Timişoara

[tee-mee-shwah-rah]

noun

1. a city in W Romania.

Timişoara

/ timiˈʃwara /

noun

1. Hungarian name: Temesvár. a city in W Romania: formerly under Turkish and then Hapsburg rule, being allotted to Romania in 1920; unrest led to the revolution of 1989. Pop: 296 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

Thousands of Romanians formed a human chain around the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest and there were also large-scale protests in the cities of Cluj, Timişoara, Sibiu, Constanța and Braşov.

From The Guardian

Just months after Ovidiu Sirbu established himself at the Victor Babeş University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Timişoara in 2012, a new government slashed research funding and unpicked the reforms, eliminating rules designed to establish a meritocracy.

From Nature