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  www.totaltourism.ro - Totul despre Judetul Harghita   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
County situated in the central northern part of Romania, on the upper courses of Olt, Mures, Tarnava Mare and Tarnava Mica rivers..
The climate is temperate continental, with some local particularities determined by the alternation of mountain massifs with the string of intermountain depressions and by the approximate perpendicular orientation of the relief units against the atmospheric circulation of the air from the W. Average temperature: 4-5°C
Olt's defile of Tusnad and Mures' defiles of Toplita—Deda are as picturesque as Bicaz gorges.
www.totaltourism.ro /harghita.php?language=en   (969 words)

  
 Vila Flora
The geographical setting of the town is on the Tarnava Mare river, at an average altitude of 320.5 m and at a distance of 56 km-s north-west of Sibiu.
At the entrance of the Tarnava river into the town the altitude is of 295.3 m, and at the exit the altitude decreases to 290 m.
The climate characteristics are determined by a number of elements such as the geographical setting of the town in a plateau area and in the corridor of the Tarnava Mare river.
www.vila-flora.ro /mediasen.html   (580 words)

  
 Székelyudvarhely - Szabadidokalauz
Székelyudvarhely (Odorheiu Secuiesc) is situated in the east-southeast of the transilvanian pelvic girdle, in the east side of Küküllő (Târnava) nipple, on the overhead of Nagyküküllő (Târnava Mare) river.
It’s delimited with Szarkakő (Piatra Tărcii), Nagyoldal (Dealu Mare), Csicser and Budvár hills.
The city was build without any town-planning scheme, the body of town infiltrated between the 4 townships and 3 villages from inshore of Nagyküküllő (Târnava Mare) river.
www.szabadidokalauz.ro /udvarhely_en.php   (446 words)

  
 DraculaPark.ro -- Sighisoara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Sighisoara city is located at the south fringe of Mures county, in Podisul Tarnavelor (the area of Tarnava Mare river) and it spans both sides of Tarnava Mare, located at 123 de km from the river's source at the end of Saes brook.
Under topographic raport, Sighisoara spans in a point of Tarnava Mare Valley, where it shrinks in a form of gorge cut in a system of terraces, of different heights, modelated in sub tuff strates of pontian sandstones.
This micro-morphology provides the city of Sighisoara with an important role in the Tarnava Mare's gorge, a role also manifested in the historic past of city.
website.lineone.net /~farrago2/rlcsite/specnew/vlad/dractour/dpsigis.htm   (138 words)

  
 Places to Visit > Rivers > Tarnava   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It is formed by the confluence of the rivers Târnava Mare ("Big Târnava") and Târnava Mică ("Small Târnava") in the city Blaj.
The source of the Târnava Mare is in the Eastern
The Transylvanian Saxons know the Târnava in German as the Kokel, the Târnava Mare as the Große Kokel, and the Târnava Mică as the Kleine Kokel.
www.earomania.com /places_to_visit/rivers/tarnava.html   (198 words)

  
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The mountainous area is extended in the S part of the county occupying 30 % of the surface.
The Olt River, the biggest river in the county drains the S part of this one collecting on its left all the rivers that descend from Fagaras Mountains: Arpas, Cartisoara, Rau Mare, Avrig, Moasa, and on its right the waters of Cibin River and Paraul Nou River.
The N and NW part of the county is crossed by Tarnava Mare (belonging to the Mures basin), from NV to SV on a distance of 72 km.
www.totaltourism.ro /trad_english/descrieri/sibiu.php   (852 words)

  
 SIGHISOARA
Situated on the superior plateau of the same hill (Dealul Turcului - Wietenberg), the fortified Dacian settlement dated from the Latene period (the 2nd century b.C. - the 2nd century a.C.) was the most powerful Dacian fortification on the middle course of the Tarnava Mare river.
Out of the town nuclei that appeared at the end of the 13th century, the one situated at the confluence of the Saes and Tarnava Mare Rivers, was to give birth to one of the most specific settlements of the Transylvanian Medieval Age, Sighisoara, the old city of Schassburg.
On the place where the Russian general fell the Scariatin monument was raised in 1852, and in Albesti, in 1897, a symbolical monument was also raised: an obelisk representing an eagle with a sword in its beak, and a little museum dedicated to the poet Petofi Sandor.
www.ici.ro /romania/en/orase/sg_1.html   (1192 words)

  
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THE TOWN MEDIAS It is the second municipality in the district of Sibiu, the Romanian capital of the methane gas.
The geographic location of the town is on Tarnava Mare river, at a middle altitude of 320.5 m and at 56 km Nort-West from Sibiu.
The colonization of the Tarnava Mare area with Germanic population seems to be late for more than a century compared to the localities belonging to the Province of Sibiu.
nats-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de /pub/MSW/EnglischeKorpus/medias1.txt   (576 words)

  
 Sighisoara
Counting 36,486 inhabitants (1995), Sighisoara lies in the valley of the Tarnava Mare river.
From the beginning of the 20th century are recorded journals in the Romanian language like the Tarnava’s Voice or the Awakening of the Tarnava.
The Church of the Former Leper Hospital** (Stefan cel Mare St.) is a small Gothic edifice with an outer pulpit where from the Gospel was preached to the sick.
www.rotravel.com /romania/transylvania/sighi.php   (3172 words)

  
 History
After the roman conquest, one of the well-know Roman roads was build on the Tarnava Mare valley, leading to Apulum (today's Alba Iulia).
The colonization of Tarnava Mare area with German population seems to have taken place more than a century later than that of Sibiu.
Until the Saxon colonists were brought here - in the last years of Bela 4th’s reign (1235-1270), the place of the settlement was a Romanian village which first appears in documents in the year 1267.
www.primariamedias.ro /index.php?id=486   (965 words)

  
 Odorhei
From natural geographic point of view, the river valley under Odorheiu Secuiesc can already be regarded as the middle section of the River Tarnava Mare.
The Tarnava Mare valley gives the landscape a particular basin-like character.
The Tarnava Mare is the main river of Odorhei Seat.
www.cchr.ro /jud/turism/eng/1/13/1308udvarhely.html   (239 words)

  
 Explore :: Factsheet
This dates were for lead, and for cadmium there was a record in 1979 of 276,6 times the normal limit.
There test were ellaborated from the river Tarnava Mare, near the town Copsa Mica.
The polluted zone covers the hole town Copsa Mica, but it extend itself trough the vale of the river Tarnava Mare beetwen several towns, affecting several other towns.
www.youngmdg.com /ymdg2/explore_7romania.htm   (911 words)

  
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Between 1572 and 1867, the village was the ecclesiastic center of the Saxon bishops, leading to the development of the locality and the reinforcement of the fortified castle.
In 1704 the castle was plundered and occupied.
Piata Mare is surrounded by the renovated premises of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century merchants.
www.birdingdelta.com /sites.html   (2215 words)

  
 Sub Cetate (Zeteváralja)
The most significant thing in the village is the barrage created at the meeting point of the River Tarnava Mare and the Sicasau Stream and its water-basin.
The village is situated on the montaneous section of the Tarnava Mare, next to the place where the Ivo Stream flows into it, along the no. 138 (bitumenized) county road, 6 km far from Zetea, the community centre, 12 km from Bradesti and 19 km from Odorheiu-Secuiesc.
This is the only artificial lake of the upper section of the Tarnava Mare.
www.cchr.ro /jud/turism/eng/3/31/31zetevaralja.html   (208 words)

  
 Viticulture - Regions
Region situated to the North of Sibiu, on the cool tray of Transylvania between the two rivers of the region, Târnava Mica and Târnava Mare.
This region enjoys a cool microclimate due to the high altitude and to the humidity provided by the rivers, which allows it to produce cool, fruity white wines and with a very good acidity.
In the wine zone of Pietroasele, in the East of the Dealu Mare region, where the soil is chalky and stony, we produce white wines descended of Tamâioasa and Grasa.
www.transylvania.be /new/viticulture/regions_eng.html   (1042 words)

  
 The Presentation of County Harghita
In the central part are situated the volcanic chains of the mountains Gurghiu (with the top Prisca, 1777 m), Central Harghita Mountains (with the top Harghita Madaras, 1801 m) and South Harghita Mountains (with the top Cucu, 1558 m).
The hydrographic network consists in three main basins: Mures, towards west (with Târnava Mare and Târnava Mica), Olt towards South (with Homorodul Mare and Homorodul Mic) and Bistrita and Trotus towards east.
In the county there is the only lake of the country, which has volcanic origin, St. Anne's Lake, placed in the picturesque area of the volcanic crater Ciomatu with a height of 950 m.
www.fao.org /Regional/SEUR/ClujWS/hargita.htm   (6441 words)

  
 Medias
Medias is an ancient settlement, located on the Tarnava Mare river.
Strong enclosure walls were raised around it; they strengthen the defensive purpose of the construction.
Darlos village, on the right side of the Tarnava mare river, very close to the town, is known because there it is the birth-place of a salient Romanian literary critic, Ilarie Chendi (1871-1913).
www.rotravel.com /romania/transylvania/medias.php   (1895 words)

  
 Water
On the east the central Transylvanian Basin is separated from the Plain of Moldavia by the Carpathian Mountains and on the south separated from Walachian Plain by Transylvanian Alps.
Ecological disaster struck Romania in January 2000 when a tailing dam burst at a Romanian-Australian owened gold mine in Baia Mare, prompting 100,000 cubic metres of cyanide-contaminated water to spill into Tisa and Danube rivers and subsequently kill thousands of fish and birds in Romania.
Important hydroelectric stations were built on the Danube, Arges, Bistrita, Mare, Olt, Buzau, and Prut rivers (see fig.
www.angelfire.com /planet/romania0/romaniandoc.htm   (10180 words)

  
 PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE STATUS OF THE BROWN BEAR
A total of 74 animals was approved for the 2003-2004 season; 30% of the remaining population in the Harghita district.
In the case of the shooting quota approved for the Tarnava Mare Hunting Association (10 individuals) this also exceeds the loss which could be tolerated to maintain a sustainable population.
AVES population estimates would permit the shooting of only 1 2 individuals for the Tarnava Mare Association Odorhei and 7 8 animals for the Miercurea Ciuc Forestry Department.
www.proact-campaigns.net /localcampaigns/id27.html   (1238 words)

  
 General description of Harghita county
The bulk of the above mentioned mountain ranges is of volcanic origin, except one, the Hasmasu Mare which hides the fossiles of the ancient sea.
The Olt, the Homorodu Mare and Mic flow in the south, the Bistrita, Bicazu Mic and Mare and the Trotus in the east, the Mures and the Tarnava Mare and Mica flow in the west of the county.
Only the region of sources of these rivers can be found in Harghita county.
www.cchr.ro /jud/turism/eng/1/11/11hargita.html   (652 words)

  
 Romanian Daily » Environment » The Cost of Entry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Sometra officials estimate that they would have to spend about $20 million in order to meet EU environmental-protection standards.
Among other tasks, the factory must cut emissions of sulfur dioxide, lead, and cadmium, and reduce the pollution that goes into the Tarnava Mare River, which crosses the town.
Pollution has decreased in the town and river in recent years, according to a report done by the regional governmental agency for environmental protection, but the Copsa Mica factory remains the main source of pollution in the county and one of the largest polluters in Romania.
romaniandaily.ro /cat21387/art9745238135   (1339 words)

  
 Correction for: [itemname]
The Tarnava Mare Watershed Monitoring Project is a project started by the Eastern Nazarene College Environmental Science Program.
The goal of the project is to increase awareness of environmental issues throughout the watershed of the Tarnava Mare River, located in the region of Transylvania in central Romania.
In particular, this project seeks to address those issues that pertain to conservation and protection of land and water resources.
envirolink.org /incorrect-info.html?itemid=4032&itemname=Tarnava+...   (107 words)

  
 Seminar on Integrated Water Management in the Tisza River Basin - Final Report
Rehabilitation of drinking water and waste-water facilities in Satu Mare City
Rehabilitation and extension of drinking water and sewerage regional networks, and local waste water treatment plants in Tarnava Mare River Basin (Counties Harghita, Mures and Sibiu).
A common project for many localities in the Tarnava Mare River Basin for the rehabilitation and extension of drinking water and sewerage regional networks and local waste treatment plants.
www.fao.org /regional/seur/Tisza/tisza13_en.htm   (578 words)

  
 Thomas's Glassware Tour --- Sighișoara (RO)
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Sighișoara is situated at an altitude of 350–429 m at the Târnava Mare (Große Kokel) in the Mureș; county (capital Târgu Mureș;) of the Transilvania region of central Romania.
It has a population (2004) of about 32,000.
www.thomasgraz.net /glass/gl-1470.htm   (583 words)

  
 Russian Journal of Herpetology
THE BREEDING BIOLOGY OF THE FROG Rana dalmatina IN TÂRNAVA MARE VALLEY, ROMANIA
Despite this, only few studies refer on the biology of this species.
GUIDE TO THE REPTILES OF THE EASTERN PALEARCTIC Nikolai N. czerbak (technically edited by M. Golubev) Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing Co., 2003, xvii + 260 p.
www.folium.ru /en/journals/rjh/contents/2003/2003-03.htm   (1230 words)

  
 Marah International Home Page
The club is now training a new monitoring team in the nearby town of Medias.
Marah International will continue to work with this Ecology Club to expand their monitoring network in the Tarnava Mare River basin.
There is currently an interest in starting an Ecology Club in Oradea, Romania, and it is hoped that this club will be started sometime in the year 2000.
www.marah.org /programs.html   (1542 words)

  
 BW Online | November 19, 2001 | The New Curse of Dracula?
Indeed, Dracula Park was first announced this spring, with Sighisoara selected from five possible sites in July, and building set to start just eight months later.
The Tarnava Mare Environmental Partnership, a local group dedicated to restoring the Tarnava Mare River watershed, fears that if a million tourists do come, the vast majority will do so during four summer months, with up to 3,300 cars pumping out 8.3 tons of carbon dioxide per day.
Crowds will also pollute the local water supply and produce an estimated 21 tons of garbage daily, which the local waste-management system won't be able to handle, says partnership Vice-President Dumitru Benone Mehedin.
www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/01_47/b3758126.htm   (1529 words)

  
 People and Pollutiion of Copsa Mica
Between 1993 and 2001, concentrations of all major pollutants decreased significantly, but Copsa Mica remains extremely polluted.
In the Tarnava Mare river, downstream from Copsa Mica, “even with the considerable decrease that was noticed over the last decade, the lead concentration remains more than twice the maximum admitted value (MAV), zinc almost ten times, cadmium is close to MAV, and copper is about half of MAV.”
Sheep once fl with soot are white again, and houses reveal their true color hidden by Carbosin’s emissions, but insidious pollutants are expected to contaminate the soil and food chain for thirty years to come.
www.fragilecologies.com /july22_05.html   (1616 words)

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