Sibiu (rou)

Sibiu

Sibiu ranks 1,517th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Falun, Hispania, and Porvoo. Memorable people born in Sibiu include Klaus Iohannis, Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, and Steve Holmes. Memorable people who died in Sibiu include Samuel von Brukenthal, Alexandru Vaida-Voevod, and Otto Ferdinand von Abensperg und Traun. Sibiu has been the birth place of many gymnasts, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and noblemen. Sibiu is located in Romania.

Sibiu is a city in central Romania, situated in the historical region of Transylvania. Located some 275 km (171 mi) north-west of Bucharest, the city straddles the Cibin River, a tributary of the Olt River. Now the seat of Sibiu County, between 1692 and 1791 and 1849–65 Sibiu was the capital of the Principality of Transylvania. Until 1876, the Hecht hause in Sibiu served as the seat of the Transylvanian Saxon University. Read more on Wikipedia