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Index Brașov

Brașov (Corona, Kronstadt, Transylvanian Saxon: Kruhnen, Brassó) is a city in Romania and the administrative centre of Brașov County. [1]

159 relations: A3 motorway (Romania), Administrative centre, Administrative divisions of Romania, Alba Iulia, Andrei Șaguna, Andrei Șaguna National College (Brașov), Andrei Mureșanu High School, Andrew II of Hungary, ASC Corona 2010 Brașov, Áprily Lajos National College, Battle of Transylvania, Bavaria, Biserica Neagră, Black Sea, Bod Transmitter, Brașov Airport, Brașov County, Brașov metropolitan area, Brașov Olympic Ice Rink, Brașov railway station, Brașov rebellion, Brașovia Brașov, Bran Castle, Bran, Brașov, Bridge Club Brașov, Bronze Age, Bucharest, Burzenland, Catherine's Gate, Cleveland, Coat of arms, Contract bridge, Counties of Romania, CS Colțea Brașov, Daciad, Dacians, Deșteaptă-te, române!, Defensive wall, Demographics of Romania, Dracula, Dumitru Popescu Colibași Sports Hall, Eastern European Summer Time, Eastern European Time, Elizabeth of Russia, Erbil, Șchei Gate, Șcheii Brașovului, First Romanian School, Flanders, France, ..., Gazeta de Transilvania, George Scripcaru, Germans of Romania, Ghent, Ghimbav, Gothic architecture, Grigore Moisil National College of Computer Science (Brașov), Győr, Handball, Hollywood Sign, Holstebro, Holy Roman Emperor, Humid continental climate, Hungarians, Hungarians in Romania, Ice hockey, Industria Aeronautică Română, Interwar period, Ioan Meșotă National College, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iron Guard, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, Joseph Stalin, Köppen climate classification, King Michael's Coup, Kingdom of Hungary, Kroonstad, Lausanne, Leeds, Linz, List of mayors of Brașov, List of people from Brașov, List of places named after Joseph Stalin, List of renamed places in Romania, Longwave, MAN SE, Maramureș, Medieval Latin, Middle Ages, Minsk, Moselle, Municipiu, Musashino, Tokyo, National Institute of Statistics (Romania), National Legionary State, Neolithic, Neolog Judaism, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Nuremberg, Olimpia CSU Brașov, Orthodox Judaism, Ottoman Empire, Pecheneg language, Piața Sfatului, Piatra Mare Mountains, Ploiești, Poiana Brașov, Predeal, Prehistory of Transylvania, Prejmer, Prejmer fortified church, Rado Lenček, Râșnov, Rhineland, Rishon LeZion, Roman (vehicle manufacturer), Roman Dacia, Romani people, Romania, Romanians, Rugby football, Sister city, Ski resort, Socialist Republic of Romania, Southeast Europe, Southern Carpathians, Soviet Union, Spiru Haret University, SR Brașov, St. Nicholas Church, Brașov, Stadionul Municipal (Brașov), Stadionul Silviu Ploeșteanu, Strada Sforii, Suraia, Tampere, Tâmpa, Brașov, Teutonic Order, Thuringia, Tours, Transilvania University of Brașov, Transmitter station, Transport in Brașov, Transylvania, Transylvanian Saxon dialect, Transylvanian Saxons, Trikala, UNESCO, Union of Transylvania with Romania, Unirea National College (Brașov), Universiade, Venaria Reale, Vlad the Impaler, Wallonia, West Germany, Western Europe, Winter sport, 2008 IIHF World Championship Division II, 2013 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival, 2020 Winter Youth Olympics. Expand index (109 more) »

A3 motorway (Romania)

The A3 motorway (Autostrada A3) is a partially built (approx. 18%) motorway in Romania, planned to connect Bucharest with the Transylvania region and the north-western part of the country.

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Administrative centre

An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located.

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Administrative divisions of Romania

Romania's administration is relatively centralized and administrative subdivisions are therefore fairly simplified.

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Alba Iulia

Alba Iulia (Karlsburg or Carlsburg, formerly Weißenburg, Gyulafehérvár, Apulum, Ottoman Turkish: Erdel Belgradı or Belgrad-ı Erdel) is a city located on the Mureş River in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania, with a population of 63,536.

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Andrei Șaguna

Andrei Șaguna (20 January 1809, Miskolc, Hungary – 28 June 1873, Nagyszeben, Hungary) was a Metropolitan bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church in Transylvania, and one of the Romanian community political leaders in the Habsburg Monarchy, especially active during the 1848 Revolution.

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Andrei Șaguna National College (Brașov)

Andrei Șaguna National College (Colegiul Național "Andrei Șaguna") is a Romanian state school located in Șcheii Brașovului, a neighbourhood of Brașov.

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Andrei Mureșanu High School

Andrei Mureşanu High School (Liceul "Andrei Mureşanu") is a high school in the Șcheii Brașovului neighborhood of Braşov, Romania.

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Andrew II of Hungary

Andrew II (II., Andrija II., Ondrej II., Андрій II; 117721 September 1235), also known as Andrew of Jerusalem, was King of Hungary and Croatia between 1205 and 1235.

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ASC Corona 2010 Brașov

ASC Corona 2010 Braşov is a sports club form Brașov, Romania.

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Áprily Lajos National College

Áprily Lajos National College (Colegiul Național "Áprily Lajos"; Áprily Lajos Főgimnázium) is a Romanian state school located in Centrul Vechi, a neighborhood of Brașov.

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Battle of Transylvania

The Battle of Transylvania was the first major operation of the Romanian forces Campaign during World War I, beginning on 27 August 1916.

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Bavaria

Bavaria (Bavarian and Bayern), officially the Free State of Bavaria (Freistaat Bayern), is a landlocked federal state of Germany, occupying its southeastern corner.

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Biserica Neagră

Biserica Neagră or Black Church (Schwarze Kirche; Biserica Neagră; Fekete templom) is a church in Brașov, a city in south-eastern Transylvania, Romania.

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Black Sea

The Black Sea is a body of water and marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean between Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Western Asia.

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Bod Transmitter

The Bod Transmitter (also known as the Braşov Transmitter) is the name of the transmitter facility for the central longwave radio station near Bod, Romania.

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Brașov Airport

Brașov-Ghimbav International Airport is an airport currently under construction in Ghimbav, near Brașov, Romania right by the future A3 motorway.

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Brașov County

Brașov County is a county (județ) of Romania, in Transylvania, with the capital city at Brașov.

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Brașov metropolitan area

Braşov metropolitan area is a metropolitan area in Braşov County, Romania, that includes the municipality of Braşov and 12 other nearby communities.

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Brașov Olympic Ice Rink

The Brașov Olympic Ice Rink (Patinoarul Olimpic Brașov) is a multi-purpose ice rink in Brașov, Romania.

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Brașov railway station

Braşov railway station is the main station in Braşov, Romania.

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Brașov rebellion

The Rebellion of Brașov was a revolt against Nicolae Ceaușescu's economic policies in Communist Romania, which erupted on the day of the 1987 local election.

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Brașovia Brașov

Brașovia Brașov was a football team from Brașov founded in 1914 and dissolved in 1937.

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Bran Castle

Bran Castle (Castelul Bran; Törzburg; Törcsvár), situated near Bran and in the immediate vicinity of Brașov, is a national monument and landmark in Romania.

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Bran, Brașov

Bran (Törzburg; Törcsvár) is a commune in Brașov County, Romania.

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Bridge Club Brașov

Bridge Club Brașov is a bridge club based in the city of Brașov, Romania.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age is a historical period characterized by the use of bronze, and in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization.

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Bucharest

Bucharest (București) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre.

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Burzenland

Țara Bârsei or the Burzenland (Țara Bârsei; Barcaság) is a historic and ethnographic area in southeastern Transylvania, Romania with a mixed population of Romanians, Germans and Hungarians.

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Catherine's Gate

Catherine's Gate (Poarta Ecaterinei, Katherinenthor, Katalin-kapu) in Braşov, Romania, was built by the Tailors’ Guild, in 1559 for defensive purposes instead of an old gate destroyed by the flood in 1526.

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Cleveland

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio, and the county seat of Cuyahoga County.

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Coat of arms

A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard.

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Contract bridge

Contract bridge, or simply bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard 52-card deck.

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Counties of Romania

A total of 41 counties (județe), along with the municipality of Bucharest, constitute the official administrative divisions of Romania.

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CS Colțea Brașov

CS Colțea Brașov is a football club based in Brașov, in central Romania.

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Daciad

The Daciad (Daciada) was a multi-sport competition held every two years in the Socialist Republic of Romania meant to encourage mass participation in amateur sports.

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Dacians

The Dacians (Daci; loc Δάοι, Δάκαι) were an Indo-European people, part of or related to the Thracians.

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Deșteaptă-te, române!

“Deșteaptă-te, române!” (variously translated as “Awaken thee, Romanian!”, “Awaken, Romanian!”, or “Wake up, Romanian!”) is the national anthem of Romania.

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Defensive wall

A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors.

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Demographics of Romania

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Romania, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

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Dracula

Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.

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Dumitru Popescu Colibași Sports Hall

Dumitru Popescu Colibași Sports Hall is an indoor sporting arena located in Brașov, Romania, with a total capacity of 1,700 seats (with side stands only).

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Eastern European Summer Time

Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) is one of the names of UTC+3 time zone, 3 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time.

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Eastern European Time

Eastern European Time (EET) is one of the names of UTC+02:00 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time.

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Elizabeth of Russia

Elizabeth Petrovna (Елизаве́та (Елисаве́та) Петро́вна) (–), also known as Yelisaveta or Elizaveta, was the Empress of Russia from 1741 until her death.

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Erbil

Erbil, also spelt Arbil or Irbil, locally called Hawler by the Kurdish people (ھەولێر Hewlêr; أربيل, Arbīl; ܐܲܪܒܝܠ, Arbela), is the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan and the largest city in northern Iraq.

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Șchei Gate

Şchei Gate (Poarta Schei) in Braşov, Romania, is right next to Catherine's Gate.

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Șcheii Brașovului

Şcheii Braşovului (Bolgárszeg, Belgerei or more recently Obere Vorstadt; traditional Romanian name: Bulgărimea, colloquially Şchei) is the old ethnically Bulgarian and Romanian neighborhood of Braşov, a city in Transylvania, Romania.

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First Romanian School

The First Romanian School (Prima școală românească) is located on the grounds of the 16th-century church of St. Nicholas, itself located in the historic district of Șchei, now part of the city of Brașov.

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Flanders

Flanders (Vlaanderen, Flandre, Flandern) is the Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium, although there are several overlapping definitions, including ones related to culture, language, politics and history.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Gazeta de Transilvania

Gazeta de Transilvania was the first Romanian-language newspaper to be published in Transylvania.

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George Scripcaru

George Scripcaru (born September 3, 1966, Doljești, Neamţ County) is a Romanian politician and the mayor of Braşov since 2004.

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Germans of Romania

The Germans of Romania or Rumäniendeutsche are an ethnic group of Romania.

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Ghent

Ghent (Gent; Gand) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.

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Ghimbav

Ghimbav (Weidenbach; Vidombák) is a town in Brașov County, Transylvania, central Romania.

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Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is an architectural style that flourished in Europe during the High and Late Middle Ages.

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Grigore Moisil National College of Computer Science (Brașov)

Grigore Moisil National College of Computer Science is a high school in Brașov, Romania, that carries the name of academician Grigore Moisil, the "founder" of Romanian computer sciences.

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Győr

Győr (Raab, Ráb, names in other languages) is the most important city of northwest Hungary, the capital of Győr-Moson-Sopron County and Western Transdanubia region, and—halfway between Budapest and Vienna—situated on one of the important roads of Central Europe.

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Handball

Handball (also known as team handball, fieldball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outfield players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the other team.

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Hollywood Sign

The Hollywood Sign (formerly the Hollywoodland Sign) is an American landmark and cultural icon located in Los Angeles, California.

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Holstebro

Holstebro is the main town in Holstebro Municipality, Denmark.

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Holy Roman Emperor

The Holy Roman Emperor (historically Romanorum Imperator, "Emperor of the Romans") was the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire (800-1806 AD, from Charlemagne to Francis II).

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Humid continental climate

A humid continental climate (Köppen prefix D and a third letter of a or b) is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, which is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold in the northern areas) winters.

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Hungarians

Hungarians, also known as Magyars (magyarok), are a nation and ethnic group native to Hungary (Magyarország) and historical Hungarian lands who share a common culture, history and speak the Hungarian language.

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Hungarians in Romania

The Hungarian minority of Romania is the largest ethnic minority in Romania, consisting of 1,227,623 people and making up 6.1% of the total population, according to the 2011 census.

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Ice hockey

Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in a rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent's net to score points.

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Industria Aeronautică Română

Industria Aeronautică Română (IAR) (now IAR S.A. Brașov) or Romanian Aeronautic Industry in English, is a Romanian aerospace manufacturer founded in 1925.

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Interwar period

In the context of the history of the 20th century, the interwar period was the period between the end of the First World War in November 1918 and the beginning of the Second World War in September 1939.

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Ioan Meșotă National College

Ioan Meșotă National College (Colegiul National “Dr.) is a high school on Bihorului Street number 3 Braşov, Romania.

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Iraqi Kurdistan

Iraqi Kurdistan, officially called the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (Herêmî Kurdistan) by the Iraqi constitution, is an autonomous region located in northern Iraq.

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Iron Guard

The Iron Guard (Garda de fier) is the name most commonly given to a far-right movement and political party in Romania in the period from 1927 into the early part of World War II.

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Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor

Joseph II (Joseph Benedikt Anton Michael Adam; 13 March 1741 – 20 February 1790) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1765 and ruler of the Habsburg lands from 1780 to his death.

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Georgian nationality.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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King Michael's Coup

King Michael's Coup was a coup d'état led by King Michael I of Romania during World War II on 23 August 1944.

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Kingdom of Hungary

The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed from the Middle Ages into the twentieth century (1000–1946 with the exception of 1918–1920).

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Kroonstad

Kroonstad (Afrikaans for "Crown City") is the third-largest city in the Free State (after Bloemfontein and Welkom) and lies two hours drive from Gauteng.

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Lausanne

Lausanne (Lausanne Losanna, Losanna) is a city in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and the capital and biggest city of the canton of Vaud.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

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Linz

Linz (Linec) is the third-largest city of Austria and capital of the state of Upper Austria (Oberösterreich).

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List of mayors of Brașov

The following is a list of the people (only men, as of 2014) that have fulfilled the role of mayor or its temporal equivalent in the Transylvanian city of Brașov.

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List of people from Brașov

This is a list of people from Brașov, Romania.

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List of places named after Joseph Stalin

During Joseph Stalin's rule (1922–1953), many places, mostly cities, in the Soviet Union and other communist countries were named or renamed in honour of him as part of the cult of personality surrounding him.

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List of renamed places in Romania

During the twentieth century, a number of places in Romania had their names changed for various reasons.

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Longwave

In radio, longwave, long wave or long-wave, and commonly abbreviated LW, refers to parts of the radio spectrum with wavelengths longer than what was originally called the medium-wave broadcasting band.

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MAN SE

MAN SE (abbreviation of Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg), formerly MAN AG, is a German mechanical engineering company and parent company of the MAN Group.

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Maramureș

Maramureș (Maramureș; Мармарощина, Marmaroshchyna) is a geographical, historical and cultural region in northern Romania and western Ukraine.

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Medieval Latin

Medieval Latin was the form of Latin used in the Middle Ages, primarily as a medium of scholarly exchange, as the liturgical language of Chalcedonian Christianity and the Roman Catholic Church, and as a language of science, literature, law, and administration.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

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Minsk

Minsk (Мінск,; Минск) is the capital and largest city of Belarus, situated on the Svislach and the Nyamiha Rivers.

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Moselle

The Moselle (la Moselle,; Mosel; Musel) is a river flowing through France, Luxembourg, and Germany.

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Municipiu

A municipiu (from Latin municipium; English: municipality) is a level of administrative subdivision in Romania and Moldova, roughly equivalent to city in some English-speaking countries.

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Musashino, Tokyo

is a city located in the western portion of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan.

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National Institute of Statistics (Romania)

The National Institute of Statistics (Institutul Naţional de Statistică (INS)) is a Romanian government agency which is responsible for collecting national statistics, in fields such as geography, the economy, demographics and society.

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National Legionary State

The National Legionary State (Statul Național Legionar) was the Romanian government from September 6, 1940 to January 23, 1941.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology, in some parts of Western Asia, and later in other parts of the world and ending between 4500 and 2000 BC.

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Neolog Judaism

Neologs (neológ irányzat, "Neolog Faction") are one of the two large communal organizations among Hungarian Jewry.

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Nicolae Ceaușescu

Nicolae Ceaușescu (26 January 1918 – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian Communist politician.

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Nuremberg

Nuremberg (Nürnberg) is a city on the river Pegnitz and on the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia, about north of Munich.

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Olimpia CSU Brașov

Olimpia CSU Braşov is a professional women's basketball team from Brașov, Romania.

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Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox Judaism is a collective term for the traditionalist branches of Judaism, which seek to maximally maintain the received Jewish beliefs and observances and which coalesced in opposition to the various challenges of modernity and secularization.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire (دولت عليه عثمانیه,, literally The Exalted Ottoman State; Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu or Osmanlı Devleti), also historically known in Western Europe as the Turkish Empire"The Ottoman Empire-also known in Europe as the Turkish Empire" or simply Turkey, was a state that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries.

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Pecheneg language

Pecheneg is an extinct Turkic language spoken by the Pechenegs in Eastern Europe (most of Ukraine, parts of southern Russia, Moldova, Romania and Hungary) in the 7th–12th centuries.

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Piața Sfatului

The Brașov Council Square (Piața Sfatului in Romanian, former Marktplatz in German) is located in the historic centre of Braşov, Romania.

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Piatra Mare Mountains

The Piatra Mare Mountains (Hungarian: Nagykőhavas, German: Hohenstein) is a small mountain range in Brașov County, southeast of Brașov, Romania, and also close to the resort town of Predeal.

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Ploiești

Ploiești (older spelling: Ploești) is a city and county seat in Prahova County, Romania.

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Poiana Brașov

Poiana Brașov is a neighborhood of Brasov and a Romanian ski resort popular among visitors from many European states.

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Predeal

Predeal (Schanzpass; Predeál) is a town in Brașov County, Romania.

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Prehistory of Transylvania

The Prehistory of Transylvania describes what can be learned about the region known as Transylvania through archaeology, anthropology, comparative linguistics and other allied sciences.

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Prejmer

Prejmer (Tartlau; Prázsmár) is a commune in Brașov County, Romania.

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Prejmer fortified church

The Prejmer fortified church (Biserica fortificată din Prejmer; Kirchenburg von Tartlau) is a Lutheran fortified church in Prejmer (Tartlau), Brașov County, in the Transylvania region of Romania and the ethnographic area of the Burzenland.

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Rado Lenček

Rado Ludovik Lenček (3 October 1921 – 27 January 2005) was a Slovene linguist, cultural historian and ethnologist, who lived and worked in the United States.;.

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Râșnov

Râșnov (Rosenau; Barcarozsnyó; Transylvanian Saxon dialect: Ruusenåå; Latin: Rosnovia) is a town in Brașov County, Romania with a population of 15,466.

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Rhineland

The Rhineland (Rheinland, Rhénanie) is the name used for a loosely defined area of Western Germany along the Rhine, chiefly its middle section.

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Rishon LeZion

Rishon LeZion (רִאשׁוֹן לְצִיּוֹן, lit. First to Zion) is the fourth largest city in Israel, located along the central Israeli coastal plain south of Tel Aviv.

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Roman (vehicle manufacturer)

ROMAN (with the DAC division) is a truck and bus manufacturer from Brașov, Romania.

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Roman Dacia

Roman Dacia (also Dacia Traiana "Trajan Dacia" or Dacia Felix "Fertile/Happy Dacia") was a province of the Roman Empire from 106 to 274–275 AD.

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Romani people

The Romani (also spelled Romany), or Roma, are a traditionally itinerant ethnic group, living mostly in Europe and the Americas and originating from the northern Indian subcontinent, from the Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab and Sindh regions of modern-day India and Pakistan.

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Romania

Romania (România) is a sovereign state located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe.

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Romanians

The Romanians (români or—historically, but now a seldom-used regionalism—rumâni; dated exonym: Vlachs) are a Latin European ethnic group and nation native to Romania, that share a common Romanian culture, ancestry, and speak the Romanian language, the most widespread spoken Eastern Romance language which is descended from the Latin language. According to the 2011 Romanian census, just under 89% of Romania's citizens identified themselves as ethnic Romanians. In one interpretation of the census results in Moldova, the Moldovans are counted as Romanians, which would mean that the latter form part of the majority in that country as well.Ethnic Groups Worldwide: A Ready Reference Handbook By 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:: "however it is one interpretation of census data results. The subject of Moldovan vs Romanian ethnicity touches upon the sensitive topic of", page 108 sqq. Romanians are also an ethnic minority in several nearby countries situated in Central, respectively Eastern Europe, particularly in Hungary, Czech Republic, Ukraine (including Moldovans), Serbia, and Bulgaria. Today, estimates of the number of Romanian people worldwide vary from 26 to 30 million according to various sources, evidently depending on the definition of the term 'Romanian', Romanians native to Romania and Republic of Moldova and their afferent diasporas, native speakers of Romanian, as well as other Eastern Romance-speaking groups considered by most scholars as a constituent part of the broader Romanian people, specifically Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians, Istro-Romanians, and Vlachs in Serbia (including medieval Vlachs), in Croatia, in Bulgaria, or in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Rugby football

Rugby football refers to the team sports rugby league and rugby union.

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Sister city

Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.

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Ski resort

A ski resort is a resort developed for skiing, snowboarding, and other winter sports.

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Socialist Republic of Romania

The Socialist Republic of Romania (Republica Socialistă România, RSR) refers to Romania under Marxist-Leninist one-party Communist rule that existed officially from 1947 to 1989.

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Southeast Europe

Southeast Europe or Southeastern Europe is a geographical region of Europe, consisting primarily of the coterminous Balkan peninsula.

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Southern Carpathians

The Southern Carpathians (also known as the Transylvanian Alps; Carpații Meridionali are a group of mountain ranges located in southern Romania. They cover the part of the Carpathian Mountains located between the Prahova River in the east and the Timiș and Cerna Rivers in the west. To the south they are bounded by the Balkan mountain range.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Spiru Haret University

The Spiru Haret University is a private university in Bucharest, Romania, founded in 1991 by the president of Tomorrow's Romania Foundation, Aurelian Gh.

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SR Brașov

Asociația Sportivă SR Brașov, commonly known as SR Brașov or simply Brașov, is a Romanian football club based in the city of Brașov, Brașov County, currently playing in the Liga III.

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St. Nicholas Church, Brașov

Saint Nicholas Church (Biserica Sfântul Nicolae) is a Romanian Orthodox church in Braşov, dominating the historic district of Şchei.

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Stadionul Municipal (Brașov)

Stadionul Municipal is a proposed football stadium next to the Castra of Brașov in Braşov, Romania.

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Stadionul Silviu Ploeșteanu

Stadionul Silviu Ploeșteanu, previously known as Stadionul Tineretului, is a multi-purpose stadium in Brașov, Romania.

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Strada Sforii

Strada Sforii (meaning "String Street", Fadengasse) is the narrowest street in the city of Brașov, Romania.

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Suraia

Suraia is a commune located in Vrancea County, Romania.

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Tampere

Tampere (Swedish: Tammerfors) is a city in Pirkanmaa, southern Finland.

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Tâmpa, Brașov

Tâmpa (Zinne, or Kapellenberg; Cenk; Mons Cinum) is a mountain, part of the Postăvarul Massif, located in the southern part of the Eastern Carpathians (alternatively categorized as in the Curvature Carpathians) and almost entirely surrounded by the city of Braşov.

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Teutonic Order

The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem (official names: Ordo domus Sanctæ Mariæ Theutonicorum Hierosolymitanorum, Orden der Brüder vom Deutschen Haus der Heiligen Maria in Jerusalem), commonly the Teutonic Order (Deutscher Orden, Deutschherrenorden or Deutschritterorden), is a Catholic religious order founded as a military order c. 1190 in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem.

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Thuringia

The Free State of Thuringia (Freistaat Thüringen) is a federal state in central Germany.

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Tours

Tours is a city located in the centre-west of France.

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Transilvania University of Brașov

Transilvania University of Brașov (Universitatea Transilvania din Brașov; UTBv) is a public institution of higher education in Brașov, Romania, founded in 1971.

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Transmitter station

A transmitter station or transmission facility is an installation used for transmitting radio frequency signals for wireless communication, broadcasting, microwave link, mobile telephone or other purposes.

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Transport in Brașov

The public transportation network, operated privately, in the city of Brașov is one of the largest in Romania.

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Transylvania

Transylvania is a historical region in today's central Romania.

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Transylvanian Saxon dialect

Transylvanian Saxon (Saxon: Siweberjesch-Såksesch or just Såksesch, or Siebenbürgisch-Sächsische Sprache) is the German dialect of the Transylvanian Saxons.

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Transylvanian Saxons

The Transylvanian Saxons (Siebenbürger Sachsen; Transylvanian Saxon: Siweberjer Såksen; Sași ardeleni, sași transilvăneni; Erdélyi szászok) are a people of German ethnicity who settled in Transylvania (Siebenbürgen) from the mid 12th century until the late Modern Age (specifically mid 19th century).

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Trikala

Trikala (Τρίκαλα) is a city in northwestern Thessaly, Greece, and the capital of the Trikala regional unit.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.

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Union of Transylvania with Romania

The Union of Transylvania with Romania was declared on by the assembly of the delegates of ethnic Romanians held in Alba Iulia.

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Unirea National College (Brașov)

Unirea National College (Colegiul Național „Unirea”) is a magnet school in Brașov, Romania.

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Universiade

The Universiade is an international multi-sport event, organized for university athletes by the International University Sports Federation (FISU).

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Venaria Reale

Venaria Reale (La Venerìa) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northwest of Turin.

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Vlad the Impaler

Vlad III, known as Vlad the Impaler (Vlad Țepeș) or Vlad Dracula (1428/311476/77), was voivode (or prince) of Wallachia three times between 1448 and his death.

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Wallonia

Wallonia (Wallonie, Wallonie(n), Wallonië, Walonreye, Wallounien) is a region of Belgium.

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West Germany

West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; Bundesrepublik Deutschland, BRD) in the period between its creation on 23 May 1949 and German reunification on 3 October 1990.

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Western Europe

Western Europe is the region comprising the western part of Europe.

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Winter sport

A winter sport or winter activity is a recreational activity or sport which is played on snow or ice.

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2008 IIHF World Championship Division II

The 2008 IIHF World Championship Division II was an international Ice hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation.

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2013 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival

The 2013 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival was an international multi-sport event held between 17 and 22 February 2013, in Braşov, Romania, with some of the events also held in Râșnov, Predeal and Fundata.

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2020 Winter Youth Olympics

The 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games (Les IIIe Jeux olympiques de la jeunesse d'hiver; Olympische Jugend-Winterspiele 2020; I Giochi olimpici giovanili invernali; Gieus olimpics da giuvenils d'enviern 2020) will be the third edition of the Winter Youth Olympics; a major international multi-sport event and cultural festival for youths to be celebrated from 9 to 22 January 2020 in the tradition of the Olympic Games during the XXXII Olympiad.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brașov

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