Bucureștioara was a stream which was a tributary of the Dâmboviţa River and flowed in

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. It had its source in a lake which was located in the place where Parcul Icoanei and Parcul Ioanid 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 1870 and the river bed was covered.

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