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The town is crossed on its southwestern side by the national road DN1, which connects it to the county seat, Ploiești, 18.7 km (11.6 mi) to the southeast and Brașov, 95.3 km (59.2 mi) to the north. Bӑicoi lies near Florești , a train stop between Ploiești and Câmpina .
Craiova (/ k r ə ˈ j oʊ v ə /, also US: / k r aɪ ˈ oʊ v ə, k r ɑː ˈ j ɔː v ɑː, k r ɑː ˈ j oʊ v ɑː /, [4] [5] [6] Romanian: ⓘ) is the largest city in southwestern Romania, the seventh largest city in the country and the capital of Dolj County, situated near the east bank of the river Jiu in central Oltenia.
Casa Nouă was the actual scene of the King Michael's Coup in the afternoon of August 23, 1944. As described by many authors, it is in this house – in King's office, situated at the left of the main entrance – where the final discussion with Antonescu took place, followed by his refusal to switch sides and join the Allies and, subsequently ...
The first member to rise to prominence was a certain Neagoe, a member of the Sfat who became Ban of Strehaia under Basarab Țepeluș cel Tânăr (sometime after 1477). His son Pârvu Craiovescu (d. 1512), a Great Vornic, was the father of Neagoe Basarab – who became Prince of Wallachia in 1512 after replacing Vlad cel Tânăr (who had begun opposing the family's political influence); [1] in ...
A view from the 2000-year-old historical castle column piece in Zile, Turkey where Julius Caesar said "Veni, vidi, vici".. Veni, vidi, vici (Classical Latin: [ˈu̯eːniː ˈu̯iːd̪iː ˈu̯iː.kiː], Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈveːni ˈviːd̪i ˈviː.t͡ʃi]; "I came; I saw; I conquered") is a Latin phrase used to refer to a swift, conclusive victory.
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La Vita Nuova (pronounced [la ˈviːta ˈnwɔːva]; modern Italian for "The New Life") or Vita Nova (Latin and medieval Italian title [1]) is a text by Dante Alighieri published in 1294. It is an expression of the medieval genre of courtly love in a prosimetrum style, a combination of both prose and verse.
UNSR Craiova in 1948.. The football history in the city of Craiova began in 1921, when the first teams were founded: Craiovan Craiova and Rovine Grivița Craiova.In 1940, the two sides merged in what resulted to be one of the most successful Romanian clubs of the Interwar period, FC Craiova, which was also the first team of the city that won the Romanian football championship.