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Recea, Brașov
Recea (; ) is a commune in Brașov County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of seven villages: Berivoi (''Berivoj''), Dejani (''Dezsán''), Gura Văii (until 1960 ''Netotu''; ''Netot''), Iași (''Jás''), Recea, Săsciori (''Szeszcsor''), and Săvăstreni (''Szevesztrény''). The commune is located in Țara Făgărașului, in the western part of the county. It is south of Făgăraș (halfway between the city and the Făgăraș Mountains), west of Brașov, and east of Sibiu. It borders Hârseni to the east, Beclean, Brașov, Beclean to the north, Lisa, Brașov, Lisa and Voila, Brașov, Voila to the west, and Argeș County to the south. At the 2021 Romanian census, 2021 census, Recea had 3,236 inhabitants, of which 89% were Romanians. Natives *Ioan Boeriu (1859–1949), officer who served during World War I *Traian Herseni (1907–1980), social scientist, journalist, and political figure *Ion Gavrilă Ogoranu (1923–2006), member of the Iron Guard (1936–1940), leader of ...
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Brașov County
Brașov County () is a county (județ) of Transylvania, Romania. Its capital city is Brașov. The county incorporates within its boundaries most of the Medieval "lands" (''țări'') Burzenland and Făgăraș. Name In Hungarian language, Hungarian, it is known as ''Brassó megye'', and in German language, German as ''Kreis Kronstadt''. Under Austria-Hungary, a county with an identical name (Brassó County, ) was created in 1876, covering a smaller area. Demographics At the 2011 Romanian census, 2011 census, the county had a population of 549,217 and the population density was . * Romanians – 87.4% * Hungarians in Romania, Hungarians – 7.77% * Romani people in Romania, Romas – 3.5% * Germans of Romania, Germans (Transylvanian Saxons) – 0.65% At the 2021 Romanian census, 2021 census, Brașov County had a population of 546,615 and the population density was . * Romanians – 88.33% * Hungarians in Romania, Hungarians – 5,98% * Romani people in Romania, Romas – 4.98% ...
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Voila, Brașov
Voila (; ) is a commune in Brașov County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of six villages: Cincșor (''Kleinschenk''; ''Kissink''), Dridif (''Dridif''), Ludișor (''Ludisor''), Sâmbăta de Jos (''Untermühlendorf''; ''Alsószombatfalva''), Voila, and Voivodeni (''Nagyvajdafalva''). It included Sâmbăta de Sus and Stațiunea Climaterică Sâmbăta villages until 2003, when these were split off to form Sâmbăta de Sus commune. The Voila commune is located in the western part of the county, in the historic Țara Făgărașului region, on the left bank of the river Olt. The rivers Breaza and Sâmbăta discharge into the Olt at Voila. The Voila Hydropower Plant on the Olt River has a reservoir with a capacity of of water, which covers an area of . The commune is traversed by the DN1 road; it is west of Făgăraș and east of Sibiu Sibiu ( , , , Hungarian: ''Nagyszeben'', , Transylvanian Saxon: ''Härmeschtat'' or ''Hermestatt'') is a city in central Romania, s ...
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Ion Gavrilă Ogoranu
Ion Gavrilă Ogoranu (January 6, 1923 – May 1, 2006) was a member of the fascist paramilitary organization Iron Guard, who between 1948 and 1955, after the Soviet occupation of Romania and the establishment of the Romanian People's Republic, became the leader of an underground anti-communist paramilitary group in the Făgăraș Mountains. Biography Ogoranu was born in a Greek-Catholic Romanian family as one of three children, in Gura Văii, Făgăraș County, in the Țara Făgărașului region of southeastern Transylvania. He studied at Radu Negru High School in Făgăraș, where he was from 1936 to 1940 a member of the "Negoiu" (The Brotherhood of the Cross), the youth wing of the Iron Guard. In 1940 he became the leader of the Frăția de Cruce organization in Făgăraș. In 1941 he was arrested by the Ion Antonescu regime for his participation in the Legionnaires' rebellion and was condemned to 10 years forced labor. Released on April 19, 1944, he enrolled in the milita ...
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Traian Herseni
Traian Herseni (February 18, 1907 – July 17, 1980) was a Romanian social scientist, journalist, and political figure. First noted as a favorite disciple of Dimitrie Gusti, he helped establish the Romanian school of rural sociology in the 1920s and early 1930s, and took part in Interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary study groups and field trips. A prolific essayist and researcher, he studied isolated human groups across the country, trying to define relations between sociology, ethnography, and cultural anthropology, with an underlying interest in sociological epistemology. He was particularly interested in the peasant cultures and pastoral society of the Făgăraș Mountains. Competing with Anton Golopenția for the role of Gusti's leading disciple, Herseni emerged as the winner in 1937; from 1932, he also held a teaching position at the University of Bucharest. Herseni became a committed Eugenics, eugenicist and Scientific racism, racial scientist, who discarded a moderate left- ...
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