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Brănești is a commune in the far east of Ilfov County, Muntenia, Romania. Its name is derived from Bran, a Romanian name, and the suffix -ești. It is composed of four villages: Brănești, Islaz, Pasărea, and Vadu Anei. The commune is located 21 km (13 mi) east of downtown Bucharest, on the border with Călărași County.
Ilfov (Romanian pronunciation:) is the county that surrounds Bucharest, the capital of Romania. It used to be largely rural, but, after the fall of Communism , many of the county's villages and communes developed into high-income commuter towns , which act like suburbs or satellites of Bucharest.
Vidra is a commune in the south of Ilfov County, Muntenia, Romania. Its name means "otter". It is composed of three villages: Crețești, Sintești, and Vidra.
The Bulgarian Black Sea Coast (Bulgarian: Черноморие, romanized: Chernomorie), also known as the Bulgarian Riviera, [1] covers the entire eastern bound of Bulgaria stretching from the Romanian Black Sea resorts in the north to European Turkey in the south, along 378 km of coastline.
Pantelimon (Romanian pronunciation: [panteliˈmon]) is a town in Ilfov County, Muntenia, Romania. The town — bordered to the west by the Romanian capital, Bucharest — has an area of 69 km 2 (27 sq mi). [3] Its name is derived from the Greek saint Panteleimon.
Ștefăneștii de Jos is a commune in the centre of Ilfov County, Muntenia, Romania. Its name means "Lower Ștefănești", derived from Ștefan (Stephan) and suffix -ești . The commune is composed of three villages: Crețuleasca, Ștefăneștii de Jos, and Ștefăneștii de Sus.
The park is the third-largest protected territory in Bulgaria, spanning an area of 716.69 km 2 with a total length of 85 km from west to east and an average width of 10 km. It occupies parts of 5 of the country's 28 provinces: Lovech , Gabrovo , Sofia , Plovdiv and Stara Zagora .
Zagore (Bulgarian: Загоре [zɐˈɡɔrɛ]), also Zagorie (Загорие), Zagora (Загора), or Zagoriya (Загория), was a vaguely defined medieval region in what is now Bulgaria. Its name is of Slavic origin and means "beyond [i.e. south of] the [Balkan] mountains".