REŞIŢA

rĕˈshētsä, Hung. Resiczabánya, city (1990 pop. 110,519), W Romania, in the Banat, in the western foothills of the Transylvanian Alps. It is a railroad terminus and a leading Romanian mining and industrial center. The production of iron and steel, engines, and metal goods are the leading industries. Coal and manganese are mined nearby. Reşiţa was known in Roman times as a mining center for precious metals. The modern city was founded in 1768, when the first foundry was established.

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books on: ReSiTa  - 22 results

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The Eastern European Economy in Context: Communism and the Transition
Book by David Turnock; Routledge, 1997
Subjects: Europe, Eastern--Economic Conditions--1989-, Post-Communism--Europe, Eastern
...demonstrations in the heavy industrial centre of Resita in 1994 where many people have been forced...government eventually agreed to write off the Resita engineering companys debts. However, Resita is not unique. There are many cases of decline...
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Captive Rumania: A Decade of Soviet Rule
Book by Romulus Boila, Alexandre Cretzianu; Praeger, 1956
Subjects: Romania
...of ownership. Capacity of Rumanian Iron and Steel Plants * Resita Hunedoara Titan Nadrag- Calan Others Total Iron ore own mines...local mining, ore output is insufficient to cover Reshitzas Resita requirements. Since Hunedoara supplies are also tight, considerable...
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Eastern Europe: An Historical Geography, 1815-1945
Book by David Turnock; Routledge, 1989
Subjects: Europe, Eastern--Historical Geography
...that went on to become an important armaments manufacturer. Figure 2.2 : The industrial complex of Resiczabanya (Resita) Source: I. Pasarica (1935) Monografia Uzinelor de Fier si Domeniilor din Resita (Bucharest: Imp. Centrala).
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War and Economy in the Third Reich
Book by R. J. Overy; Clarendon Press, 1995
Subjects: Germany--Economic Conditions--1918-1945, Germany--Economic Policy--1918-1933, Germany--Economic Policy--1933-1945
...shareholder in both the Resi a Uzinele de Fier si Domeniile din Resita Societate Anonimi iron and steel complex and the Copsa Mic si...24 January 1940 giving the Reichswerke an 8 per cent stake in Resita soon raised to 13 per cent and a 19 per cent stake in Copsa...
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The Establishment of Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe, 1944-1949
Book by Norman Naimark, Leonid Gibianskii; Westview Press, 1997
Subjects: Communism--Europe, Eastern--History--20th Century--Historiography, Europe, Eastern--History--1945-1989--Historiography
...and suggested amending the Yugoslav-Romanian border in the area of Resita in order to acquire the iron and steel works there. "If it is impossible to incorporate Resita into Yugoslavia, it would be crucial for Yugoslavia to obtain iron from...
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newspaper articles on: ReSiTa  - 2 results

 
 
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A DEAD FUNNY WAY TO GO!; Death Comes to Us All - but at Least We'd like to Go with a Little Dignity. That's Not Always the Case. the Fortean Times, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to Bizarre Goings-On, Have Compiled a Book Called the Comedian Who Choked to Death on A Pie about the World's Most Unusual Deaths. People Reporter JOHN EARLS Took a Look. Here's a Round-Up of the Not-Always-So- Grim Reaper's Greatest Hits
Newspaper article by John Earls; The People (London, England), January 12, 1997
...AFTER catching her trapeze artist husband in bed with another woman, Marian Paler laughed in a crucial part of his next show in Resita, Romania. He fell to his death. A PEEPING Tom fell 100ft from a clifftop above a nudist beach in Naples in 1984, when a...
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Government Facilities Up in Pagadian
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, August 21, 2011
Subjects: Local government
...residents so they would no longer travel to the town proper to purchase needed medicines. The project, which carries the slogan "Resita Mo, Gamot Ko," was initiated by Ipil Sangguniang Bayan (SB) Member Edna Diaz who explained that the traveling botica...


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encyclopedia articles on: ReSiTa  - 2 results

 
 
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ReŞiŢa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
RESITA re shetsa, Hung. Resiczabanya, city (1990 pop. 110,519), W Romania...metal goods are the leading industries. Coal and manganese are mined nearby. Resita was known in Roman times as a mining center for precious metals. The modern...
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Romania
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...materials, and chemicals. The countrys main industrial centers are Arad , Bucharest, Brasov , Hunedoara , Iasi , Oradea , Resita , and Timisoara . Braila , Galati , and Giurgiu are the main Danubian ports; Constanta is the chief Black Sea port. Galati...


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