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Moses Gaster (1856–1939), Romanian-born Jewish-British scholar and a Hebrew linguist; Cristian Gațu (b. 1945), former handball player, twice winner of the World Championship with Romania and twice winner of the European Champions Cup with Steaua București; Alex Geana (born 1979), Romanian-American photographer and writer
In 2015, the homicide rate of Bucharest was 0,8 per 100,000 people. [53] Crime in Bucharest is combated by national forces, such as the Romanian Police and Romanian Gendarmerie, and by local forces, such as the Local Police of Bucharest. Romanian Gendarmerie, which is tasked with high-risk and specialized law enforcement duties, demonstrates ...
People from Bucharest by occupation (15 C) People by organization in Bucharest (1 C) N. Nobility from Bucharest (27 P) Pages in category "People from Bucharest"
Municipalities of Romania Towns of Romania. This is a list of cities and towns in Romania, ordered by population (largest to smallest) according to the 2002, 2011 and 2021 censuses. [1] For the major cities, average elevation is also given. Cities in bold are county capitals.
President Iliescu issued a call to Romania's population to come to Bucharest in order to save the "besieged democratic regime" and restore order and democracy in Bucharest. The most important group to answer the call were the powerful miner's organizations from the Jiu Valley. Some 10,000 miners were transported to Bucharest in special trains. [1]
Bucur is the legendary Romanian shepherd who is said to have founded Bucharest, giving it his name.While the legend about the shepherd is probably apocryphal, the name of the city (Romanian: București) is actually quite likely derived from a person named Bucur, as the suffix -ești is used for settlements derived from personal names, usually of the owner of the land or of the founder, though ...
[3] [4] For example, in 2007 the Council of Europe estimated that approximately 1.85 million Roma lived in Romania, [5] based on an average between the lowest estimate (1.2 to 2.2 million people [6]) and the highest estimate (1.8 to 2.5 million people [7]) available at the time. This figure is equivalent to 8.32% of the population.
Numbering about 500 people still living in the original villages of Istria while the majority left for other countries after World War II (mainly to Italy, United States, Canada, Spain, Germany, France, Sweden, Switzerland, Romania, and Australia), they speak the Istro-Romanian language, the closest living relative of Romanian. On the other ...