Showing posts with label Romania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Romania. Show all posts

Thursday, 14 December 2017

0249 Romania, Temeswar


Temeswar , also obsolete Temeschwar or Temeschburg , Hungarian Temesvár , Serbo-CroatianТемишвар / Temišvar ) is a city in western Romania , the capital of the Timiş county , seat of the planning region West and the historical, economic and cultural center of the Banat , The city was in 2011 after Bucharest and just behind Cluj-Napoca, the third largest population in the country.  Danube Swabians constituted the largest ethnic group in the city until the Second World War .

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Wednesday, 29 November 2017

0187 Romania, Dragomirna Monastry


Posted 08/10/2017

The Dragomirna Monastery was built during the first three decades of the 17th century, 15 km from Suceava, in Mitocu Dragomirnei commune.Wikipedia

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Friday, 20 October 2017

0085 ROMANIA, Fortified Churches, ( Multi View Card )


Posted on 27/01/2017
The Viscri fortified church is a Lutheran fortified church in Viscri, Brașov County, in the Transylvania region of Romania. It was built by the ethnic German Transylvanian Saxon community at a time when the area belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary. Wikipedia

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