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The list includes major cities with the status of municipiu (103 in total), as well as cities and towns with the status of oraș (216 in total). Romania has 319 cities and towns: one city with over 1 million inhabitants, 17 other cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants, 153 cities with a population between 10,000 and 100,000 inhabitants, 110 ...
Bucharest is a beta global city, a major cultural, political and economic hub, and the country's seat of government. Bucharest was first mentioned in documents in 1459. The city became the capital in 1862 and is the centre of Romanian media, culture, and art.
Here is a list of all local administrative units ( localități; sing. localitate ), which are the municipalities ( municipii; sing. municipiu ), cities ( orașe; sing. oraș) and communes ( comune; sing. comună) of Romania, grouped by macroregions ( macroregiune; sing. macroregiunea ), development regions ( regiunile de dezvoltare; sing ...
L. List of cities and towns in Romania. List of twin towns and sister cities in Romania. Lugoj. Lupeni.
Named after the city of Arad, formerly Urod (11th century) after the name of a Hungarian knight, probably from the root ur meaning lord, meaning a place, which belongs to your (-od/today:ad) lord (úr). Argeș. Dacian. Named after the Argeș River, in ancient times Argessos, probably meaning "shiny". Bacău.
This is a list of cities and towns founded by the Romans. It lists cities established and built by the ancient Romans to have begun as a colony, often for the settlement of citizens or veterans of the legions. Many Roman colonies in antiquity rose to become important commercial and cultural centers, transportation hubs and capitals of global ...
Romania is the largest country in Southeastern Europeand the twelfth-largestin Europe, having an area of 238,397 square kilometres (92,046 sq mi). [241]: 17 It lies between latitudes 43°and 49° Nand longitudes 20°and 30° E. The terrain is distributed roughly equally between mountains, hills, and plains.
This list enumerates the changes made from 1921 onwards. Not included are the names of localities in the Banat, in Transylvania, and in Bukovina that were changed from Hungarian and/or German to Romanian immediately after World War I, the names of localities in Northern Transylvania that were changed back to Hungarian from 1940 to 1944, and those of localities in Greater Romania that today no ...