Dămăroaia is a district in the north side of

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north o ...

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Sector 1 Sector 1 is an administrative unit of Bucharest located in the northern part of the city. It contains also the northwestern districts of Băneasa and Pipera. Sector 1 is thought to be the wealthiest sector in Bucharest. Like each of Bucharest se ...

. It covers about , making it one of the largest neighborhoods of Sector 1. RATB bus 331 and tram 24 serve the area. Prior to 1918, when it was purchased by the government, the area belonged to the Stoicescu family. The land began to be sold off in 1926, and starting in 1931, a large number of ''

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'' employees moved there. In 1939, it was incorporated into

Grivița Grivița () is a district of Bucharest, Romania, centered on the Grivița Railway Yards (''Atelierele CFR Grivița''), which were and still are an important landmark within the manufacturing landscape of the city. Located near Gara de Nord, thei ...

Commune, which became part of Bucharest in 1950. A chapel was built in 1931, and a school was begun the following year. The Dămăroaia Church dates to 1946. Soviet-style apartment blocks were built on unoccupied land in the late 1950s. A further round of block construction came about in the late 1960s.Stroe and Mihai, p. 147, 150

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*Adriana Stroe, Daniela Mihai, "Note despre Biserica Sf. Nicolae din Dămăroaia", ''Buletinul Comisiei Monumentelor Istorice'', 2011, pp. 146-57 Districts of Bucharest {{Romania-stub