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Fabric, Timișoara
Fabric (; ; ) is one of the oldest historic districts of Timișoara, Romania. It is located in the central-eastern part of Timișoara, in the vicinity of the Cetate, Timișoara, Cetate district, being a continuation of the historical city centre. Its name comes from the factories that were built here since its appearance in the 18th century. History Until after 1716, the present-day Fabric, located east of the Cetate, Timișoara, Cetate district, was not inhabited. In 1716 there were only two water mills in this area. The northern one may have served as a powder keg in the 1660s. A so-called "esplanade" surrounded the fortress of Timișoara until 1892. It was a 948-meter-wide strip of land on which building was forbidden, so that a possible enemy could not hide behind the buildings that would have been built here. Therefore, Fabric was built outside the esplanade. The first manufactories were built east of the fortress, in the present-day Fabric, starting with 1732 (according t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungarian Language
Hungarian, or Magyar (, ), is an Ugric language of the Uralic language family spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighboring countries. It is the official language of Hungary and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union. Outside Hungary, it is also spoken by Hungarians, Hungarian communities in southern Slovakia, western Ukraine (Zakarpattia Oblast, Transcarpathia), central and western Romania (Transylvania), northern Serbia (Vojvodina), northern Croatia, northeastern Slovenia (Prekmurje), and eastern Austria (Burgenland). It is also spoken by Hungarian diaspora communities worldwide, especially in North America (particularly the Hungarian Americans, United States and Canada) and Israel. With 14 million speakers, it is the Uralic family's most widely spoken language. Classification Hungarian is a member of the Uralic language family. Linguistic connections between Hungarian and other Uralic languages were noticed in the 1670s, and the family's existenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
