania's most salty lakes.
Name
The lake is named after
Constantin Brâncoveanu
Constantin Brâncoveanu (; 1654 – August 15, 1714) was Prince of Wallachia between 1688 and 1714.
Biography
Ascension
A descendant of the Craiovești boyar family and heir through his grandfather Preda of a considerable part of Matei Ba ...
, a ruler of
Wallachia
Wallachia or Walachia (; ro, Țara Românească, lit=The Romanian Land' or 'The Romanian Country, ; archaic: ', Romanian Cyrillic alphabet: ) is a historical and geographical region of Romania. It is situated north of the Lower Danube and so ...
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History
Lake Brâncoveanu is situated on the site of a salt mine that was in operation until 1699, when water infiltration caused it to be abandoned. In 1966, the water level of the lake had a sharp decrease of 11 m, because of the leakage of water through a crack produced in the salt wall in the underground lake adjacent to the Ignatius mine.
Information
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*Maximum Depth:
*Salinity: 310 g/L (highest in the salt mine)
Lakes of the salt mine
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Auster
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History
The company began in 1938 at the Britannia Works, Thurmaston near Leicester, England, as Taylorcraft Aeroplanes (England) Limited, ma ...
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Lake Avram Iancu-Ocniţa
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Balta cu Nămol
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Cloşca
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Crişan
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Lacul Fără Fund
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Gura Minei
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Horea
Vasile Ursu Nicola (1731 in Arada, Principality of Transylvania (now Horea, Romania) – 28 February 1785 in Karlsburg (now Alba Iulia, Romania), commonly known as Horea (in Hungarian sometimes ''Hóra'') was a Transylvanian peasant who, with ...
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Mâţelor
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Negru The Romanian-language surname Negru literally means "black" and may refer to:
*Dan Negru, Romanian TV presenter and host
*Natalia Negru, Romanian poet and writer
*Nicolae Negru, Moldovan writer and journalist
*Tudor Negru, Moldovan politician
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Pânzelor
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Rândunica
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Verde (Freshwater lake)
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Vrăjitoarelor (Freshwater lake)
References
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Lakes of Sibiu County