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Roman
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Neamţ County
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Social Democratic Party
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(, a region of
Romania . It is located 46 Km East of
Piatra Neamţ , in the
Neamţ County at the confluence of
Siret and
Moldova River s.
It is thought that the name was taken from
Moldavian Voivode Roman I Of Moldavia , believed to be its founder. Roman's first son was
Alexandru Cel Bun .
- 1392 The city is mentioned in a Moldavian document, signed by Moldavia's Voivode Roman I, on March 30 . The document is one of the first of documents of the then-young state of Moldova, being the first which holds a fully legible version of the Moldova seal, bearing the aurochs, the moon, the star, and the flower, still in use on Coat Of Arms Of Moldova .
- 1408 On September 14 , Alexandru cel Bun established a new Bishopric.
- 1412 The representatives of the Catholic population of Roman, shepherded by the Bishop of Baia , attend the Council Of Constance .
- Ştefan Cel Mare build a new stone fortress on the left bank of the Siret river, to replace the old earthen one.
- 1458 , 1465 , 1488 Ştefan cel Mare's official acts mention the Cathedral of Saint Paraskeva (Paraschiva) in Roman.
- 1467 The fortress resisted the siege of the Hungarian army under King Matthias Corvinus .
- 1476 An Ottoman army, led by Mohamed II , besieged the new fortress, with the Moldavians retreating after the Battle Of Valea Albă .
- 1542 Petru Rareş ordered the construction of a new Episcopal See on the same spot.
- and Gypsies as important population groups and the handful of Catholic Hungarians and Germans not interested in joining a Church where the priests would not speak their language.
- 1561 - 1563 The last mention of the old fortress, under Despot Vodă ( Ioan Iacob Heraclid ).
- 1562 , an agent of the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I , writes his master from Roman, reporting the restoration of the Catholics' rights under Despot-Vodă (after the severe limitations under Alexandru Lăpuşneanu ).
- 1569 Ruxandra Lăpuşneanu builds a church dedicated to the Holy Virgin (''Precista Mare'') on the same spot the omonim church is placed today.
- 1595 The church ''Sfinţii Voievozi'' is built.
- 1610 The current Armenian Orthodox Church is built.
- 1623 The Franciscan missionary writes to Rome , describing Roman Catholics as Hungarian that understood and used Romanian . The Catholics appear to have a church dedicated to Saint Peter .
- 1641 The Vicar of Sofia , passing through Roman, counts 1,500 Eastern Orthodox, 450 Armenian Orthodox and 30 Hungarian Catholics. The Armenians had their own church, in place to this day.
- 1665 - 1671 Bishop Dosoftei of Roman translated the Psalter into Romanian.
- 1675 Dumitraşcu Cantacuzino , destroyed Roman fortress together with all other Moldavian fortresses, following Ottoman command.
- 1691 In December, Miron Costin , one of the first historians and writers in Romanian, is decapitated in Roman on the orders of Prince Constantin Cantemir ( Dimitrie Cantemir 's father). Costin was in custody, being carried from Bărboşi to Iaşi , where he hoped to prove his innocence; a few days earlier, the chronicler's brother had been killed in Iaşi, being believed to have tried obtaining the throne for himself. The statue marking the spot is now obscured by a blue glass pyramid near the Roman Hotel.
- 1787 The current ''Precista Mare'' church is built.
- 1798 The first hospital is built on the place where the Municipal Hospital ''Precista Mare'' is placed today.
- 1817 Talmud Torah, one of the first Jewish schools in Principality Of Moldova , is inaugurated, an important eveniment in itself as Moldova did not grant citizenship to Jews.
- 1869 The second railway in united Romania opens (December), running from Roman to Iţcani (northern railway station of Suceava ). On December 15 the Roman railway station, still in use today, was opened to the public.
- 1870 On December 27 , the Bucharest to Roman railway - through Buzău , Brăila , Galaţi , Tecuci and Mărăşeşti - was opened to the public. It was to close for two years due to technical problems, but was reestablished on September 13, 1872 .
- 1872 After a reluctant government gave its long-waited approval, the first high school of the city, ''Roman-Vodă'', was opened on September 30 in the building that is still in use today as that of School No. 1.
- 1897 The government approved the construction of a new building for the ''Roman-Vodă'' High School.
- 1957 The steel tubes Factory , nowadays Mittal Steel Roman S.A., started production. Today, it is the top producer in Romania.
- 1962 The Museum of Natural Sciences was founded.
- 1968 Roman lost the county capital status, as Roman county is included in the new Neamţ county, as part of Nicolae Ceauşescu 's administrative reform. Despite efforts by some citizen organisation after the fall of communism, no change is foreseeable.
- 1993 The statue of Roman I, now a symbol of the city, was erected near the City Hall.
- 2004 A statue of Ştefan cel Mare was erected at the city's southern entrance.
- Mihail Jora , a Romanian composer, is born on 1891 .
- Otilia Cazimir , one of the most well-known Romanian poets, is born in Roman on 12 February , 1894 .
- Jean Mihail (Mihailovici), one of the first Romanian film directors, is born in 1896 .
- Sergiu Celibidache is born on June 28 , 1912 and lives during his childhood in the house which bears his name (also known as ''The Music School'').
- Max (Marcel) Blecher , an important poet of the interwar period, dies at Roman, at the age of only 29, in 1938 .
- Viorica Agarici , chairman of the local Red Cross during WWII and one of the only 52 Romanian Righteous Among The Nations commemorated by the Israeli people at Yad Vashem . On the night of 2 July 1941 , after caring for the Romanian Army wounded coming from the Russian front, she overheard people moaning from a train transporting Jewish survivors of the The Iaşi Pogrom . Taking advantage of her position, she asked and received permission to give food and water to those unfortunate passengers. Her actions were strongly condemned by the Roman community and she had to move to Bucharest.
- Michael Cretu , leader of the musical project Enigma , is born on a suburb of Roman, on 18 May , 1957.
- Sorin-Ovidiu Vântu, one of the richest Romanians (estimated at 460 million $), lived in Roman since his birth in 1957 until around 1990 . Also a controversial figure, one of his businesses is sued for fraud by an association of over 22,000 plaintiffs.
