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58 unusual facts about Bucharest


A Farewell to Fools

A Farewell to Fools was filmed in the Romanian cities of Bucharest and Sighișoara.

Administrative divisions of the People's Republic of Romania

The final result, substantially different from the original territorial organisation prior to 1950, comprised 39 counties, the Bucharest municipality, 236 cities and towns, of which 47 municipalities and 2,706 communes having 13,149 villages.

Akkan Suver

He is the Vice-President and founding member of the "International Foundation for Cooperation and Partnership of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea", which was inaugurated on March 4, 2009 in Bucharest, Romania.

Andrei Pricope

He grew up in Bucharest, Romania, and started playing the cello and piano at age ten, following in his father's footsteps (Eugen Pricope was a conductor and musicologist).

Antoine Béchamp

He lived in Bucharest, Romania from the ages of 7 to 18 with an uncle who worked in the French ambassador's office.

Bartholomew Voorsanger

The New York architect Voorsanger received a Bachelor Degree with Honors from Princeton University, a Master Degree in Architecture from Harvard University, and accepted in 2005 the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Architecture and Urbanism “Ion Mincu”, Bucharest, Romania.

BBC Romanian

Since 2004 it broadcast on its own frequency (only in Bucharest - 88 FM, Chişinău - 97,2 FM, and Timişoara - 93,9 FM); until then its signal was re-broadcast by local radio stations, partners of BBC Romanian.

Black Sea Forum for Partnership and Dialogue

The inaugural session of the Black Sea Forum for Partnership and Dialogue (BSF) was held on June 4–6, 2006 in Bucharest.

Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski

In November 1921 he became Polish Military attaché in Bucharest, Romania.

British propaganda during World War I

Special telegraph agencies were established in various European cities, including Bucharest, Bilbao and Amsterdam, in order to facilitate the spread of information.

București Region

The capital of the region was Bucharest, and at first, its territory comprised an area similar to the nowadays Ilfov and Giurgiu counties.

Calea Victoriei

It leads from Splaiul Independenței (which runs parallel to the Dâmboviţa River) to the north and then northwest up to Piaţa Victoriei, where Șoseaua Kiseleff continues north.

Cât Poţi Tu De Tare

Produced by Tataee, it was recorded in Bucharest at the Ines Sound & Video studios by longtime collaborator Cristi Dobrică.

Colentina

The name Colentina can refer to three places in Bucharest, Romania.

Corneliu Robe

He played for Olympia until 1932, when he signed with Unirea Tricolor Bucureşti, a club from Obor (Colentina quarter).

Cricket in Romania

In recent years the game has begun to grow again, particularly in Bucharest, Timișoara and Transylvania.

Daguin machine

In Romania, six post offices possessed a Daguin machine between 1890 and 1904: Brăila, Bucharest, Focşani, Galaţi, Iaşi and Ploieşti.

Dimitrie Gerota

In 1886, he entered the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bucharest, graduating with an M.D. degree in 1892.

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From 1913, he was a professor of surgical anatomy and experimental surgery at the University of Bucharest.

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After returning to Bucharest, he started practicing medicine and teaching at various institutions.

Elena Ceaușescu

After primary school, she moved along with her brother to Bucharest, where she worked as a laboratory assistant before getting a job at a textile factory.

EUROGEO-European Association of Geographers

EUROGEO ran a number of workshops meetings and conferences around Europe (Bled, Slovenia; Madeira, Portugal; Bucharest, Romania and Liverpool, UK) to disseminate the outcomes of this project.

False Impression

False Impression concerns an international journey through several countries and continents, including London, New York, Bucharest and Tokyo, and includes historical information about the September 11 attacks on New York, which the protagonist, Anna Petrescu, escapes after being fired by the banker Bryce Fenston.

George Enescu Festival

The concerts are held in three different venues in Bucharest, Iaşi and Sibiu.

Georgi Sava Rakovski

Rakovski moved to Bucharest where he continued his journalistic and revolutionary activities.

Gheorghe Șaru

Longtime professor at The Fine Art Academy in Bucharest, he influenced hundreds of his students into the modern art concept.

Hinduism in Croatia

The Embassy had nominated the Assistant Professor teaching Hindi in the Zagreb University to attend the Regional Hindi Conference held in Budapest in 2002 and Bucharest in July 2004.

I Have My Life

Blaxy Girls sung live the song at Palatul Copiilor, Bucharest, in June, 2009.

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The video is an excerpt from a Blaxy Girls concert, held in June at Palatul Copiilor in Bucharest, special for shooting this video and singing in premiere their new song "Revolution".

Interview with a Hitman

He starts his story with his childhood; he was raised in a slum area in an outlying district of Bucharest, Romania.

Ioan Robu

He is the sixth and current Archbishop of Bucharest.

Ivan Vedar

He continued his studies in the medical school in Bucharest, where he got his pseudonym Vedriy or Vedar (meaning cheerful) from the professors Dr Peter Protić and Dr Georgi Atanasović, because of his easy-going temper.

Joseph Halévy

While a teacher in Jewish schools, first in his native town and later in Bucharest, he devoted his leisure to the study of Oriental languages and archeology, in which he became proficient.

Klange aus der Walachei

The composition was first performed on 6 January 1848 in Bucharest in Wallachia (now Romania), as part of a six-month tour of Europe that Strauss was conducting with his orchestra.

L'Indépendance Roumanie

L'Indépendance Roumanie ('The Independence of Romania') was a French language liberal daily newspaper published from Bucharest.

Law-Racoviţă Station

The station is located 13,352 km from the capital of Romania, Bucharest.

Ludwig Angerer

He is also known for taking some of the earliest photographs of Bucharest.

Mahmut Karaduman

His lieutenant, a Turk named Gabi Kaiat, lives in Bucharest and handles transshipments on the Romanian end.

Marshall White

On July 4, 2009 Marshall recorded his biggest win to date, a victory at the Strongman Super Series Bucharest contest, defeating Nick Best, Brian Shaw and Johannes Arsjo.

Mihailo Petrović

He received numerous awards and acknowledgments and was a member of several foreign science academies (Prague, Bucharest, Warsaw, Kraków) and scientific societies.

Mite Kremnitz

Later she married the doctor Wilhelm Kremnitz and moved with him to Bucharest in 1875.

MTV Romania Music Awards 2003

The 2nd annual MTV Romania Music Awards (Premiile muzicale MTV România) were held at Sala Polivalentă in Bucharest.

Mykhailo Andriienko-Nechytailo

In 1917–1924, he devoted most of his time to designing stage sets for various theaters—in Saint Petersburg, Odessa, Prague, Paris, and for the Royal Opera in Bucharest.

Nicholas Dozenberg

Dozenberg tesified to Congress that in the early 1930s he was dispatched on a mission to Bucharest, Romania, to establish a motion picture company which was to be a front for Soviet military intelligence.

Pușcă Automată model 1986

The Pușcă Automată model 1986 (Automatic Rifle Model 1986, abbreviated PA md. 86 or simply md. 86) is the standard assault rifle used by the Romanian Military Forces and manufactured in Cugir, Romania by firm RomArm S.A. located in Bucharest, Romania.

Romanian T20 tournament

The first Romanian domestic cricket competition took place on September 18th-19th 2010 in Bucharest, and was organized by Cricket Romania,(CRC), the Romanian cricket board.

Samson Flexor

Samson was educated at a private school in Soroca, then in the Odessa Art School in Bucharest, where she moved the whole family.

Semyon Furman

He earned his first international tournament opportunity for Bucharest 1954, where he tied for 6th-7th places with a fine 10/17.

Servoplant Aerocraft

The Servoplant Aerocraft is a Romanian agricultural ultralight biplane, designed and produced by agricultural machinery manufacturer Servoplant, of Bucharest.

To Catch a Spy

It was a co-production been Britain, the United States and France, which was filmed in Bucharest, Romania.

Transilvania International Guitar Festival

After two days, the jury, presided by Prof. Dumitru Capoianu and including Prof. Constantin Andrei, Maria Florescu, Valeriu Maior and Aurelian Andrei, awarded the contestants as follows: First Prize - Ionut Zamfirescu (Bucharest); Second Prize - Stan Zamfirescu (Bucharest); Third Prize - Daniel Castravete (Craiova); Special Prize - Anna Tunde Virginas (Targu Mureş); Mentions - Lucian Naste (Targu Mureş) and Anna Tunde Virginas (Targu Mureş).

Turner Broadcasting System Romania

It is headquartered in Romania's national capital, Bucharest.

Valentin Porcișteanu

Valentin Porcișteanu (born on November 25, 1982, Bucharest, Romania) is a pilot in the Romanian Rally Championship, who won the National Champion title in 2011 and two National Runner titles in 2010 and 2012.

Victor Jackovich

As a career officer in the U.S. Foreign Service, he held assignments in Kiev (1979–1980), where he helped to start the first U.S. government office in Ukraine; Bucharest (1980–1983); Nairobi (1983–1986); Moscow (1988–1990); and Sofia, Bulgaria (1991).

Vladimir Makarenko

He participated in many international conferences, among them International Conference on Linguistics in Bucharest (1967), Seminar "National Build-Up and Literary/Cultural Process in SEA" (1996) in Moscow, Russian-French Symposium on SEA in Moscow (1997), EUROSEAS Conference in Hamburg (1998), ECIMS- XI in Moscow (1999) etc.

Wedding in Bessarabia

The director of the film is Napoleon Helmis (born in 1969, Topana); he graduated from the National Theater and Film's Art University in Bucharest in 1996, where he currently teaches film direction.

Wilhelm Steinmann

Jagdgeschwader 4 was still only a single Gruppe in strength at the time and had been set up to provide air protection against bombing raids on the vital Ploesti oil refineries, north of Bucharest.

Zîrnindu-să

Zîrnindu-să is Negură Bunget's debut album, which was recorded in only 20 hours at Magic Sound Studio in Bucharest.


2008 FIA GT Bucharest 2 Hours

The 2008 Bucharest City Challenge was the sixth round of the 2008 FIA GT Championship season and was organised by City Challenge GmbH.

2012 Bucharest hair salon shooting

At around 17:40 EET, Vlădan entered the hairdressing salon Perla (English language: Pearl), located at the intersection between Dorobanti and Iancu de Hunedoara Blvd. in Bucharest, armed with a 9 mm Glock semi-automatic pistol with a magazine capacity of 19 rounds.

Aurel Vlaicu International Airport

The airport is situated 8 km north of Bucharest city centre and is accessible by RATB buses 131, 335 and Airport Express 783, RATB tramway 5 and taxi.

Bucharest Alexeni Airport

Former Minister of Transport Radu Berceanu suggested the location for Bucharest's new low-cost flights airport (as the operational tariffs for Bucharest's previous low-cost hub, Aurel Vlaicu Airport, were set to grow).

Cezar Lăzărescu

This architectural style (of which the Moscow State University and its clones such as the "Casa Scînteii" in Bucharest are prime examples) is mandated by law in all countries of the Soviet Empire.

Colentina, Bucharest

An Austrian map of 1791 shows the village as being located at the crossroad of the routes leading to Fundeni, Afumați, Ștefănești, Pipera with the high road bound for Bucharest.

Constantin Sandu

In 1982, he entered the "Ciprian Porumbescu" National Music Academy of Bucharest, where he studied under the guidance of Constantin Ionescu-Vovu, reputed professor and pianist.

Cristian Bădiliță

In 2001 he started to collaborate with New Europe College in Bucharest, by organizing an international conferences on John Cassian and another on the fathers of the church in the 20th century.

Cundall Johnston and Partners

Founded in Newcastle and Edinburgh, Cundall now has United Kingdom offices in London, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Birmingham and Manchester, with Australian offices in Sydney, Perth, Melbourne and Adelaide plus offices in Dubai, Doha, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Cyprus in Paphos and Nicosia, Madrid, Cluj-Napoca and Bucharest in Romania.

Devilish Presley

In November 2008 the band toured Europe again including a debut gig in (Romania) in the capital (Bucharest).

Dobri Voynikov

He continued his involvement in theatre in Giurgiu, Bucharest and Shumen.

Domino theory

Warsaw, Prague, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia; all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in some cases increasing measure of control from Moscow.

Florenţa Albu

Florenţa Albu (December 1, 1934, Florica, Ileana, Călărași - February 3, 2000 Bucharest) was a Romanian poet.

IAR 111

ARCA kept work on the project secret and decided to reveal it to the public in a press conference that took place at BRD headquarters in Bucharest on December 2010.

Ikechi Anya

The couple met while studying at the universities in Bucharest.

Lionel Nallet

Nallet made his international debut for France on 28 May 2000 in a test match against Romania at Bucharest's Dinamo Stadion.

Mărăcineni, Buzău

Mărăcineni is connected to the city via the DN2 national road, across a bridge, known as either the Buzău bridge or the Mărăcineni bridge, which is the most important road connection between Bucharest and the cities of Moldavia.

Mayor of Bucharest

The Mayor of Bucharest (Primarul General al Municipiului Bucureşti in Romanian), sometimes known as the General Mayor, is the head of the Bucharest City Hall in Bucharest, Romania, which is responsible for city-wide affairs, such as the water system, the transport system and the main boulevards.

Mioara Mantale

Between 1996 and 2005, Mioara Mantale worked as a Law Adviser for the International Bank of Religions branch in Iaşi, and later for the central offices of Bancorex, Allianz Romania, and a stock broker firm in Bucharest.

Municipiu

The exception to this is Bucharest, which has a status similar to that of a county, and is officially subdivided into six administrative sectors.

Nicolae Penescu

He held positions at the Bucharest Chamber of Commerce (which backed his election as an independent Senator in 1933) and Banca Commerciale Italiana (from 1942), and headed Creditul Românesc.

Niyazi

Niyazi conducted many of the major symphony orchestras in Prague, Berlin, Budapest, Bucharest, New York, Paris, Istanbul, London, Tehran, Beijing and Ulan-Bator and played an important role in making the Azeri classical music known to the world.

Pantazi Ghica

George Călinescu, Istoria literaturii române de la origini până în prezent, Editura Minerva, Bucharest, 1986

Qatar Airways

The airline has launched 22 new destinations since 2010, with nine more destinations announced: Ankara, Aleppo, Bangalore, Barcelona, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Hanoi, Montreal, Nice, Phuket, São Paulo, Shiraz, Kolkata, Medina, Oslo, Sofia, Stuttgart, Venice and Tokyo.

Radu Bălescu

Radu Bălescu (Bucharest, 18 July 1932 – 1 June 2006, Bucharest) was a Romanian and Belgian (Belgian since 1959) scientist and professor at the Statistical and Plasma Physics group of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).

Radu Mihnea

He replaced Polish vassal Simion Movilă on the throne in Bucharest after the brief occupation of Wallachia by the troops of hetmans Jan Zamoyski and Jan Karol Chodkiewicz.

Rainer Knaak

At Zinnowitz 1971, Sandomierz 1976 and Potsdam 1985, he shared second place, at Bucharest 1973 came third, and at Camagüey 1974, finished fourth.

Roman Abelevich Kachanov

In 1959 he directed Nazim Hikmet's screenplay in Love Cloud, which received awards at festivals in Annecy, Oberhausen and Bucharest.

Romani people in France

Reuters reported that a charter plane flew 240 Romani, including children, back to Bucharest, Romania, from Lyon.

Sala Polivalentă

Dinamo Polyvalent Hall or Sala Polivalentă Dinamo, a 2,500-seat multi-use indoor arena in Bucharest, Romania

Sean Kane

Sean was one of the first Scottish actors to perform with Romanian actors at the Teatrul De Comedie in Bucharest Romania in their production entitled 'Home'.

Susan S. Jacobs

Her Foreign Service career has also included tours in Caracas, Tel Aviv, New Delhi, Bucharest, and San Salvador.

Tropaeum Traiani

48 metopes are hosted in the Adamclisi museum nearby, and one metope is hosted by Istanbul Archaeology Museum, the rest having been lost (There is a reference from Giurescu that two of them fell into Danube River during the transport to Bucharest).

Tudorel Stoica

After only one season, he transferred to country giants FC Steaua Bucureşti where, safe for his first year, he was a nuclear midfield element as the capital team won - that season included - seven league titles and five domestic cups.

Victor Zâmbrea

His works are found in private and public collections in Paris, Bucharest, Moscow, Kiev, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Montreal, Riga, Vilnius, Timişoara, Braşov, Odessa, Nikolaev, Tumen, Novokuznetsk, Esentuki, Sighetu Marmaţiei.

Vodka Perfect

Vodka Perfect has won several awards, such as the Romexpo Degustation Bucharest international trade fair contest 2003 and the International Spirit AWARD (ISW) 2004