Harghita is a county (județ) in the center of Romania, in eastern Transylvania, with the county seat at Miercurea Ciuc.
Toplița is a municipality in Harghita County, Transylvania, Romania.
Gheorgheni is a municipality in Harghita County, Romania. It lies in the Székely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania. The city administers four villages:
Sândominic is a commune in Harghita County, Romania. It lies in the Székely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania. It is composed of a single village, Sândominic.
Szigetszentmiklós is a city in Pest county, Hungary with approximately 30,000 inhabitants.
Red Lake is a natural dam lake formed following the collapse of a slope due to the earthquake of January 23, 1838 at 18:45, 6.9 magnitude, VIII intensity, at the foot of Hasmasul Mare Mountain, near the Bicaz Gorge, at a distance of 26 km from Gheorgheni, in Harghita County. At the last measurements, made in 1987, its dimensions are: the lake lies on a perimeter of 2,830 m, the area is 114.676 m² and the volume of water that accumulates is 587.503 m³. The lake was formed at an altitude of 983 m, in a depression with a predominant subalpine climate.
The Belcina is a right tributary of the river Mureș in Transylvania, Romania. It flows through the town Gheorgheni, and joins the Mureș near the village Joseni. Its length is 33 km (21 mi) and its basin size is 109 km2 (42 sq mi).
Tulgheș is a commune in Harghita County, Romania. It lies in eastern Transylvania. The commune is composed of four villages: Hagota (Hágótő), Pintic (Péntekpataka), Recea (Récefalva) and Tulgheș.
The Mărișelu Wind Farm is a proposed wind power project in Cluj County, Romania. It will have 100 individual wind turbines, with a nominal output of around 3 MW which will deliver up to 300 MW of power, enough to power over 180,000 homes, with a capital investment required of approximately US$230 million.
Wind power in Romania has total cumulative installed capacity of 3,028 MW as of the end of 2016, up from the 14 MW installed capacity in 2009.
The Fântânele-Cogealac Wind Farm is the largest onshore wind farm in Romania and in Europe, with installed nameplate capacity of 600 MW from 240 General Electric 2.5xl wind turbines. The wind farm has been built for the ČEZ Group.
Ciuc County was a county in the Kingdom of Romania. Its capital was Miercurea Ciuc. Its name was derived from the former county of the Kingdom of Hungary, Csík.
Solar power in Romania had an installed capacity of 1,374 megawatt (MW) as of the end of 2017. The country had in 2007 an installed capacity of 0.30 MW, which increased to 3.5 MW by the end of 2011, and to 6.5 MW by the end of 2012. However, the record year of 2013 was an exception, and new installation fell back from 1,100 MW to a moderate level of 69 MW in 2014.
The Blackstone Wind Farm is an approved offshore wind power project in the Black Sea area of Romania. It will have 100 individual wind turbines with a nominal output of around 5 MW each which will deliver up to 500 MW of power, enough to power over 334,821 homes, with a capital investment required of approximately US$1.4 billion.
Attila Verestóy was a Romanian chemical engineer and politician. A member of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), he was a member of the Romanian Senate for Harghita County from 1990 until 2018.
The Sălbatica I Wind Farm is wind farm located in Tulcea County, Romania. It has 35 individual wind turbines with a nominal output of around 2 MW each and delivers up to 70 MW of power, enough to power over 66,000 homes, which required a capital investment of approximately US$100 million.
Andrei Florin Țepeș is a Romanian footballer who plays as a defender for AFC Odorheiu Secuiesc.
The Armenian Church is an Armenian Catholic church located at 1 Biserica Armeană Street in Gheorgheni, Romania. It is dedicated to the Nativity of Mary and forms part of the Ordinariate for Catholics of Armenian Rite in Romania.
The 2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident refers to the incident that started in 26 January 2020 in the village of Ditrău, Harghita County, in Romania, in which around 1,800 ethnically Hungarian locals protested the employment of two, later three Sri Lankan workers by the bakery Ditrói Pékség. The locals, led by the chaplain of the village, protested that the bakery's working conditions dissatisfied them and, as well as feared that the immigrants could "impose their culture" and "threaten the Hungarian local ethnic identity". On 11 February, a petition signed by 1,800 people was sent to the town hall of the village with several requests, among them, the improvement of these working conditions, the end of immigration to the village and compensations and apologies to the population.
