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Adrian Cioroianu
Adrian Mihai Cioroianu (born January 5, 1967) is a Romanian historian, politician, journalist, and essayist. A lecturer for the History Department at the University of Bucharest, he is the author of several books dealing with Romanian history (and specifically with the history of Communist Romania). He is also noted for his contribution as co-author of a high school textbook.
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Argentina Menis
Argentina Menis (born July 19, 1948 in Cernele, Dolj) is a Romanian athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw event.
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Austria
Austria or (), officially the Republic of Austria (German: ), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.3 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below , and its highest point is . The majority of the population speaks German, which is also the country's official language. Other local official languages are Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.
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Barbu Ştirbei
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Bayezid I
Bayezid I (Ottoman: بايزيد اول, Turkish: Beyazıt, nicknamed Yıldırım (Ottoman: ییلدیرم), "the Thunderbolt", Serbian: Бајазит / Bajazit; 1360, Bursa – March 8, 1403, Akşehir, Turkey) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, then Rûm, from 1389 to 1402. He was the son of Murad I and Valide Sultan Gülçiçek Hatun who was of ethnic Greek descent.
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Caracalla
Lucius Septimius Bassianus (April 4, 188 – April 8, 217), commonly known as Caracalla, was Roman emperor from 211 to 217. The eldest son of Septimius Severus, he ruled jointly with his younger brother Geta until the latter's death in 211. Caracalla is remembered as one of the most notorious emperors."Caracalla" A Dictionary of British History. Ed. John Cannon. Oxford University Press, 2001. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press."Caracalla" World Encyclopedia. Philip's, 2005. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. British historian Edward Gibbon referred to him as "the common enemy of mankind" because of the massacres he authorized in various parts of the empire. Caracalla's reign was notable for the Constitutio Antoniniana, granting Roman citizenship to freemen throughout the Roman Empire, according to historian Cassius Dio in order to increase taxation. He debased the silver content in Roman coinage by 25 percent in order to increase the pay of the legions. He also ordered the construction of a large thermae outside Rome, the remains of which, known as the Baths of Caracalla, can still be seen today.
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Constantin Brâncuşi
Constantin Brâncuşi (; February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957) was an internationally renowned Romanian sculptor whose works, which blend simplicity and sophistication, led the way for numerous modernist sculptors.
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Constantin Coandă
Constantin Coandă (1857, Craiova – 1932 Bucarest) was a Romanian soldier and politician. He reached the rank of general in the Romanian Army, and later became mathematics professor at the National School of Bridges and Roads in Bucharest. Among his seven children was Henri Coandă, the discoverer of the Coandă effect.
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Constantin Sănătescu
Constantin Sănătescu (January 14, 1885, Craiova—November 8, 1947, Bucharest) was a Romanian statesman who served as the first Prime Minister of Romania after the August 23, 1944 coup, through which Romania left the Axis Powers and joined the Allies.
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Constantin Şerban
Constantin Şerban was Prince of Wallachia between 1654 and 1658, bastard son to Radu Şerban (according to custom, being born out of wedlock did not disqualify Constantin from becoming Prince).
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Corneliu Baba
Corneliu Baba (November 18, 1906, Craiova—December 28, 1997) was a Romanian painter, primarily a portraitist, but also known as a genre painter and an illustrator of books.
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Diana Dondoe
Diana Dondoe (born December 22, 1982) is a Romanian model. She was discovered in Bucharest, Romania by Giani Portmann, a Romanian modelling scout. Dondoe resides in New York City, USA. Aside from modelling she is a student majoring in English and Spanish.
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Eduard Prugovečki
Eduard Prugovečki (March 19, 1937 – October 13, 2003) was a Canadian physicist and mathematician of Croatian-Romanian descent.
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Emanuel Giani Ruset
Emanuel or Manolache Giani Ruset was a Prince of Wallachia (May 1770 - October 1771), and Prince of Moldavia (May 11, 1788 - October 1788). He was a Phanariote and member of the Rosetti family.
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Francisc Şirato
Francisc Şirato (August 15, 1877, Craiova - August 4, 1953, Bucharest) was a Romanian painter, graphic artist, art critic, and designer.
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Germans of Romania
The Germans of Romania or Rumäniendeutsche were 760,000 strong in 1930. They are not a single group; thus, to understand their language, culture, and history, one must view them as independent groups:
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Gheorghe Bibescu
Gheorghe Bibescu (1804–1873) was a hospodar (Prince) of Wallachia between 1843 and 1848. His rule coincided with the revolutionary tide that culminated in the 1848 Wallachian revolution.
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Gheorghe Tattarescu
Gheorghe Tattarescu (October 1818 - October 24, 1894) was a Moldavian-born Romanian painter and a pioneer of neoclassicism in his country's modern painting.
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Ion Ţuculescu
Ion Ţuculescu (19 May 1910–27 July 1962) was a Romanian expressionist and abstract oil painter, although professionally he worked as a biologist and physician. His artwork became well-known posthumously, when, in the spring of 1965, a major retrospective exhibition revealed him as one of the important post-World War II European modern artists.
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Italians of Romania
The Italian Romanians are people of Italian descent who reside, or have moved to Romania. They are an ethnic minority in Romania, numbering 3,288 people according to the 2002 census. Italians are fairly dispersed throughout the country, even though there is a higher number of them in the western parts of the country (particularly Timiş County), and in the Municipality of Bucharest.
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Jean Negulesco
Jean Negulesco (born Jean Negulescu; 26 February 1900 – 18 July 1993) was a Romanian-born American film director and screenwriter.
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Lola Bobesco
Lola Bobesco (August 9, 1921 –September 4, 2003) was a Belgian violinist of Romanian origin.
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Matei Basarab
Matei Basarab (1588, Brâncoveni, Olt—April 9, 1654, Bucharest) was a Wallachian Voivode (Prince) between 1632 and 1654.
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Neagoe Basarab
Neagoe Basarab was the Voivode (Prince) of Wallachia between 1512 and 1521. Born into the boyar family of the Craioveşti (his reign marks the climax of the family's political influence) as the son of Pârvu Craiovescu or Basarab Ţepeluş cel Tânăr, Neagoe Basarab, who replaced Vlad cel Tânăr after the latter rejected Craioveşti tutelage, was noted for his abilities and competence.
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Nicolae Bălcescu
Nicolae Bălcescu () (June 29, 1819 – November 29, 1852) was a Romanian Wallachian soldier, historian, journalist, and leader of the 1848 Wallachian Revolution.
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Nicolae Titulescu
Nicolae Titulescu (March 4, 1882, Craiova - March 17, 1941, Cannes) was a well-known Romanian diplomat, at various times government minister, finance and foreign minister, and for two terms President of the General Assembly of the League of Nations (1930-32). He was a member of the Freemasonry.
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Osman Pazvantoğlu
Osman Pazvantoğlu (also spelled Osman Passvan-Oglou or Pasvanoglu, Pazvan Oglu/Oğlu; 1758—January 27, 1807, Vidin) was a Bosnian Ottoman soldier, a governor of the Vidin district after 1794, and a rebel against Ottoman rule. He is also remembered as the friend of Rigas Feraios, a Greek revolutionary poet, whom he tried to rescue from the Ottoman authorities in Belgrade.
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Ottoman Empire
The Sublime Ottoman State (Ottoman Turkish, Persian: دَوْلَتِ عَلِيّهٔ عُثمَانِیّه Devlet-i ʿAliyye-yi ʿOsmâniyye, Modern Turkish: Yüce Osmanlı Devleti or Osmanlı İmparatorluğu) was an empire that lasted from 1299 to 1923.
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Petrache Poenaru
Petrache Poenaru (1799–1875) was a famous Romanian inventor of the Enlightenment era.
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Radu de la Afumaţi
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Romanians
The Romanians (dated: Rumanians or Roumanians; or -historically, but now a seldom-used regionalism- rumâni; dated exonym: Vlachs) are a nation and ethnic group native to Romania, who speak Romanian; they are the majority inhabitants of Romania.
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Serbs of Romania
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Severus Alexander
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Sorin Lerescu
Sorin Lerescu (November 14, 1953]) was born in Craiova and is a Romanian composer who studied at the National University of Music in Bucharest.
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Titu Maiorescu
Titu Liviu Maiorescu (; 15 February 1840 - 18 June 1917) was a Romanian literary critic and politician, founder of the Junimea Society. As a literary critic, he was instrumental in the development of Romanian culture in the second half of the 19th century.
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Tudor Vladimirescu
Tudor Vladimirescu (c. 1780–) was a Wallachian Romanian revolutionary hero, the leader of the Wallachian uprising of 1821 and of the Pandur militia. He is also known as Tudor din Vladimiri (Tudor of Vladimiri) or — occasionally — as Domnul Tudor (Voivode Tudor).
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Varujan Vosganian
Varujan Vosganian (born 25 July 1958) is a Romanian politician, economist, essayist and poet. A member of the National Liberal Party, Vosganian was Romania's Minister of Economy and Commerce in the Tăriceanu cabinet.
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Şerban Cantacuzino
Şerban Cantacuzino (1640–1688) was a Prince of Wallachia between 1678 and 1688.
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Austria
Austria or (), officially the Republic of Austria (German: ), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.3 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below , and its highest point is . The majority of the population speaks German, which is also the country's official language. Other local official languages are Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.
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Austrian Empire
The Austrian Empire () was a modern era successor empire founded on a remnant of the Holy Roman Empire, which was centered on what is today's Austria and which officially lasted from 1804 to 1867. It was followed by the Empire of Austria–Hungary, which was proclaimed after declaring the Emperor of Austria also King of Hungary, a diplomatic move that elevated Hungary's status within the Austrian Empire as a result of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867. The Austro-Hungarian Empire (1867 to 1918) was itself dissolved by the victors at the end of World War I and broken into separate new states.
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Braşov
Brașov (; ; ; Medieval Latin: Brassovia or Corona; 1950–1960: Oraşul Stalin) is a city in Romania and the capital of Braşov County.
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Brăila
Brăila (; ; Turkish: İbrail) is a city in Muntenia, eastern Romania, a port on the Danube and the capital of Brăila County, in the close vicinity of Galaţi.
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Bucharest
Bucharest ( ) is the capital city, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmboviţa River.
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Bulgaria
Bulgaria ( , Balgariya, ), officially the Republic of Bulgaria (, Republika Balgariya, ), is a country in Southern Europe. Bulgaria borders five other countries: Romania to the north (mostly along the Danube), Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia to the west, and Greece and Turkey to the south. The Black Sea defines the extent of the country to the east.
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Cluj-Napoca
Cluj-Napoca (; ; , Hungarian pronunciation:; ; , Kloiznburg), commonly known as Cluj, is the fourth most populous city in Romania and the seat of Cluj County in the northwestern part of the country. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant from Bucharest (441 km / 276 mi), Budapest (409 km / 256 mi) and Belgrade (465 km / 291 mi). Located in the Someşul Mic River valley, the city is considered the unofficial capital to the historical province of Transylvania. In 1790-1848 and 1861–1867, it was the official capital of the Grand Principality of Transylvania.
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Dolj County
Dolj (; , originally both meant Dol(no)-Jiu, "lower Jiu", toward Gorj (upper Jiu)) is a county (judeţ) of Romania, in Oltenia, with the capital city at Craiova (population: 314,437).
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Finland
Finland (pronounced ), officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden on the west, Norway on the north and Russia on the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.
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France
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Kuopio
Kuopio is a city and municipality located in the region of Northern Savonia, Finland. A population of makes it the ninth biggest city in the country. The city has a total area of , of which is water and half forest. The population density is only , but the city's urban areas are populated very densely (urban area: 1 617.6 /km²), nationally second only to capital Helsinki (urban area: 1 690.0 /km²). The population of the entire Kuopio region is 119,472.
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Romania
Romania ( ; dated: Rumania; ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, north of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea. Romania shares a border with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova to the northeast, and Bulgaria to the south.
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Sibiu
Sibiu (; ; ) is an important city in Transylvania, Romania with a population of 154,548. It straddles the Cibin River, a tributary of the river Olt. It is the capital of Sibiu County and is located some 282 km north-west of Bucharest. Between 1692 and 1791 it was the capital of the Principality of Transylvania.
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Sighişoara
Sighişoara (; ; Hungarian pronunciation: ; ) is a city and municipality on the Târnava Mare River in Mureş County, Romania. Located in the historic region Transylvania, Sighişoara has a population of 32,287 (2002).
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Skopje
Skopje (, ) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Macedonia with about a third of the total population. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre. It was known in the Roman period under the name Scupi.
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Southern Carpathians
The Southern Carpathians or the Transylvanian Alps (, , , ) are a group of mountain ranges which divide central and southern Romania, on one side, and Serbia, on the other side. They cover part of the Carpathian Mountains that is located between the Prahova River in the east and the Timiş and Cerna Rivers in the west. To the south they are bounded by the Balkan mountain range in Serbia.
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Sweden
Sweden (pronounced , ), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: ), is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and water borders with Denmark, Germany, and Poland to the south, and Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Russia to the east. Sweden is also connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund.
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Timişoara
Timișoara (; , also Temeswar or Temeschwar, , Serbian: Темишвар, Temišvar, ), is a city in the Banat region of western Romania. It is the capital of Timiş County.
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Turkey
Turkey (), known officially as the Republic of Turkey (), is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. Turkey is one of the six independent Turkic states. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan (the exclave of Nakhchivan) and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast. The Mediterranean Sea and Cyprus are to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and the Black Sea is to the north. The Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles (which together form the Turkish Straits) demarcate the boundary between Eastern Thrace and Anatolia; they also separate Europe and Asia.
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Uppsala
Uppsala (; older spelling Upsala) is the capital of Uppsala County and the fourth largest city of Sweden with 144,839 inhabitants.
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Vratza
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Wallachia
Wallachia or Walachia ( or ', archaic: ', Cyrillic: ) is a historical and geographical region of Romania. It is situated north of the Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians. Wallachia is sometimes referred to as Muntenia (Greater Wallachia), through identification with the larger of its two traditional sections; the smaller being Oltenia (Lesser Wallachia).
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Craiova - St. Dumitru Church, rebuilt by the French architect André Lecomte du Nouy (1844-1914) between 1889 - 1893, with the help of the Romanian royal family, King Carol I and Queen Elisabetta.

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20-54 class wagon used for Accelerat and Rapid trains.Since 2009 the Accelerat 1821/1822 from Arad to Constanța via Deva, Tîrgu Jiu, Craiova and Bucharest also travels to Mangalia with an extra sleeperette car and sleeper car.

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Braşov, one of the largest cities in Romania

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Craiova

Coordinates	28°36′50″N77°12′32″N
Coordinates region	RO
Subdivision type	Country
Subdivision name
Timezone	EET
Utc offset	+2
Timezone dst	EEST
Utc offset dst	+3
Map caption	Location of Craiova
Nickname	Bans' Citadel ()
Official name	Craiova
Image shield	Coa Craiova ro.gif
Pushpin map	Romania
Subdivision type1	County
Subdivision name1	Dolj County
Subdivision type2	Status
Subdivision name2
Leader title	Mayor
Leader name	Antonie Solomon
\|leader party	Democratic Party
Area total km2	81.4
Area metro km2	550.1
Population as of	est. 2009
Population total	298,643
Population density km2	3668
Population metro	333,834
Website	http://www.primariacraiova.ro/

Craiova (), Romania's 6th largest city | — |- | 1912 census | 51,404 | 13.1% |- | 1930 census | 63,215 | 22.9% |- | 1948 census | 84,574 | 33.7% |- | 1956 census | 96,897 | 14.5% |- | 1966 census | 148,711 | 53.4% |- | 1977 census | 221,261 | 48.7% |- | 1992 census | 303,959 | 37.3% |- | 2002 census | 302,601 | −0.4% |- | 2007 estimate | 299,429 | −1% |} According to the last Romanian census, from 2002, there were 302,601 people living within the city of Craiova, making it the sixth most populous city in Romania. Ethnic composition:

Romanians: 292,487 (96.66%)

Hungarians: 218 (0.07%)

Germans: 173 (0.06%)

Serbs: 34 (0.01%)

Roma: 8,820 (2.91%)

Italians: 178 (0.06%)

Greeks: 188 (0.06%)

Ukrainians: 32 (0.01%)

and 471 others.

As of 2009, an estimated 298,643 inhabitants live within the city limits.

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Natives

Constantin Argetoianu, former Prime Minister

Corneliu Baba, painter

Gheorghe Bibescu, Prince of Wallachia

Lola Bobesco, violinist

Adrian Cioroianu, historian, politician

Constantin Coandă, former Prime Minister

George Constantinescu, scientist, engineer and inventor

Diana Dondoe, international supermodel

Dimitrie Gerota, anatomist and physician

Titu Maiorescu, former Foreign Minister and Prime Minister

Jean Negulesco, film director and screenwriter

Petrache Poenaru, inventor of the world's first fountain pen

Eduard Prugovečki, physicist, mathematician

Constantin Sănătescu, former Prime Minister

Francisc Şirato, painter

Barbu Ştirbei, prince of Wallachia

Nicolae Titulescu, Foreign Minister and president of the League of Nations

Ion Ţuculescu, painter

Nicolae Vasilescu-Karpen, engineer, pioneer in telegraphy and telephony

Varujan Vosganian, politician

Sorin Lerescu, renowned composer

Argentina Menis, athlete

Politics

The Craiova Municipal Council, chosen at the 2008 local election, is made up of 27 councillors, with the following party composition:

{| cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="1" class="wikitable" ! style="background:#ccc" | ! style="background:#ccc" | Party ! style="background:#ccc" | Seats ! style="background:#ccc" colspan="15" | Current Council |- | | | Democratic Liberal Party | style="text-align: right" | 15 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- | | | Social Democratic Party | style="text-align: right" | 9 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- | | | National Liberal Party | style="text-align: right" | 3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |}

International relations

Twin towns — Sister cities

Gallery

References

Istoria Craiovei, Titu Georgescu, Constantin Barbacioru, Florea Firan, Virgil Joita, Constantin Mocanu, Luchian Deaconu, Ion Dogaru, Editura Scrisul Românesc, 1977

Florea Firan, Alexandru Firescu, Craiova , Ghidul oraşului, Editura Sport-Tourism, 1982

Documentare statistică privind evoluţia economică şi socială a municipiului Craiova, Dolj County Statistical Office, 1992

External links

Census 2002: Craiova

The Old Craiova in images

Notes

Category:Populated places in Dolj County Category:Cities of Romania served by tramway systems Category:Cities in Romania

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