Victoria (; german: Viktoriastadt; hu, Viktóriaváros) is a town in the western part of
Brașov County
Brașov County () is a county ( județ) of Romania, in Transylvania. Its capital city is Brașov. The county incorporates within its boundaries most of the Medieval "lands" (''țări'') Burzenland and Făgăraș.
Name
In Hungarian, it is known ...
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Transylvania
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Romania
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, near the
Făgăraș Mountains
The Făgăraș Mountains ( ro, Munții Făgărașului ; hu, Fogarasi-havasok) are the highest mountains of the Southern Carpathians, in Romania.
Geography
The mountain range is situated in the heart of Romania, at .
The range is bordered in the ...
. It had a population of 7,067 at the 2011 census.
In 1939, the Romanian state signed a contract with the German company Ferrostaal of
Essen
Essen (; Latin: ''Assindia'') is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and D ...
to build a factory (called "Ucea") on the site of what is now Victoria. The contract was canceled after Romania declared war on Germany in 1944, during
World War II
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.
The building of the town began in 1949 and it had the provisional names of "Colonia Ucea" and "Ucea Roșie" (Red Ucea), only to be changed in November 1954 to Victoria.
Climate
Victoria has a warm-summer
humid continental climate
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(''Dfb'' in the
Köppen climate classification
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).
Twin towns
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Chevilly-Larue,
France
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(1994)
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Utrechtse Heuvelrug
Utrechtse Heuvelrug (; en, "Utrecht Hill Ridge") is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht. It was formed on 1 January 2006 by merging the former municipalities of Amerongen, Doorn, Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Leersum, and Maarn ...
,
Netherlands
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, anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau")
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, subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands
, established_title = Before independence
, established_date = Spanish Netherl ...
(2005)
*
Lariano
Lariano is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Italian region Lazio, located about southeast of Rome on the Alban Hills.
Twin towns
* Victoria
Victoria most commonly refers to:
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Italy
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(2007)
Natives
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Cosmin Băcilă
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Iulian Popa
Iulian Popa (born 20 July 1984) is a Romanian former footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. In his career Popa played for various Romanian clubs such as: Voința Sibiu, Brașov, Oțelul Galați, Rapid București or Hermannstadt
S ...
References
External links
www.orasulvictoria.ro
Monotowns in Romania
Populated places established in 1949
Populated places in Brașov County
Localities in Transylvania
Planned cities in Romania
Socialist planned cities
Towns in Romania
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