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  Muntenia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Muntenia or Greater Wallachia is a historical province of Romania, usually considered Wallachia-proper (Muntenia, Ţara Românească, and the seldom used Valahia are synonyms in Romanian).
It is situated between the Danube (south and east), the Carpathian Mountains (the Transylvanian Alps branch) and Moldavia (both north), and the Olt River to the west.
The latter river is the border between Muntenia and Oltenia, or Lesser Wallachia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Muntenia   (177 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Muntenia
Muntenia or Greater Wallachia is a historical province of Romania, usually considered Wallachia-proper ("Muntenia", "Ţara Românească", and the seldomly used "Valahia" are synonyms in Romanian).
Muntenia, Oltenia, Dobrogea, Tara Amlasului si Tara Fagarasului are provincies of Tara Romaneasca.
It is situated between the Danube (in the south and east), the Carpathian Mountains and Moldavia (in the north), and the Olt in the west.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Muntenia   (931 words)

  
 Romania - IBWiki
By the start of the 19th century, Muntenia was under the rule of the Ottoman Turks, while Oltenia was under Hungary rule and Moldova was part of Russia.
Muntenia's leader Gheorghe Milţeanu, whose ideology was close to the SNOR, reigned his country with terror, but instead of being servile to Moscow he developed his own independent foreign policy of cooperation with the CSDS and the West.
In the west are lowlands that are part of the Tisza Plain, a region in western Oltenia usually referred to as the The Banat, adjacent to the border with Hungary, Croatia and Serbia.
ib.frath.net /w/Romania   (1499 words)

  
 Discover Romania - Muntenia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
One of the most popular tourist areas of Muntenia is the Prahova Valley – along the river with the same name at the feet of the Bucegi Mountains – much loved by hikers and skiers.
The dresses from the Dambovita and Muscel areas, the headcoverings made of floss silk and the carpets with geometrical and anthropomorphic figures are renowned.
The specific dance for Muntenia is called the “Calusarii”: it is extremely being danced by teams of men wearing bell adorned boots and ritual sticks.
www.valcea-turism.ro /VLTur/Turism/docs/d_muntenia.htm   (1059 words)

  
 Romanian costume - Aprons
In Transylvania, Oltenia and south Muntenia the strips are predominantly horizontal.
In Muntenia the stripes are replaced by compact woven decoration, or heavy geometric embroidery, covering the whole surface except for the area which is overlapped in the front.
It is found in Oltenia, parts of Muntenia, certain villages in south west Moldova, and across the Danube in northern Bulgaria and in north east Serbia where it is worn by Romanians in the Timoc valley.
www.eliznik.org.uk /RomaniaPortul/apron.htm   (2089 words)

  
 Usbiz
SIF Muntenia, the last of the financial investment companies (SIF) to post results after the first two months of the year, has reported gross profits of 29.9bn ROL (around 0.8 million euros).
SIF Muntenia also started 2004 with losses, but managed to catch up over time, posting nearly 11.4 million euros in profits by the end of the year.
Representatives of the company said the company's policy was to begin negotiations for the sale of stakes in the first few months of the year, with remaining transactions to be completed in the second half.
www.usbiz.ro /digit/show-news.php3?id=16118   (181 words)

  
 :: FDFEE Muntenia Nord ::
F.D.F.E.E. " Electrica Muntenia Nord " is formed of six Electricity Supply and Distribution Centers (SDFEE) in the center and east of the country, having headquarters in the counties’ reference cities: Braila, Buzau, Focsani, Galati, Ploiesti and Târgoviste.
The quality of the delivered electricity largely depends on the volume, the technical condition and the viability of the electric installations through which the electricity is transported and distributed.
The Electrica Muntenia Nord Branch administrates 41,844 km of electric lines – aerial and subterraneous, 205 transformation stations and 9475 supply units and transformation stations.
www.electrica.ro /content.asp?id=646   (413 words)

  
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The result was the strengthening of discontent and intensification of the peasant and urban rebellions: flight within and outside the country, a large number of complaints to the voivode, refusal to work and refusing other obligations, the revolt of the poor population in Bucharest and Iasi, helped by the peasantry living in the surroundings.
The Fanariot period (from 1711 in Moldavia and from 1716 in Muntenia, until 1821), was the darkest period in the history of the Rumanians, in which the population was exposed to an extremely harsh exploitation.
The result of the immigration in masses was that the number of the Rumanians in historical Transylvania increased from 250.000 in 1700 to 547.000 in 1761 and to 787.000 in 1784.
www.hungarian-history.hu /lib/pas/pas11.htm   (2858 words)

  
 Muntenia - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Muntenia" at HighBeam.
Muntenia Sud worth twice over other Electrica branches.
CEZ: Electrica Muntenia Sud, not worth its selling price.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-x-muntenia.html   (190 words)

  
 EMN Congress 2004
The capital of this principality, until it was moved at Curtea de Arges, was established at Câmpulung, where an impressive cathedral (built in 1638) surrounded by a strong defensive wall, was named after the mysterious ruler Negru Voda.
Târgoviste, which was going to become the administrative centre of Muntenia, was known by the name of "the capital of the 33 principalities".
Muntenia also has extremely charming churches, such as the monastery Cotmeana (whose church anticipated the most special architecture of a "cula" in Oltenia) or, in the district Buzau, the monastery Ciolanu, surrounded by forests and situated in the neighbourhood of a sculpture camp exhibiting work of artists belonging to different generations.
www.rsn.ro /emn/muntenia.htm   (652 words)

  
 Turism Muntenia
TURISM MUNTENIA SA Society was founded in 1990, deriving from the former Tourism Districtual Office (TDO) Arges, which was divided into three tourism commercial societies.
At present, TURISM MUNTENIA society is a brand in the Arges area and national tourism, being well rated in its field.
In this area, of the modern center, are concentrated institutions and cultural establishments: Pitesti City Hall, The Districtual Council, The Prefecture, The Appellate Court, Banks, The Districtual Museum, The Districtual Library, Alexandru Davila Theatre, Art Galleries.
www.turism-muntenia.ro /despre_noi_eng.php   (282 words)

  
 Wallachia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is sometimes referred to as Muntenia, through identification with the larger of its two traditional sections.
A principality founded by Basarab I in the late Middle Ages, Wallachia united with Moldavia (the other Danubian Principality) in the 19th century, to form the state of Romania.
Wallachia is situated north of the Danube (present-day Serbia and Bulgaria) and south of the Southern Carpathians, and is traditionally divided between Muntenia in the east (as the political center, Muntenia is often understood as being synonymous with Wallachia), and Oltenia (a former banat) in the west.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wallachia   (3691 words)

  
 MUNTENIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Muntenia o Wallachia più grande è una provincia storica della Romania.
Il capitale della Romania, Bucarest, è situato in Muntenia.
It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
www.facteri.com /wiki/it/mu/Muntenia.htm   (74 words)

  
 Atlantic Tour - Romania, Muntenia
The historical-geographic areas of Oltenia and Muntenia take the southern extremity of the country, between the southern Western Carpathians, the northern Southern Carpathians and the Danube river in the south-east, including the Romanian plain and the under-hill settlements.
Visited by numerous historical tribulations, Oltenia and Muntenia preserve tokens of steadfast and valuable local cultures situated almost everywhere in an exceptional natural scenery.
Here you can find vestiges of former ancient cities and constructions, medieval foundations of wide scope belonging to voivodes, boyars, traces of the former seat citadels in Valahia, folk creations, classical and ethnographic museums that often house world rarities, millenary spas and modern resorts for mountain sports, unique monuments in nature.
www.atlantic.ro /site_atlantic_nou/what_muntenia.php   (167 words)

  
 Usbiz
The deal, that may amount to more than 200 million euros, is now at the stage where the potential buyers are choosing their negotiators, as the privatisation announcement is soon to be published.
In 2002, RWE was close to be directly entrusted with Electrica Muntenia Sud, but management and strategy changes in the German group eventually blocked the group's acquisition plan, which also included the Romanian company.
The list of investors that have expressed interest in Muntenia Sud also comprises Spanish company Iberdrola, which is now looking to build its own negotiating team, and US-based AES Corporation, according to the latest available information.
www.usbiz.ro /digit/show-news.php3?id=16812   (360 words)

  
 Dacians. Romanians. Albanians - continuity and migrations
This migration was caused by the devastating invasion of the Huns (the end of the 4th century).
It is well known that this invasion caused dislocations of populations - the best example is that of the Goths that abandoned Moldova and Eastern Muntenia to move in the Empire.
Even Attila, in the middle of the 5th century, when the center of the Hun empire if placed between the Danube and Tisza rivers, demands that the people he subdued and who abandoned their settlements to establish themselves in the Byzantine Empire, be returned to him.
www.geocities.com /cogaionon/article9.htm   (4424 words)

  
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SIF Muntenia S.A. (the Fund) is an entirely private and self-managed closed-end fund.
Successor of the Private Ownership Fund IV Muntenia, the Fund manages its own portfolio, which is made up of stocks in approximately 288 Romanian companies.
SIF Muntenia S.A.: Business description, financial summary, 3yr and interim financials, key statistics/ratios and historical ratio analysis.
today.reuters.com /stocks/CompanyProfile.aspx?Type=Full&symbol=SIF4.BX   (160 words)

  
 Romanian Daily » Energy Sector » Enel dominate 30 pc of the Romanian electricity market   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Having in their portfolio the companies Electrica Muntenia Sud, Electrica Dobrogea and Electrica Banat, the Italians control 30 per cent of the energy market from Romania, having around two million users.
The most interested could be the foreign investors that operate already on the market, their interest being to consolidate their position in the market.
However, the sale of Electrica Muntenia Sud to Enel was not a surprise for the operators from the energy market.
romaniandaily.ro /cat53115/art5283293294   (564 words)

  
 Heliade Raduescu, Ion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
He was idolized by many of his contemporaries and by posterity, but also extensively challenged by his enemies especially among his former pupils, disciples and one time co-leaders of the Romanian 1848.
Born in Tirgoviste, the former capital of Muntenia, whose dust-covered glory and current ruin had a defining impact in shaping his artistic personality, he studied at the Romanian school in Bucuresti founded by the great Transylvanian teacher Gheorghe Lazar.
When he returned to Muntenia in 1858, he was in a state of permanent political disorientation, preoccupied with real and imagined threats from assorted enemies and traitors.
www.ohiou.edu /~chastain/dh/heliad.htm   (694 words)

  
 Romanian Daily » Energy Sector » CEZ: Electrica Muntenia Sud, not worth its selling price   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
This year the company took part in the privatization of Electrica Muntenia Sud, which it lost to Enel, which paid 820 million euros for the distributor.
Asked by Bucharest Daily News to comment on his own statement made before the announcement of the winner of Electrica Muntenia Sud at which time he claimed "Romanian authorities would be very lucky to obtain 750 million euros," Veskrna said today that the value of the company was subjective.
The acquisition of this operator would be very important because it is geographically close to the area covered by the network of Electrica Oltenia and would produce a logistic synergy very important for CEZ.
romaniandaily.ro /cat53115/art3143684715   (337 words)

  
 Geography - Muntenia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Certified in documents as kingdom (principality) from the XIV-th century, Muntenia includes the territory between the Carpathians, the Danube, Siret and the Milcov rivers.
This province has many important towns: Bucuresti the Capital of the country, Ploiesti,Buzau, Braila, Pitesti.
From here the tourists have the possibility to pass over the highest mountains of Romania (the Fagaras Mountains) on a road named "Transfagarasan".
www.ici.ro /romania/en/geografie/muntenia.html   (301 words)

  
 Orasul de Floci - A lost city in medieval Muntenia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Corresponding to the documentary information and cartographic sources, Orasul de Floci, a medieval urban center, lost today, was situated by the SE limit of Muntenia, on the left side of Ialomiþa, at the confluence with the Danube.
The first documentary attestation of the custom house is found out in the well known command addressed by the ruler Dan the second in 1431, to all the market towns and custom houses, among which Oraºul de Floci was mentioned.
Despite all, more rare pieces could have been discovered, very important pieces also an historical value but as documentary one, among which the ducat emitted by Vladislav II, 1448-1456, the lord of Þara Româneascã, the denega emitted by Ivan IV Vasilievici (1533-1584) in the first part of this reign.
cimec.cilea.it /ArchWebRo/arh/oras_fl/main_eng.htm   (2552 words)

  
 SIF Muntenia, 1,25 mil. euro in cresterea porcilor | Eveniment | Ziarul Financiar
SIF Muntenia, care a subscris 232.833 actiuni, la valoarea nominala de 25.000 de lei, a varsat pina in prezent 15,13 miliarde lei.
SIF Muntenia a mai participat, la inceputul acestui an, cu 23 de miliarde de lei, la majorarea capitalului societatii hoteliere Aro-Palace din Brasov.
O alta operatiune in care se va implica SIF Muntenia in acest an este continuarea finantarii investitiilor de la Casa de Bucovina Club de Munte din Gura Humorului, prin achizitionarea unor obligatiuni si actiuni emise de aceasta societate, in valoare de circa 500.000 de dolari.
www.zf.ro /articol_58421/sif_muntenia__1_25_mil__euro_in_cresterea_porcilor.html   (516 words)

  
 :: FDFEE Muntenia Nord ::
Dintre acestea distributia si furnizarea sunt principalele servicii oferite de Electrica Muntenia Nord.
În componenta F.D.F.E.E. “ Electrica Muntenia Nord ” se afla sase Sucursale de Distributie si Furnizare a Energiei Electrice (SDFEE) din centrul si estul tarii, cu sediile în orasele de referinta de judet : Braila, Buzau, Focsani, Galati, Ploiesti si Târgoviste.
Filiala Electrica Muntenia Nord gestioneaza 62.558 km de linii electrice, aeriene si subterane, 208 statii de transformare.
www.electrica.ro /content.asp?id=61   (450 words)

  
 :: FDFEE Muntenia Sud ::
Electrica Muntenia Sud”-S.A., Filiala a “Electrica” S.A., are misiunea sa ofere tuturor clientilor sai, actuali si potentiali, energie electrica - baza confortului si eficientei economice - prin asigurarea unor servicii de distributie si furnizare a energiei electrice la parametrii calitativi superiori conform standardelor internationale care opereaza pe piata de energie.
Declaratia FDFEE "Electrica Muntenia Sud" SA privind POLITICA IN DOMENIUL MEDIULUI.
FDFEE „Electrica Muntenia Sud”-SA, una din cele 8 filiale ale SC ELECTRICA SA functioneaza în actuala structura din decembrie 2001, în conformitate cu Hotarârea HGR 1342/2001.
www.electrica.ro /content.asp?id=60   (425 words)

  
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In Moldavia, 150 settlements are known and in Muntenia, 100.
Moldavia and northeastern Muntenia were populated by the Slavic tribe of the Antes.
In 579, Emperor Tiberius Constantine succeeded to incite the Avars against the Sclavines in Muntenia and Baian´s great army of 60.000 equestrian warriors was transported with the help of Byzantium along the shores of the Danube to Dobrogea and from there on Byzantine ships to the northern shore, where it attacked the Slavs.
www.hungarian-history.hu /lib/dunay/dunay12.htm   (8466 words)

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