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  About Constanta County   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Constanta county is situated on the Southern Dobrudja Plateau.
The Danube Delta is its border on a length of 37 km to the West, and to the East the Constanta county is limited by the Black Sea.
According to the last census, the population of this county is of 748,044 inhabitants, Constanta being on the fourth place in Romania.
www.omfs-ct.ro /about.htm   (479 words)

  
 Constanta History
Constanta, due to the harbor, was the "lung of the Romania" as the first Romanian king, Carol I, said.
Constanta made 70% from the total maritime traffic of the country.
The communist regime maintained Constanta as the first maritime harbor of the country and accorded it the necessary importance from this point of view.
museum.ici.ro /dobrogea/english/istoria_orasului.htm   (900 words)

  
 Constanta
Although as of now nobody offeres cruises along the coast, there is a small enterprise that can teach you basic sailing skills.
n top of its charming appearance, Constanta is also a center of art and culture, with several museums and theatres.
The archaeological museum has an important collection of ancient treasures discovered along the Black Sea coast, among which the remains of a large Roman mosaic tile floor.
students.missouri.edu /~romsa/destinations/html/constanta.html   (710 words)

  
 USAID Europe and Eurasia: Microfinance Brings Hope to Ethnically-Diverse Regions in Georgia
On this day, a leading indigenous microfinance institution, the Constanta Foundation, opened the doors of its new branch office, offering shoemakers, hairdressers, bakers, traders, and other managers of local small businesses their first real chance to take out loans to improve their businesses and their livelihoods.
Continuing nation-wide operations supported through USAID funding, Constanta has received additional support from the pipeline consortium to open its latest office in Akhaltsikhe, which is one of the main cities along the pipeline route.
Constanta’s group lending approach enables small groups of individual entrepreneurs to guarantee each others’ loans, bypassing the need for collateral.
www.usaid.gov /locations/europe_eurasia/press/constanta_opening.html   (970 words)

  
 Constanta :: Borrowers
Having properly utilized the borrowed money from Constanta, she was able to develop her business further and get the exemplary results without any exaggeration.
Veshaguri is in the process of building a micro hydroelectric power station of 20 KV and upon the completion of construction, he planes to set up a mill as well as develop the fishery business.
Having learned about Constanta through promotion conducted in the market place, she formed a group of entrepreneurs who applied to Constanta for the first loan.
www.constanta.ge /stories.shtml   (954 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Constanta, Romania (Romanian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
It is the administrative center of Dobruja and a major railroad junction and industrial city, but its chief importance derives from its role as Romania's main seaport.
Petroleum (brought by pipeline from the Ploiesti oil fields), grain, and lumber are the leading exports.
Besides handling general overseas trade, Constanta is important in the transit traffic with the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Constanta.html   (266 words)

  
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The Independence war (1877-1878) removed the Turkish yoke from the city of Constanta, which regained the former name and became the residence of the region.
An intense process of the town’s modernizing has begun: building of Bucharest - Cernavoda railway (1860), modernizing of the old maritime port (1896-1909) and building of the grain elevator (1899-1909), building of the bridge over the Danube river (1890-1895), all that turning Constanta in a main commercial hub and European port.
Constanta, the third city of Romania, by the number of inhabitants was counting 339,250 inhabitants on 31st December 1999.
www.infolitoral.ro /english/resorts/Constanta/constanta.htm   (431 words)

  
 Constanta, Romania, Pictures
Constanta, also Constantsa, city in southeastern Romania, capital of Constanta County, on the Black Sea.
Chief exports of the city are oil and cereals; imports include coal and coke, machinery, and textiles.
The name was changed to Constanta in 1878, when Romania acquired the territory from Bulgaria.
www.greatestcities.com /Europe/Romania/Constanta_Constantsa_city.html   (164 words)

  
 American International Health Alliance Portal - AIHA
CEE Partner: The community of Constanta is represented by the Direction for Public Health and Constanta City Hall, is working closely with the "Ovidius" Medical School of Constanta, the County School Inspectorate, the Direction for Labor and Social Protection, and the County Police Inspectorate to support the Healthy Communities Partnership.
The Constanta partners, with the support of their US colleagues, established the Constanta Community Foundation, with approval from the Constanta Court of Justice.
The Constanta partners developed a strategy for communicating with the mass media about the activities of the office, including press coverage for the opening ceremony and distribution of educational materials.
www.aiha.com /index.jsp?sid=1&id=949&pid=10   (823 words)

  
 Hotel Royal - Constanta, Romania - Informations
Constanta County is located in the Eastern side of Romania, in the historical province of Dobrogea.
Nowadays, Constanta is an important cultural and educational center (2 universities - one public and one private, in which over 560 teachers teach 4,846 students).
Constanta County is one of the most developed and equilibrated Counties in Romania.
www.hotelroyal.ro /info_en.php   (1436 words)

  
 Constanta City Hall - the official web site
Services on the Constanta City Hall website are mainly focused on Constanta citizens, but useful information for tourists are also provided, and a special English version of the page was created for foreign visitors.
Currently, we are implementing the electronic signature in the City Hall, to facilitate internal communication and to reduce the paperwork.
Constanta City Hall web page won two important awards during the year 2004: Internetics national contest award - public administration section, and Aniap (Romanian Associations of Information Technology in Public Administration) great award, representing Romania to Eurocrest 2005 contest, to Prague, where the web page won an important prize.
www.primaria-constanta.ro /PrimariaConstanta/English/Default.aspx   (697 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Defense secretary discusses security issues in advance of NATO meeting
CONSTANTA, Romania –; Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld toured an air base outside this Black Sea city on Monday that was used extensively by American air forces to ferry war supplies to Afghanistan and Iraq.
Romania, which joined the US-led NATO alliance this year, has offered a more permanent arrangement for U.S. use of Constanta's military facilities, but Rumsfeld was not here to negotiate a deal, his aides said before his arrival.
Later Rumsfeld was flying to Bucharest, the Romanian capital for meetings with senior government leaders and on Wednesday was scheduled to attend a NATO meeting at a resort in central Romania.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20041011-0528-romania-rumsfeld.html   (413 words)

  
 ROMANIA - Constanta Harbour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Re-built, again, between 1956-1958, the port would expand starting with the year of 1978: the pier was extended by 5 km, thus allowing the extension of new areas, to finally reach an area of 3,626 hectares.
Constanta Harbour also provides other services, like: «beacons and buoys», the maintenance of the water level, pollution prevention, ballasting as well as fresh water and industrial electric energy supply, ship and warehouse guarding, fire prevention, sanitary services and submarine work services.
Constanta Harbour is in close relation with the Russian port NOVOROSSISK in order to transport crude oil to Europe.
www.roumanie.com /magazine/economie/no15/consta_e.htm   (1361 words)

  
 Mamaia, Black Sea Resort, Romania
Mamaia is the European version of Palm Beach, having 8 km long and 100-250 m wide beaches of extremely fine sand on the Black Sea shore.
Mamaia, resort of international fame, is situated in SE extremity of Romania near Constanta, on a litoral strip between the Black Sea and Lake Siutghiol.
Constanta offers several places to visit in addition to the Roman ruins.
mamaia.8k.com   (235 words)

  
 Constanta
Romania's second largest city, Constanta attracts by the harmony between ebulient business world and intense cultural life.
Developed upon the ancient ruins of the Greek stronghold Tomis, Constanta has always been a centre of ethnic and spiritual diversity, a pole of economic exchanges in the Black Sea region and in South-Eastern Europe.
The city is a point of departure to the string of coastal resorts: Mamaia, Eforie Nord, Eforie Sud, Olimp, Costinesti, Neptun, Jupiter, Venus, Mangalia, Techirghiol
www.ici.ro /romania/en/orase/constanta.html   (167 words)

  
 Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines | Destinations | Canaries & Iberia & Europe | Constanta
After the Independence War (1877-1878) the town merged out of the ottoman domination, regained its name of Constanta and became the residence of the Constanta region, an integral part of Romania.
Constanta was seriously affected by the two World Wars, the town being reconstructed each time; after 1945 the rising advance continued and Constanta became one of the most developed towns in Romania.
Nowadays Constanta is the biggest port in Romania, a powerful industrial commercial and tourist centre, a wide gate towards the world.
www.fredolsencruises.co.uk /fredolsen/process/destinations/port_details/portCode=CON.html   (207 words)

  
 VirtualTourist.com - Constanta Tips - Pictures, Tips and Reviews
Histria Fortress is located at 63 km away from Constanta and is the oldest attested Greek settling on the territory of Romania.
Some of the houses on the seashore have garden gates opening on the wide beach, that spreads on 300 m and is covered by fine sand.
The access: By air: Constanta airport; By road (as with all the other Romanian Black Sea resorts) from the D.N. 39 (E 87): *from Mangalia, some 9 km to the south; *from Vama Veche border check point, some 4 km to the north; By railways: Mangalia station on the Bucharest-Constanta-Mangalia line.
www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Romania/Judetul_Constanta/Constanta-518965/Things_To_Do-Constanta-BR-1.html   (1111 words)

  
 @rgumente » Business » Bucharest - Constanta highway
You can see here the timetable for a project that started exactly 14 years ago - a good transportation infrastructure between the capital and a key industrial node accounting for some 200 km.
Well, you could say the same about Constanta, although both were bad movies.
Doug, most of the highway parts are made somewhere in parallel with the actual route to Constanta.
www.argumente.ro /business/1198019346/index_html   (726 words)

  
 Route Cernavoda - Constanta
On October 4, 1860, the first train left Cernavoda toward Constanta, and the first passenger was Alexandru Ioan Cuza, sovereign of Romania, to whom Barkley, the English chief of the railway company provided the sultan’s carriage.
From Constanta, Cuza went to Constantinopole in order to obtain from the sultan the acknowledgment of the Unification.
After another hour trip on the railway, we reached to Constanta, the place where the final festivities for the this important event took place.
www.cfr.ro /JF/engleza/0010/route.htm   (830 words)

  
 Romania NSCofC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It wasn't too long after we got to know Ady and Luma that we were all blessed with the arrival of their son, little Danny.
Being in Constanta they work with Charles and Mary and all of the members of the church family.
We lived in the homes of the Romanians, ate their food, traveled in their cars and buses, drank their drinks, tried to speak their language, and spent a great deal of time in worship and fellowship with them.
www.nscofc.org /romania.htm   (696 words)

  
 DefenseLINK News: Rumsfeld Honors Macedonian Troops, Visits Romanian Airbase
Leaving Skopje, the secretary flew on to Constanta, Romania, on the Black Sea, to tour an underused Romanian military facility that may again buzz with the activity of U.S. troops.
The DoD official stressed that any potential renewed U.S. military presence at MK Airbase, or at the adjacent Romanian army base, would mostly involve the rotation of troops in and out of the facility for joint training exercises and not a large U.S. military contingent such as that found at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
A decision whether or not to take the Romanians up on their offer to use MK Airbase would be made after a joint DoD-State Department evaluation team visits the facility sometime later this year, the official said.
www.defenselink.mil /news/Oct2004/n10112004_2004101105.html   (612 words)

  
 Constanta Maritime University
Higher - education institution since 1972, in 1973 it merged with the Military School of Navy Officers, forming the Navy Institute "Mircea cel Batrân" in Constanta, governed by the Ministry of National Defence.
Campus: the main building (4,455 sqm) 104, Mircea cel Batrân Street; two hostels to accommodate all students enrolled in the university; a nautical training centre (9,710sqm) on the banks of Mamaia Lake.
Constanta Maritime University is the first Romanian university certified for the Management of Quality by Bureau Veritas Quality International, an internationally regognised body.
www.iamu-edu.org /members/cmu.php   (381 words)

  
 People's Daily Online -- Rumsfeld tours air base in Romania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
One day after visiting Iraq, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld toured a spruced-up military base in Constanta, Romania Monday and heard a Romanian government sales pitch for making it a new American outpost within easy reach of potential hot spots in the Middle East and Central Asia.
But the facilities in Constanta clearly are among bases the Pentagon is considering for occasional training and air access, though not permanent troop basing.
U.S. Army paratroopers based in Italy used Constanta as a staging base for their airlift into northern Iraq in the opening days of the war.
english.people.com.cn /200410/12/eng20041012_159860.html   (395 words)

  
 CCINA Constanta - Constanta overview...communications
Kogalniceanu Airport was built between 1952-1962 and has regular and charter flights to and from Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Berlin, Stuttgart, Paris, Milano, Atena and Istanbul.
It has connections with all means of transportation: trains, vehicles, airplanes and river transports (through the Black Sea-Danube Channel it makes the link with the trans-european corridor Rhine-Main-Danube).
Mangalia harbor is located at 38 km from Constanta and has an annual processing capacity of 400,000 tons, with extension to 1 mil tons.
www.ccina.ro /en/ct_prez_5.php   (182 words)

  
 :: Xinhuanet - English ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Accompanied by Romanian Defense Minister Ioan Mircea Pascu, Rumsfeld inspected the Kogalniceanu military airport and the barracks of the Romanian mechanized force in Constanta.
He said the infrastructure and support facilities there are up to the standard for the United States to establish a military base.
A Romanian TV station reported that although Rumsfeld is interested in the military facilities in Constanta, he did not make any comments on whether the United States will set up a military base there.
news.xinhuanet.com /english/2004-10/12/content_2081199.htm   (256 words)

  
 Mortality Rate for Romanian Children With HIV in Constanta Drops Significantly; Hundreds Receive Care and Treatment at ...
"In just three years, the Center has decreased the mortality rate of children living with HIV/AIDS in Constanta from 15 percent to 3 percent, proving that it is possible to provide first-rate pediatric care and treatment in a resource-limited setting,'' said Dr. Mark Kline, director of Baylor's International Pediatric AIDS Initiative.
Renovation of the children's ward at the Infectious Diseases Hospital in Constanta, which has improved infrastructure and quality of care for all children served at the hospital
Kline has brought together the directors from Baylor clinics in Botswana and Mexico to meet counterparts in Constanta for a weeklong workshop to share key learnings and to discuss plans for expansion.
www.csrwire.com /article.cgi/2628.html   (883 words)

  
 Constanta By-Pass Project[EBRD - Project Summary Document]
The Project is part of a programme parallel-financed by EIB and EBRD consisting of completion of the Bucharest-Constanta Motorway from Cernavoda to Constanta, construction of the Constanta By-Pass, rehabilitation of ten bridges and repairs and rehabilitation works to 98 flood-damaged road sections and bridges.
The alignment of the bypass traverses only rural areas and passes in the west part of Constanta town, near the Ovidu and Cumpana urban settlements and the settlement of Lazu.
A public scoping discussions to identify relevant issues to be addressed in the EIA study were held in Constanta on March 2005, where over 100 representatives, including NGOs attended.
www.ebrd.com /projects/psd/psd2005/33391.htm   (1162 words)

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