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[Travel Splendid] This name has been widely accepted for centuries, because of the architectural style of the buildings, and the fact that, since 1700, after the town has been conquered by Prince Eugene of Savoy, German clerks and artisans came to live in Timisoara, along the military garrison, gave to this city German features, features that have not disappeared nowadays.
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[Where to go in Timisoara] 1918: Timisoara and the great union: On September 18th 1915 the notorious German General August von Mackensen arrived in Timisoara on a special train, the city becoming the headquarter of the military operations against Serbia. Many of the citys inhabitants of Magyar or German origin, supporting the Central Powers, freely opened their homes in the citys most elegant areas - the Kronprinz Hotel (sheltering today the German and Magyar Theatre), the Josefin Casino and Ancora Café became officers mess while the general headquarters were arranged on the first floor of the Lloyd Palace.
[Todleho Forums] Forum » About the Country: Romania » Todleho :: Friends | Reviews ...: The first half of the 20th century is regarded by many Romanian scholars as the Golden Age of Romanian culture and it is the period when it reached its main level of international affirmation and a strong connection to the European cultural trends. The most important artist who had a great influence on the world culture was the sculptor Constantin Brâncusi, a central figure of the modern movement and a pioneer of abstraction, the innovator of world sculpture by immersion in the primordial sources of folk creation.
[Football with notw.co.uk] ONE TO POACH: Gabriel Torje | News Of The World: The small gifted boy from Timisoara started to attract interest from some of the biggest clubs in Romania, and finally in January 2008 reigning champions Dinamo Bucharest splashed out €1.5million for the midfielder. During the second half of the 2008/9 season, Tourje made fifteen appearances for Dinamo, mainly from the bench.
[Inflight Magazine of Wizz Air] Shedding light on the city: Even though not one stone remains from this part of the city’s history, the locals we met would often tell us about the Turkish era of Timisoara, as they regaled us with information of their hometown. It is so engrained in their understanding of the context of their history that its very absence is as conspicuous as the remaining churches, cathedrals, synagogues, Communist eyesores and bright streetlamps that make Timisoara such a varied and unique Romanian city.
[Bucharest Life] Bucharest Life | Great books about Romania in English No. 4: Along ...: Perhaps they would still be alive, just as those people killed while fleeing over the Berlin Wall might still be alive had they not known how terrific life in West Germany was. After all, it was the same kind of logic that was used by the East German authorities, who spent fortunes trying to prevent East Germans watching West German television and seeing for themselves that there was more to life than a long shift at the local tractor factory.
[Latest football (soccer) goals, videos, clips, & highlights - 101 Great Goals] £82000 a man to beat Manchester City & Who would want to be a ...: The most intriguing angle on Manchester Citys match against FC Timisoara is, as reported in The Sun, “FC Timisoara’s stars are on £82,000 a man to dump Manchester City out of the Europa League.” On Liverpool there are more developments over Kenny Huang and speculation that Javier Mascherano may stay at Anfield.
[Centre for Romanian Studies] Herta Müller - the Journey to the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature:: I only learned Romanian at school, as a foreign language”¦ In Timisoara the written word in the Suabian dialect coexists with the language of communication (Romanian). To these two languages one added the wooden language of the communist party, which hijacked the idiom for its own benefit. Hence our utmost vigilance exerted to avoid using words or concepts in our vocabulary, which were stained or adulterated by the political ideology. To describe our reality we were constantly in quest of an innocent language.
[All Romanians are vampires] Their names mean freedom | All Romanians are vampires: And luckily, at half-time the TV station started broadcasting one minute or so before the game re-started. They were filming one of the tribunes, where a big violet sheet had appeared (violet and white are the club colors, sort of a Romanian Fiorentina).
[San Francisco Sentinel] San Francisco Sentinel » Blog Archives » OBAMA PART GERMAN - ONE ...: In that raid, Habsburg Imperial armies led by Prince Eugene of Savoy took the last important Ottoman-Turk stronghold in Hungary, which today is the Romanian city of Timisoara.
[From Grapes to Wine's Blog] Vinarte: 2004 Soare, Aniversare 2006 and Prince Matei 2006 « From ...: The three pillars for judging a wine, you have mentioned, should be the base for everyone, but how I have said in some comments, for many (almost 75%) of our dear fellow citizens, the main criteria when they drink wine is to be a lot and having enough alchool to go dizzy fast, even they use soda (for sprit), by the way there is any english term for sprits?
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