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Focsani

American  
[fawk-shahn-yuh] / fɔkˈʃɑn jə /

noun

  1. a town in E central Romania.


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Lydia Csato was born on May 28, 1925, in Focsani, Romania, to a prosperous, cultured family.

From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2010

At week's end it hammered past Focsani, western anchor of the Gap's defenses and a main junction on the railway to Ploesti.

From Time Magazine Archive

We arrived at Focsani at noon and continued by motor to the lines, where Colonel Ressel and a few Roumanian officers were waiting to receive me.

From In the World War by Ottokar Theobald Otto Maria, Graf Czernin von und zu Chudenitz

Then Mackensen counter-attacked farther south at Focsani, while Scherbachev's regiments began to desert and the Russians in the Bukovina were being steadily driven back.

From A Short History of the Great War by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard

But the decisive battle was fought farther south, where Mackensen, advancing from Focsani, was seeking to cross the Sereth in the direction of Marasesti and Tecuciu.

From A Short History of the Great War by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard

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