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Caras-Severin

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Caraş-Severin

 

an administrative district in southwest Ru-mania, in the Banat Mountains. Area, 8, 500 sq km. Population, 366, 300 (1970). Administrative center, Re§i{a. The district ac-counts for 2.7 percent of the total industrial production and 1.1percent of the agricultural output of the country. Industry in-cludes heavy metallurgy and machine building (Re§i{a, Ojelul-Rosu, Boc§a), woodworking (Caransebe§), and food processing.Iron ore (Ocna-de-Fier and copper ore (Moldova-Noua) are alsomined. The leading agricultural crops include corn, wheat, potatoes, and curly flax. There are numerous orchards in thefoothills of the mountains. Livestock in Cara§-Severin numbered (1971) approximately 84, 000 cattle, 35, 000 hogs, and 269, 000sheep. The balneological health resort of Băile-HerCulane, whosesprings were used by the ancient Romans, is located 40 km northof Turnu-Severin.

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Elena Tarla, an Emergency Situations spokeswoman for Caras-Severin County, says the storm ripped out trees and downed power lines.
(%) ticks (nymphs, males, positive, by females) bacterial species Borrelia miyamotoi Cugir (Alba) 19 (8, 4, 7) 0 Vladimirescu (Arad) 17 (0, 5, 12) 0 Bicaci (Bihor) 23 (12, 5, 6) 0 Bistrita (Bistrita-Nasaud) 30 (0, 10, 20) 0 Poiana Marului (Brasov) 66 (0,10, 56) 2 (3.03) Vultureni (Cluj) 44 (3, 10, 31) 1 (2.27) Micesti (Cluj) 62 (0, 15, 47) 1 (1.62) Resita (Caras-Severin) 21 (0, 10, 11) 0 Corund (Harghita) 59 (7, 17, 37) 0 Bistra (Maramures) 26 (1, 10, 15) 0 Icland (Mures) 37 (6, 5, 26) 2 (5.41) Medias (Sibiu) 12 (2, 4, 6) 1 (8.33) Ratesti (Satu Mare) 22 (7, 10, 15) 0 Lugoj (Timis) 30 (0, 11, 19) 0 Total 468 (46, 126, 296) 7 (1.5) Locality (county) No.
Less than a half of the dwellings are counted in the first region for Dolj county in 2007, and more than a half of the dwellings are considered for Caras-Severin in the second region in the same year.
Abstract: This article is based on comparisons between the results obtained with two different software for land drainage design (DrenVSubIr--from Romania and Espadren--from Costa Rica) in computing the head losses (horizontal vertical radial and at entrance in drain) for some areas characterized by humidity excess from south-western Romania (Caras-Severin county)
In this sense, the subjects were 3 placement centers from Caras-Severin county, namely: "Hope" Placement Center in Resita, "Apartment" Placement Center in Resita, "Our House" Placement Center in Zagujeni.
The research strategy will underpin the expansion of telework in the Caras-Severin County.
Material examined.--ROMANIA: 1[female] Caras-Severin: Chiacotu Mic: Berzasca River Basin (44[degrees]43'52"N, 22[degrees]06'01"E) hand collecting, 1 May 2007, Ioan Duma leg.
Bucharest (Romania), May 16 (ANI): Archaeologists have discovered, in southeastern county of Caras-Severin in Romania, a complex structure estimated to be 2,000 years old belonging to Emperor Trajan of the Roman empire.
A total of 7,000 houses and 34,000 hectares of agricultural land in several departments in central and western Romania (Arad, Meheditin, Timis, Caras-Severin) were damaged in the floods.
In 2002, Maramures had 55.7% from the total Ukrainian population, followed by Suceava (13.9%), Timis (12%), Caras-Severin (5.8%), Arad (2.8%), Satu Mare (2.5%) and Tulcea (2.1%).
West region includes Arad, Caras-Severin, Hunedoara, and Timis counties.
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