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    The RucărBran Pass, also called in English the Bran Pass (German: Törzburger Pass, Hungarian: Törcsvári-szoros), is a mountain pass in Romania, linking...
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    with highest point Baciului Peak [ro], at 2,238 m (7,343 ft) The Rucăr-Bran Pass separates the Piatra Craiului and Leaota ranges; it was marked by border...
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    (Burzenland). It lies at the northern end of the Rucăr-Bran Pass; national road DN73, which runs through the pass, connects Brașov to Pitești, 111 km (69 mi)...
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    remains found in Rucăr suggest settlement in the region even before the arrival of Roman administration. The earliest documented mention of Rucăr is in the decree...
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    Mountains (Munții Bucegi) Leaotă Mountains (Munții Leaotă) Rucăr-Bran Pass (Culoarul Rucăr-Bran) RO: Grupa Munții Făgărașului Făgăraș Mountains (Munții Făgărașului)...
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    time. The Romans returned to the limes but closed the road to the Rucăr-Bran pass starting from the modern village of Băiculeşti. The frontier system...
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    Dâmbovița River. The road crosses several tourist-stop villages, such as Rucăr, Dâmbovicioara, and Bran. Media related to DN73 at Wikimedia Commons v t e...
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    and Târgoviște, stopping at the winter camp in Stoeneşti, near the Rucăr-Bran Pass. Sinan Pasha captured the capital, Bucharest, and left there Mehmed...
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    of the Limes Transalutanus located approximately 20 km south of the Rucăr-Bran pass. It has been excavated and can be seen today. The site is administered...
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    North-East part the Leaotă Mountains. Between them there is a pass towards Brașov, the RucărBran Pass. The heights decrease, and in the center there are the...
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    century. There was a considerable traffic with Transylvania, over the RucărBran Pass, 24 km (15 mi) to the north, and with the south by a branch railway...
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    it was necessary to force the passes in the center of the Carpathian arc. Namely, the RucărBran Pass and the Buzău Pass. If that had been achieved and...
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    Foii gorge separate it from the Făgăraș Mountains. In the east, the RucărBran Pass delimits it from the Bucegi and Leaota mountains. The southern border...
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    the national road DN73 that connects Câmpulung and Brașov across the Rucăr-Bran Pass. Near Valea Mare-Pravăț, county road DN72A branches off DN73 and leads...
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    soldiers, he participated in the battles on the Prahova Valley, from the Rucăr-Bran Pass and then on the front from the Argeș Mountains to the river Olt. Wounded...
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    Dragoslavele commune in Argeș county, on the Pitești-Brașov road, near the Rucăr-Bran Pass. Monks live here, under the pastorate of the Hieromonk Cosma Juncu...
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    the bottom of the Southern Carpathians' slopes, at one end of the Rucăr-Bran Pass (the narrow valley separating the Piatra Craiului and Bucegi mountains)...
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    County, with Argeș County on the other side, in the middle of the Rucăr-Bran Pass, along European route E574. It is 42 km (26 mi) from Brașov and 26 km...
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    border near Oradea. DN73, which connects Brașov to Pitești through the RucărBran Pass. DN73B [ro], which connects Ghimbav to Cristian, 5 km (3.1 mi) to the...
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    the commune, at the foot of the Piatra Craiului Mountains, on the Rucăr-Bran Pass. To the north, the next village is Șirnea, part of Transylvania. Ciocanu...
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    in the Pass was repulsed. On 25 October, the town of Predeal itself fell. The second area targeted by the Germans was that South of the Bran Pass (German:...
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    the Limes Transalutanus in a strategic position to the north of the RucărBran Pass. It was a large fort sufficient for a milliaria or quingenaria equitata...
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    Mountain Brigade of von Morgen's I Reserve Corps seized Rucăr, south of the Bran/Törzburg Pass. Marching through roadless, rugged terrain, the Austro-Hungarians...
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    Ioan Pușcariu (category People from Bran, Brașov)
    by Józef Bem's troops in March. At that point, he fled across the Rucăr-Bran Pass into Wallachia, remaining until the revolution was crushed. Pușcariu...
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  • 1965, nr. 9–10, pp. 875–900 Ioan Răuțescu, Bisericile din Rucăr (Muscel) [The churches of Rucăr (Muscel)], in Romanian, „Glasul Bisericii" magazine, 1961...
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    1960s, included the commune, alongside areas of Valea Mare, Lerești, and Rucăr. By 1977, Mioarele was also home to a Centrocoop supermarket and consumers'...
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  • Rucăr Sinaia Băile Olăneşti Băile Govora Călimăneşti Cheile Olteţului Ocnele Mari Ponoarele Rânca Vidra Voineasa Albac Arieșeni Băișoara Bâlea Bran Geoagiu...
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