Petrosni

Petrosni is a town in Hunedoara County, Transylvania, Romania, with a populace of 34,331. The metropolis has been associated with mining since the nineteenth century. "Pietros" method "stony, rocky" in Romanian. The town of Petroșani became based within the seventeenth century. In 1720, an Austrian cartographer mentions that the complete Jiu Valley become intensely populated and settlements could be visible from one end to the alternative. During the 1818 census, Petroșani had 233 population, at the same time as the entire Valley counted 2550. During this time, the principle pastime of the humans became shepherding and no urban settlement had seemed yet.

Around 1840 coal floor mining started out in Petroșani, Vulcan and Petrila. The population experienced big boom handiest inside the twentieth century throughout the communist regime, as many workers have been brought in from different parts of the u . S . A .. As other towns from the Jiu Valley, during the second half of the 19th century and most of the 20 th century, maximum sports inside the city revolved across the mines. But after the autumn of the communist regime, many mines have been closed, and the metropolis, just like the complete valley, was pressured to diversify the economic system.