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Săliște (German: Großendorf or Selischte; Hungarian: Szelistye) is a town in Sibiu County, in the centre of Romania, 21 km (13 mi) west of the county capital, Sibiu. Declared a town in 2003, it is the main locality in the Mărginimea Sibiului area.
On the east side of the city, between an abandoned field and a gas station, lies the geographical center of Romania, at [ 3 ] The Olt River flows east to west on the north side of the city; its left tributary, the Berivoi River , discharges into the Olt on the west side of the city, after receiving the waters of the Racovița River .
The oldest known settlement was a village called Ruetel dating to 1204, granted by King Emeric of Hungary to a certain John the Latin and his fellow heretics as per the charter recopied in June 2, 1469, [1] which became Rășinari in 1488, followed by Tălmaciu (1318), Orlat (1322), and Săliște (1354).
With an area of 238,397 km 2 (92,046 sq mi), Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe.It is a country located at the crossroads of Eastern and Southeast Europe. It is bordered on the Black Sea, the country is halfway between the equator and the North Pole and equidistant from the westernmost part of Europe—the Atlantic Coast—and the most easterly—the Ural Mountains.
Untamed Romania is a 2018 British–Romanian nature documentary film directed by Thomas Barton-Humphreys. It is a collaborative effort by the production house Off the Fence, the corporation Auchan , and The European Nature Trust environmental foundation.
Câmpulung la Tisa is located in the northern part of the county, 13 km (8.1 mi) northwest of Sighetu Marmației and 76 km (47 mi) north of the county seat, Baia Mare. It is traversed by national road DN19 [ ro ] , which runs from Oradea to Sighetu Marmației.
Other names recorded include Schaäsburg (1282), Schespurg (1298) and Segusvar (1300). [5] By 1337 Sighișoara had become a royal center for the kings, who awarded the settlement urban status in 1367 as the Civitas de Segusvar. The town played an important strategic and commercial role at the edges of Central Europe for several centuries.
The Apuseni Natural Park with an area of 75,784 ha (187,270 acres) [4] was declared natural protected area by the Law Number 5 of March 6, 2000 (published in the Monitorul Oficial of Romania, Number 152 of April 12, 2000) [5] and represents a mountainous area (mountain peaks, cirques, caves, valleys, karst areas, forests, and pastures), with flora and fauna specific to the Western Carpathians.