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Click Museum - Why Should You Visit Museums?

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This museum has preserved the war weapons and tankers of the ancient period. There are some sculptures of famous soldiers who fought bravely and sacrificed their precious life for the sake of the country. A whole museum is a great place of interest for those who are doing good research work. Even many schools also bring their students to this place so that they can gain some information.

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Museums exist to gather, protect, explain, and exhibit culturally, scientifically, historically, or artistically valuable items. They function as educational venues, offering a glimpse into history, promoting understanding of various cultures, and providing a platform for public involvement and contemplation.

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The floating museum of Braila. Unique in Romania, the only one that exists.

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The purpose of modern museums is to collect, preserve, interpret, and display objects of artistic, cultural, or scientific significance for the study and education of the public.

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The purpose of modern museums is to collect, preserve, interpret, and display objects of artistic, cultural, or scientific significance for the study and education of the public.

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Museums preserve cultural heritage, educate, foster research, and engage communities, contributing to cultural exchange, inspiration, and tourism.

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The Brăila Museum "Carol I" is located in Brăila, Romania, and is named after King Carol I of Romania. Here are some facts about the museum:

History: The museum was founded in 1886 and is one of the oldest museums in Romania. It was initially established as the Museum of Antiquities and Natural Sciences.

Collections: The museum houses diverse collections, including archaeological artifacts, historical items, ethnography, numismatics, and natural sciences exhibits.

Archaeological Section: Visitors can explore artifacts from different historical periods, providing insights into the rich cultural heritage of the region.

Ethnography Section: This section showcases traditional costumes, tools, and objects related to the daily life of various ethnic groups in the Brăila region.

Numismatics: The museum features a numismatic collection, displaying coins and currency from different historical eras.

Natural Sciences Exhibits: There are displays highlighting the natural diversity of the area, including geological specimens, flora, and fauna.

Renovations: Over the years, the museum has undergone renovations to modernize its facilities and enhance the visitor experience.

Cultural Events: The museum occasionally hosts cultural events, exhibitions, and educational programs to engage with the local community and tourists.

Visiting the Brăila Museum "Carol I" offers a journey through the history, culture, and natural aspects of the Brăila region.

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Hi! My name is Andrei. I'm 15 year old Romanian. I study at Colegiul Economic "Ion Ghica". My hobbies are video games and listening to music, the music genres i like are hip-hop and rap. I am excited to be a part of this project.

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Im a 15 years old boy from România,

The City that I live in is called Brăila ,

Im a student at Ion Ghica Highschool,

My hobbys are playing video games and watching movies . Im interested in learning about other countries and other cultures . Happy Holidays

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Hello my name is catalin. Im in 9th grade and 15 years old. I study at Colegiul Economic "Ion Ghica" Braila,Romania. I don t have many hobbies but i like to play on my computer. Im not really tall but still not small. I would love to make some new friends and going to other states. Im so excited to cooperate with your.

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About me:

My name is Esen Altındağ. I am an English teacher at high school. I can describe myself as friendly, enthusiastic and kind.I love teaching, travelling, art and learning new things.I am so happy to have such a wonderful profession.

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Amasya, Archeological Museum

Museum of Amasya is a national museum in Amasya, northern Turkey, exhibiting archaeological artifacts found in and around the city as well as ethnographic items related to the region's history of cultural life. Established in 1958, the museum owns nearly twenty-four thousand items for exhibition belonging to eleven historic civilizations.

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Hello ,my name is  Nihal Alan Yılmaz. I have been an teacher for 24 years . Im am studying at Amasya Social sciences high school .I hope we will be a good group

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Hi, I'm Leyla. I'm 15 years old. I live in Istanbul, Turkey. I go to Beyoglu Anatolian High School and I'm a sophomore. I enjoy reading books, listening to music and watching tv shows and movies in my free time. I play volleyball and I'm always with my friends. I also like crocheting. My dream is to travel the whole wide world one day. I am very happy to be a part of this project and I'm looking forward to it all!

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Hi! My name is Eslem. I am 16 years old. I’m from Turkey and I live in İstanbul. I am a high school student at Beyoğlu Anatolian High School. In my spare time I usually spend time with my hobbies. I love reading books, listening to music, and spending time with my friends. Overall my favorite hobby is watching tv shows and movies. My favorite tv shows that I watch over and over again are Friends, Brooklyn 99 and Modern Family. I am excited to be in this project.

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Hi, I'm Zeynep. I am from İstanbul, Turkey. I am 16 years old. I study at Beyoğlu Anatolian High School. My greatest hobby is reading but I also enjoy walking, listening to music, watching TV shows and spending time with my family. I am glad I am a part of this project.

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Hello I'm Azra. I'm 16 years old. I'm Turkish and I'm living in İstanbul. I'm an highschool student and I study at Beyoğlu Anatolian Highschool. I do pilates and I play volleyball. I like reading. I love watching tv shows especially sitcoms. And I love listening to music. I usually listen hiphop, rap and R&B

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Museums in our city, İstanbul

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Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı Resmi İnternet Sitesi

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İstanbul, Türkiye

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Istanbul's most comprehensive local tours and experiences platform

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Museums provide an insight into the history of humankind. They allow us to gain a clear understanding of the culture.Besides, they research and preserve materials from humanity’s past. By the way speaking of the future, museums will always have a role to play in the education of future generations.Not only can our museums bring history to life, but they can also shine a light on both our present and future.

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Hello, my name is Şevval. I am 17 years old. I am studying at Amasya social sciences high school. I like listening to music, reading books, playing volleyball and watching movies. I want my future profession to be a lawyer. I'm very happy to be in this project.

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Hello. My name is Ceren and l am from Amasya Turkey. l am a student at Amasya Social Science High School.l am 18 years old. My hobbies are listening to music,reading books,traveling with my friends,watching movies and series,swimming and surfing the net.

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Hello, I am Sena. I am 16 years old. I live in Turkey. I study at Amasya Social Sciences High School. In my free time; I like to read books, watch movies or series and listen to music. I am very happy to be a part of this project 💜💜.

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Hi guys I’m NAZLI. Im from Amasya Turkey . Im 11th grade at Amasya social sciences high school. I love listening music and watching movies like horror and sci-fi . I also love reading books about psychology and ancient ages . Nice to meet you guyss 🫶🏻🫶🏻

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Hi everyone, I'm Ege, a 14-years old student in the 9th grade at Bekir Gökdağ Anatolian High School. I like playing football, traveling, learning new things, listening to music. I also enjoy playing computer games and making designs it's probably my favorite thing to do. But what I'm really interested in is cars. I love being around cars. Oh and I love drinking tea. Galatasaray’s proud supporter here, rooting for the best team in Türkiye with all my heart. Nice to meet you all!

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Hi everyone, I'm Ege, a 14-years old student in the 9th grade at Bekir Gökdağ Anatolian High School. I like playing football, traveling, learning new things, listening to music. I also enjoy playing computer games and making designs it's probably my favorite thing to do. But what I'm really interested in is cars. I love being around cars. Oh and I love drinking tea. Galatasaray’s proud supporter here, rooting for the best team in Türkiye with all my heart. Nice to meet you all!

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Hii ! I am Türkan İpek. I am from Turkey and a student at Social Sciences High School. I am 17 years old. (2)

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Hi my name is esma. i am 16 years old. i am studying in Amasya Social Sciences High School. I love watching films and listening to music. I want to be psychologist in the future. I'm excited to be in this project.

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Hi my name is esma. i am 16 years old. i am studying in Amasya Social Sciences High School. I love watching films and listening to music. I want to be psychologist in the future. I'm excited to be in this project.

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Hi I am Hatice. I am studying at a social sciences high school. I am a grade 11 student and I am 17 years old. My hobbies are listening to music, reading books, visiting new places, solving Sudoku and learning new languages. The reason why I joined this project is to improve my English. And I love animals (especially cats). I have 2 cats, one of them is called Duman and the other is Badem.

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Hello my name is Öznur. l'm 17 years old. l'm a student in Amasya Social Study High School. l live in Amasya. l love reading book,surf the net,lisening to music.I want to study law in the future.I am very happy to be in this project.

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Hello, I am Esmanur who is 17 years old, I am a student at Social Science Highschool in Amasya. I love animals, my dearest friends, family, teachers, reading books, watching movies and films, listening to music, drinking herbal tea and coffee, making new memories with people that I feel comfortable with them and making memory boxes to not to forget the precious days we've been through. And also, I love English too. For me, English is so pretty and lively to be into. In the future, as a job, I want to become a successful translater. I have been living with this dream for years like 3-4 years.

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Ankara Ethnography Museum, in Altındağ, was once a workship site in the War Of Independence. Originally an archeology museum, it now houses painting/sculptures.

Collections

•Turkish clothes

•Jewelry

•Turkish Coffee

•Glass

•Hand weavings

•Weapons

•Stone and wooden artifacts.

There are collections such as.

Bekir Gökdağ Anatolian High School

Regulate: Zarife

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The Word Museum was founded my famous writer "SERMİN YAŞAR" it was made for the purpose to teach the meanings of non-foreign words to kids and teenagers like us.

Also the museum has a 3D sculpture of Ataturk.

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Hello, I am Sude. I am 17 years old. I am studying at the Social Sciences High School. If I talk about hobbies, I love listening to music. I spend almost half of my day listening to music because it relaxes me.I generally like to listen to The Weeknd, The Neighborhood, Arctic Monkeys, Billie Eilish, Anne Marie and Turkish singers and bands.Also I like the swim and playing badminton. Apart from that, I enjoy taking part in such projects. I think I am improving myself. It affects me in a positive way. I love spending time with my friends or family. I am very proud to take part in the project. I think I will have fun and learn. Everything is great.🎈

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I am Azra Eylül, I am 17 years old. I am studying at Amasya Social Sciences High School. I like watching TV series in my spare time. I don't have many hobbies. I am interested in English. I want to study Law in the future. I have been involved in many e-twinning projects before. I enjoy this. I hope we will have fun and work together.

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Hi!                                               My name is Larisa, I'm 15 years old and I come from a beautiful country called Romania.
I really like to be creative, listen to music, sing and travel.
I am a very optimistic person and I always try to make the people around me smile, because that is the most important thing!                     I am very open to new challenges, and I hope that this project will help me discover beautiful and unknown things!❤️

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Hi guys! I'm Sumeyra and ı'm 16 ı'm Turkish. I'm into music and sport . My favorite sport is play volleyball. I have been playin' it about 8 years .my other hobby is playin' guitar . Actually ı started a few months ago but ı believed that ı'll be a great guıtarist in the future and ı wanna sing well that's why ı am taking voice lessons for my voice.ı gifted in listening to music . Nowadays İnto it by Chase Atlantic is my favorite song. I also love learning and talking new languages . That's all.

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Hello, my name is Mara and I am 15 years old. I live in Satu Mare, Romania, wich is a great city. I lived in it since I was born, even if I was born in Cluj wich is also an amazing city. I study at the "Ioan Slavici" National College and I love it even if it can be so hard sometimes, I love spending time with my friends.

I have brown eyes and naturally brown hair but I dyed it red with two black hairs in the front because I love these colors. My favorite colors are actually dark red and blue. I have light pink lips and brown eyebrows. I am sensible and I care about other people. I consider myself being kind to the right persons

In my free time I like to sleep, watch TV and spend time with my friends and family.

This is all I can tell you about me, I hope you enjoyed reading this. Have a great day! ❤️

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Hello ! My name is Mădălina and I'm 15 years old . I study at the "Ioan Slavici" National High School, Satu Mare , Romania. I like going out with friends and listening to music. I am a sociable and friendly person and I chose to participate in the eTwinning project to learn English better and to discover new things from other places.

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My name is Carina, I am 14 years old and I study at Ioan Slavici highschool, Satu Mare,Romania. I love sweets, animals and romance movies. My favourite is "10 Things I Hate About You", i cried a lot but it was a masterpiece.

My favourite artists are Billie Eilish, The Motans and Maggie Lindemann. My favourite color is black.

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My name is Miruna , I am 15 years old and I am from Romania . I study at Colegiul National “ Ioan Slavici” and I am in the 9th grade . I live in Satu Mare wich is an amazing city full of wonderful people .🇷🇴❤️

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Hi! My name is Alexa. I am from Satu Mare, Romania and I study at Ioan Slavici National College. I am 15 years old and I am in 9th grade. I have a little sister who is also my best friend. I love watching Netflix or going out with my friends. My favorite show is Outer Banks or Gilmore Girls. I am a sensitive, caring and kind person.

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Hi!My name is Mara,I’m 15 years old and I’m from Romania,Tăşnad.I learn at ,,Ioan Slavici”national college.I am a very sociable person and I like to talk about different cultures and traditions from other countries with people living in those countries.I love playing sports and listening to music,especially to Billie Eilish.Also,I like to travel and I hope in this project I can learn more about other countries and make more friends all over the world.🌎

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What do teaching and blogging have in common? They are both fueled with passion and love. I’ve been an English teacher for 22 years, a keen foodie all my life, and a food blogger for quite some time. Meeting new opportunities and sharing the joy of teaching with fellow teachers is why I am so excited to be here!

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Hello! My name is Vlad, I’m 15 years old and I study at „Colegiul Național Ioan Slavici” from Satu Mare. My passion is football, I’m playing it since 2015 and I still love it! I am an energetic person, sociable and a bit lazy. In my free time i like to watch TV shows and play on my computer. One of my favorite TV shows is Garfield and my favorite game is Pac-man. I hope to make lots of friends trough this project and get to know each other!

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Hi, my name is Eveline. I am 15 years old, I live in Satu Mare, I am studying at "Ioan Slavici National College”, I am a 9th grade student. I love spending time with my friends, family, I also like to read and especially to travel. I would like to travel all around the world.🤗

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Hi, my name is Eveline. I am 15 years old, I live in Satu Mare, I am studying at "Ioan Slavici National College”, I am a 9th grade student. I love spending time with my friends, family, I also like to read and especially to travel. I would like to travel all around the world.🤗

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Satu Mare (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈsatuˈmare]; Hungarian: Szatmárnémeti [sɒtmaːrneːmɛti]; German: Sathmar; Yiddish: סאטמאר Satmar or Satu Mare County, Satmer) is a city with a population of 102,400 (2011). It is the capital of Romania, as well as the centre of the Satu Mare metropolitan area. It lies in the region of Maramureș, broadly part of Transylvania. Mentioned in the Gesta Hungarorum as Middle Ages. Today, it is an academic, cultural, industrial, and business centre in the castrum Zotmar ("Zotmar's fort"), the city has a history going back to the Nord-Vest development region.

Satu Mare is situated in Satu Mare County, in northwest Romania, on the river Someș, 13 km (8.1 mi) from the border with Hungary and 27 km (17 mi) from the border with Ukraine. The city is located at an altitude of 126 m (413 ft) on the Lower Someș alluvial plain, spreading out from the Administrative Palace at 25 October Square. The boundaries of the municipality contain an area of 150.3 square kilometres (58.0 sq mi).

From a geomorphologic point of view, the city is located on the Someș Meadow on both sides of the river, which narrows in the vicinity of the city and widens upstream and downstream from it; flooded during heavy rainfall, the field has various geographical configurations at the edge of the city (sand banks, valleys, micro-depressions).

The formation of the current terrain of the city, dating from the late Pliocene in the Tertiary period, is linked to the clogging of the Pannonian Sea. Layers of soil were created from deposits of sand, loess and gravel, and generally have a thickness of 16 m (52 ft)-18 m (59 ft). Over this base, decaying vegetation gave rise to podsolic soils, which led to favorable conditions for crops ( cereals, vegetables, fruit trees).

The water network around Satu Mare is composed of the Someș River, Pârâul Sar in the north and the Homorod River in the south. The formation and evolution of the city was closely related to the Someș River, which, in addition to allowing for the settlement of a human community around it, has offered, since the early Middle Ages, the possibility of international trade with coastal regions, a practice that favored milling, fishing and other economic activities.

Because the land slopes gently around the city, the Someș River has created numerous branches and meanders (before 1777, in the perimeter of the city there were 25 meanders downstream and 14 upstream). After systematisation works in 1777, the number of meanders in the city dropped to 9 downstream and 5 upstream, the total length of the river now being at 36.5 km (22.7 mi) within the city. Systematisation performed up to the mid-19th century configured the existing Someș riverbed; embankments were built 17.3 km (10.7 mi) long on the right bank and 11 km (6.8 mi) on the left. In 1970, the embankments were raised by 2 m (6.6 ft)-3 m (9.8 ft), protecting 52,000 hectares within the city limits and restoring nearly 800 ha of agricultural land that had previously been flooded.

The flora associated with the town of Satu Mare is characteristic for the meadow area with trees of soft essence like wicker, indigenous poplar, maple and hazelnut. Grassland vegetation is represented by Agrostis stolonifera, Poa trivialis, Alopecurus pratensis and other types of vegetation.

The city's largest park, the Garden of Rome, features some rare trees that are uncommon to the area, including the pagoda tree, native to East Asia (especially China); Pterocarya, also native to Asia; and Paulownia tomentosa, native to central and western China.

Fauna is represented by species of rodents ( hamster and european ground squirrel), reptiles, including Vipera berus in the Noroieni forest, and as avifauna species of ducks, geese, egrets, during passages and systematic occasional wanderings.

Satu Mare has a continental climate, characterised by hot dry summers and cold winters. As the city is in the far north of the country, winter is much colder than the national average, with minimum temperatures reaching −17 °C (1 °F), lower than values recorded in other cities in western Romania like Oradea (−15 °C (5 °F)) or Timișoara (−17 °C (1 °F)). The average annual temperature is 9.6 °C (49 °F), or broken down by seasons: Spring 10.2 °C (50 °F), summer 19.6 °C (67 °F), autumn 10.8 °C (51 °F) and winter 1.7 °C (35 °F). Atmospheric humidity is quite high. Prevailing wind currents blow in from the northwest, bringing spring and summer rainfall. Climate in this area has mild differences between highs and lows, and there is adequate rainfall year-round. The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is " Cfb" (Marine West Coast Climate/ Oceanic climate).

The Hungarian name of the town Szatmár is believed to come from the personal name Zotmar, as the 13th-century Gesta Hungarorum gives the name of the 10th-century fortified settlement at the site of today's Satu Mare as castrum Zotmar ("Zotmar's fort"). The name Satu Mare, which means "great village" in Romanian, was used for the first time by the priest Moise Sora Novac in the 19th century. An older Romanian name, Sătmar, was formally replaced by the current one in 1925.

Kossuth Park, 1903

Firemen's Tower, built 1904

Archaeological evidence from Țara Oașului, Ardud, Medieșu Aurit, Homoroade, etc. clearly shows settlements in the area dating to the Stone Age and the Bronze Age. There is also evidence that the local Dacian population remained there after the Roman conquest in 101/106 AD. Later, these lands may have formed part of Menumorut's holdings; one of the important defensive fortresses - castrum Zotmar , dating to the 10th century - was at Satu Mare, as mentioned in the Gesta Hungarorum. After Stephen I of Hungary created the Kingdom of Hungary in the year 1000, German colonists were settled at the periphery of the city ( Villa Zotmar), brought in by Stephen's wife, the Bavarian princess Gisela of Hungary. Later, they were joined by more German colonists from beyond the Someș River, in Mintiu.

A royal free city since the 13th century, Satu Mare changed hands several times in the 15th century until the Báthory family took possession of the citadel in 1526, proceeding to divert the Someș's waters in order to defend the southern part of the citadel; thus, the fortress remained on an island linked to the main roads by three bridges over the Someș. In 1562 the citadel was besieged by Ottoman armies led by Pargalı İbrahim Pasha of Buda and Maleoci Pasha of Timișoara. Then the Habsburgs besieged it, leading the fleeing Transylvanian armies to set it on fire. The Austrian general Lazar Schwendi ordered the citadel to be rebuilt after the plans of Italian architect Ottavio Baldigara; using an Italian system of fortifications, the new structure would be pentagonal with five towers. After a period when it changed hands, the town came under Ottoman control in 1661. Called Sokmar by the new authorities, it was a kaza center within the Şenköy sanjak of Varat Eyalet. This status held until 1691, when the army of the Habsburgs expelled the Ottomans during the Great Turkish War. In the Middle Ages, Satu Mare and Mintiu were two distinct entities. The two settlements, then called "Szatmár" and "Németi", were united in 1715, and the resulting city was named "Szatmár-Németi". On 2 January 1721, Emperor Charles VI recognised the union, at the same time granting Satu Mare the status of royal free city. A decade earlier, the Treaty of Szatmár was signed in the city, ending Rákóczi's War for Independence.

The city's importance was linked to the transportation and commerce of salt from nearby Ocna Dejului ( Hungarian: Désakna, German: Salzdorf), possibly already at a very early date. Due to the economic and commercial benefits it began to receive in the 13th century, Satu Mare became an important centre for craft guilds. In the 18th century, intense urbanisation began; several buildings survive from that period, including the old city hall, the inn, a barracks, the Greek Catholic church and the Reformed church. A Roman Catholic diocese was established there in 1804. In 1823, the city's systematization commission was established in order to direct its local government. In 1844, paving operations begun in 1805 were stepped up. The first industrial concerns also opened, including the steam mill, the brick factory, the Neuschloss Factory for wood products, the lumber factory, the Princz Factory and the Unio Factory. Due to its location at the intersection of commercial roads, Szatmárnémeti became an important rail hub. The line to Nagykároly ( Carei) was built in 1871, followed in 1872 by a line to Máramarossziget ( Sighetu Marmației) line, an 1894 link to Nagybánya ( Baia Mare), 1900 to Erdőd ( Ardud) and 1906 to Bikszád ( Bixad).

Since the second half of the 19th century, it underwent important economic and socio-cultural changes. The city's large companies (the Unio wagon factory, the Princz Factory, the Ardeleana textile enterprise, the Freund petroleum refinery, the brick factory and the furniture factory) prospered in this period, and the city invested heavily in communication lines, schools, hospitals, public works and public parks. The banking and commerce system also developed: in 1929 the chamber of commerce and industry, as well as the commodities stock market were established, with 25 commercial enterprises and 75 industrial and production firms as members. In 1930 there were 33 banks.

After the collapse of Austria-Hungary, Romanian troops captured the town during their offensive launched on April 15, 1919. By the Treaty of Trianon, Satu Mare officially ceased to be part of Hungary becoming part of Romania. In 1940, the Second Vienna Award gave back Northern Transylvania, including Satu Mare, to Hungary. In October 1944, the city was captured by the Soviet Red Army. After 1945, the city became again part of Romania. Soon afterwards, a Communist regime came to power, lasting until the 1989 revolution.

Decebal Street and Talmud Torah Synagogue

The presence of Jews in Transylvania is first mentioned in the late 16th century. In the 17th century, prince Gabriel Bethlen permitted Sephardi Jews from Turkey to settle in the Transylvanian capital Gyulafehérvár ( Alba Iulia), in 1623. In the early 18th century, Jews were allowed to settle in Sathmar. Some of them became involved in large-scale agriculture, becoming landlords or lessees, or were active in trade and industry, or distilled brandy and leased taverns on crown estates. In 1715, when Sathmar became a royal town, they were expelled, beginning to resettle in the 1820s. In 1841, several Jews obtained the permission to settle permanently in Sathmar; the first Jewish community was formally established in 1849, and in 1857, a synagogue was built. After a great number of traditional Ashkenazic Jews had settled in the town, the Jewish community split in 1898, when a supporter of the Hasidic movement was elected chief rabbi, into an Orthodox and a Status Quo community, led by a Zionist rabbi, which erected a synagogue in 1904.

In the 1920s, there were several Zionist organizations in Satu Mare, and the yeshiva, one of the largest in the region, was attended by 400 students. In 1930, the city had five large synagogues and about 20 shtiebels. In 1928, a conflict within the Orthodox community broke out over the election of a new chief rabbi, lasting six years and ending in 1934 with the appointment of the Hasidic rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, a traditionalist and anti-Zionist, who later re-founded the Satmar Hasidic dynasty in Williamsburg, New York. Another Hasidic rabbi, Aharon Roth, the founder of the Shomrei Emunim and Toldot Aharon communities in Jerusalem, was also active in Satu Mare.

After Satu Mare became part of Hungary again in 1940, the civil rights and economic activities of the Jews were restricted, and in summer 1941, "foreign" Jews were deported to Kamenets-Podolski, where they were murdered by Hungarian and German troops. In 1944, the Jewish population was forced into the Satu Mare ghetto; the majority of men were sent to forced labor battalions, and the others were deported to the extermination camps in Poland, where the majority of them were murdered by the Nazis. Six trains left Satu Mare for Auschwitz-Birkenau, starting on May 19, 1944, each carrying approximately 3300 persons. The trains passed through Kassa ( Košice) on May 19, 22, 26, 29, 30, and June 1. In total, 18,863 Jews were deported from Satu Mare, Carei and the surrounding localities. Of these, 14,440 were killed. Only a small number of the survivors returned to Satu Mare after the war, but a number of Jews belonging to linguistically and culturally different groups from all parts of Romania settled in the city. The majority of them later emigrated to Israel. By 1970, the town's Jewish population numbered 500, and in 2011, only 34 Jews remained.

In 2004, a Holocaust memorial was dedicated in the Decebal Street Synagogue's courtyard. Aside from the synagogues, two Jewish cemeteries also remain.

Among the notable members of the local Jewish community have been historian Ignác Acsády, parliamentary deputies Ferenc Chorin and Kelemen Samu, politician Oszkár Jászi, writers Gyula Csehi, Rodion Markovits, Sándor Dénes, and Ernő Szép, painter Pál Erdös, Jacob Reinitz and director György Harag.

According to the 2021 census, Satu Mare had a population of 91,520, making it the 20th largest city in Romania.

Administrative Palace (City Hall) in Satu Mare, completed in 1984

The city government is headed by a mayor. Since 2016, the office is held by Gábor Kereskényi. Decisions are approved and discussed by the local council made up of 23 elected councillors. The city is divided into 12 districts laid out radially. One of these, Sătmărel ( Szatmárzsadány), is a separate village administered by the city.

Additionally, as Satu Mare is the capital of Satu Mare County, the city hosts the palace of the prefecture, the headquarters of the county council and the prefect, who is appointed by Romania's central government. Like all other local councils in Romania, the Satu Mare local council, the county council and the city's mayor are elected every four years by the population. The city is at the center of the Satu Mare metropolitan area, a metropolitan area established in 2013, with a population of 243,600, and which includes 26 cities, towns and communes.

The Satu Mare City Council, elected at the 2020 local elections, is composed of the following parties:

The city day is 14 May, which commemorates the devastating floods that affected the city in 1970, although it is also a day of rebirth.

Satu Mare has a complex judicial organisation, as a consequence of its status of county capital. The Satu Mare Court of Justice is the local judicial institution and is under the purview of the Satu Mare County Tribunal, which also exerts its jurisdiction over the courts of Carei, Ardud, Negrești-Oaș, Tășnad and Livada. Appeals from these tribunals' verdicts, and more serious cases, are directed to the Oradea Court of Appeals. Satu Mare also hosts the county's commercial and military tribunals.

Satu Mare has its own municipal police force, Poliția Municipiului Satu Mare, which is responsible for policing of crime within the whole city, and operates a number of special divisions. The Satu Mare Police are headquartered on Mihai Viteazul Street in the city centre (with a number of precincts throughout the city) and is subordinated to the county's police inspectorate on Alexandru Iioan Cuza Street. City Hall has its own community police force, Poliția Comunitară located on Universului Alley, dealing with local community issues. Satu Mare also houses the county's gendarmerie inspectorate.

Satu Mare has a complex system of transportation, providing road, air and rail connections to major cities in Romania and Europe. The city is an important road and rail hub located near the borders with Hungary and Ukraine. The city is connected to other major Romanian cities by road ( European route E81, European route E671 and European route E58) and by rail ( CFR Main Line 400). The total number of automobiles registered in Satu Mare was 82,000 in 2008.[38] The city has around 400 streets with a total length of 178 km (111 mi) and cover an area of 1.3 km 2 (0.50 sq mi).

Bilingual town name at Satu Mare Railway station

Satu Mare Rail Station, located about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) north of the city centre, is situated on the Căile Ferate Române Line 400 ( Brașov - Siculeni - Deda - Dej - Baia Mare), on Line 402 ( Oradea - Săcueni - Carei - Satu Mare - Halmeu) and on Line 417 (Satu Mare - Bixad). CFR provides direct rail connections to all the major Romanian cities and to Budapest. The city is also served by another secondary rail station, the Saw Station ( Gara Ferăstrău).

The main public transportation system in Satu Mare consists of bus lines. There are twenty-three urban and suburban lines with a total length of 190.1 km (118.1 mi), the main operator being Transurban S.A. In addition, there are various taxi companies serving the city. It is worth mentioning that Satu Mare had a trolleybus system in the past, created on the 15th of November 1994 but has been closed in 2005.

The city is served by the Satu Mare International Airport ( IATA: SUJ, ICAO: LRSM), located 13 km (8.1 mi) south of the city, with a concrete runway, one of the longest in Romania, with TAROM and Wizz Air operating regular flights to Bucharest, London and Antalya (seasonal only).

Football (soccer) is the most popular recreational sport in Satu Mare. There are two major football clubs in Satu Mare: Olimpia and Someșul Oar. There are two football stadiums in Satu Mare: Stadionul Olimpia with 18,000 seats and Someșul Stadium with 3,000 seats.

Other popular recreational activities include fencing, handball, bowling, women's basketball, karate and chess.

The local women's basketball team CSM Satu Mare is one of the best in the Romanian league; it finished third in the 2008/2009 season playoffs. The team plays its home matches in the largest indoor arena in the city, the LPS Arena, which has a capacity of 400 seats.

The Cypriot professional tennis player Marcos Baghdatis was brought to Satu Mare in 1998 for a month and a half by his former coach Jean Dobrescu to train and to participate in local tennis competitions alongside his fellow Davis Cup team member, Rareș Cuzdriorean, who is also a Satu Mare native with Cypriot citizenship.

Satu Mare has a tradition in fencing dating to 1885, and is the city that has supplied the most world and Olympic champions in Europe. Names like Ecaterina Stahl, Marcela Moldovan, Suzana and Ștefan Ardeleanu, Petru Kuki, Rudolf Luczki, Samuilă Melczhner, Geza Tere and in particular Alexandru Csipler figure prominently in the annals of Romanian fencing. The last four also formed the core of the city's fencing school, winning major local and international tournaments. Top results for which there is evidence date to 1935, when the local foil team, Olimpia Satu Mare, lost against CFR Timișoara by a score of 15-10 in the national final, while Rudolf Luczki won the sabre finals held in Cluj-Napoca. In 1973, the first signaling device in Romania was used in Satu Mare; this has been characterised as "a veritable revolution" for Romanian fencing.

Head office of the Directorate for Agriculture and Food Industry

Satu Mare benefits from its proximity to the borders with Hungary and Ukraine, which makes it a prime location for logistical and industrial parks.

Companies that have established production facilities in Satu Mare are Voestalpine, Dräxlmaier Group, Gotec Group, Anvis Group, Schlemmer, Casco Schützhelme and Zollner Elektronik in the industrial sector; FrieslandCampina in the food sector; Radici Group in the textile sector; and Saint-Gobain and Boissigny in the wood industry.

Currently the largest private employer in Satu Mare is the German automotive company Dräxlmaier Group which owns since 1998 an electric engine components factory in the city and has around 3,600 employees. The factory supplies automotive wiring especially to the German car manufacturer Daimler AG but it also supplied wiring to another car manufacturer Porsche for its Porsche Panamera model. The Swedish company Electrolux owns a kitchen stove factory in the city acquired in 1997, that has a surface area of 52,000 square metres (560,000 sq ft) and 1,800 employees. The facility has an annual production capacity of around 1.2 million units and the majority of the Zanussi brand kitchen stoves in Europe are manufactured there. The Austrian company Voestalpine owns, since 2004, a steel tubes production facility with an annual capacity of 50 million units per year. The German company Arcandor has its main Romanian office established in Satu Mare. The subsidiary, accounting for the region formed by Romania and Hungary, is the most important among the 16 subsidiaries in Europe in terms of the percentage of sales through online orders having in 2008 total orders of €19.3 million. The company also owns a 40,000 square metres (430,000 sq ft) logistic facility and a call center in the city.

Satu Mare's retail sector is fairly well-developed; a number of international companies such as Carrefour, Auchan, Kaufland, Metro Point, Lidl and Penny Market have supermarkets or hypermarkets in the city. There is also a regional mall, Shopping City Satu Mare, with a gross leasable area (GLA) of 29,000 m 2 (310,000 sq ft), DIY stores ( Dedeman, Brico Dépôt), and several other shopping centers: Grand Mall of 6,000 m 2 (65,000 sq ft), Plaza Europa of 3,000 m 2 (32,000 sq ft) and Someșul Mall, of 13,000 m 2 (140,000 sq ft).

There is also an industrial park called Satu Mare Industrial Park located at the edge of the city on a 70 ha surface.

Former Reformed College (left)

Satu Mare is home to the Commercial Academy of Satu Mare and several other branches of important Romanian universities:

Satu Mare has 16 high schools, of which four are national colleges:

The city has 16 gymnasiums, with the most important being:

The Grigore Moisil Gymnasium (Școala Generală Grigore Moisil), founded in 1903 and named after the mathematician Grigore Moisil.

The Ion Creangă Gymnasium (Școala Generală Ion Creangă), founded in 1990 and named after the writer Ion Creangă.

The Lucian Blaga Gymnasium (Școala Generală Lucian Blaga), founded in 1996 by Ioan Viman and named after the philosopher and writer Lucian Blaga.

Satu Mare has a county museum, an art museum, and a theatre, the North Theatre, built in 1889 which has both a Hungarian and a Romanian section. Concerts are given by the "Dinu Lipatti Philharmonic", formerly the state symphonic orchestra of Satu Mare, in a concert hall in a wing of the Dacia Hotel. The county library had 320.000 books in 1997, including a special bibliophile collections of over 70.000 volumes.

Dacia Hotel

Major tourists attractions are:

There are several hotels in the city: four 4-star hotels - Hotel Poesis, Villa Bodi, Satu-Mare City and Villa Class; eleven 3-star hotels - Astoria, Leon, Villa Lux, Dacia, Aurora, Dana I, Dana II, Select, Rania, Melody and Belvedere; and one 2-star hotel - Sport.

Satu Mare is twinned with:

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Satu Mare (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈsatuˈmare]; Hungarian: Szatmárnémeti [sɒtmaːrneːmɛti]; German: Sathmar; Yiddish: סאטמאר Satmar or Satu Mare County, Satmer) is a city with a population of 102,400 (2011). It is the capital of Romania, as well as the centre of the Satu Mare metropolitan area. It lies in the region of Maramureș, broadly part of Transylvania.

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Hello!My name is Julia and I am from Romania,Satu Mare.I am fifteen years old,and I learn at Ioan Slavici High School.I really like to make new friendships with all kind of people and I hope that in this project I will have the opportunity to talk with a lot of people with different opinions than me.In the future,I would like to travell all over the world and meet people with others culture,traditions.I think that the perfects qualities that describes me are:kind&friendly.I hope that this project will help me to developed my english,to learn new things about others countries,and make new friends.

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Türkiye'nin Başkenti Ankara. Turkey Ankara Travel

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Museums helps protect valuable works (for instance art, historic, sculpture ...)

After centuries, people see these unique works.Also museum helps to increase our general culture knowledge, too. So, everyone should visit one museum at least.

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Hi everyone, I'm Rana. I'm an 11th grade high school student and live in Adana. I love studying, especially math and geometry, doing weight exercises and watching Hannibal. Hannibal is my favorite tv series and you should watch it. I looked at my Spotify summary, I listened to Billie Eilish the most. Actually I'm shocked because I didnt expect this. Anyways, I don't know what I really wanna be in the future. It's complicated.

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