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.

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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.

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