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Annual precipitation averages about 635 mm (25 in) in central Transylvania, 521 mm (20.5 in) at Iaşi in Moldavia, and only 381 mm (15 in) at Constanţa on the Black Sea. Romania map of Köppen climate classification, according to Clima României from the Administrația Națională de Meteorologie , Bucharest 2008
6.5: VII–X: Large earthquake in southeastern Transylvania, with disastrous effects in Brașov, Râșnov, Sibiu and Mediaș. 5 May 1603: The strongest earthquake ever recorded inside the Carpathian arch. Also felt in Košice, Slovakia. [11] 8 November 1620: Vrancea County: 6.9: VIII–IX: 9 August 1679: Vrancea County: 6.7: VIII: 18 August ...
Sibiu International Airport (Romanian: Aeroportul Internațional Sibiu) (IATA: SBZ, ICAO: LRSB) serves the city of Sibiu. It is located in southern Transylvania, 3 km (1.9 mi) west [1] of Sibiu and about 260 km (160 mi) northwest of Romania's capital city, Bucharest.
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 ...
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 ...
As a mother tongue in the urban population, German was spoken by 44.7% of the population, followed by Romanian (38.5%), Hungarian (13.7%), Yiddish (1.4%), as well as other minority languages. From the religious point of view, the urban population was made up of 38.8% Lutheran, 31.5% Eastern Orthodox, 12.9% Roman Catholic, 7.5% Greek Catholic, 5 ...
The bridge is sustained by four arches made of cast iron.They are decorated with Neo-Gothic motives. On the southernmost arch stands the coat of arms of Sibiu, while on the northernmost one stand the inscriptions 1859 and Friedrichshütte respectively, the latter being the name of the foundry that delivered a part of the bridge's components.
The Cibin (German: Zibin; Hungarian: Szeben) is a river in central Romania, in the south part of Transylvania.Its source is close to the highest peak in the Cindrel Mountains (known also as Cibin Mountains) of the Southern Carpathian Mountains.