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Since the 12th or 13th century the town was inhabited by Transylvanian Saxons and from 1355 it became one of the original seven seats of Saxondom from the Sibiu area. The town is the place of birth of Ilie Măcelaru [ ro ] (1822–1891), a lawyer who participated in the 1848 revolution and a founding member of the Romanian National Party that ...
Sibiu is situated near the geographical center of Romania at 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 Headquarters Multinational Corps Southeast (HQ MNC-SE) in Sibiu, Romania, is a NATO corps-level command and control structure under the operational control of the Allied Joint Force Command Naples. With Romania as the framework nation, the Corps is integrated within NATO's military command structure.
Valea Viilor (colloquially Vorumloc; German: Wurmloch; Hungarian: Nagybaromlak) is a commune located in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania.It has a population of 1,873 (as of 2011), and is composed of two villages, Motiș (Mortesdorf; Martontelke) and Valea Viilor.
Jina (German: Sinna; Hungarian: Zsinna) is a commune in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania, in the Cindrel Mountains, 44 km (27 mi) west of the county seat, Sibiu, in the Mărginimea Sibiului ethnographic area. It is composed of a single village, Jina.
Picture of a group of ASTRA members at Notre Dame Church, Șimleu Silvaniei, August 1908 (published same year in Luceafărul). The Transylvanian Association for Romanian Literature and the Culture of the Romanian People (Romanian: Asociația Transilvană pentru Literatura Română și Cultura Poporului Român, ASTRA) is a cultural association founded in 1861 in Sibiu (Hermannstadt).
Sadu (German: Zood; Hungarian: Cód) is a commune in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania, at the foothills of the Cindrel Mountains, 27 km south of the county capital Sibiu, in the Mărginimea Sibiului ethnographic area. It is composed of a single village, Sadu. In 1910 the village had 2,143 inhabitants.
Târnava (German: Grossprobtsdorf; Hungarian: Nagyekemező) is a commune located in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Colonia Târnava (Nagyekemezőtelep) and Târnava (formerly Proștea Mare).