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Historical region of Romania in Oradea
Photo: Razvan Antonescu from Cluj Napoca, Romania, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Crișana is a region in western Romania. It consists of the counties of Arad, Bihor and Sălaj.
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Oradea is one of the few undiscovered gems of Romania's tourism. Despite being one of the largest and most important cities in Transylvania, and having a high degree of administrative, economic and commercial importance, it is often overlooked by tourists in favor of other Transylvanian cities such as Brasov, Sibiu, Sighisoara or Cluj-Napoca.
Arad is an industrial city of some 160,000 population (2011) at the western edge of Romania, close to the border with Hungary. It is a regional transportation hub and a convenient place to stop over on a journey between those countries.
Zalău is a city of 56,000 people (2011) in Crișana, Romania. It has at least two dozen monuments and buildings of historical importance in the city.
Carei (Hungarian:Nagykároly) is a small town in the Crişana region of Romania, near the Hungarian border at the northwest. Traditionally the more famous and more urbanized nearby sister town of Mátészalka and capital of the former Szatmár county, which contained cities like Mátészalka, Nyírbátor and Satu Mare (Szatmárnémeti), its history became significantly different in the 20th century, after it became part of Romania and received influences from Romanian culture and during communist times, experienced the heavy-industry oriented hard-line Ceauşescu-government, rather than the more liberal service-oriented Kádár-government of Hungary.
Ciucea is a small town in Crișana, near Oradea, Romania.
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Culture & historyThe Austro-Hungarian Empire (German: Österreichisch-Ungarische Monarchie, Hungarian: Osztrák–Magyar Monarchia) or Austria-Hungary was a constitutional dual monarchy that existed from 1867 to 1918.
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Culture & historyThe Roman Empire was the greatest ancient empire of Europe. At the height of its power in 117 AD, it ruled over considerable parts of Europe, as well as much of North Africa and the Middle East.
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Culture & historyFrom the end of World War II in 1945 until the Eastern European revolutions of 1989, Europe was divided between two political blocs: east and west. The border was figuratively called the Iron Curtain.
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Travel tipsThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (Russian: Союз Советских Социалистических Республик (СССР)), or Soviet Union, emerged as the successor state to the Russian Empire in 1917, and was dissolved in 1991.
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