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2 unusual facts about Oradea


2008 Men's Water Polo Olympic Qualifier

The tournament was held at the "Ioan Alexandrescu" Pool, newly built in Oradea, Romania from March 2 to March 9, 2008s.

Celelalte Cuvinte

Celelalte Cuvinte (The Other Words) is a Romanian rock band from Oradea, founded in December 1981, in Timişoara and still active to this day.


Alexander Kohut

At Oradea he became acquainted with Kálmán Tisza, prime minister of Hungary, who, hearing him speak at a national gathering of notables, was so carried away by his eloquence that he caused him to be called to the Hungarian parliament as representative of the Jews.

Arnold Ipolyi

In 1863 he was made canon of Eger, and in 1869 director of the Central Ecclesiastical Seminary at Pest; in 1871 he became Bishop of Banská Bystrica, and Bishop of Oradea where he died on 2 December later that same year.

Attila Cseke

From 1998 to 2000, he was part of the Oradea chapter of the European Law Students' Association Romania.

Battle of Turda

The advancing Red Army armored units were stopped by the 3rd Battalion of the Hungarian 25th Infantry Division (headquartered at Oradea)—at the road intersection at Vinţu de Sus—on 13 September.

Căile Ferate Române Line 300

311 Salonta - Kötegyán (13 km) *312 Oradea - Cheresig (23 km)

Dinosaurs of Romania

The discovery of dinosaur bones in a bauxite mine at Cornet-Brusturi, near Oradea (Bihor County) was made accidentally by two miners in 1978 during ore exploitation.

George II Rákóczi

Finally the Turks invaded Transylvania, and Rákóczy died at Oradea of wounds received at the battle of Gilău (May 1660).

Gyula Szentessy

Gyula Szentessy (b. Oradea, 18 December 1870 - d. Budapest, 30 October 1905) was a Hungarian poet.

Municipiu

Cluj and Oradea temporarily lost the title in 1940 as a result of the Second Vienna Award, while it was granted to Odessa and Tiraspol during the Transnistria Governorate period.

Nufărul

After the Oradea city centre (Centru) and Rogerius quarter, it is the third-largest district for business in Oradea.

Oradea ghetto

The second contained nearly 8,000 Jews from the many rural communities of a dozen districts: Aleșd, Berettyóújfalu, Biharkeresztes, Cefa, Derecske, Marghita, Oradea, Săcueni, Sălard, Salonta, Sárrétudvari and Valea lui Mihai.

Palaeocursornis

The only known species, P. corneti, was described in 1984 based on a single bone (MTCO-P 1637) interpreted as the distal part of a left femur, found in Early Cretaceous (Berriasian rocks (dating to around 143 mya) from a mine at Cornet near Oradea in northwestern Romania.

Renáta Tolvai

Renáta Tímea Tolvai, known professionally as Reni Tolvai (born 24 March 1991, Oradea, Romania) is a Hungarian pop singer, dancer, and model, who won the 5th season of the Hungarian singing competition show Megasztár in 2010.

Szilárd Bogdánffy

Dr. Szilárd Bogdánffy was consecrated as bishop of Oradea of the Latins and auxiliary bishop of Satu Mare on February 14, 1949 by Gerald Patrick O’Hara, Regent of the Apostolic Nunciature to Bucharest.

University of Oradea

After an initiative of the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine Professor Dr. Gheorghe Bumbu, the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Oradea is following the educational method which was first applied by Leiden University, in which medical students are given the ability to present the topics of their lectures, supervised by their professors.

Vasile Erdeli

Vasile Erdeli, also known as the Vasile Erdeli-Ardeleanu, was born on August 1, 1794, in Makó, Csanád County, Kingdom of Hungary, and died on March 17, 1862, in Oradea.

Vie

Vie is also home to two other major hospitals: the Pulmonary Diseases Hospital (more commonly known as The Tuberculosis Hospital, or Spital TBC) and the Oradea Mental Hospital.

Virgil Bercea

During his reign, the Diocese of Oradea Mare have been returned a number of churches, along with the episcopal palace-residence and the Cathedral of St. Nicholas, which had been confiscated 58 years ago by the communist regime and given to the Romanian Orthodox Church.


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