Pitesti

[pi-tesht]

noun

1. a city in S central Romania, on the Argeş River.

Example Sentences

According to the DNSC, 25 hospitals were affected by the attack, starting with the The Pitesti Paediatric Hospital.

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We left the capital midweek, driving west on the modern main highway through Pitesti — then veering north to Curtea de Arges, on the threshold of Transylvania.

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Among the detainees that survived Pitesti are Romanian Orthodox priest Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa who spent 21 years as a political prisoner and Corneliu Coposu, an anti-communist politician and well-known dissident who died in 1995.

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Several thousand prisoners who had fallen foul of the communist regime underwent what was known as “The Pitesti Experiment.”

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Several thousand prisoners who had fallen afoul of the communist regime underwent what was known as “The Pitesti Experiment.”

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