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    Gherla (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈɡerla]; Hungarian: Szamosújvár; German: Neuschloss) is a municipality in Cluj County, Romania (in the historical region...
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    The Gherla Synagogue is a synagogue, located at 46 Crisan Street, in Gherla (Hungarian: Szamosújvár) in the Cluj County of northern Romania. Designed...
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    Gherla Prison is a penitentiary located in the Romanian city of Gherla (Hungarian: Szamosújvár), in Cluj County. The prison dates from 1785; it is infamous...
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    Bobâlna 28, Gherla, Romania. The construction of the cathedral was completed in 1906. The church was the cathedral of the Eparchy of Gherla until 1930...
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  • The castra of Gherla was a fort in the Roman province of Dacia. An inscription unearthed at the site proves that the stone fortress was erected in 143...
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  • via communist propaganda – or violent, as it was done at the Pitești and Gherla prisons. Philosopher Mircea Stănescu claimed that the theoretical foundation...
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    found] Examples of Old Persian have been found in what is now Iran, Romania (Gherla), Armenia, Bahrain, Iraq, Turkey, and Egypt. Old Persian is one of the earliest...
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    books), Tipografia "Aurora" A. Todoran, Gherla, 1894, OCLC 1016473879 Viaţa sânţilor (The life of the saints), Gherla, Tipografia Diecesană, 1897, OCLC 1043310920...
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    Ordinariate for Catholics of Armenian Rite in Romania. It is located in Gherla, Cluj County. During the eighteenth century, Armenian emigrants from Moldavia...
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    well as a clay tablet containing an Old Persian cuneiform of Darius from Gherla, Romania (Harmatta) and a letter from Darius to Gadates, preserved in a...
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    The Romanian Catholic Eparchy of Cluj-Gherla is an eparchy (equivalent to a diocese in the Latin Church) of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church which is...
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    Eparchy of Lugoj from 1903 to 1911 and the Romanian Catholic Eparchy of Gherla, Armenopoli, Szamos-Ujvár from 1911 to 1916. Born in Neumarkt am Mieresch...
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  • even allowed to found their own trading towns, the most notable one being Gherla, called Armenopolis/Armenierstadt or Hayakaghak (Հայաքաղաք). The second...
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  • Catholics of Romania (Romanian: Ordinariatul Armeano-Catolic), based in Gherla, is an ordinariate for Eastern Catholic faithful that is part of the Armenian...
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    He was the first bishop of the new created Romanian Catholic Eparchy of Gherla, Armenopoli, Szamos-Ujvár from 1854 to 1863. Born in Mălădia, Sălaj, Austrian...
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    numerous people died. Some of the most notorious prisons included Sighet, Gherla, Pitești, and Aiud, and forced labor camps were set up at lead mines and...
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  • have been discovered in present-day Iran, Armenia, Egypt, Iraq, Romania (Gherla), and Turkey. The oldest attested text written in Old Persian is from the...
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  • Romanian Bastille": housed communist political prisoners and others Gherla Prison 1785 Gherla Maximum security prison Jilava Prison Converted from a fort in...
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    was a Romanian Greek-Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Cluj-Gherla. Pope Paul VI elevated Hossu to the rank of cardinal in pectore, that is...
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  • Oxendius) (1655 - 1715) was the first bishop of the Armenian Catholic Church of Gherla. Oxendius Vărzărescu was born in 1655 in Botoșani. He was an Armenian Apostolic...
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    the Someșul Mic flows east and north through Cluj-Napoca, Apahida and Gherla, until it meets the Someșul Mare in Dej. The following towns and villages...
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    Greek-Catholic eparchies in Romania (Eparchy of Oradea Mare, Eparchy of Cluj-Gherla, Eparchy of Lugoj, Eparchy of Maramureș, and Eparchy of Saint Basil the...
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    a priest on 10 September 1995 for the Romanian Catholic Eparchy of Cluj-Gherla. From 1995 until 2000 he served as an educational director, and subsequently...
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    Pitești 65 / 0 will connect A3 to A1 DEx4 Someș Express Turda – Cluj-Napoca – Gherla – Dej – Baia Mare – Halmeu border-crossing to Ukraine 320 / 0 will connect...
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    Cyrill Demian (category People from Gherla)
    Cyrill Demian (Arm. Կյուրեղ Դեմյան) (b.1772, Gherla, Transylvania – d.1849, Vienna) was an Austrian inventor of Armenian-Romanian origin, who made his...
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  • Examples of Old Persian have been found in what is now Iran, Romania (Gherla), Armenia, Bahrain, Iraq, Turkey and Egypt, with the most important attestation...
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    Church to serve as the Cathedral of the Cluj-Gherla Eparchy, after the move of the Eparchy's center from Gherla to Cluj. The first church of the Minorites...
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    hand with their acculturation under Hungarian influence and policies (see Gherla and Dumbrăveni). Their descendants are part of the Armenian community of...
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    Doboka county (its center was Doboka/Dăbâca at first, later Szamosújvár/Gherla) and the eastern part of the Kővárvidék/Chioar district were united. In...
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  • Prison Wronki Prison Miguel Castro Castro prison Aiud Prison, Aiud Gherla Prison, Gherla Pitești Prison, Pitești Butyrka Prison, Moscow Corrective colony...
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