...ment, ICERP in the domain of petrochemical products, CONSPROIECT in the civil and industrial engineering due to the activity of some important companies, beginning ith the four refineries PETROTEL LUK OIL S.A, ASTRA ROMN, VEGA and S.N.P. PETROM PETROBRAZI, and continuing by the distribution firms for petroleum products S.N.P. PETROM PECO PRAHOVA, SHELL, MOL ROMANIA, by those in the chemical and petroleum equipment branch UPETROM 1 MAI, UZUC, UZTEL, 24 IANUARIE, FLINTAB ROMANIA, by the heavy duty bearings plant that has just been bought by the American company TIMKEN TIMKEN ROMANIA, by the steel cables plant CABLUL ROMNESC, by the pipeline oil transport CONPET, by the polyethylene products plant POLITEH, by the detergents plant DERO LEVER, by the cloths factory DOROBANbUL, by the ready made clothes factory MODEXIM, by the furniture plant ANTECO, by the food and drink plants SOCIETATEA DE IMBUTELIAT COCA COLA, PROLA, EFES PILSNER, EXTRAPAN, DI APOLLO INDUSTRIA CRNII, the tobacco industry BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO, in the printing industry - MAYR MELNHOF PACKAGING ROMANIA, in constructions CIPROM, INSPET, UMO, CONTRASIMEX, ASCM., CONSTIL.The private initiative led to the creation of some important firms in the construction sector ROOL CONSTRUCT, NOVA CONS, in the computer manufacturing SPRINT COMPUTERS, PLATIN SYSTEMSThe municipalityAs any settlement, Ploiesti has alays had a leader of its on. First, there ere a magistrate and ton councillors, afterards a chairman and an executive committee and finally a mayor and a ton council. All of them did their best to solve the ton s problems concerning the aspect, the constructions and the public utilities, the salubrity and to contribute to the local economical development, social protection, culture, education and local patrimony.At first, the municipality did not have premises of its on, renting various buildings. Later on they afforded to get to buildings constructed. The first one THE OLD TON HALL, hich used to be situated on the present day Prahova Hotel, housed the Ton Hall beteen 1868 1894. It as demolished after 1940.Beteen 1894 1972 the Ton Hall as to be found in the Ne Ton Hall. The edifice, designed to become a museum of the city after 1972, had to be demolished after the 1977 earthquake. Since 1972, the Ton Hall has carried out its activity in the building of the Administrative Palace. Besides this building, the public services carry out their activity in other premises as a result of the development and diversification of the activity inside the Central Market hich has been administrated by the municipality since 1997 the Patrimony Board and the Fiscal Board carry out activity the former house of the mayor Radu Stanian hich has became the eddings House, houses the Registry Office.A Ne Borough at the Feet of The MountainsAnother legend speaks about Michael the Brave 1593 1601 ho, illing to settle a ne borough, asked the chief magistrate of the village of Ploiesti to sell him that land. The chief magistrate refused the money offered by the Prince for that land because he said that villagers ho lived there ere freeholders and if they had sold their land they ould have became serfs.The legend is only partly true. In fact, the Prince bought the land from to country squires and gave it to the inhabitants of Ploiesti to keep into possession. Michael the Brave also got that land colonized by brave soldiers. He set up there a eekly fair, hich used to attract people and goods from far aay. Thus, the small borough developed in a short time, being ruled by a magistrate and 12 ton councillors, elected by the tonsmen. Ploiesti as also a headquarters for Michael the Brave s army, as he prepared his glorious military campaign to Transylvania, first step to a unification of the Romanian provinces. His military campaign started at Ploiesti on October 4, 1599 and ended in triumph at Alba Iulia on November 1.For all those reasons e can say that Michael the Brave as not only the founder of the city, but also a huge personality ho decided upon the city s future. In their turn, the inhabitants of Ploiesti have remained eternally grateful to him. The Statue of LibertyIs the oldest monument of the city, a homage paid by its inhabitants to democracy thy fought for. The nes about the Radical Liberals victory in the local election in Ploiesti in March 1869 against the Government s interferences concerning the constitutional rights as quickly spread in the hole country. It as folloed and amplified by the nes of the antidynastic movement in the same city in August 1870. In that respect, Dimitrie Bratianu, together ith C. A. Rossetti to Romanian political personalities of the time -, proposed that the city of Ploiesti should be rearded ith a monument, opening a subscription list for possible supporters through the nespaper The Romanian . The initiators of the project sought abroad and eventually found in France a ell suited statue, both by theme the Goddess Minerva earing the Phrygian cap of liberty, size 3.5 m, artistical value and technical execution it as cast at L. Oudry C i.e. in Paris. The statue as bought and brought in the...
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