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The American online magazine InformationWeek reports that much of the software/IT activity in Romania is taking place in Cluj-Napoca, which is quickly becoming Romania's technopolis. [156] Nokia invested 200 million euros in a mobile telephone factory near Cluj-Napoca; [157] this began production in February 2008 and closed in December 2011. [158]
The history of Cluj-Napoca covers the time from the Roman conquest of Dacia, when a Roman settlement named Napoca existed on the location of the later city, through the founding of Cluj and its flourishing as the main cultural and religious center in the historical province of Transylvania, until its modern existence as a city, the seat of Cluj County in north-western Romania.
In December 1945, at the end of World War II, as Cluj became again part of Romania, the Opera returns to Cluj and restarted its activity. During its existence, the Cluj-Napoca Romanian Opera staged more than 200 operas, operettas and ballets from all over the world and more than 40 Romanian performance art-forms, including the premieres of ...
Timeline of Cluj-Napoca Roman Napoca on Tabula Peutingeriana Ruins of Napoca City coat of arms (starting 1377) Cluj in 1617 by Joris Hoefnagel Cluj Bridge Gate in 1860 Central Cluj in 1930 St. Michael's Church and Matthias Corvinus Monument in 2012 Cluj Arena in 2012 The following detailed sequence of events covers the timeline of Cluj-Napoca , a city in Transylvania, Romania . Cluj-Napoca ...
Emil Boc (b. 1966), Prime Minister of Romania and Mayor of Cluj-Napoca; Emil Hurezeanu (b. 1955), writer, publicist and journalist; Florin Șerban (b. 1975), film director; Franz Halberg (1919–2013), scientist and one of the founders of modern chronobiology; Gabriela Szabó (b. 1975), Olympic athlete and Minister of Youth and Sport
The Dormition of the Theotokos Cathedral (Romanian: Catedrala Adormirea Maicii Domnului) is the most famous Romanian Orthodox church of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.Built in a Romanian Brâncovenesc style, a synthesis of Renaissance and Byzantine architecture, it lies on the Avram Iancu Square, together with the Cluj-Napoca National Theatre and the Avram Iancu Statue.
Lucian Blaga (1895-1961), poet and philosopher. Nicolae Bocșan (1947-2016), historian, rector of Babeș-Bolyai University (2004–2008) Alexandru Borza (1887-1971), botanist, founder of the Cluj-Napoca Botanical Garden. Corneliu Coposu (1914-1995), founder of the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party, anti-communist political prisoner.
Mayor of Cluj-Napoca. Romanian: Primarul Municipiului Cluj-Napoca. Incumbent. Dr. Emil Boc. since July 2012. Inaugural holder. Dr. Iulian Pop. Formation. 1919 (after the Unification of Romania)