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  Olt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Olt is a county (judeţ) in the South of Romania, in the South of Wallachia region, in Oltenia region, with the capital city at Slatina (population: 87,608).
The county lies in a flat area, the Western part of the Romanian Plain crossed by rivers from North to South, the main one - the Olt River giving the county's name.
Fishing on the Danube and on the Olt River.
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 Oltenia - IBWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Taking its name from the river "Olt," this hook-shaped country is part of the Romanian Federation.
Other major rivers includes the Mureş and the Olt, two rivers that are both having a source in the eastern part of the country, then flowing through Hungary before passing through Oltenia again, Mureş on it's way west into Hungary and Olt on it's way south into Muntenia.
Rivers like the Jiu, the Argeş, the Dâmboviţa and the Ialomiţa all have their sources in the central part of the country and flows south into Muntenia.
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 Olt Defile --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The sub-Carpathian Mountains lie in the northern portion of the county, overlooking settlement areas in intermontane valleys and lowlands.
The eastward-flowing Danube River and the southeastward-flowing Olt and Vedea rivers drain the area.
river, rising close to the headwaters of the Mures River, in the Ciuc Depression, east central Romania, at an elevation of 5,900 feet (1,800 m); it flows generally southwest and then south for 420 miles (670 km), entering the Danube at Turnu-Magurele.
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 www.totaltourism.ro - Totul despre Judetul Olt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
County situated in the SE part of Romania, on the lower course of the Olt river, on the left bank of the Danube.
The Danube water meadow and the Olt water meadow are distinct units of relief.
The county is also crossed by the lower course of the Olt River and the superior courses of Calmatui and Vedea River.
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 Olt River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Olt (Romanian and Hungarian; in German: Alt; in Latin: Aluta) is a river in Romania.
The river was known as Alutus or Aluta in Roman antiquity.
The cities Miercurea Ciuc, Sfântu Gheorghe, Făgăraş, Râmnicu Vâlcea and Slatina lie on the river Olt.
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 OLT County   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The inhabitants of Olt county participated in 1821 in the revolution led by Tudor Vladimirescu and in the 1848 revolution.
Situated in southern Romania, on the lower Olt, the county belonged in the category of counties bordering on the river Danube.
The capital of Olt county is the municipality of Slatina, a city situated in the centre-north, left of the river Olt.
www.clubromania.ro /romania/counties/olt/index.htm   (776 words)

  
 Olt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Administrative map of Romania with Olt county highlighted
Olt is a Romanian county (Judeţ) in the Wallachia region, with the capital city at Slatina (population: 87,608).
The county is named after the Olt River.
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 Danube articles and news from Start Learning Now   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In 1999, transport on the river was made difficult by the NATO bombing of 3 bridges in Serbia and Montenegro.
Since the Rhine is the only river rising in the Alps mountains which flows north towards the North Sea, an invisible line divides large parts of southern Germany, which is sometimes referred to as the European Watershed.
Hungarian Historical images of Orsova and Danube river Category:Rivers of Slovakia Category:Rivers of Hungary Category:Rivers of Croatia Category:Rivers of Serbia and Montenegro Category:Rivers of Bulgaria Category:Rivers of Romania Category:Geography of Serbia Category:Geography of Vojvodina Category:Bačka Category:Banat Category:Srem/Srijem Category:Rivers of Germany Category:Rivers of Austria als:Donau ast:Danubiu nds:Donau
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 Wallachia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Wallachia was situated north of the Danube and south of the Carpathian Mountains.
It is divided by the river Olt into two regions: the eastern part is Muntenia and the western part is Oltenia.
In 1859, Wallachia voted to unite with Moldavia to form the state of Romania, under the rule of Alexander John Cuza.
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 ブリタニカ・ジャパン - Encyclopædia Britannica A-Z Browse
The eastward-flowing Danube River and the southeastward-flowing Olt and Vedea rivers drain the area.
river, rising close to the headwaters of the Mures River, in the Ciuc Depression, east central Romania, at an elevation of 5,900 feet (1,800 m); it flows generally southwest and then south for 420 miles (670 km), entering the Danube at Turnu-Magurele.
Omaha is situated in the eastern part of the state and on the west bank of the Missouri River, opposite Council Bluffs, Iowa.
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 Eurostat
As of 31 December 2000, the administrative organisation of the region was as follows: five counties (Dolj, Gorj, Mehedinti, Olt, Vâlcea), 22 towns and with 10 municipalities, 387 communes and 2 080 villages.
The South-West Region is crossed by several rivers, amongst which the most important are the Olt and Jiu rivers, running from north to south, and the Danube River, from west to east.
There is a chain of electric plants along the Olt and Lotru rivers, two hydroelectric plants on the Danube and the hydroelectric complex on the Cerna-Motru-Tismana rivers.
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 The Fagaras Mountains - Geographical Research - The Hydrographic Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The rivers have a permanent flow which is quite large and keeps growing from May until July when the snows melt and the rains are heavier.
The Olt river gathers its waters from the northern slopes (Sinca, Berivoi, Ucea), western and south-western slopes (Topolog) and the Arges from the southern ones (The Valsan, The Raul Doamnei, The Dambovita).
Having parallel courses, with deep and narrow valleys, steep slopes, the water density in the north exceeds 0.8 Km on square kilometer.
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 River of the Princess
She went up the Olt river, the Gin, the Buzau, the Siret, all the rivers both great and small.
She was wandering for a second time up the banks of the Argesch, and was just about to turn sadly back, when she caught sight of the mouth of a little stream that she had not noticed before.
When she awoke the next morning, the river was no longer brown, but clear and blue as the air, and at the bottom of the water something shone and glittered as the sunbeams themselves.
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 CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Wallachia is situated north of the Danube (and of 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.
The division line between the two is the Olt River.
The Roman limes was initially built along the Olt River (119), before being moved slightly to the east in the 2nd century — during which time it stretched from the Danube up to Rucăr in the Carpathians.
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 The Romans in Dacia
40 Km to the East of the Olt river.
The abandon of the Province of Dacia didn’t mean a cut of the relationships of the Romans with the teritories from the northern shore of the Lower Danube.
The Romans maintained a military presence on the Northern shore of the river, to Dierna, Drobeta, Sucidava (Celei) or Barbosi.
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 SindRomania - Baile Olanesti
In north-eastern Oltenia, in the Valcea county, at 18 km northwest of Ramnicu Valcea, Olanesti lies in a narrow valley, at the foot of Capatanei Massif in Southern Carpathians, at a 450 m altitude.
The town is crossed by a crystal-clear brook, Olanesti, which is a tributary of the Olt river.
The hills around the resort are covered with oak and beech forests, which, combined with a continental climate of cool, sunny summers and mild winters proper to this area, yield a highly ozonized and pure air to breathe.
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River on the north, the Tisza River on the west, the Danube River on the south, to about 40 km east of Timis!oara (Temesva%r).
Navigation privileges along the Danube River and on the Black Sea were granted with severe limits in 1718 to the Russians and Austrians and without limits in 1774 (to the Russians) and 1784 (to the Austrians).
The region between the Pruth and Dniester Rivers was taken by Moldavia in the fourteenth century.
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 Romania - Topography
In the southern parts of the country, the lower Danube Plain is divided by the Olt River; east of the river lies the Romanian Plain, and to the west is the Oltenian or Western Plain.
Virtually all of the country's rivers are tributaries of the Danube, either directly or indirectly, and by the time the Danube's course ends in the Black Sea, they account for nearly 40 percent of the total discharge.
Romania's rivers primarily flow east, west, and south from the central crown of the Carpathians.
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 olt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Judetul Olt este situat in partea sudica a tarii de- a lungul raului cu acelasi nume.
The main hydrographic axis is the Olt River, which is mostly arranged to produce electric power.
The relief consists in three main parts: the Cotmeana Plateau, to the North; the Boianu Plain, in center; the terraces of the Danube River, to the South.
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The depth of the halocline is determined by the Zrmanja river inflow.
Using these data, supplemented by literature revision, it is concluded that these two genera cannot be unambiguously defined on the basis of the valve shape, the curvature of the raphe valve, the extent of the striae, and the position of the raphe fissures.
Besides, the whole river system within the ecoregion shall be differentiated according to the size of the rivers, based on the catchment area, and considering the bedrock geology of the river valleys.
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 Olt River --  Encyclopædia Britannica
It lies north of the Fagaras Mountains, a range of the Transylvanian Alps (Southern Carpathian Mountains), on the Olt River.
Rivers are also a principal natural force in shaping land surfaces.
The principal tributary of the Paraná River, the Paraguay is the fifth largest river in South America.
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 AER
The Olt River crosses this park from north to south.
The Olt Corridor is important for birds migration, from Central Europe to Aegean Sea.
From the north to the south the entire park is crossed by river Olt narrow valley, featuring impressive walls of rock.
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 Transylvania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Transylvanian plateau, 300 to 500 metres (1,000-1,600 feet) high, is drained by the Mureş, Someş, Criş, and Olt rivers, as well as other tributaries of the Danube.
In December 1918 the Romanian army was stationed on the Mureş river, but crossed the demarcation zone and advanced up to Cluj and then up to Sighetu Marmatiei, after making a request to the Powers of Versailles on the grounds of protecting the Romanians in Transylvania.
A Romanian counter-offensive pushed forward to reach - and halt at - the Tisza River in May. A new Hungarian offensive in July penetrated 60 km into Romanian lines before a further Romanian counter-offensive led to the occupation of the Hungarian capital Budapest in August, putting an end to the Hungarian Soviet Republic.
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 Mircea cel Batran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Wallachia's borders moved constantly throughout history, but during his ruling, Wallachia controlled the largest area in the medieval times: from river Olt in the north to Danube in the south, and from Danube's Iron Gates in the west to the Black Sea in the east.
Mircea strengthened the power of the state and organized the different high offices, promoted economic development, increased the state's revenue, and minted silver money that enjoyed wide circulation not only inside the country but also in the neighbouring countries.
His interventions in support of the Christian peoples south of the Danube who were fighting against the Turks brought him into conflict with the Ottoman Empire.
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 olt | | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
OLT is a three letter initialism that may stand for:Ostfriesische Lufttransport, an airline based in Emden in Germany.Optical Line Termination, the service provider end point of Passive optical network.
Olt ist der Name:eines Bezirkes in Rumänien, siehe: Olt (Bezirk)eines Flusses in Rumänien, siehe: Olt (Fluss)OLT ist eine Abkürzung für:Ostfriesische Lufttransport GmbHOlt ist eine Abkürzung für:den militärischen Dienstgrad Oberleutnant
Olt (district), een district van RoemeniëOlt (rivier), een rivier in Roemenië
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 Consiliul Judetean Olt - History
The population from the Olt also participated to the events priori to the Union of Romanian Provinces, made at 24th January 1859.
The Olt and Romanati counties, due to their strategic position, contributed hard to sustain the human and economical effort imposed to the country by the campaign of 1877-1878.
The population of the Olt county supported cultural and political The Memorandum Movement, by creating in January 1891 The League for Cultural Unity of all Romanians at Slatina,   the Olt county, the first provincial department from Romania, with the headquarters in Radu Greceanu gymnasium.
www.cjolt.ro /cjolt/servlet/portal?action=ContentAction&actEvent=showRubric&id=history   (581 words)

  
 Bats
OLT is working with Division of Wildlife, Bat Conservation International, The Colorado Bureau of Mine Reclamation and other organizations to continue improvement to trails and signage for the location.
At the same time, procedures are being developed to prevent too many visitors which could inadvertently harm the colony.
The bats begin emerging from the mine in the evening, sometimes shortly after sunset and at other times an hour before sunset.
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