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82-529: Berești is a town in Galați County , Romania . It is situated in the historical region of Western Moldavia . The town is situated in the southern part of the Moldavian Plateau , at an altitude of 140 m (460 ft). It is located in the northeastern part of Galați County, at the junction of county roads DJ242A and DJ242B, about 83 km (52 mi) north of the county seat, Galați , on
164-610: A complete parallel to Romanian official history, which included among the Dacians such diverse figures as those of the Asen dynasty , and Horea . The main volume of his writings is Dacia Preistorică ("Prehistoric Dacia"). After World War I and throughout Greater Romania 's existence, the ideology increased its appeal. The Iron Guard flirted with the concept, making considerable parallels between its projects and interpretations of what would have been Zalmoxis' message. Mircea Eliade
246-775: A high percentage of residents who declared themselves Romanian (90.07%), respectively 482,932 out of a total of 536,167. The second ethnic group in the number of inhabitants was that of the Roma ;- 16,990 (3.17%), followed by all the others (which did not exceed 1% of the total): Russian-Lipovans - 180, Greeks -  ;156, Hungarians - 133, Turks - 78, Italians - 68, Germans - 62, Jews - 57, Ukrainians - 48, Armenians - 29, Tatars - 4, Serbs - 8, Bulgarians - 7, Macedonians - 6, Poles - 3, other ethnic groups - 477. For 34,916 inhabitants (6.51%),
328-663: A low plain, between the Prut River to the east, the Siret River to the west and southwest. Both flow into the Danube which forms the border with Tulcea County to the southeast. Galați County is bordered by: Located at the extreme east–central part of Romania, at the confluence of the Danube with the rivers Siret and Prut, Galați County has an area of 4,466.3 square kilometres (1,724.4 sq mi), which represents 1.9% of
410-633: A rejection of the ideas that Romanian territories only served as a colony of Rome, voided of initiative, and subject to an influx of Latins which would have completely wiped out a Dacian presence. Dacianism most likely came about with the views professed in the 1870s by Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu , one of the main points of the dispute between him and the conservative Junimea . For example, Hasdeu's Etymologicum magnum Romaniae not only claimed that Dacians gave Rome many of her Emperors (an idea supported in recent times by Iosif Constantin Drăgan ), but also that
492-543: A singular concept after the 1974 11th Congress of the Communist Party of Romania , when they attached Dacianism to official Marxism , arguing that the Dacians had produced a permanent and "unorganized State". The Dacians had been favored by several communist generations as autochthonous insurgents against an " Imperialist " Rome (with the Stalinist leadership of the 1950s proclaiming them to be closely linked with
574-478: A tabular (flat) relief with a more pronounced fragmentation in the north and weaker in the south;five geomorphological units can be distinguished, according to altitude, position and relief features: Covurlui Plateau, Tecuci Plain, Covurlui Plain , Low Siret Meadow, and Low Prut Meadow. The old geological formations are of little importance from the point of view of mineral resources. Hydrocarbons (crude oil and natural gas) have been identified and are being extracted in
656-524: A unitary structure from the geomorphological point of view. The main watercourses are the rivers Danube , Prut , and Siret , the main lakes are Brateș 24 square kilometres (9.3 sq mi) and Tălăbasca. The maximum altitude is reached in the Fălciu Hills: 274 metres (899 ft). Due to its position on the outside of the Carpathian arc , Galați County occupies the area of interpenetration of
738-477: Is a Romanian term describing the tendency to ascribe, largely relying on questionable data and subjective interpretation, an idealized past to the country as a whole. While particularly prevalent during the regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu , its origin in Romanian scholarship dates back more than a century. The term refers to perceived aggrandizing of Dacian and earlier roots of today's Romanians . This phenomenon
820-469: Is administered by a county council consisting of 34 councilors. The president of the Galați County Council and the county councilors are elected locally, for a 4-year term. Following the 2020 local elections , the council is chaired by Costel Fotea ( PSD ), which has been in office since June 2016. The Galați County Council, renewed at the 2020 local elections , consists of 34 counsellors, with
902-546: Is also a very important sector for the regional economy: about 40% of the employed population works in this sector, which contributes 16% to the regional GDP. Vegetable growers from the Tecuci area (especially those from Matca commune) and those from the Galați basin (Bădălan area and Vânători commune) are recognized for the quality of their products. The county of Galați is also an important transport hub. Thanks to its location on
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#1732797779550984-521: Is also pejoratively labelled " Dacomania " or " Dacopathy " or sometimes " Thracomania ", while its proponents prefer " Dacology ". The term protochronism (anglicized from the Romanian : protocronism , from the Ancient Greek terms for "first in time"), originally coined to refer to the supposed pioneering character of the Romanian culture , is sometimes used as a synonym. In this context,
1066-686: Is found in the form Gălați or Gălat , and in those from other countries it is mentioned as Gallaz , Galatz , Galazzo Finally, other hypotheses call for Slavic or Cuman etymologies. According to one, the inhabitants of Galicia - Ukrainians originally from the mountainous regions of the Carpathians - would have given the name to the city of Galați in the 13th century, when the Principality of Galicia-Volhynia expanded its area of commercial and political influence in Moldavia . This
1148-598: Is located on the lower terrace of the Bârlad river , at the point called La Rateș , where there was once an inn. In the eastern part of the county, on the territory of the Băneasa commune, between the villages of Băneasa and Roșcani, is the Băneasa Forest, where, in addition to the forest itself, the wild peony is also protected, on account of which legends were created and a great popular celebration that takes place every year,
1230-503: Is the thesis favoured by Russian and Ukrainian historical circles. Also, the Serbs claim that the origin of the name is Galac . According to the other, the name derives from the Cuman galat , which appears, also from the 13th century, in other toponyms from the surroundings, for example Gălățui , a lake name whose suffix is Cuman (the suffix [-ui] means "water". The county lies on
1312-1007: The Alps , where they developed Hallstatt culture in Europe. Also, they link the name Galați to the Tabula Peutingeriana from 1265 (map where, in addition to Galatia in central Anatolia, there is also Tanasia-Galatia north of the Black Sea) and state that the Celts of Galatia would be the population mentioned in the Bible in Paul the Apostle 's Epistle to the Galatians . And according to them, genealogy studies with modern tools of molecular genetics would support their thesis. However,
1394-624: The Ezerovo ring in Greek script has been dated to the 5th century BC. A vase fragment from the La Tène period (see illustration above), a probable illiterate imitation of Greek letters, indicates visual knowledge of the Greek alphabet during the La Tène period prior to the Roman invasion. Some Romanian writers writing at the end of the 19th century and later identified as protochronists, particularly
1476-595: The Odesa region in the west of Ukraine) as well as the Free Economic Zone Galați – Giurgiulești – Reni (Romania-Moldova-Ukraine). Codex Latinus Parisinus from 1395 mentions a "Caladda at the bend of the Danube", a Genoese port of call where it could dock. The name Galata , a neighbourhood of Constantinople and another former Genoese port of call, has the same origin. The Romanian academic world mostly adheres to this Italian origin dating back to
1558-662: The Slavic peoples ); however, Ceaușescu's was an interpretation with a distinct motivation, making a connection with the opinions of previous Dacianists. The regime started a partnership with Italian resident, former Iron Guardist and millionaire Iosif Constantin Drăgan , who continued championing the Dacian cause even after the fall of Ceaușescu. Critics regard these excesses as the expression of an economic nationalist course, amalgamating provincial frustrations and persistent nationalist rhetoric, as autarky and cultural isolation of
1640-457: The "Peony Festival". Also, in the forest at Hanu Conachi , the "Acacia Festival" is held every year. These two reserves are not only scientific objectives, but also permanent attractions for tourists. According to the Köppen climate classification , the territory of Galați County belongs entirely to the continental climate sector. The southern and central part, which represents more than 90% of
1722-590: The 14th century: caladda in Genoese means "mooring hold", and the Genoese had numerous such places on the shores of the Black Sea and on the banks of the Danube , including, in present-day Romania, Giurgiu and Licostomo, near Chilia Veche . The discovery of the thesaurus of Barboși (southern quarter of the city of Galați , on the left bank of the Siret river), composed of 3,700 silver coins bearing
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#17327977795501804-410: The 17th century Umbrărești (1649), Salcea (1695) etc. On the map of Dimitrie Cantemir from Descriptio Moldaviae , the settlements Nicorești , Poiana , Piscu , Corod , Oancea , Adam , Tulucești , Foltești , Tecuci , Galați are recorded. At the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th century, Slobozia -type settlements appeared, which lead to the thickening of
1886-630: The 4th largest industrial center of Romania, in recent years it has registered a sharp decline, which led to its inclusion, along with 5 other counties in Romania (Mureș, Prahova, Dolj, Gorj, Hunedoara) in the Just Transition Mechanism financed by the European Union, which attempts to reduce the social and economic impact of the transition of mono-industrial and coal-intensive regions to a decarbonized economy. According to
1968-752: The County Public Service for the Administration of the Public and Private Domain Galați, the County Directorate for Records of Persons Galați and the Medical-Social Unit Gănești. The analysis of the succession and distribution of the archaeological evidence of material culture shows that the territory of the county was populated and entered the circuit of human use from prehistoric times. The oldest human remains in
2050-584: The Covurlui Plateau date from the Final Paleolithic and Epipaleolithic. Paleolithic cultures are located in Berești and Cavadinești . The Upper Paleolithic was highlighted in the north of the county, on the current territory of the villages Pleșa , Puricani , Crăiesti , Bălăbănești , Șipote , Rădești , Băneasa , Suceveni . In the strategic archaeological succession, settlements from
2132-594: The Greek inscriptions Gallati and Kallatiasy , will tip the scales towards the theory supported by Vasile Pârvan and Carl Patsch , which is the basis of the name of the Roman province Galatia in Asia Minor . The name Galați is also known as Kalas in Turkish, Γκαλάτσι in Greek and גאלאץ in Hebrew. But the followers of protochronism ( pseudohistorical current which became very influential in Romania under
2214-627: The Romanian poet and journalist Cezar Bolliac , an enthusiast amateur archaeologist, claimed to have discovered a Dacian alphabet. They were immediately criticized for archaeological and linguistic reasons. Alexandru Odobescu , criticized some of Bolliac's conclusions. In 1871 Odobescu, along with Henric Trenk , inventoried the Fundul Peșterii cave, one of the Ialomiței caves (See the Romanian Misplaced Pages article ) near Buzău . Odobescu
2296-879: The Technological High School Simion Mehedinți Galați, the Special High School Emil Gârleanu Galați, Special Professional School Paul Popescu Neveanu Galați, Special High School Constantin Pufan Galați, High School Saints Peter and Paul , and Special High School Constantin Păunescu in Tecuci. The public institutions/services under the coordination of the County Council are the General Directorate of Social Assistance and Child Protection Galați,
2378-528: The W and NW (especially in the warm semester), the equally high frequency of advections of temperate-continental air from the NE and E (especially in cold season), as well as less frequent advections of arctic air from the N and tropical maritime air from the SW and S. On December 1, 2021, the population of the county was 496,892 inhabitants (down from 2011 when 536,167 inhabitants were registered), which represents 2.61% of
2460-500: The acceleration of the process of disintegration of feudal relations and the emergence and emphasis of capitalist production relations. The popular masses of the county acted in the anti-Ottoman movement from 1821 and in the revolutionary ones from 1848. The active participation of the population of the former counties Covurlui and Tecuci in the political fight for the unification of the Romanian Principalities
2542-783: The agricultural area in use, livestock and poultry and the technical potential in land improvement arrangements and equipment with tractors and agricultural machines. Galați County has 358,311 hectares (885,410 acres) of agricultural land, of which 292,926 hectares (723,840 acres) are arable, 43,612 hectares (107,770 acres) are pastures, 656 hectares (1,620 acres) are hayfields, 19,397 hectares (47,930 acres) are vineyards and wine nurseries and 1,720 hectares (4,300 acres) are orchards and fruit nurseries. The county also has 43,814 hectares (108,270 acres) of forests and other lands with forest vegetation, 13,231 hectares (32,690 acres) of lakes and ponds, as well as 3,554 hectares (8,780 acres) of other degraded and unproductive surfaces. In this context, agriculture
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2624-596: The areas Schela - Independența , Munteni - Berheci and Brateș. Young and especially Quaternary geological formations, consisting of common clays, sands, gravels are exploited in Galați , Tecuci , Braniștea and in the minor bed of the river Prut , having particular importance for the construction materials industry. The main natural reserve in Galați County is located on the sands of the Tecuci Plain, namely south of
2706-791: The authority of the Galați County Council are Paul Păltănea History Museum in Galați, the Visual Art Museum in Galați, the Răsvan Angheluță Natural Sciences Museum Complex in Galați, the County Library V. A. Urechia Galați, the Cultural Center Dunărea de Jos Galați. The educational structures under the coordination of the Galați County Council are the ones that form the school network organized in Galați County for special high school and special post-high school education, respectively
2788-414: The banks of the Danube and near the borders with Moldova and Ukraine , a multimodal transport hub for logistics transfer (ship-truck-train) is being built in Galați, which will lead to an increase in the volume of trade in goods with Eastern Europe and the importance of both the city and the county in terms of international trade. If during the years of the communist era , Galați County had become
2870-415: The border with Vaslui County . This Galați County location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Gala%C8%9Bi County Galați ( Romanian pronunciation: [ɡaˈlatsʲ] ) is a county ( județ ) of Romania , in Moldavia region, with the capital city at Galați , between 45°25'N and 46°10'N latitude, 27°20'E and 28°10'E longitude. It borders
2952-628: The civilian settlement on the hearth of the city of Galați today maintained trade links with Lower Moesia , with Greece and Asia Minor on the Danube and the Black Sea . In the 10th-13th centuries, forms of early feudalism , closely related to Byzantine influence, were registered on the current territory of Galați County, a fact attested by the numerous Byzantine coins discovered. In the XV-XVI centuries, numerous settlements are attested by written historical documents, such as Blăjerii de Jos (1448), Liești (1495), Șerbănești (1430), Bucești (1548), Drăgănești (1575), and in
3034-462: The counties of Vaslui , Vrancea , Brăila , Tulcea . To the east it borders the Republic of Moldova , the border crossing points being Galați– Giurgiulești (road and broad gauge railway ) and Oancea– Cahul (road). The county was established in 1968, through the territorial reorganization of the former Galați Region [ ro ] , which included a territory similar to that of
3116-403: The country's surface. The county includes 4 urban centers (the cities of Galați and Tecuci , the towns of Târgu Bujor and Berești ) and 61 communes comprising 180 villages. Confluence area between the Covurlui Plateau to the north (50% of the county's surface), the Tecuci and Covurlui plains (34%), and the lower Siret and Prut meadows to the south (16%), Galați County represents
3198-427: The country. From the point of view of the workforce, 121,433 employees (2.16% of the national total - 16th place) and 10,192 unemployed people (4.22% - 4th place) were registered in Galați county, and the average salary net was 3,703 lei - 15th place nationally. Regarding the balance of international trade (FOB/CIF balance), in 2022, Galați county recorded a deficit of 377.4 million euros, after in
3280-496: The county, namely 17 hotels, 6 hostels, 5 motels, 6 tourist villas, 1 bungalow and 9 tourist guesthouses, with a total accommodation capacity of 2,196 beds. 51,673 arrivals and 84,786 overnight stays were registered, the net capacity utilization index in operation being 18.1%. In 2022, Galați County registered 97,526 tourists and 151,886 overnight stays, an increase compared to previous years. Protochronism Dacianism
3362-609: The current Brăila and Galați counties, plus the northern part of Tulcea County. Galați County is part of the South-East Development Region (together with the counties of Vrancea, Buzău, Brăila, Constanța and Tulcea), of the Lower Danube Euroregion (together with the counties of Brăila and Tulcea, with the Cahul and Cantemir districts in the south of the Republic of Moldova and with
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3444-403: The demographic structure of the county. Thus, the population growth was stimulated by the development of agriculture, by the liberalization of trade, by the intensification of transport, by the processes of free transfer by the state of land ownership rights to the peasants. In the first half of the 19th century, social-political turmoil and numerous conflicts took place. They contributed to
3526-661: The descendants of only the Dacians, who spoke a language close to Latin . Other controversial theories of his include the Dacians (or their ancestors) developing of the first alphabet in the world (see the Tărtăria tablets ), the first set of laws or the Dacian conquest of Western Europe , India , Iraq , Japan and the Americas . "If the Harappa culture did not disappear after the Carpatho-Danubian invasion, how come
3608-510: The development of unionist ideas. Galati County has an industrial-agrarian economy. Industrial units and those providing services are mainly concentrated in urban areas, while in rural areas the main activities are agricultural. The statistics regarding the number of merchants operating in the urban environment of Galați county show a significant concentration of them in the county seat municipality, where over 86% of them are found. The other municipality, Tecuci, gathers only 11% of merchants, while
3690-508: The edges of the East-European, South-European and partly Central-European geographical sub-regions, which is faithfully reflected both in the climatic conditions, in the vegetation cover and soils, as well as in the geological structure of the relief. The latter offer a view with gentle heights ranging between 310 metres (1,020 ft) in the north and 5–10 metres (16–33 ft) in the south. The territory of Galați County itself presents
3772-582: The exploitation of the Tărtăria tablets as certain proof that writing originated on proto-Dacian territory, and the belief that the Dacian language survived all the way to the Middle Ages . An additional, but not universal, feature is the attempted connection between the supposed monotheism of the Zalmoxis cult and Christianity , in the belief that Dacians easily adopted and subsequently influenced
3854-814: The following composition: Galați County has 2 municipalities, 2 towns and 61 communes The health units under the authority of the Galați County Council are the County Emergency Clinical Hospital Sfântul Apostol Andrei Galați, the Clinical Hospital for Infectious Diseases Sfânta Cuvioasa Parascheva Galați, the Pneumophthisiology Hospital Galați, the Municipal Hospital Anton Cincu Tecuci, and Târgu Bujor City Hospital. The cultural institutions under
3936-485: The general climatic background, the meadows of the Siret, the Prut and the Danube introduce into the values and regime of the main meteorological elements, changes that lead to the creation of a specific meadow topoclimate, wetter and cooler in summer and wetter and less cold in winter. The general circulation of the atmosphere has as its main features the relatively high frequency of slow advections of temperate-oceanic air from
4018-565: The history journal Saeculum did not speak highly of him, either. "Dacian alphabet" is a term used in Romanian protochronism and Dacianism for pseudohistorical claims of a supposed alphabet of the Dacians prior to the conquest of Dacia and its absorption into the Roman Empire . Its existence was first proposed in the late 19th century by Romanian nationalists , but has been completely rejected by mainstream modern scholarship. In
4100-483: The idea's appeal at the time. In 1974 Edgar Papu published in the mainstream cultural monthly Secolul XX an essay titled "The Romanian Protochronism", arguing for Romanian chronological priority for some European achievements. The idea was promptly adopted by the nationalist Ceaușescu regime, which subsequently encouraged and amplified a cultural and historical discourse claiming the prevalence of autochthony over any foreign influence. Ceaușescu's ideologues developed
4182-726: The information was unavailable. From the point of view of the citizenship of the county residents, on December 1, 2021, 496,048 were Romanian citizens (99.83%), Moldovan - 322, Italian - 123, Turkish - 37, British - 30, Ukrainians - 30, Spanish - 23, Greeks - 20, Syrians - 20, Germans - 14, French - 13, Americans - 12, Dutch - 8, Iraqis - 7, Serbian - 4, Hungarians - 3. 39 inhabitants were citizens of other European countries, and 125 of countries from other continents. 3 were stateless, and 7 did not declare their citizenship. Galati County
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#17327977795504264-403: The invaders themselves vanished, leaving no traces behind, or leaving, as Sir Wheeler put it, "nothing but a name?" How could the nomad Carpatho-Danubians, mainly a people of breeders, give birth not only to a new religion, but found splendid cities that outlived them to this day? How could the greatest and most complex literature in the world have come from these Carpatho-Danubian people? Actually,
4346-506: The late Ceaușescu's regime came along with an increase in Dacianist messages. Vladimir Tismăneanu wrote: "Protochronism" was the party-sponsored ideology that claimed Romanian precedence in major scientific and cultural discoveries. It was actually the underpinning of Ceaușescu's nationalist tyranny. No longer backed by a totalitarian state structure after the 1989 Revolution , the interpretation still enjoys popularity in several circles. The main representative of current Protochronism
4428-421: The migration of the Celts. If ancient historians such as Herodotus really mention the presence of Celtic tribes in the Balkans and their migration to Anatolia in the 4th century BC, to found Galatia , Romanian protochronists , for their part, date the toponym Galați to the 23rd century BC, claiming that on the contrary, the proto-Celts would have migrated later from Anatolia to
4510-408: The mouth of the Siret River - Barboși - Poiana - Trotuș - Oituz , which demonstrates the intensity of the material and spiritual activity of the natives. The Geto-Dacian culture is represented by settlements located on the current hearths of Galați and Frumușița and by the Piroboridava settlement ( Poiana ). Roman life was particularly intense. The Roman military fort from Barboși and
4592-610: The network of rural settlements, of which Slobozia Blăneasa , Slobozia Oancea , Slobozia Conachi , and Slobozia Corni still exist. In the second half of the 19th century, new rural settlements appeared as a result of the increase in the production of grain goods after the unification of the Romanian Principalities of 1859, the agrarian reform of 1864 and after the Rural Law of 1878. The different forms of population growth - migrations, agricultural herding, slow infiltrations and colonizations, immigrations ( Lipovans , Greeks, Bulgarians, Armenians, Jews etc.) - contributed to changing
4674-445: The old Euxine phase (about 400,000 years ago). Also, not far from Galați, namely to the north of the city, but on the Prut valley, on the territory of the commune Tulucești , in the place called Râpa Bălaia , there is the second paleontological reserve. The third paleontological reserve is located near the city of Tecuci, on the road Tecuci - Valea Mărului - Pechea - Galați , with a surface of 15 hectares (37 acres). The reservation
4756-543: The old Neolithic, belonging to the Starčevo–Körös–Criș culture , which appear in the form of unfortified settlements, were also located. Traces of this culture were discovered at Negrilești and north of Tecuci , in the Bârlad River valley, at Munteni . In Berești , traces of the pre-Cucutenian and Cucutenian cultures were highlighted. The pre-Cucutenian culture is represented by bichrome and trichome painted ceramics at Stoicani , Măstăcani , Smulți , Drăgănești , Băneasa , Suceveni . The citadel of Stoicani shows, through
4838-464: The opinion of Sorin Olteanu , a modern expert at the Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology , Bucharest, "[Dacian script] is pure fabrication [...] purely and simply Dacian writing does not exist", adding that many scholars believe that the use of writing may have been subject to a religious taboo among the Dacians. It is known that the ancient Dacians used the Greek and Latin alphabets , though possibly not as early as in neighbouring Thrace where
4920-414: The penetration of some influences of the Greek civilization from Dobrogea. Thus, Greek ceramics and coins were discovered in Galați , Barboși (neighborhood of the city Galați) and Frumușita , and in Galați it seems that there was even a Greek settlement. The archaeological remains allow the reconstruction of an axis of the penetration of Greek civilization and material culture in the direction of Histria -
5002-412: The period 2011-2020. The territory showed a sharp downward trend, of 6.5%, in the period 2012-2020, of the global population, while the downward trend of the working-age population was in the same period of 10.5%. Between 2010 and 2020, the average net salary was, each year, below the national average by about 11%, but the downward trend is clear. Between 2016 and 2020, the difference to the national average
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#17327977795505084-416: The production of rolled products and 90.4% of the production of cold-rolled sheets and strips. More than two-thirds of metallurgical production is exported. The naval industry (Damen Shipyard Galați), a branch of great tradition locally, produces river and sea vessels up to 65,000 tdw, as well as marine drilling platforms. In the economy of Galați County, agriculture occupies an important place, due to
5166-448: The regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu ) links the name Galați , even if it does not appear before the 14th century, to the Celtic root and Indo-European languages , [gall-] meaning "foreigner" ( Gaul , gaulois , Gaulish , Galatia , Galicia , Galicia ) " and being a derivation of Galatiens (the Greek name of the Gauls , on the grounds that this area, inhabited in antiquity by the Thracians from north ( Dacians ), also experienced
5248-542: The religion. Also, Christianity is argued to have been preached to the Daco-Romans by Saint Andrew , who is considered doubtfully as the clear origin of modern-day Romanian Orthodoxy . Despite the lack of supporting evidence, it is the official church stance, being found in history textbooks used in Romanian Orthodox seminaries and theology institutes. The ideas have been explained as part of an inferiority complex present in Romanian nationalism, one which also manifested itself in works not connected with Dacianism, mainly as
5330-523: The remains of material culture, the occupations of hunting, animal husbandry and plant cultivation practiced by the inhabitants of this territory, as well as some household crafts, such as pottery, spinning, weaving. The continuity of the population is proven by the material cultures belonging to the period of transition to the Bronze Age , represented by the "shack" type settlements from Stoicani . The Iron Age left numerous material traces discovered and researched in more than 15 current localities, showing
5412-433: The ruling dynasties of early medieval Wallachia and Moldavia were descendants of a caste of Dacians established with "King" ( chieftain ) Burebista . Other advocates of the idea before World War I included the amateur archaeologist Cezar Bolliac , as well as Teohari Antonescu and Nicolae Densușianu . The latter composed an intricate and unsupported theory on Dacia as the center of European prehistory, authoring
5494-405: The statements of the President of the County Council, Costel Fotea (May 2022), " the transformation of steel production is an approach that will be carried out in a context where, in recent years, technological developments and market conditions have determined a decline in the degree of employment in the metallurgical industry of the county. Thus, the number of employees decreased by more than 36% in
5576-403: The surface, is a plain area, and the northern extremity - which accounts for almost 10% of the territory - is a hilly area. In both climatic areas, summers are very hot and dry and winters are frosty, marked by strong blizzards, but also by frequent temperature changes caused by advections of warm and moist air from the S and SW that cause intervals of warming and melting of the snow cover. Against
5658-472: The term makes reference to the trend (noticed in several versions of Romanian nationalism ) to ascribe a unique quality to the Dacians and their civilization. Dacianists attempt to prove either that Dacians had a major part to play in ancient history or even that they had the ascendancy over all cultures (with a particular accent on Ancient Rome , which, in a complete reversal of the founding myth , would have been created by Dacian migrants). Also noted are
5740-406: The territory of Romania, located at 80 kilometres (50 mi) from the Black Sea and approximately 250 kilometres (160 mi) from Bucharest and the cities of Iași , Ploiești , Constanța , Chișinău (Republic of Moldova), and Odesa (Ukraine). The ethnic composition of Galați County in 2011 According to the 2011 census , the ethnic structure of Galați County was relatively compact, with
5822-404: The theory most accepted by historians is that the name Galați derives from old names of people, inhabitants of this area of the country. As Professor Păltănea also concludes, the onomastic value of the word Galați is proven by old inscriptions on which the names of people like Vasile Gălată , Petrea Galați , Marin Galați were found. In Romanian documents and chronicles, the name of the city
5904-494: The throne of Bahataral (according to some, today's Banat-Romania). His theories are, however, disregarded by historical journals and most historians, e.g. Mircea Babeș, Lucian Boia and Alexandra Tomiță, who label these theories as pseudoscience and anachronistic and consider that there is not enough scientific evidence to support them. Dacia , journal of the Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology , and
5986-405: The total population of Romania (the country's fifteenth county). Of that population, 242,055 are men and 254,837 women, with 259,071 living in urban areas and 237,821 in rural areas. The population density is 111.3/km (288.1/sq mi). The seat of the county - Galați , the eighth largest city in Romania, with a population of 217,851 inhabitants, is the largest maritime port of the Danube on
6068-412: The town of Liesti , around the village of Hanu Conachi , on a strip of about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) long and 05–1 kilometre (3.11–0.62 mi) wide with an area of about 84 hectares (210 acres) and which continues to the Siret meadow. A few distance from the city of Galați is the paleontological reserve of Barboși (Tirighina) with an area of about 1 hectare (2.5 acres), containing mollusk fossils from
6150-413: The towns of Berești and Târgu-Bujor have significantly lower percentages - 0.4% and 1.5% respectively. On the national economy as a whole, Galați county is the main producer of pig iron , crude steel , hot or cold-rolled sheets and strips, and the second in the production of maritime ships. The metallurgical industry in Galați (Liberty Steel Works) accounts for 55.6% of Romania's steel production, 55% of
6232-508: The two previous years it had recorded a surplus of 96 and 55.5 million euro respectively. Regarding the classification of economic activities in the county according to turnover in 2019, the first place is the activities of wholesale and retail trade, repair and maintenance of motor vehicles and motorcycles (41.79%), followed by those in the manufacturing industry (32.95%) and those from agriculture (9.71%) and construction (8.89%). In 2020, there were 51 tourist reception structures in
6314-587: The whole Vedic literature is based on four texts (the oldest being Rig-Veda, Yajur-Veda and Sama-Veda, the later Athara-Veda and two poems resembling the Iliad and the Odyssey only two thousand years older; Ramnayana and Mahabharata have preserved a toponymy echoing that of the Aryan Carpatho-Danubians' homeland and share the same main theme – the enmity and rancor between two families fighting over
6396-469: Was -14%. The territory has an energy poverty rate of 55% in winter and 40% year-round. In December 2021, 10,626 unemployed persons were registered in the territory, of which 4,681 women. The unemployment rate was 5.65% in December 2021, nearly double the national average of 2.69% ". On May 1, 2023, the natural increase of the county's population was negative, respectively -695, the 6th highest in
6478-458: Was determined, in large part, by the fact that two of the most important militants for unification lived and worked here: Alexandru Ioan Cuza , former pârcălab ( burgrave ) of Covurlui County , and Costache Negri (born in the village of Mînjina ). At Mînjina, prominent personalities of the Romanian nation, such as Nicolae Bălcescu , Ion Ghica , Mihail Kogălniceanu , Vasile Alecsandri , Alecu Russo , and Grigore Alexandrescu participated in
6560-405: Was notably preoccupied with Zalmoxis' cult, arguing in favor of its structural links with Christianity; his theory on Dacian history, viewing Romanization as a limited phenomenon, is celebrated by contemporary partisans of Dacianism. In a neutral context, the Romanian archaeology school led by Vasile Pârvan investigated scores of previously ignored Dacian sites, which indirectly contributed to
6642-562: Was still Drăgan (now deceased), but the New York City -based physician Napoleon Săvescu took over after Drăgan's death. Together, they issued the magazine Noi, Dacii ("We Dacians") and organized a yearly "International Congress of Dacology". Săvescu still does those. Săvescu's most famous theory says that the Romanians are not descendants of the Roman colonists and assimilated Dacians, as mainstream historians say, but that they are
6724-557: Was the first to be fascinated by its writings, which were later dated to the 3rd or 4th century. In 2002, the controversial Romanian historian, Viorica Enăchiuc, stated that the Codex Rohonczi is written in a Dacian alphabet. The equally controversial linguist Aurora Petan (2005) claims that some Sinaia lead plates could contain unique Dacian scripts. The linguist George Pruteanu called protochronism as "the barren and paranoid nationalism", because protochronism claims that
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