Bucureștioara was a stream which was a tributary of the

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and flowed in

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, Romania. It had its source in a lake which was located in the place where

Grădina Icoanei ''Grădina Icoanei'' ("Icon's Garden") is a small park in central Bucharest, situated not far away from Piața Romană and Bulevardul Magheru. The park, located next to Gheorghe Cantacuzino Plaza in Sector 2 of the city, was inaugurated in 18 ...

and are now located, a few hundred metres east of the present-day

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. Its name is a diminutive of ''București'', the Romanian name of Bucharest. It flowed southward along what is now the Jean-Louis Calderon Street and then through the "Scaune" suburb (''mahala''), where its waters were used by the butchers (currently, the Hristo Botev Street) and finally it joined the Dâmbovița. The lake was drained in 1873 and the river bed was covered.

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