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  • noun a city in central Romania in the foothills of the Transylvanian Alps

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Examples

  • Dremiel Byers won the 264. 5-pound class at the Turneul International in Brasov, Romania.

    USATODAY.com - Phelps shakes off disappointment of merely winning 2006

  • Imobiliare. ro also set up an apartment price index for the country's biggest cities, namely Brasov, Cluj-Napoca, Constanta, Iasi and Timisoara.

    Mediafax 2009

  • Mountain towns such as Brasov want to keep the bears away from inhabited areas: They empty trash bins three times a day, have relocated scavenging bears to wilder areas and fine people caught feeding or photographing the wild carnivores.

    Kathimerini English Edition : Print Edition : 2/7/09 2008

  • The downtown area of Brasov, Romania, a Transylvanian city of about 300,000 people, is jammed with the branches of at least a dozen different foreign banks, mostly from euro-zone countries.

    Europe's Banks Retreat From the East David Enrich 2011

  • I actually missed the Macrom in Brasov when you were here last and was very sad about it.

    NESTS/non-NESTS – who’s BEST? (Part One) « Ken Wilson's Blog 2009

  • On our last day in Brasov we went up the mountain directly bordering the town, awesomely named Mt.

    Brasov and Transylvania Greg 2009

  • Police said they believed Maria Barbu, 17, had tried to plug in her laptop with wet hands after the battery died during a long session on social networking site Twitter as she took a soak at her home in Brasov, central Romania.

    Information, Culture, Policy, Education: 2009

  • Located roughly halfway between Brasov and Bran, Rasnov was a much more stereotypically eastern European town, and the gray weather made it even moreso.

    Brasov and Transylvania Greg 2009

  • Police said they believed Maria Barbu, 17, had tried to plug in her laptop with wet hands after the battery died during a long session on social networking site Twitter as she took a soak at her home in Brasov, central Romania.

    Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Death by Twitter! Morbid media microblog fascination continues 2009

  • Bran Castle known as Dracula CastleThe 15th-century tyrant - the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Count Dracula - is known to have resided at Bran Castle, near Brasov in Transylvania, as either pampered guest or shackled inmate, according to conflicting reports.

    Archive 2007-01-07 Bill Crider 2007

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