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Bucharest is a beta global city, 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.
The Bucharest Ring Motorway (or the Bucharest Belt Motorway, Romanian: Autostrada Centura București ), termed A0, [ 1] is a motorway ring in construction around the city of Bucharest, the capital of Romania. It is intended to be the outer ring of the existing Bucharest Ring Road . It is split into two sections: the South Ring Motorway and the ...
Bucharest Metro. The Bucharest Metro ( Romanian: Metroul din București) is an underground rapid transit system that serves Bucharest, the capital of Romania. It first opened for service on 16 November 1979. [ 5] The network is run by Metrorex.
A total of 41 counties ( Romanian: județe ), along with the municipality of Bucharest, constitute the official administrative divisions of Romania. They represent the country 's NUTS-3 ( Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics – Level 3) statistical subdivisions within the European Union and each of them serves as the local level of ...
Piața Unirii. Coordinates: 44°25′40.79″N 26°6′7.82″E. Union Square, Bucharest. Piața Unirii ( Romanian pronunciation: [ˈpjat͡sa uˈnirij], Union Square) is one of the largest squares in central Bucharest, Romania, located in the center of the city where Sectors 1, 2, 3, and 4 meet. Part of the Civic Centre, it is bisected by ...
Centura București (English: Bucharest Beltway, Bucharest Ring Road ), sometimes referred to as the DNCB, is a national-class road in Romania, circling the capital city of Bucharest. It is not to be mistaken with the planned Bucharest Ring Motorway ( Romanian: Autostrada Centura București ), which will encircle the city at a further distance.
The Municipality of Bucharest (the capital of Romania) is divided into 6 administrative units, named sectors ( sectoare in Romanian ), each of which has their own mayor and council, and has responsibility over local affairs, such as secondary streets, parks, schools and the cleaning services. Each of the 6 sectors contains a number of informal ...
Commune of Colentina-Fundeni. The 1863 law on the secularization of monastery estates in Romania made the Colentina estate property of the state and in March 1864, the rural commune of Colentina-Fundeni was created, which had three component villages: Plumbuita, Colentina and Fundeni. It was around this time that a primary school was built in ...