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Timișoara (UK: / ˌ t ɪ m ɪ ˈ ʃ w ɑːr ə /, [10] US: / ˌ t iː m iː-/, [11] Romanian: [t i m i ˈ ʃ o̯a r a] ⓘ; German: Temeswar [ˈtɛmɛʃvaːɐ̯] ⓘ, also Temeschwar or Temeschburg; [12] Hungarian: Temesvár [ˈtɛmɛʃvaːr] ⓘ; Serbian: Темишвар, romanized: Temišvar [těmiʃʋaːr]; see other names) is the capital city of Timiș County, Banat, and the main ...
Timișoara is the third town in the Empire, after Vienna and Budapest with a permanent theatre season. 1760 – Timișoara is the first town in the Empire where the public lighting using suet candles and lamps with oil and grease is introduced. 1763–1772 – Second wave of German colonization under Empress Maria Theresa of Austria.
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Timiș (Romanian pronunciation:) is a county of western Romania on the border with Hungary and Serbia, in the historical region of Banat, with the county seat at Timișoara. It is the westernmost and the largest county in Romania in terms of land area. The county is also part of the Danube–Criș–Mureș–Tisa Euroregion.
The Ștefania Palace (Romanian: Palatul Ștefania), previously known as Totisz Palace and in popular culture as the House with Monkeys, [1] is an emblematic building of the Fabric district in the western Romanian city of Timișoara. The building occupies the entire northern front of the quarter located between Stephen the Great Street, 3 August ...
In 1781 it was known as the City Hall of the Royal Free City of Timișoara (German: Rathaus der Königlichen Freien Stadt Temeswar), and the following year, 1782, it was rebuilt by the builder Josef Aigner; [6] the facade is restored in Renaissance style and the emblem is changed because Timișoara changes its status, becoming a royal free city ...
The Victory Square (Romanian: Piața Victoriei), known until 1990 as the Opera Square (Romanian: Piața Operei), is the central square of Timișoara.It is the place where Timișoara was proclaimed on 20 December 1989 the first city free of communism in Romania. [3]
Cathedral of the Three Holy Hierarchs in Timișoara. Romania is a secular state and has no state religion. An overwhelming majority of the population identify themselves as Christians. At the country's 2021 census, [2] 73.60% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians, with 73.42% belonging to the Romanian Orthodox Church.