Doftana
Doftana is a village in Comuna Telega, Prahova and has about 551 residents. Doftana is situated nearby to the village Telega, as well as near Brebu Megieșesc.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Doftana prison.
Doftana prison
Photo: Csifer, CC BY-SA 3.0 ro.
Doftana was a Romanian prison, sometimes referred to as "the Romanian Bastille". Built in 1895 in connection with the nearby salt mines, from 1921 it began to be used to detain political prisoners, among them Max Goldstein, a revolutionary whose detonation…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Telega and Brebu Megieșesc.
Brebu Megieșesc
Village
Photo: Nenea hartia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Brebu Megieșesc is a village, which is situated 3 km north of Doftana.
Melicești
Village
Photo: Nenea hartia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Melicești is a village, which is situated 3½ km northeast of Doftana.
Doftana
- Type: Village with 551 residents
- Description: village in Prahova County, Romania
- Category: locality
- Location: Comuna Telega, Prahova, Romania, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
45.14058° or 45° 8′ 26″ northLongitude
25.77821° or 25° 46′ 42″ eastPopulation
551Elevation
517 metres (1,696 feet)Open location code
8GQ74QRH+67OpenStreetMap ID
node 463180649OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
679171Wikidata ID
Q3033711
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Doftana” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Doftana”
- Chechen: “Дофтана”
- Dutch: “Doftana”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دوفتانا”
- French: “Doftana”
- Hebrew: “דופטאנה”
- Hungarian: “Doftana”
- Italian: “Doftana”
- Polish: “Doftana”
- Romanian: “Doftana, prahova”
- Romanian: “Doftana, Prahova”
- Romanian: “Doftana”
- Serbian: “Дофтана”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Doftana, Prahova”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Doftana”
- Tatar: “Дофтана”
- Ukrainian: “Дофтана (Прахова)”
- Ukrainian: “Дофтана (Телега, Прахова)”
- Ukrainian: “Дофтана”
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