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Romanian stamp depicting Făt-Frumos.: The stamp is part of the collection made by the painter SERGIU ZARIMBA, Bucharest 1965. Făt-Frumos (from Romanian făt: son, infant; frumos: handsome) is a knight hero in Romanian folklore.
Nyhavn (Danish pronunciation: [ˈnyˌhɑwˀn]; New Harbour) is a 17th-century waterfront, canal and entertainment district in Copenhagen, Denmark.Stretching from Kongens Nytorv to the Inner Harbour just south of the Royal Playhouse, it is lined by brightly coloured 17th and early 18th century townhouses and bars, cafes and restaurants.
Side view Full frontal view. The rock sculpture of Decebalus (Romanian: Chipul regelui dac Decebal) is a colossal carving of the face of Decebalus (r. AD 87–106), the last king of Dacia, who fought against the Roman emperors Domitian and Trajan to preserve the independence of his country, which corresponds to present-day Romania.
Mărțișor on a Moldovan stamp. Nowadays a Mărțișor is made from silk strings, almost exclusively red and white. Before the 19th century various other colors were used: black and white in Mehedinți and in Aromanian communities, red only in Vâlcea, Romanați, Argeș, Neamț, and Vaslui, black and red in Brăila, white and blue in Vrancea, or even multiple colours in areas of southern ...
A final novel, Asfințit de Europă, Răsărit de Asie ("European Sunset, Asian Sunrise") and a first volume of Neagu's Jurnal cu fața ascunsă ("Hidden-face Diary") both appeared in 2005. [17] Voncu believes that such works had little merit, but also that the criticism they received remained grounded in purely political objections. [18]
Avram Iancu was born in Vidra de Sus (currently Avram Iancu, Alba County), Transylvania, then part of the Austrian Empire into a family of peasants that had been emancipated from serfdom. His father was Alisandru Iancu [2] (1787–1855) and his mother was Maria Gligor. [3] He had one elder brother, Ion (born 1822), who became a priest.