Târgu Ocna
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Târgu Ocna ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; Template:Langx) is a town in Bacău County, Romania. It administers two villages, Poieni and Vâlcele.
The town is situated on the left bank of the Trotuș River, an affluent of the Siret, and on a branch railway which crosses the Ghimeș Pass from Moldavia into Transylvania. Târgu Ocna is built among the Carpathian Mountains on bare hills formed of rock salt.<ref name="EB1911">{{#if: |
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Târgu Ocna's main industry is salt production, as it is the largest provider in Moldavia. Other industries include wood processing, coal mining, steel producing, and petroleum-based industries.
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People
- Gabriela Adameșteanu (born 1942), writer
- Sorin Antohi (born 1957), political scientist
- Template:Ill (1898–1983), painter
- Miron Grindea (1909–1995), journalist
- Dan Iuga (born 1945), pistol shooter
- Template:Ill (1914–1973), vice admiral, commander of the Romanian Navy (1963–1973)
- Template:Ill (born 1949), mathematician
- Costache Negri (1812–1876), writer
- Mihăiță Nițulescu (Template:Circa 1969–2022), boxer
- Template:Ill (1902–1968), poet
- Michel Sturdza (1886–1980), nobleman, diplomat, and convicted war criminal
- Ion Talianu (1898–1956), actor
- Traian Vasai (1929–2013), painter
See also
References
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