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O⋅ra⋅dea

[aw-rah-dyah]
–noun
a city in NW Romania. 178,407.
Also called Oradea Mare [mah-re] .
German, Grosswardein.
Hungarian, Nagyvárad.
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O·ra·dea   (ô-räd'yä)   
A city of northwest Romania near the Hungarian border. It was destroyed by the Tartars in 1241 and held by the Turks from 1660 to 1692. Hungary ceded it to Romania in 1919 and again after World War II. Population: 206,000.
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Oradea

city, capital of Bihor judet (county), northwestern Romania. It lies about 8 miles (13 km) east of the Hungarian border, along the Crisul Repede River where it leaves the western foothills of the Western Carpathians and flows onto the Hungarian Plain

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