Bucharest

[ boo-kuh-rest, byoo- ]

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Bucharest

/ ˌbjuː-; ˌbuːkəˈrɛst /

the capital of Romania, in the southeast. Pop: 1 764 000 (2005 est) Romanian nameBucureşti

Bucharest

Capital of Romania and largest city in the country, located in south-central Romania on a tributary of the Danube River ; Romania's chief industrial and communications center.

Charlie just lost his mother, and escapes the pain with a trip to Bucharest.

After graduating in 1973 from the Ion Mincu Institute of Architecture in Bucharest, she joined the state design institute.

She was brought up in Sighisoara, a Transylvanian fortress town north-west of Bucharest.

The following year she stood for election as mayor of Bucharest but won less than four per cent of the vote.

He appointed a Jewish American as consul to Bucharest “for the benefit of the people who are laboring under severe oppression.”

Russian and Turkish troops occupied Jassy and Bucharest during the summer.

A daughter married the convert Glck, a physician of high standing in Bucharest.

The prince yielded to superior force, and in March, 1886, a treaty of peace was signed at Bucharest.

Some ten years before the time of which we are speaking, the family had left Bucharest to come and live in Paris.

Bucharest, where I am now, is close on the Turkish frontier, being only half a day's journey.

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