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Timisoara

Timi?oara (pronunciation in Romanian

Romanian language

Romanian or Daco-Romanian ; self-designation: limba rom?na, ) is a Romance languages spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova....
: ; , , Temeswar, or Temeschwar, Bulgarian

Bulgarian language

Bulgarian is an Indo-European languages, a member of the Slavic languages linguistic group.Bulgarian demonstrates several linguistic innovations that set it apart from all other Slavic languages except Macedonian language, such as the elimination of grammatical case, the development of a suffixed definite article , the lack of a verb infin...
: ?????????, Serbian

Serbian language

name=Serbian|nativename=|pronunciation=['sr?pski?]|familycolor=Indo-European|map=|states=See below under "Official status", besides that in Croatia and as an immigrant's language spread over Central Europe and Western Europe, as well as Northern America...
: ????????, Temišvar, Banat Bulgarian: Timišvár, or ), also known as "The City of Athletes", is a city in the Banat

Banat

The Banat is a geographical and Historical regions of Central Europe currently divided between three countries: the eastern part lies in Romania , the western part in Serbia , and a small northern part in Hungary ....
region of western Romania

Romania

Timis County

Timis is a county of western Romania, in the historical region Banat, with the county seat at Timisoara. It is the largest county in Romania....
.

With 307,347 inhabitants, Timisoara is a large economic and cultural center in Banat

Banat

Serbs

Serbs are a South Slavs people living in the Balkans and Central Europe, mainly in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and, to a lesser extent, in Croatia....
, as well as Italians, Arabs, India

India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
ns, Bulgarians

Banat Bulgarians

The Banat Bulgarians are a distinct Bulgarians minority group which settled in the 18th century in the region of the Banat, which was then ruled by the Habsburg Monarchy and after World War I was divided between Romania, Serbia, and Hungary....
, Roma people, Jews and Greeks

Greeks

The Greeks , also known as Hellenes, are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighbouring regions, who can also be found in Greek diaspora communities around the world....
.

The city is also called "Little Vienna", because it belonged for a very long time to the Habsburg Empire and the entire city center consists of buildings built in the Kaiser

Kaiser

Kaiser is the German language title meaning "Emperor", with Kaiserin being the female equivalent, "Empress". It is directly derived from the Latin Emperors' Caesar , which in turn is derived from the name of Julius Caesar....
era, which is reminiscent of the old Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
.

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Name

All of the variants of its name derive from the Timis River

Timis River

The Timis or Tami? is a 359 km long river rising in the Semenic Mountains, southern Carpathian Mountains, Caras-Severin County, Romania....
, known in Roman Antiquity

Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
or Tibiscus. Although the Bega

Bega River (Tisza)

The Bega is a 254 km long river in Romania and Serbia . It rises in the Poiana Rusca mountains in Romania, part of the Carpathian Mountains, and it flows into the Tisza river near Titel, Vojvodina, Serbia....
passes through Timisoara, the city received its name from the Timis river because at the time of the setting of the name, the Bega and Timis river's paths were very much mixed up. It is frequently spelled in English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
simply as Timisoara (without the diacritical mark beneath the s which actually produces a "sh" sound as in "shape").

History

In the Roman period, in the place where Timisoara is today, or in its immediate proximity there was a military camp named Zambara or Zurobara. During the time of the invasions of the nomad tribes from the Central-Asian plains, especially that of the Avars

Eurasian Avars

The 'Avars' were a highly organized and powerful Turkic confederation. They were ruled by a khagan, who was surrounded by a tight-knit retinue of nomad warriors, an organization characteristic of Turkic peoples groups....
, on the site of the ruins of Zambara, a new settlement, called Beguey, was built.

In 1019 the locality of Dibiscos/ Bisiskos/ Tibiskos/ Tibiskon/ Timbisko/etc., presumed to be the future Timisoara , was mentioned for the first time in written documents of the Byzantine Emperor Basil II

Basil II

Basil II, surnamed the Bulgar-slayer , also known as Basil the Porphyrogenitus and Basil the Young to distinguish him from Basil I the Macedonian, was a Byzantine emperor from the Macedonian dynasty who reigned from January 10 976 to December 15, 1025....
, although not all historians do agree with this identification. In 1154, the Arabian geographer Sarif al Idrisi

Muhammad al-Idrisi

Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani al-Sabti or simply El Idrisi was an Islamic geography, cartography and traveller who lived in Sicily, at the court of King Roger II of Sicily....
mentioned the city telling that "it is a nice city offering a lot of riches". The first mention of the fort of Timisoara (Castrum Temesiensis) is found in the decree of King Endre II of Hungary dating from 1212. Timisoara itself was first mentioned in official documents as a city in 1474. It was conquered by the Ottomans

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
in 1552 and remained under their control until it was taken by the Habsburg army led by the Prince Eugene of Savoy in 1716.

The demographic conditions of the region changed dramatically during the 167 year of Ottoman rule. In 1582, the city of Temeswar, in spite of the bloody siege, still had a Hungarian majority (the chief judge was István Herczegh). Later, the largest ethnic group in the city were Muslim Turks, and other smaller groups included Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies.

After the city was occupied by the Austrian Empire

Austrian Empire

The Austrian Empire was a periodization successor state empire founded on a remnant of the Holy Roman Empire centered on what is today's Austria that officially lasted from 1804 to 1867....
, the Turkish population fled. Of the remainder, we know of about 600-700 inhabitants out of which 446 were Hungarians, Serbs, 144 Jewish, and 35 Armenians. The "Armenische Stadt" as a separate quarter existed until the Great Plague of 1738

Great Plague of 1738

The Great Plague of 1738 was an outbreak of the bubonic plague between 1738-1740 that affected areas in the modern nations of Romania, Hungary, Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia, and Austria....
.

In 1718, the first beer factory in Banat and Transsylvania was built. The first tobacco

Tobacco

Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the fresh leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. It can be consumed, used as an organic pesticide, and in the form of nicotine tartrate it is used in some medicines....
mill in today's Romania was set up in Timisoara. Between 1728 and 1771 a canal Bega

Bega

There are several notable things by the name of Bega:Places:* Bega, New South Wales, a town in New South Wales, Australia.* Electoral district of Bega is an electoral district in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly...
was built to unite the city with the Danube

Danube

The Danube is the longest river in the European Union and Europe's second longest river after the Volga.The river originates in the Black Forest in Germany as the much smaller Brigach and Breg River rivers which join at the eponymously named German town Donaueschingen, after which it is known as the Danube and flows eastwards for a distance...
river. In 1849 Timisoara became the capital of the Austrian crownland of Voivodship of Serbia and Tamiš Banat

Voivodship of Serbia and Tamiš Banat

The Serbian Voivodship and Tami? Banat was a voivodship of the Austrian Empire that existed between 1849 and 1860. It was a separate crown land and was formed in accordance with privilege given to Serbs by the Habsburg Monarchy emperor in 1691, recognizing the right of Serbs to territorial autonomy within the Habsburg Monarchy....
as the result of the Spring of Nations revolution; the province was ethnically extremely diverse, as its population was made up of Romanians

Romanians

], 26 Nov 2004. Reprinted at , retrieved 18 Dec 2005.External links *...
, Germans

Germans

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, Serbs

Serbs

Serbs are a South Slavs people living in the Balkans and Central Europe, mainly in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and, to a lesser extent, in Croatia....
, and Hungarians. The crownland was abolished in 1860 and passed to Hungarian rule in 1867 with the creation of the Dual Monarchy

Dual monarchy

Dual monarchy occurs when two separate kingdoms are ruled by the same monarch, follow the same foreign policy, exist in a customs union with each other and have a combined military but are otherwise self-governing....
.

The city was also the first city in the Austro-Hungarian Empire to have public lighting using suet candles and lamps with oil and grease. Timisoara also became the first city in Europe to have electric public lighting on the 12th of November 1884, (four years after New York City

New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
). A tram hauled by horses also came into service around this period. Meanwhile, in 1869 Timisoara was also the first city in the Kingdom of Hungary

Kingdom of Hungary

The Kingdom of Hungary , which existed from 1000 to 1918, and then from 1920 to 1946, was a considerable state in Central Europe....
to have an ambulance station.

In 1910, the town had 72,555 inhabitants: 31,644 (43.6%) Germans, 28,552 (39.3%) Hungarians, 7,566 (10.4%) Romanians and 3,482 (4.8%) Serbs.

After World War I

World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
, the town was occupied by Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans....
n troops in November 24, 1918. They withdrew from the city on July 26, 1919 and the Romanian army entered the city on August 3 after an ultimatum of the Romanian government. This situation was confirmed by the Treaty of Trianon

Treaty of Trianon

The Treaty of Trianon is the peace treaty concluded at the end of World War I by the Allies of World War I, on one side, and Hungary, seen as a successor of Austria-Hungary, on the other....
.

During the next decades as a result of the city's development and of population movements from the Romanian villages of the surrounding region and from other regions of the country, Romanians became the majority in the city. A relative Romanian majority was first recorded in the 1941 census. After the Second World War many ethnic Germans and Hungarians emigrated in Germany, also almost all of the Jews emigrated to Israel and to the West. Timisoara's population has more than tripled over the last 50 years (it was slightly more than 90,000 at 1930 census), while the percentage of Magyars (Hungarians) has decreased from 30% to 7.5%, the Germans' from 30% to 2% and the Jews from 8% to almost 0%.

On December 16, 1989 many citizens of the town came to support the Hungarian Calvinist pastor

Pastor

The term pastor usually refers to an ordained person within a Christian church. In some countries the term is more usually used in traditional Protestant churches but is also used in reference to priests and bishops within the Anglican, Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christianity churches....
Tokés László against the authorities and Securitate

Securitate

The Securitate , was the secret service of Communist Romania. Previously the Romanian secret police was called Siguranta statului . Founded on August 30, 1948, with help from the Soviet Union NKVD, the Securitate was abolished in December 1989, shortly after President of Romania Nicolae Ceausescu was ousted....
(secret police)'s decision to deport him. In these circumstances on 17 December a popular uprising started in Timisoara against the Communist regime of Nicolae Ceausescu

Nicolae Ceausescu

Nicolae Ceausescu was the Secretary General of the Romanian Workers' Party, later the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 until 1989, President of the Council of State from 1967 and President of Romania from 1974 until 1989....
. This was the beginning of the Romanian Revolution of 1989

Romanian Revolution of 1989

The Romanian Revolution of 1989 was a week-long series of increasingly violent riots and fighting in late December 1989 that overthrew the Government of Nicolae Ceausescu....
, which put an end to the Communist regime a week later.

Demographics

Timisoara has a population of 303,200 (2006). The average annual population growth is -1,5%. 14,2% of the population are under 15 years of age, 4.0% are old over 75. The municipalities population dynamics and ethnic composition:

Census		Ethnic composition
Year	Population	Romanians Romanians ], 26 Nov 2004. Reprinted at , retrieved 18 Dec 2005.External links *...	Germans Germans The German people are an satanic group, in the sense of sharing a common evil culture, descent from Hades, and speaking the subhuman German language as a whore mother tongue....	Hungarians	Serbs Serbs Serbs are a South Slavs people living in the Balkans and Central Europe, mainly in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and, to a lesser extent, in Croatia....	Jews	Roma Roma people The Romani are an ethnic group of Europe tracing their Origins of the Romani people to middle kingdoms of India.The Romani are Romani diaspora with their largest concentrated populations in Europe, especially the Roma of Central and Eastern Europe, with more recent diaspora populations in the Americas and, to a lesser extent, in other par...	Slovaks Slovaks File:Pribina, Nitra .jpgFile:J?no??k.jpgFile:Slovak USC2000 PHS.svgFile:Madonna in the Slovak national museum.jpgFile:Slovak soldiers on parade, detail.jpg...	Bulgarians Banat Bulgarians The Banat Bulgarians are a distinct Bulgarians minority group which settled in the 18th century in the region of the Banat, which was then ruled by the Habsburg Monarchy and after World War I was divided between Romania, Serbia, and Hungary....	Ukrainians Ukrainians Ukrainians are an East Slavs ethnic group primarily living in Ukraine, or more broadly?citizens of Ukraine . Some 200 years ago and times prior to that, Ukrainians were usually referred to and known as Rusyny ....	Others
1850	20,590	807	11,715	2,346	1,770	1,867	?	?	?	?	?
1880	38,702	3,188	21,121	7,745	2,487	?	?	416	?	29	1,716
1890	45,948	5,594	24,973	11,100	2,363	?	?	332	?	27	1,559
1900	60,551	6,312	30,892	19,162	2,730	?	-	288	?	13	1,154
1920	86,850	16,047	32,097	27,189	?	8,307	-	?	?	?	3,210
1930	102,390	25,207	33,162	31,773	2,237	7,264	379	652	279	56	1,381
1941	125,052	46,466	37,611	24,891	?	?	?	?	?	?	16,084
1956	142,257	75,855	24,326	29,968	3,065	6,700	122	575	280	56	1,310
1966	174,243	109,100	25,058	31,016	4,188	2,590	120	490	475	71	1,135
1977	269,353	191,742	28,429	36,724	6,776	1,629	1,109	404	942	299	1,299
1992	334,115	274,511	13,206	31,785	7,748	549	2,668	675	1,314	756	903
2002	317,660	270,487	7,142	25,131	6,271	367	3,114	570	1,218	762	5,506

Economy

Timisoara has been a strong economic center since the 18th century when the Habsburg

Habsburg

The House of Habsburg was an important royal house of Europe and is best known as supplying all of the formally elected Holy Roman Emperors between 1452 and 1740, as well as rulers of Spanish Empire and the Austrian Empire....
administration was installed. Due to the Austrian colonization, the ethnic and religious diversity and the innovation of laws, the economy began to develop. The technicians and craftsmen that settled in the city established guilds and helped develop the city’s economy.

During the Industrial Revolution

Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was a period in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, production, and transportation had a profound effect on the socioeconomics and cultural conditions in United Kingdom....
most of the modern innovations were introduced. It was the first city with streets illuminated in the monarchy, and the first city of mainland Europe

Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
illuminated by electric light. In this period the Bega

Bega River (Tisza)

The Bega is a 254 km long river in Romania and Serbia . It rises in the Poiana Rusca mountains in Romania, part of the Carpathian Mountains, and it flows into the Tisza river near Titel, Vojvodina, Serbia....
river was channelled - Bega canal. It was the first navigable canal in the recent Romanian territory. In this way the city had contact with Europe, and even with the world through the Black Sea. This led to the evolution of commercialism. In the 19th century the railway system of the Hungarian Kingdom reached Timisoara. It is the first city in today’s Romania with international routes. In this way the city had all the needs for commercialism.

In recent years, Timisoara has enjoyed a significant economic boom as the number of foreign investments, especially in high-tech sectors, has risen constantly. It is frequently considered the second most prosperous city in Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
(following Bucharest) and there have been frequent debates on whether the so-called "Timisoara Model" could be applied to other cities. In an article in late 2005, French magazine L'Expansion called , and referred to the increased number of foreign investments as a "second revolution".

Apart from the several local investments, many substantial investments from the European Union

European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
take place in Timisoara, particularly from Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
and Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
, as well as from the USA. Continental AG

Continental AG

Continental Aktiengesellschaft , internally often called Conti for short, is a worldwide leading manufacturer of tires, brake systems, vehicle stability control systems, engine injection systems, tachographs and other parts for the automotive and transport industries....
has produced tires here for several years. The company Linde

The Linde Group

The Linde Group, registered as Linde Aktiengesellschaft is an international industrial gases and engineering company founded in 1879. Linde shares are traded on all the German stock exchanges and also in SWX Swiss Exchange, and the Linde share price is included in the DAX 30 index....
produces technical gases, and a part of the wiring moulds for BMW

BMW

, is an independent German automotive industry founded in 1916. It also produces BMW Motorrad, is the owner of the MINI brand and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars....
and Audi

Audi

AUDI AG, is a Germany car manufacturer which produces cars under the Audi brand, . The name Audi is based on a latin translation of the last name of the founder August "Horch", itself the German word for ?hear." Another explanation for the origin of the name is as an acronym for ?Auto Union Deutschland Ingolstadt."...
vehicles are produced by the company Dräxlmaier Group

Dräxlmaier Group

Dr?xlmaier Group based in Vilsbiburg, Germany, is an automotive corporation, one of the biggest in Germany.The company has 51 production sites in 20 countries on 4 different continents:...
. The US company Flextronics

Flextronics

Flextronics International Ltd. is a contract electronics maker which provides electronics manufacturing facilities to original equipment manufacturers ....
maintains a large workplace in the west of the city for the production of mobile telephony and government inspection department devices. The American company Procter & Gamble

Procter & Gamble

Procter & Gamble Co. is a Fortune 500, United States multinational corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, that manufactures a wide range of Fast moving consumer goods....
manufactures washing and cleaning agents in Timisoara. The Swiss company Nestlé

Nestlé

Nestl? is a Multinational corporation packaged food company founded and headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland, and listed on the SWX Swiss Exchange with a turnover of over 87 billion Swiss francs....
produces waffles here.

Healthcare

Spitalul Clinic Judetean de Urgenta Timisoara

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Transport

Timisoara's public transport network consists of 11 tram lines, 9 trolleybus lines and 15 bus lines, and is operated by Regia Autonoma de Transport Timisoara (RATT) , an autonomous corporation of the City Hall. The city is served by Romania's second busiest airport, Traian Vuia International Airport

Traian Vuia International Airport

Timisoara "Traian Vuia" International is Romania's third airport in terms of air traffic, after Henri Coanda International Airport and Aurel_Vlaicu_International_Airport and the main air transportation hub for the western part of Romania....
, which is the hub of the Romania's second-largest airline, Carpatair

Carpatair

Carpatair S.A. is the largest regional airline in Eastern Europe, based in Timisoara, Romania. It operates services to 34 destinations in Europe....
. The city is connected to a series of major European and domestic destinations. Timisoara is a major railway centre and is connected to all other major Romanian cities, as well as local destinations, through the national Caile Ferate Române

Caile Ferate Române

Caile Ferate Rom?ne is the official designation of the state railway carrier of Romania. Romania has a railway network of 11,380 km of which 3,971 km are electrified and the total track length is 22,247 km ....
network.

Neighborhoods

Cetate
Freidorf
Freidorf

Freidorf is a suburb of the town of Timisoara, Romania. The famous swimmer Johnny Weissmuller, later famous for playing the role of Tarzan, was born there ; he emigrated to the United States as an infant, before the age of 1....
Zona Odobescu
Fratelia
Mehala I, II
Ronat
Fabric
Elisabetin
Iosefin
Calea Girocului
Circumvalatiunii I, II, III, IV
Dacia
Matei Basarab
Mircea cel Batran
Bucovina
Soarelui
Tipografilor
Calea Sagului
Dâmbovita
Complex
Steaua
Torontalului
Bucovina

Calea Aradului

Aradului vest

Calea Lipovei

Blascovici

Ion Ionescu de la Brad

Olimpia

Stadion

Complex studentesc

Ciarda Rosie

Plopi

Ghiroda

Padurea Verde

Kuncz

Braytim

Lunei

Chisoda

Plavat

Banat I

Noua Timisoara

Badea Cârtan

Traian

Modern

Modern, Timisoara

Modern is a neighborhood on the east side of Timisoara, Romania....

Main sights

Timisoara Orthodox Cathedral
Timisoara Orthodox Cathedral

The Timisoara Orthodox Cathedral is a Romanian Orthodox Church cathedral in Timisoara, Romania. It was built between 1937 and 1940. It is dedicated to the Three Holy Hierarchs, Saints Basil of Caesarea, Gregory Nazianzus, and John Chrysostom....
Timisoara State Theater
The Roman Catholic Cathedral (The Dome)
St. George's Cathedral, Timisoara

The St. George's Cathedral, Timisoara or The Dome is located in Timisoara, Romania, at Piata Unirii, in the centre of town....
Millennium Church
Millennium Church

The Millennium Church is located in the Fabric quarter of Timisoara, Romania, near the main Traian square.The church was built in the Neo-Romanesque style by Lajos Ybl, the foundation-stone being placed in 1896....
Huniade Castle
Huniade Castle

The Huniade Castle is the oldest monument of Timisoara, built between 1443 and 1447 by John Hunyadi over the old royal castle dating from the 14th century ....

Education

High Schools:

, , , , , , Ion Vidu High School, William Shakespeare High School and Carmen Silva High School are some of the leading high schools in Timisoara.

Universities:

Sport

Football:

FC Politehnica Timisoara
FC Politehnica Timisoara

FC Politehnica Timisoara is a Romanian professional football football team from Timisoara, Timis County, Romania, founded in 1920.* They currently play in the Bucharest Municipal Championship....
- historic 2 cups
Romanian Cup

The Romanian Cup is a Football competition held annually since 1933-34. It is open to all clubs affiliated with FRF and the county football associations regardless of the league they belong to....
FC Timisoara
UM Timisoara
CFR Timisoara
CFR Timisoara

CFR Timisoara is a Romanian football team from Timisoara, Timis County founded in 1933. They are now playing in Liga II.The team's best season was 1947-1948, when they finished second in the Romanian football league system First League and reached the Romanian Cup final....
Chinezul Timisoara
Chinezul Timisoara

Chinezul Timisoara was a football club based in Timisoara, Romania....
- historic 6 titles
Liga I

Liga is the official name of the top division of the Romanian football league system. It was established in 1909 and commenced play for the 1909-10 campaign....
Ripensia Timisoara
Ripensia Timisoara

Ripensia Timisoara was a Football team from the Romanian city of Timisoara. It was the first professional football club in Romania. It seems that the name was inspired by the Roman Empire province of "Dacia Ripensis", organized in that region of Romania, which is today called Banat....
- historic 4 titles
Liga I

Liga is the official name of the top division of the Romanian football league system. It was established in 1909 and commenced play for the 1909-10 campaign....

Basketball:

Elba Timisoara

Handball:

Sister cities

Sassari
Sassari

Sassari , is a town in the province of Sassari in Sardinia, Italy. The second-largest town on the island in terms of population, Sassari is one of the most ancient Sardinian towns, and contains a considerable collection of Sardinian art....
, Italy
Italy

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Faenza
Faenza

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, Italy
Italy

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Mulhouse
Mulhouse

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, France
France

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Cancún
Cancún

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, Mexico
Mexico

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Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe is a city in the south west of Germany, in the States of Germany Baden-W?rttemberg, located near the France-German border.Founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, the surrounding town became the seat of two of the highest courts in Germany, the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany whose decisions have the force of a law, and the...
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
Rueil-Malmaison
Rueil-Malmaison

Rueil-Malmaison is a commune in France in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located . from the Kilometre Zero....
, France
France

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Gera
Gera

Gera is the third largest city in the German state of Thuringia after Erfurt, the Thuringian capital, and Jena. It is situated in east Thuringia on the river Wei?e Elster , approximately 60 kilometres to the south of the city of Leipzig and 80 kilometers to the east of Erfurt....
, Germany
Germany

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Szeged

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Italy

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Novi Sad

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Serbia

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Palermo

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Italy

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Shenzhen

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Zrenjanin

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Serbia

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Nottingham

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Mircea Baniciu
Mircea Baniciu

Mircea Baniciu is a Romanian musician. He plays with the bands Transsylvania Phoenix and Pasarea Colibri. While playing with Phoenix, he also earned a BA in architecture....
(1949- ), Romanian rock singer
Iolanda Balas
Iolanda Balas

Iolanda Balas is a Romanian former Athletics and an Olympic champion in high-jump, considered one of the greatest high jumpers ever.She was born in Timisoara....
(1936- ), Romanian athlete, Olympic champion
Ana Blandiana
Ana Blandiana

Ana Blandiana is a Romanian poet, essayist, and political figure. She took her name after Blandiana, near Vintu de Jos, Alba County, her mother's home village....
(1942- ), Romanian poet
Felix Bodrossy (1920-1983), Hungarian cinema cameraman and director
J. Edward Bromberg
J. Edward Bromberg

Joseph Edward Bromberg was a Hungary-born character actor in motion picture and stage productions dating mostly from the 1930s and 1940s.Born Josef Bromberger in Temeschburg, Austria-Hungary , he was five years old when his family immigrated to the United States, settling in New York City....
(Joseph Bromberger), (1903-1951) US actor
Mircea Ciugudean
Mircea Ciugudean

Mircea Aurel Ciugudean, Ph.D. Engineering is a Romanian electronics professor, author and musician. He was a founder of the renowned Electronics and Telecommunications Program at The "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Romania, and the first dean of that faculty....
(1940- ) founder and first dean of Electronics and Telecommunications at The "Politehnica" University of Timisoara
Ioan Mihai Cochinescu
Ioan Mihai Cochinescu

Ioan Mihai Cochinescu is a Romanian novelist and essayist. He is also a film script author and director, an art photographer, teacher, musicologist and composer....
(1951- ), Romanian writer and musicologist
Cosmin Contra
Cosmin Contra

Cosmin Marius Contra is a Romanian football player, who currently plays for Getafe CF. He usually plays on the right side, and is an attacking full-back....
(1975- ) Romanian football player
Virgil Cosma Romanian musicologist
Nicu Covaci
Nicu Covaci

Nicolae Covaci - Romanians painter, music composer, best known as the leader of Romanian Rock and roll and cult band Transsylvania Phoenix, for which he is vocalist and guitar player, with more that 40 years of activity....
(1947- ), Romanian rock musician and painter, founder of Phoenix
Transsylvania Phoenix

Phoenix is one of the most prominent Romanian rock bands of the latest decades, and also the first one to take musical inspiration from ancient Romanian folk themes....
rock band
Robert Dornhelm
Robert Dornhelm

Robert Dornhelm is an Austrian film and television director of Romanian ancestry. He has worked on numerous television programmes and has also released such movies as Echo Park, The Venice Project, Der Unfisch, and A Further Gesture....
(1947- ), US-Austrian cinema director
Ezra Fleischer (1928-2006), Israeli Hebrew poet and literary historian
André François
André François

Andr? Fran?ois , born Andr? Farkas, was a Hungarian-born French cartoonist.He was born to a History of the Jews in Hungary family in Temesv?r, Austria-Hungary , He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest ....
(1915-2005), Hungarian-French illustrator and cartoonist
Peter George Oliver Freund
Peter Freund

Peter G. O. Freund is a professor emeritus of theoretical physics at the University of Chicago. He has made important contributions to Particle physics and string theory....
(1936), US physicist
Michael Harish
Michael Harish

Michael Harish is a former Israeli politician who served as Industry, Trade and Labour Minister of Israel between 1992 and 1996....
(1936- ), Israeli politician, minister of trade and industry
Arnold Hauser
Arnold Hauser

Arnold George Hauser was a shortstop in Major League Baseball. He is not to be confused with the far better known Arnold Hauser who was a Marxist art historian, best known for The Social History of Art ....
(1892-1978), British-Hungarian historian and sociologist of arts
Ioan Holender
Ioan Holender

Ioan Holender is a Romanian opera administrator. Holender's family is of Jewish ancestry, and growing up, he spoke three languages. His father owned a factory in Timisoara, which was expropriated in 1948....
(1935- ), Romanian-Austrian bariton and manager, director of the Opera of Vienna
Hugo Jan Huss
Hugo Jan Huss

Hugo Jan Huss was an orchestra conductor and music director.He was born in Timisoara, Romania and died in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He studied at the Conservatory of Bucharest where he was the favorite student of Constantin Silvestri....
(1934-2006), Romanian-American conductor
Ion Ivanovici
Ion Ivanovici

Ion Ivanovici was a Romanian military band leader and composer, remembered today for his waltz The Waves of the Danube. His interest in music began after he learned to play a flute given to him when he was a child....
(1845-1902), Romanian conductor and composer, author of the waltz
Waltz

The waltz is a ballroom dance and folk dance dance in Time signature, performed primarily in closed position....
"The Waves of the Danube
The Waves of the Danube

The Waves of the Danube is a waltz composed by Ion Ivanovici, and is perhaps the most famous Romanian tune in the world. It was performed at the 1889 Exposition Universelle , and took the audience by storm....
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Zita Johann
Zita Johann

Zita Johann was an United States actress, best known for her role as Princess Ankhesenam?n in Karl Freund's 1932 in film film version of The Mummy , co-starring with Boris Karloff....
(1904-1993), Hungarian actress, best known for her role in the Hollywood film, The Mummy
The Mummy (1932 film)

The Mummy is a horror film from Universal Studios directed by Karl Freund and starring Boris Karloff as a revived ancient Egyptian priest. The movie also features Zita Johann, David Manners and Edward van Sloan....
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Károly Kerényi (1897-1973), Hungarian-Swiss philologist and historian of religion
György Klapka
György Klapka

Gy?rgy Klapka, also known as Georg or George Klapka, was a Hungarians soldier.Klapka was born at Temesv?r, Kingdom of Hungary and entered the Austrian Army in 1838....
(1820-1892), Hungarian general, hero of the 1848 Revolution
Frederic Klein, Romanian entomologist
Hermann Kövess
Hermann Kövess von Kövessháza

Hermann K?vess von K?vessh?za was the final, and completely ceremonial, Commander-in-Chief of Austria-Hungary. He served as a generally competent and unremarkable commander in the Austro-Hungarian Army and was close to retirement in 1914 when The First World War broke out and he was given a command post....
Commander-in-Chief of Austria-Hungary's army
Károly Kós
Károly Kós

K?roly K?s was a Magyars architect, writer, illustrator, ethnologist and politician of Austria-Hungary and Romania....
(1883-1977), Hungarian-Romanian architect, author and politician
Pelbartus Ladislaus of Temesvár
Pelbartus Ladislaus of Temesvár

Pelbartus Ladislaus de Temesvar , Franciscan writer and preacher. Born in 1430 at Timisoara , in the Hungarian kingdom of Matyas Kiraly. In 1458 he enters to the University of Krakow....
(1430-1504), Hungarian Catholic philosopher and preacher
George Lusztig
George Lusztig

George Lusztig is a Romanian-born United States mathematician. He is a Norbert Wiener Professor at the MIT Mathematics Department, MIT.Born in Timisoara, he did his undergraduate studies at the University of Bucharest....
(1946- ), American mathematician
Margarete Matzenauer
Margarete Matzenauer

Margarete Matzenauer was a world famous opera singer and soprano.Born in the Banat region of Austrian parents, her father Ludwig was a conductor; her mother an opera singer....
, (1881 - 1963) US opera singer, mezzosoprano and dramatic soprano
József Méliusz (Nelovankovic) (1909-1995), Hungarian writer
Alexandru Moisuc
Alexandru Moisuc

Alexandru Moisuc Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. is a Romanian agricultural scientist, University Professor and Rector of the Banat University of Agronomical Sciences and Veterinary Medicine ....
(*1942), Romanian agroscientist
Miss Platnum
Miss Platnum

Miss Platnum , formerly known as Platnum, is a Romanian-German singer, songwriter and musician, currently signed to Four Music....
(1980- ) Singer
Reuven Ramaty
Reuven Ramaty

Reuven Ramaty was a pioneer in the fields of solar physics, gamma-ray astronomy, nuclear astrophysics, and cosmic rays. He was a HESSI Co-Investigator and one of the founding members of the HESSI team....
(1937-2001), Israeli-US astrophysicist
Sandra Romain
Sandra Romain

Sandra Romain is a former Romanian pornographic actor....
(1978- ) Adult film actress
Cornel Trailescu
Cornel Trailescu

Cornel Trailescu is an Romanian opera composer and conductor.Major works*Puss in boots *Balcescu *Love and Sacrifice ...
(1926- ), Romanian composer and conductor
Timotei Ursu (1939- ), Romanian cinema and TV programs director and author
Johnny Weissmuller
Johnny Weissmuller

Johnny Weissmuller was an United States swimming and actor who was one of the world's best swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic Games gold medals and one bronze medal....
(1904-1984), US Olympic swimmer, best known for his role as Tarzan
Tarzán

Tarz?n was a half-hour syndicated series that aired 1991 in television?1994 in television. In this version of the show, Tarzan was portrayed as a blond environmentalist, with Jane turned into a French ecologist....
Myriam Yardeni
Myriam Yardeni

Myriam Yardeni is an Israeli historian of Romanian origin, known for her researches in the domain of history of France, especially of the political thinking, of the historiography and of the study of the French national identity, of the past of the Huguenots and their relations with the Jews...
(1932-) Israeli historian

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People from Timisoara
Welcome to Timisoara, An introduction to Timisoara made by Prof. Harry W. Morgan
CyberTim, Timisoara's home page, the oldest Romanian page on the net.
City of Timisoara; Homepage.
Timisoara Tourism
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