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	Bucharest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bucharest (Romanian: Bucureşti) is the capital city and industrial and commercial centre of Romania, located in the southeast of the country, on the Dâmboviţa river.
		During the 18th century the possession of Bucharest was frequently disputed by the Turks, Austrians and Russians.
		Bucharest boasts the largest transport network in Romania, and one of the largest in the Central and Eastern Europe region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bucharest (1918 words)

	Bucharest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Bucharest (population 2.3 million, Romanian: Bucureşti) is the capital city and industrial and commercial centre of Romania, located in the southeast of the country, on the Dâmboviţa river.
		The legend says that Bucharest was founded by a shepherd named, another variant, more likely, is that it was established by Mircea cel Bătrân in the 14th century after a victory won over the Turks (bucurie means joy in Romanian, for this reason Bucharest is often called "The City of Joy.").
		Bucharest is first mentioned under its present name as a residence in 1459 of the Walachian prince Vlad Ţepeş; (Vlad the Impaler).
	www.americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Bucharest (1928 words)

	Bucharest
		In 1930 the population of Bucharest was 631,288.
		Bucharest, known as the "Paris of the Balkans" in the early 20th century, was a cosmopolitan city before 1944 when its architecture, city planning, and culture were French-inspired.
		The history of Bucharest is traced to the 15th century.
	www.2747.com /2747/world/city/bucharest.htm (355 words)

	Bucharest Information - TextSheet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The legend says that Bucharest was founded by a shepherd named Bucur, another variant, more likely, is that it was established by Mircea cel Bătrân in the 14th century after a victory won over the Turks (bucurie means joy in Romanian, for this reason Bucharest is often called "The City of Joy.").
		Bucharest is first mentioned under its present name as a residence in 1459 of the Walachian prince Vlad Ţepeş (Vlad the Impaler).
		Bucharest is served by a commuter railway network operated by CFR, the Romanian national railways.
	www.powerandresponsibility.sferahost.com /encyclopedia/b/bu/bucharest.html (1609 words)

	Bucharest
		Bucharest is one of the few cities in east-central Europe with gambling.
		The first mention of the name of "Bucharest" is dating from september 20, 1459: the mention appears on a document issued from the chancellery of the voivode Vlad Tepes (the Impaler).
		Bucharest of 1870 there were from the hill and monastery Mihai voda, Curtea Domneasca and Vacaresti, Lipscani street and si "ulitele" (narrow streets) Franceza, Smirdan, Bacani, Selari, Covaci...), Coltii and Podul Mogosoaia, till Golescu House (now Royal Palace).
	www.all-bucharest-hotels.com /information/bucharest.EN.php (1249 words)

	World History Compass, European History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The Republic of Hungary - Geography and History
		I normanni nel Sud (History of the Normans in Italy)
		History of the Jewish-Turkic Khazar Kingdom of medieval Russia.
	www.worldhistorycompass.com /europe.htm (2611 words)

	Bucharest history : N Ceausesc and the communist regime,Revolution Dec'89,Vlad Dracula
		The word Bucharest appears, for the first time, in 1459 when it is found in a document of Vlad III,called "The Imperator" The ruler of the Valahia, Vlad the IIIrd made the construction of the fortress of Bucharest, before a long series of fortifications, in order to defend Valahia from the attacks of the Turks.
		The number of the inhabitants of Bucharest was of 382.853 in 1918, in order to grow until 870.000 in 1939.
		The new Bucharest is characterized by numerous public squares from which irradiate roads and boulevards.
	www.ciaobucharest.com /history.htm (915 words)

	:: Joint History Project :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Christina Koulouri, chair of the History Education Committee of the CDRSEE, is professor in Modern History at the University of the Peloponnese (Greece).
		Nikola Jordanovski, born in 1965, finished the faculty of history of the University of St. Cyrilus and Methodius in Skopje in 1992.
		Andrei Sora, was born in 1980 in Bucharest.
	www.see-jhp.org /the_team_bio.html (2714 words)

	Bucharest Travel Guide 2005, travel guide, touristic objectives
		Bucharest is the capital of Romania, city with rank of municipality (since 17 February 1968), with statute of particular administration unit (similar to the county), the biggest and most important political, economical, financial-banking, commercial, cultural-scientific, educational, transport, informational, sportive and touristic center of the country.
		The city is situated in the south south - east of Romania, in Vlasiei Plain, at 59 - 90 meters altitude, on the rivers Dambovita and Colentina, at 60 kilometers north from Danube river, 120 kilometers south from the Carpathian Mountains and 226 kilometers from the Black Sea.
		The touristic activity in Bucharest and in the country is coordinated by the Ministry of Tourism and maintained by many tourism associations.
	www.infotravelromania.ro /en/bucharest.html (1971 words)

	History and Anthropology 1997 Fall
		This course is an attempt to introduce History postgraduates to the neighboring field of Anthropology, largely understudied in the universities of East Central Europe.
		In this interdisciplinary project, the main effort concentrates on the theoretical and methodological interaction between the two disciplines, while the main ambition is to define the elusive contours of the East Central European Other (a highly ambiguous, changing, and problematic object).
		History and anthropology as 'blurred genres': institutionalization, mutual influences, common challenges and agendas.
	www.ceu.hu /crc/Syllabi/97-98/History/ANTOHI.html (864 words)

	Bucharest biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Although it accounts for around 9% of Romania's population, Bucharest produces around 21% of the country's GDP, being obviously the most developed area and industrialized area of Romania.
		The Bucharest Metro is currently in a period of renewal, mainly due to Romania's economic boom and increased foreign investment.
		Despite many comments in the 1990s about the poor state of Bucharest's transport system, RATB is a reasonably efficient and a very frequent way to get around Bucharest.
	bucharest.biography.ms (2094 words)

	NGO News - Issue 22 - Before Going Forward, We Have to Look Back: The Role of 'National Histories' in United Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		a practical approach to history education including intercultural exchanges and cross-border co-operation in the region, as a concrete way of involving young humanities students in the reform process and the acceleration of the accession of these countries to the European and pan-European partnership organizations.
		The history of Bucharest, Belgrade and Sofia in relation to the history of Romania, Serbia and Bulgaria is similar to the respective national histories in relation to European history.
		Instead, the history of a state would feature in the local context and would be presented not as unique and essential, but as deeply intertwined with that of its neighbours.
	www.ngonet.org /news/22_21.html (522 words)

	1977 Bucharest Earthquake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The 1977 Bucharest Earthquake occurred on 4 March 1977, 21:20 local time, was felt throughout the Balkans, had a magnitude of 7.4 and its epicenter in Vrancea (in the) at a depth of 94 kilometers.
		About 35,000 buildings were damaged, and the total damages were estimated to be more than two billion dollars.
		Most of the damages were concentrated in the Romania's capital, Bucharest, where about 33 large buildings collapsed (most of which were built before World War II and not reinforced) were destroyed.
	www.butte-silverbow.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1977_Bucharest_Earthquake (189 words)

	BUCHAREST, Romania - Official Travel and Tourism Information: hotels, restaurants, maps - Harta Bucuresti
		Bucharest has 37 museums, 22 theaters, opera houses and concert halls, 18 art galleries, lots of libraries and bookstores.
		Bucharest's Village Museum of Folk Art, about one square mile in size, is a fascinating outdoor museum that displays more than 300 wooden and stone buildings that reflect the history and diversity of Romania's rural architecture and design from all regions of the country.
		The History Museum of Romania, housed in what was once Bucharest's main post office, presents a collection of artifacts adn jewelry that date from prehistoric to modern times.
	www.romaniatourism.com /main.html (1029 words)

	Bucharest Travel Directory - Destinations, Hotels, Airline Tickets and more... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		In the following century Bucharest developed rapidly as the main economic center of Walachia and became the capital of Walachia in 1659.
		In 1862 Bucharest was proclaimed the capital of the Walachian and Moldavian region united under the name of the Romanian state.
		After World War I, Bucharest became the capital city of a greatly enlarged Romania with the Transylvanian region.
	www.affordabletravel.org /europe/romania/bucharest/history.php (488 words)

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		A bit of history, then: the monastery was built in the third decade of the 18th century by a series of princes from the Greek Mavrocordat family ruling in what was then Wallachia (the part of Romania located between the Carpathian mountains and the river Danube).
		The church itself was the largest in Bucharest and indeed in the region, while the surrounding buildings could easily accommodate the other functions required by the Orthodox Church's hierarchy: a museum, offices for the Archbishop of Bucharest, and so on.
		Furthermore, it would be a gesture towards recuperating the demolished history of Bucharest and, in doing so, towards healing the ruptured memories of the city and its inhabitants.
	www.artmargins.com /content/interview/ioan.html (1220 words)

	The New Empire Club: Bucharest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Suddenly you've got the second biggest country in Europe, even if most of the land is underdeveloped at best and concepts like 'literacy' and 'sanitation' are still foreign to the countryside.
		But Bucharest is a thriving city and one of the most heavily-travelled destinations in the West.
		Bucharest is arguably the most corrupt city on earth, and that's saying something if you've ever travelled to the darker corners of the world.
	www.innocence.com /games/new-empire-club/Main/Bucharest?action=diff&source=y&minor=y (953 words)

	Notes from Bucharest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Silviu Hariton is M.A candidate in History (University of Bucharest).
		The aim of this three-days Training Session was mainly to train the participants in a series of topics like the importance of the European dimension in the education process, the changes of didactics in the process of teaching/learning History, especially in the context of SEEC, and the changes in the curricula in South-Eastern Europe.
		She hint at her experience as manager of the two years project "History and History Teaching in South-Eastern Europe", developed, within the period 2000 - 2002, by the Center for the Balkan Societies and Cultures at University of Graz jointly with the University of Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria and the Association of Social History, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
	www.houseofeurope.ro /notes.htm (1168 words)

	R.P.F.-Images from the Philatelic Fair 2002
		Organized with the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the Romanian State Independence Proclamation, "The Philatelic Saloon Bucharest - 2002" opened its gates on the 9th of May 2002 in the central lobby of the Romanian History National Museum.
		The exposition was organized within the "Philatelic Saloon Bucharest 2002" manifestations, being hosted inside the Bucharest City History Museum.
		Of the 43 exponents registered in the exposition catalogue, the exponents not on display were those belonging to Mihai Ceuca (Bacau), Dragos Costache (Bucharest), Corneliu Milica-Rafalet (Bucharest) and Oana Opriceanu (Craiova).
	www.federatia-filatelica.ro /pagini/salon_filat_eng.htm (445 words)

	Bucharest National Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		In 1836, the students of the Philarmonic Society in Bucharest performed Semiramide by Rossini, and soon Bellini's Norma premiered in Jassy.
		A graduate of the Bucharest Music Conservatoire and of the Conservatoire in Paris, he had the tenacity and strength to make this dream come true.
		A conductor of the National Theatre since 1887 and a singing teacher with the Bucharest Music Conservatoire, he managed as a general director of the Opera House to diversify the repertoire, from vaudevilles and musicals to real opera performances.
	www.operanb.ro /history_opera.htm (678 words)

	Bucharest Travel & fun — casinos, hotel accommodation, properties, escort services, restaurants, clubs, girls, car ...
		Bucharest is well known for its casinos which are a main attraction for most of the visitors.
		We are now the style leader amongst Bucharest casinos, geared to total guest comfort and satisfaction.
		Casino Palace is hosted by Vernescu House, a national patrimony palace that faithfully witnessed the tumultuous life and history of Bucharest.
	www.bucharest4u.com /gambling.htm (277 words)

	Romania
		· Volume I (edited by Paul Cernovodeanu, Bucharest), which deals with the history of the Jews in Romania from antiquity to the early 19th century, was published in 2002.
		Recent research has shed light on various aspects of the Romanian Jewish past: the cultural and religious world, relations between Romanians and Jews, anti-Semitism, the struggle for emancipation, and the Holocaust.
		Unfortunately, scholars have displayed little interest in the social history of the Jews in Romania - the institutions, defining characteristics, and inner dynamic of the kehillah [the organized Jewish community].
	www.tau.ac.il /humanities/ggcenter/promania.html (709 words)

	Subject:
		Circumstances, not only history, forced their re-orientation towards a lifestyle completely alien to that which they had known.
		On the Bucharest streets at the beginning the 19th century, people talked using words from different languages such as Romanian, Turkish, Bulgarian, Serbian, Greek and Albanian, and after 1850, the influence of French was definitive.
		On the other hand, the Bucharest of this period of ethnic and multicultural diversity survived because of prevailing social and religious tolerance — somewhat reduced in the case of Jews.
	www.lett.ubbcluj.ro /~echinox/caiete5/09.html (5253 words)

	SEE History
		The Centre for South-East European Studies, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, in collaboration with the British Council, the British Academy, and the New Europe College, Bucharest, is organizing a WORKSHOP on History and Society since 1970, to be held in Bucharest, 6-13 April 2003.
		This session of the workshops will be aimed at producing a collective publication surveying current research and issues in 'history and society since 1970' across the region.
		Those interested in participating should send a cover letter stating the nature of their expertise and potential contribution to the themes of the workshop, accompanied by a brief CV, to Dr. Alex Drace-Francis at adracefr@ssees.ac.uk.
	www.teleactivities.org /evenimente/see_history.htm (425 words)

	Architecture & History Of Romania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Our journey takes us north-east from Bucharest through a beautiful area of fortified churches and peasant stockades in Transylvania to Marmures.
		As well as scrutinising these magnificent survivals of the 15th and 16th centuries, we will focus our attention on another aspect of Romania closely related to the painted churches: the wonderful folk-art traditions that continue to thrive throughout the countryside.
		Our tour begins with a visit to the Bucharest Village Museum to examine the vivid carving, decorative painting, pottery and embroidery that are widely recognised as masterpieces of folk art.
	www.study-tours.org /courseDetail.lasso?id=5004081016251100637 (733 words)

	Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest - Informations - History
		In 1864, when the University of Bucharest was founded, one of the three faculties was The Faculty of naturals, mathematical and physical sciences (which becamed The Faculty of Sciences),which in 1866 was split up into a department of physical-mathematical sciences and another one of physical-natural sciences.
		Through the functions he had, especially through the reform in 1898, he stimulated the romanian educational system; is considered the best Minister of Education in the modern Romania history.
		The next stage of the mathematics evolution in Bucharest is the one of the great creators, which not only had brilliant thesis for the doctors degree in Paris, but they created afterwards a great scientific work.
	fmi.unibuc.ro /en/info_history.php (490 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		After gaining experience in the field of history for a number of years, he was posted as Chief of History Editing Section at the Military Publishing House from 1983 to 1986 and as Chief of the Military History Section at the Center of Studies and Research of History and Military Theory from 1986 to 1990.
		He is currently serving as Director of the Institute for Political Studies of Defense and Military History and is holding the position of Chief Editor of the "Strategic Monitor" revue.
		He was an associated professor at the University of Bucharest, History Department from 1990 to 1993.
	www.ispaim.ro /director.htm (425 words)

	Open Society Archives, Culture 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The complex project, which consists of a series of seminars, workshops and exhibitions concentrates on the intricate issues of historical revisionism.
		The participants are particularly interested in the way different themes and aspects of the history of the twentieth century became rewritten, reinterpreted and re-presented by a variety of means in different media.
		We believe that at this crucial moment it is imperative for all of us to initiate wide-ranging, professionally, intellectually, and morally informed public debate on the use and abuse of recent history in a European frame.
	www.osa.ceu.hu /2004/projects/culture2000 (147 words)

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