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12 unusual facts about Siret River


2000 Baia Mare cyanide spill

A year later, another cyanide spill occurred in Romania, this time being a deliberate emptying of cyanide solutions into the Siret River.

Anghel Saligny

He was also involved in the construction of numerous other metallic bridges, such as the one at Cosmeşti over the Siret river, which measured 430 m in length.

Brazda lui Novac

There is some evidence that the vallum eastern limit was the Siret River.

Czortków Uprising

To delay the Soviet pursuit, they also planned to blow up the rail bridge on the Seret.

Dacia

In the 2nd century AD, after the Roman conquest, Ptolemy puts the eastern boundary of Dacia Traiana (the Roman province) as far east as the Hierasus (Siret) river, in modern Romania.

Gigi Becali

After the 2005 floods, he used $4 million of his personal money to fund the reconstruction of about 200 houses in the Vulturu village (Vulturu commune, Vrancea county) that were destroyed by the overflow of the Siret river.

Moldavian military forces

Along with patrolling the Danube, these made their way on its tributaries, the Siret and the Prut River.

Muntenia

Part of the traditional border between Wallachia/Muntenia and Moldavia was formed by the rivers Milcov and Siret.

Șendreni

During July 2010, the River Siret threatened to break through the dykes protecting Şendreni, as locals and emergency services reinforced the dykes with sandbags trucks full of earth to prevent the river breaking out and flooding the commune.

Siret River

During July 2010, Gheorghe Flutur, president of Suceava judet, told the Mediafax news agency his region was one of the worst hit in the country in the morning of the 29th as he co-ordinated local flood relief work in his stricken county.

The following towns and villages are situated along the river Siret, from source to mouth: Berehomet, Storozhynets, Siret, Grămești, Zvoriștea, Liteni, Dolhasca, Paşcani, Stolniceni-Prăjescu, Roman, Bacău, Adjud, Mărășești, Galaţi.

Táncház

In addition, ethnic Hungarians outside of Hungary, such as those in Transylvania, Slovakia, and the Siret River valley of Moldavia, are also celebrated by the táncház movement.