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Dorobanți
Dorobanți is a neighborhood in Sector 1, Bucharest. The neighborhood is dominated by red brick buildings and glass buildings. Main intersections/squares are Perla, Dorobanți Square, , Charles de Gaulle Square, and Quito Square. Main streets are , Iancu de Hunedoara Avenue, Lascăr Catargiu Boulevard, and a small part of Ștefan cel Mare Boulevard. The district features many embassy buildings, and local cafés are regarded as meeting places of Bucharest's nouveau riche. History ''Calea Dorobanți'' is one of the oldest streets with heavy traffic in Bucharest. The area around the street was designed and built as an exclusive district. The current name was given to the street in 1878, after the Romanian War of Independence, as a tribute to the Romanian infantry troops ('' Dorobanți'' in Romanian) who fought at Pleven, Vidin and Grivitsa. The street runs from to the south to Dorobanți Square to the north. The Ion Luca Caragiale National College is located at the northern end ...
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Bucharest Quarter Dorobanti
Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița (river), Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.76 million residents within a greater Bucharest metropolitan area, metropolitan area of 2.3 million residents, which makes Bucharest the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 8th most-populous city in the European Union. The city area measures and comprises 6 districts (''Sectors of Bucharest, Sectoare''), while the metropolitan area covers . Bucharest is a major cultural, political and economic hub, the country's seat of government, and the capital of the Muntenia region. Bucharest was first mentioned in documents in 1459. The city became the capital in 1862 and is the centre of Romanian media, culture, and art. Its architecture is a mix of historical (mostly History of architecture#Revivalism and Eclecticism, Eclectic, but also Neoclassical arc ...
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