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Oradea is located about 10 km (6.2 mi) from Borș, a main crossing point on Romania's border with Hungary. Oradea is the ninth most populous Romanian city (as of 2021). [2] [8] It covers 11,556 hectares (28,560 acres) between the Apuseni Mountains and the Crișana-Banat plain.
After December 1989, Oradea aimed to achieve greater prosperity along with other towns in Central Europe. Both culturally and economically, Oradea's prospects are inevitably tied to the general aspiration of the Romanian society to freedom, democracy and a free market economy, with varied initiatives in all fields of endeavor. Due to its ...
Oradea (-Romanian, Hungarian: Nagyvárad, German: Großwardein) is a city located in the county of Bihor (BH), in Transylvania, Romania The main article for this category is Oradea . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Oradea .
When it was founded in 1777, followers of the Greek Rite having been up to that time under the jurisdiction of the Latin bishop. Originally the see was a suffragan of Esztergom (Gran); when, however, in 1853 the Greek Catholic Diocese of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia became the Archdiocese of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia, the diocese of Oradea Mare was transferred to its jurisdiction. [2]
The following is a timeline of Oradea, a city in western Romania, between the 9th and 16th centuries. 9th-10th centuries: According to Gesta Hungarorum , Menumorut ruled the area - with a citadel centered in Bihar - until the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin .
Oradea metropolitan area (Romanian: Zona Metropolitană Oradea or short ZMO) is a metropolitan area located in Western Romania, in the County of Bihor, Crișana, Transylvania, Romania and was founded on 9 May 2005. [2] According to Eurostat, in 2007 Oradea had a larger urban zone of 218,518 residents on an area of 125 km 2 (48 sq mi). [3]
The Diocese of Oradea (Latin: Dioecesis Magnovaradinensis Latinorum, Hungarian: Nagyváradi Római Katolikus Egyházmegye, Romanian: Dieceza Romano-Catolică de Oradea Mare) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory of the Catholic Church in Romania, named after its episcopal see in the city of Oradea.
Kingdom of Romania: Petru Fodor: May 11, 1937 - January 5, 1938: Interim, as president of the Interim Commission. Kingdom of Romania: Dimitrie Mangra: January 5 - February 11, 1938: Interim, as president of the Interim Commission. Kingdom of Romania: Ioan Voștinar: February 11–16, 1938: Designated, as the Prime Secretary of the Municipality ...