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Bucharest Russian Church built. Saint Basil the Great Cathedral opened. 1912 – Military Circle built. [1] 1913 – City hosts signing of the Treaty of Bucharest (1913). 1914 – Anglican Church (Bucharest) built. 1916 6 December: German occupation of city begins. [10] [19] August: City hosts signing of the Treaty of Bucharest (1916). 1918
During the Iron Age, the area was inhabited by a population identified with the Getae and the Dacians, who spoke an Indo-European language.The view that the two groups were the same is disputed, [4] while the culture's latter phase can be attributed to the Dacians; small Dacian settlements—such as Herăstrău, Radu Vodă, Dămăroaia, Lacul Tei, Pantelimon, and Popești-Leordeni—were found ...
Bucharest is a major cultural, political and economic hub, and the country's seat of government. Bucharest was first mentioned in documents in 1459. The city became the capital in 1862 and is the centre of Romanian media, culture, and art.
Born in the Ottoman Empire in today's Greece he lived in Romania most of his life. Romania becomes the first European country to abolish the death penalty. [160] This, however, did not last, it is now abolished in Romania since 1990. [161] 1866
Bucharest suffered significant damage due to Allied bombing during World War II and the devastating earthquake of March 4, 1977.However, neither of these events changed the face of the city more than the Ceaușescan "redevelopment schemes" of the 1980s, under which an overall area of 5.9 square kilometres (2.3 sq mi) of the historic center of Bucharest was affected, [2] including monasteries ...
The Vrancea earthquake of 4 March 1977 gave Ceaușescu a pretext to demolish parts of old Bucharest. [14] He wanted a civic center more in line with the country's political stance and started a reconstruction plan of Bucharest based on the socialist realism style. [5] The House of the Republic was the centrepiece of Ceaușescu's project.
Although construction was planned to begin in 1941, due to geo-political factors, the Bucharest Metro was only opened in 1979. Now it is one of the most accessed systems of the Bucharest public transport network with an average ridership of 800,000 passengers during the workweek. [109] In total, the network is 71 km long and has 53 stations. [110]
The rallies in Bucharest were later repeated in October 2013 [121] [122] and October 2014. Also, in September 2014, another rally took place in Chișinău, during which a 300-metre long Romanian flag was carried through the central street of the city.