Focsani

American  

[fawk-shahn-yuh] / fɔkˈʃɑn yə /

noun

1. a town in E central Romania.

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Example Sentences

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

From New York Times

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

Focsani, 100 miles northeast of Bucharest and the epicentre of the quake, was reported in ruins; Galatz, site of the German submarine base, suffered severely; and Giurgiu, principal oil port on the Danube, saw public buildings and factories reduced to mangled heaps.

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 Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg