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Vale în Jos
Ponor (; ) is a commune located in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of six villages: După Deal, Geogel (''Kisgyógypatak''), Măcărești, Ponor, Vale în Jos, and Valea Bucurului. The commune lies on the banks of the river Cheia. It is situated in the southeastern reaches of the Apuseni Mountains, within the Trascău Mountains. Ponor is located in the central-north part of Alba County, southeast of Baia de Arieș, west of Aiud, and northwest of the county seat, Alba Iulia. At the 2011 census, Ponor had a population of 540; of those, 96.3% were ethnic Romanians. At the 2021 census, the population had decreased to 475, of which 91.16% were ethnic Romanians. Natives * Victor Ciorbea (born 1954), politician, Mayor of Bucharest and Prime Minister of Romania The prime minister of Romania (), officially the prime minister of the Government of Romania (), is the head of the Government of Romania, Government of Romania. Initially, the office was styled '' ...
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Commune In Romania
A commune (''comună'' in Romanian language, Romanian) is the lowest level of administrative subdivision in Romania. There are 2,686 communes in Romania. The commune is the rural subdivision of a Counties of Romania, county. Urban areas, such as towns and cities within a county, are given the status of ''Cities in Romania, city'' or ''Municipality in Romania, municipality''. In principle, a commune can contain any size population, but in practice, when a commune becomes relatively urbanised and exceeds approximately 10,000 residents, it is usually granted city status. Although cities are on the same administrative level as communes, their local governments are structured in a way that gives them more power. Some urban or semi-urban areas of fewer than 10,000 inhabitants have also been given city status. Each commune is administered by a mayor (''primar'' in Romanian). A commune is made up of one or more villages which do not themselves have an administrative function. Communes ...
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2011 Romanian Census
The 2011 Romanian census was a census held in Romania between 20 and 31 October 2011. It was performed by some 120,000 census takers in around 101,000 statistic sectors throughout the country established by the National Institute of Statistics (INS) of Romania. Preparations started already in 2009, and it was announced that the process would not end until 2014. Anyone who did not answer questions in the census questionnaire would be fined between 1,500 and 4,500 Romanian lei, although 4 of the 100 questions related to the respondent's ethnicity, mother language, religion, and possible disabilities were not mandatory. Preliminary results were released once on 2 February 2012 and again on 20 August 2012. The final definitive result of the census came out on 4 July 2013, showing that, among other things, Romania had lost 1,559,300 people since the 2002 census, consequently having 20,121,641 inhabitants. Some people like sociologist Vasile Ghețău, director of the Center of Demog ...
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RO or Ro may refer to: Businesses and organizations * Ro (company), an American telehealth company * Royal Ordnance, a British armaments manufacturer * TAROM, a Romanian airline, IATA airline code RO Places * Rø, Denmark * Ro, Emilia-Romagna, Italy * Ro, Greece, a small Greek island * Romania (ISO 3166-1 country code RO) Science and technology * .ro, Internet country code top-level domain for Romania * Ro (antigen) * Autoantigen Ro, a protein * Ro (volume), an Egyptian unit of measurement * Radio occultation, a technique for measuring the properties of an atmosphere * Reactor operator, a person who controls a nuclear reactor * Reverse osmosis, a water purification process * Receive only, a type of teleprinter * Anti-SSA/Ro autoantibodies (anti–Sjögren's-syndrome-related antigen A autoantibodies) Other uses * Ro (kana), a Japanese character * Ro (name), a given name, nickname and surname ** Ro (dubious Danish king) * Ro (pharaoh) or Iry-Hor (fl. c. 3170 BC), Egyptian ph ...
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Prime Minister Of Romania
The prime minister of Romania (), officially the prime minister of the Government of Romania (), is the head of the Government of Romania, Government of Romania. Initially, the office was styled ''President of the Council of Ministers'' (), when the term "Government" included more than the Cabinet, and the Cabinet was called the ''Council of Ministers'' (). The title was officially changed to ''Prime Minister'' by the 1965 Constitution of Romania during the Socialist Republic of Romania, communist regime. Nomination One of the roles of the president of the republic is to designate a candidate for the office of prime minister. The president must consult with the party that has the majority in the Parliament or, if no such majority exists, with the parties represented in Parliament. Once designated, the candidate assembles a proposal for the governing program and the cabinet. The proposal must be approved by the Parliament within ten days through a motion of no confidence. Both ...
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Mayor Of Bucharest
The mayor of Bucharest (), sometimes known as the general mayor, is the head of the Bucharest City Hall in Bucharest, Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ..., which is responsible for citywide affairs, such as the water system, the transport system and the main boulevards. The title of general mayor is sometimes used to distinguish the office from that of the mayors that lead each of Bucharest's six administrative sectors, and which are responsible for local area affairs, such as secondary streets, parks, schools and cleaning services. All decisions of the mayor have to be approved by the 55-seat General Council of Bucharest. The office was created on 7 August 1864, when a new French-style local administration law was adopted. The two before last elections sa ...
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Victor Ciorbea
Victor Ciorbea (; born on 26 October 1954) is a Romanian jurist, politician, and civil/public servant. He was the Mayor of Bucharest between 1996 and 1997 and, after his resignation from this public dignity/position, Prime Minister of Romania from 12 December 1996 to 30 March 1998. He had also served as the Ombudsman between 2014 and 2019. Biography Born in Ponor, Alba County on 26 October 1954, Ciorbea trained as a jurist, graduating from Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca in 1979. He worked for the municipal tribunal in Bucharest, as well as lecturing in Law at the University of Bucharest. He was awarded a doctorate in Law by the University of Bucharest, and later specialized in management at Case Western Reserve University in the United States (1992). Originally a trade unionist (between 1990 and 1996, he was leader of the Federation of Free Trade Unions in Education, FSLI, and, between 1990 and 1993, leader of the nationwide National Confederation of Free Trade Unio ...
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2021 Romanian Census
The 2021 Romanian census () was a census held in Romania between 1 February and 31 July 2022, with the reference day for the census data set at 1 December 2021. The census was supposed to be done in 2021, but it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Romania in order to avoid census takers from getting infected when coming into contact with ill or quarantined people. It was the first census held in Romania in which data was collected online, something that had support among Romanian youth. The census was divided into three phases: one in which personal data of the Romanian population was collected from various sites; another in which the population was to complete more precise data such as religion, in which town halls would help the natives of rural areas to answer the census; and a third one in which census takers would go to the homes and households of those who did not register their data online. Data for this census was planned not to be collected on paper, but inste ...
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Romanians
Romanians (, ; dated Endonym and exonym, exonym ''Vlachs'') are a Romance languages, Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation native to Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Sharing a Culture of Romania, common culture and Cultural heritage, ancestry, they speak the Romanian language and live primarily in Romania and Moldova. The 2021 Romanian census found that 89.3% of Romania's citizens identified themselves as ethnic Romanians. In one interpretation of the 1989 census results in Moldova, the majority of Moldovans were counted as ethnic Romanians as well.''Ethnic Groups Worldwide: A Ready Reference Handbook By'' David Levinson (author), David Levinson, Published 1998 – Greenwood Publishing Group.At the time of the 1989 census, Moldova's total population was 4,335,400. The largest nationality in the republic, ethnic Romanians, numbered 2,795,000 persons, accounting for 64.5 percent of the population. Source U.S. Library of Congres ...
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Alba Iulia
Alba Iulia (; or ''Carlsburg'', formerly ''Weißenburg''; ; ) is a city that serves as the seat of Alba County in the west-central part of Romania. Located on the river Mureș (river), Mureș in the historical region of Transylvania, it has a population of 64,227 (). During ancient times, the site was the location of the Roman camp Apulum (castra), Apulum. Since the High Middle Ages, the city has been the seat of Transylvania's Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Alba Iulia, Roman Catholic diocese. Between 1526 and 1570 it was the capital of the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom from which the Principality of Transylvania (1570–1711), Principality of Transylvania emerged by the Treaty of Speyer (1570), Treaty of Speyer in 1570 and it was the capital of the Principality of Transylvania (1570–1711), Principality of Transylvania until 1711. At one point it also was a center of the Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan of Transylvania with Suffragan diocese, suffragan to Vad, Cluj, Vad diocese.Maks ...
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Alba County
Alba County () is a county (județ) of Romania located in the historic region of Transylvania. Its capital is Alba Iulia, a city with a population of 63,536. Name "Alba", meaning "white" in Latin and Romanian, is derived from the name of the city of Alba Iulia. In Hungarian language, Hungarian, the county is known as ''Fehér megye'' (fehér also meaning white), and in German language, German as ''Kreis Karlsburg''. Geography This county has a total area of , with mountains occupying about 59% of its surface. The Apuseni Mountains are in the northwest; the northeastern side of the Parâng Mountains group – the Șureanu Mountains, Șureanu and Cindrel Mountains, Cindrel mountains – are in the south. In the east there is the Transylvanian Plateau with deep but wide valleys. The three main elements are separated by the Mureș (river), Mureș River valley. The main rivers are the Mureș (river), Mureș River and its tributaries, the Târnava, the Sebeș (river), Sebeș, ...
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Aiud
Aiud (; , , Hungarian pronunciation: ; ) is a city located in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. The city's population is 21,307 (2021). It has the status of municipiu. The city derives its name ultimately from Saint Giles (Aegidius), to whom the first church in the settlement was dedicated when built. Administration Aiud is made up of the city proper and of ten villages. These are divided into four urban villages and six villages which are located outside the city proper but fall under its administration. The four urban villages are: Aiudul de Sus, Gâmbaș, Măgina, and Păgida. The rural villages are: Ciumbrud (), Sâncrai (), Gârbova de Jos (), Țifra (), Gârbova de Sus () and Gârbovița (). Demographics At the 2021 census, Aiud had a population of 21,307. In 2016, the total population was 26,296, of which 12,900 were male and 13,396 female.
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Baia De Arieș
Baia de Arieș ( Hungarian: ''Aranyosbánya'' or ''Offenbánya''; German: ''Offenburg'') is a town in Alba County, Romania. It administers five villages: Brăzești (''Berzesd''), Cioara de Sus (''Felsőcsóra''), Muncelu (''Muncsal''), Sartăș (''Szártos''), and Simulești. With a population of 3,035 in 2021, it was until 2004 a mining centre extracting, mainly for base metals but also arsenopyrite and pyrite-rich concentrate containing gold. The first writing about it is in a document of Charles I of Hungary since 1325. In the beginning of the 15th century it was declared free town. It lost town status later, but regained it in 1998. Baia de Arieș's tourist objectives are the monument of nature tree known as the "Emperor's beech" and the Muncel Monastery. Demographics According to the census from 2011, the town had a total population of 3433; of those, 99.3% were ethnic Romanians, 0.55% ethnic Hungarians, and 0.19% ethnic Romani. At the 2021 census, Baia de Arieș had ...
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