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Ferentari was the first modern industrial area of Bucharest developed in the middle of 19th century, when new industrial plants were built in the area and especially after the first railway in Romania was built (opened in 1869 and connecting Bucharest—via Filaret station—to Giurgiu). In 1947, the Ferentari Market housing estate was built ...
A small riot took place in Ferentari–Zăbrăuți area of Bucharest, Romania on the evening of November 14, 2006. Ferentari is Bucharest's poorest district, with a bad reputation with respect to crime.
Use of NASA logos, insignia and emblems is restricted per U.S. law 14 CFR 1221.; The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the Soviet/Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies.
V3A-93-CH-PPC tram on light rail line 41. The Bucharest light rail (Romanian: Metroul ușor or "light metro") is a light rail transit system in Bucharest, Romania.. Operated by the Societatea de Transport București (STB), the municipal public transit operator, the service is technically similar to a light rail and not to a light metro system.
The June 1990 Mineriad was the suppression of anti-National Salvation Front (FSN) rioting in Bucharest, Romania by the physical intervention of groups of industrial workers as well as coal miners from the Jiu Valley, brought to Bucharest by the government to counter the rising violence of the protesters. [1]
The square during the interwar period. In the left: the Sturdza Palace (1898-1901) by Iulius Reinicke, [1] on the right: the Building of the Public Officials Association (1900) by Nicolae Mihăescu [2] Victory Square after WW2 bombardments, during the Communist period A TR-85 tank in Victory Square during the Romanian Revolution of December 1989
Calea Dorobanți is one of the oldest streets with heavy traffic in Bucharest. The area around the street was designed and built as an exclusive district. The current name was given to the street in 1878, after the Romanian War of Independence, as a tribute to the Romanian infantry troops (Dorobanți in Romanian) who fought at Pleven, Vidin and Grivitsa. [2]
By contrast, cities are very safe; in 2023 five Romanian cities, namely Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Brașov, Bucharest, and Iași, were ranked in the top 100 safest cities in the world. [3] Another peculiarity of Romania is that gun violence is exceptionally rare [4] due to Romania having some of the strictest gun laws in the world. Most homicides ...