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Mediaș, Sibiu County: 4.7: VII: Light damage reported in Meggyes. The pillars of Evangelical Church in Sebeș collapse. [15] Album Oltardianum indicates 20 houses collapsed in Sibiu, while the Chronicle of Hutter reports many deaths among old population. [16] 26 October 1550: 6.5: VII–X: Large earthquake in southern Transylvania. 10 August ...
Ocna Sibiului (German: Salzburg; Hungarian: Vízakna) is a town in the centre of Sibiu County, in southern Transylvania, central Romania, 10 km (6.2 mi) to the north-west of the county seat, Sibiu. The town administers a single village, Topârcea ( Tschapertsch ; Toporcsa ).
From 1858, it housed a Central Commission regulating the common legislation of the two countries, as well as the High Court of Justice. [5] Both institutions were disestablished in 1864, [citation needed] when the Romanian Principality was founded as a unified state. Focșani's role in the forming of the modern Romanian state is immortalized in ...
On 4 and 5 December 1917, the Russians signed two ceasefire agreements with the Central Powers, followed later (on 15 December) by a full armistice and, under the direction of Leon Trotsky and Adolph Joffe, peace negotiations with the Central Powers in Brest-Litovsk. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk made Romania geographically exposed. Lacking ...
The Central Powers' advances towards the Focșani Gate, 26 November 1916–7 January 1917 The area around the city of Focșani was already recognized as a weak point in Romania back in 1882. In that year, the government of Romania carried out a study to identify all the areas of the country where the terrain was poorly suited for defense, and ...
Set in the Cibin Depression, the city is about 20 km (12 mi) from the Făgăraș Mountains, 12 km (7.5 mi) from the Cibin Mountains, and about 15 km (9.3 mi) from the Lotru Mountains, which border the depression in its southwestern section. The northern and eastern limits of Sibiu are formed by the Târnavelor Plateau, which descends to the ...
Dumbrăveni lies on the banks of the river Târnava Mare, 20 km (12 mi) east from the city of Mediaș, the second largest city in the county, and 77 km (48 mi) northeast of Sibiu, the county seat. It is situated on the Transylvanian Plateau , on the border with Mureș County , midway between Mediaș and Sighișoara .
Mediaș is located in the middle basin of Târnava Mare River, at 39 km (24 mi) from Sighișoara and 41 km (25 mi) from Blaj.The health resort Bazna, officially recognized for the first time in 1302, is 18 km (11 mi) from Mediaș.