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The most notable raid of this campaign was the low-level raid on Ploiești, code-named Operation Tidal Wave, on August 1, 1943, which saw the loss of over 50 B-24 Liberator bombers. [16] In the aftermath of the raids, oil transports to Germany were severely affected although Romania's oil production failed to be destroyed. [ 17 ]
March 1, 2001 Michael E. Guest – Career FSO August 3, 2001 September 24, 2001 July 8, 2004 Jack Dyer Crouch II – Political Appointee May 25, 2004 July 16, 2004 February 28, 2005 Nicholas F. Taubman – Political Appointee November 29, 2005 December 5, 2005 December 3, 2008 Mark Gitenstein – Political Appointee July 29, 2009 August 28, 2009
The first diplomatic agent to Romania, Eugene Schuyler, was appointed in 1880 and subsequently reaccredited when Romania was declared a kingdom in 1881. [1] The diplomatic ties were severed in 1941 during World War II and relations were reestablished in 1947. [1] [2] The U.S. Legation in Bucharest was raised to Embassy status on June 1, 1964.
The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. [2] [3] Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. [4]
The earliest known use of the name "America" dates to 1505, when German poet Matthias Ringmann used it in a poem about the New World. [2] The word is a Latinized form of the first name of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, who first proposed that the West Indies discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 were part of a previously unknown landmass, rather than the eastern limit of Asia.
The first documented use of the phrase "United States of America" is a letter from January 2, 1776. Stephen Moylan, a Continental Army aide to General George Washington, wrote to Joseph Reed, Washington's aide-de-camp, seeking to go "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" to seek assistance in the Revolutionary War effort.
At the 2011 census, the commune had 4,819 inhabitants, of which 91.8% of were Romanians, 2.7% Hungarians, and 1.7% each Germans and Roma.At the 2021 census, the population of Sânpetru grew to 11,794; of those, 79.85% were Romanians and 2.73% Hungarians.
ROMAN (with the DAC division) is a truck and bus manufacturer from Brașov, Romania.It was established after World War II on the foundation of the old ROMLOC automotive factory built in 1921.