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The Battle of Târgu Frumos, also known as the Târgu Frumos Operation, occurred during Spring 1944 in World War II in and around the town of Târgu Frumos in Iași County, Moldavia, Romania. [ 1 ] It was fought between Soviet forces (the Red Army ) and Axis forces (the German Wehrmacht and Romanian forces) and, according to David Glantz , it ...
The Second Battle of Târgu Frumos was a military engagement primarily between the Wehrmacht and Red Army forces in May 1944, near Iași, Romania. The battle was the main engagement of the Târgu Frumos Operation , and is often referred simply as the Battle of Târgu Frumos .
Târgu Frumos (also spelled Tîrgu Frumos, sometimes Târgul / Tîrgul Frumos), Romanian pronunciation: [ˌtɨrɡu fruˈmos]) is a town in Iași County, Western Moldavia, Romania. Eleven villages were administered by the town until 2004, when they were split off to form Balș , Costești , and Ion Neculce communes.
The A8 motorway (Romanian: Autostrada A8), also known as The Union Motorway (Romanian: Autostrada Unirii [2]) or the East-West Motorway (Romanian: Autostrada Est-Vest [3]) is a planned motorway in Romania, that will cross the Eastern Carpathians to connect the historical regions of Moldavia and Transylvania.
As of 2013, Iași railway station serves about 110 trains in a typical day, including domestic trains to and from a majority of Romanian cities. Additionally, international trains run to Chișinău and Ungheni, in the Republic of Moldova.
DN28 (Romanian: Drumul Național 28) is a national road in Romania, located entirely within the historical region of Moldavia.The road starts in Săbăoani, near Roman and crosses through the cities of Târgu Frumos and Iași, ending in Albița, near the border with Moldova.
The First Battle of Târgu Frumos was fought during World War II between Axis powers commanded by Otto Wöhler and Soviet forces led by Ivan Konev.Historian David Glantz has described it as part of a failed Soviet invasion of Romania, while Russian and German sources have described it as part of the Târgu Frumos Operation.
Established on 19 March 1898, CTP Iași operates an extensive network using metre gauge trams (electric trams began operating in 1900) and buses. Trolleybuses were used on a number of routes starting in 1985, but all trolleybus routes (within a system length of 31.3 km (19.4 mi), as of 2003) were converted to bus operation by 2006.