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The Sphinx (Romanian: Sfinxul) is a natural rock formation in the Bucegi Natural Park which is in the Bucegi Mountains of Romania. It is located at an altitude of 2,216 metres (7,270 ft) within the Babele complex of rock formations. The first photo of the Great Bucegi Sphinx was probably taken in about the year 1900. This photograph was taken ...
13 September 1860 in Ploiești, Prahova, Romania 28 March 1926 in Bucharest, Romania 1924 "for work on the anatomy, physiology and surgery of the neck and chest sympathicus." [14] Nicolae Paulescu et al. [j] (1869–1931) Romania: Ioan Cantacuzino: 25 November 1863 in Bucharest, Romania 14 January 1934 in Bucharest, Romania 1933
Babele (meaning The old women) is the name for an area on the Bucegi Mountains plateau in Romania, within the Southern Carpathians. [1] Babele is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the country. The name comes from some mushroom shaped rock formations, the result of erosion and varying hardness of the rock layers.
The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș (also called Black March, Hungarian: Fekete Március) [1] refer to incidents between the Hungarians and Romanians in Târgu Mureș and surrounding settlements in Transylvania, Romania in March 1990. The clashes were the bloodiest inter-ethnic incidents of the post-communist era in Transylvania. [2]
Sfinxul natural rock formation in the Bucegi Mountains. Sfinxul is a natural rock formation in the Bucegi Natural Park which is in the Bucegi Mountains of Romania. This rock formation is named for its resemblance to the Sphinx of Giza, and is located at an altitude of 2,216 metres (7,270 feet) within the Babele complex of rock formations.
It had a magnitude of 7.5, [1] making it the second most powerful earthquake recorded in Romania in the 20th century, after the 10 November 1940 seismic event. The hypocenter was situated in the Vrancea Mountains, the most seismically active part of Romania, at a depth of 85.3 km. [1] [3]
The January 1990 Mineriad was the first of the six mineriads that occurred in Romania.It started after a protest in the Victory Square of Bucharest was carried out on 28 January 1990 by Romanians of all ages, backgrounds and places of the country against the National Salvation Front (FSN) after it announced it would participate in the next Romanian election although it promised not to do so.
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