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Middle Age
During the early Middle Ages,
The first mention of the name of "
Mathew Basarab (1632-1654 repaired the
During the rule of Serban Cantacuzino
(1678-1688), several important buildings were built in
Voda's Inn (demolished in 1890, now National Romanian
Bank)
In the time of Constantin Brancoveanu
(1688-1714) new bazars houses were built along the Calea Victoriei, the churches
"Icoanei", "Coltea",
"Fundeni", the "Constantin
Voda" Inn, the New Saint George's Inn a.s.o. An increasing number of artisans are recorded in the
town.
his sons.
In 1716, the "Fanariotes’epoch" starts
Greek origin rulers were appointed by the Ottoman Porte; all caming from the same quarter of "Fanar",
in
XIX century
Capitalist elements of develop, in the Bucharestan
economy. The number and variety of the manufactures increase.A
new administrative structure is formed between the years 1806-1812. The streets
are repaired.
The "Manuc"
In 1813, a plague epidemic starts, known as "Caragea's
Plague", by the name of the moment's voivode.
French Romantism
The "Fanariote" period ends in 1822; The first romanian ruler was
Prince Grigore Dimitrie Ghica. 1822-1829
In May 1857
In 1860 are setting up the higer school
"Gheorghe Lazar" si "Matei Basarab". The first
streets are paved with stone.
In 1864 are setting up the Universitaty,
In 1869 the first railway station in Bucuresti, (Filaret - point
terminus for Giurgiu-Bucuresti).
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).
In 1871 The first tramway from Nord
Railway to the
In 9 May 1877 Is the day of Independence of Romania against the turkish occupation.
Bucharest, the small Paris of the East
"Bucharest is a creation of our own nation, it expresses our originality,
it is what were able to do(...) By its own vitality, Bucharest has managed to
impose itself as a unique Capital, that had received all the attentive care of
some great personalities we have not fully understood, to show then the
gratitude they deserved" Nicolae Iorga "The History of Bucharest", 1939
A walk in time, on the streets and boulevards of this beautiful town, by the
end of the nineteenth century - under the vaults of the boarding trees, so
pleasantly shady during the summer heat - will lead us through a town that is
no more and which fully deserved its name. We shall observe the French
influence on some city squares with radical streets or we shall reach streets
flooded with vegetation. We shall admire monuments, and we shall try to make
revive the atmosphere of the last century; we shall notice its changes and
evolution (...)
In 1882 the first electrical illumination system,
the first time at the
At Sosea, near Victoriei
place, there was the Belle Arte School, demolished in 1912
Now there is the Peasant Museum
In 1896 the first electrical tramway are built from Obor
to the Cotroceni avenue. The first cinema is opened.
Most of the major buildings, such as the Romanian Athenaeum and the Cercul Militar , were designed by French or French-trained architects and built in the years before World War I
By 1918 the city's population had grown to 380,000 and roads such as Podul Mogosoaiei, Podul de Pamânt and Podul Calacilor were widened,
paved and renamed as the Calea Victoriei,
Calea Plevnei and Calea Rahovei, in honour of the battles of the 1877-78 War
of Independence from
After World War II the city was ringed with ugly apartment buildings, first in areas such as "Red" Grivita, which the Allies had bombed flat (aiming for the rail yards), then expanding into the surrounding countryside; the population doubled from one to two million.
Communist rule interrupted
Today,