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1921–1927 – The soccer team "Chinezul" from Timișoara is the champion of Romania in 6 consecutive editions of the championship. 1926 – The statue of "Lupoaica" ("She-wolf" - Romulus and Remus), a gift from Italian authorities and later the town symbol, is inaugurated in the center.
Timișoara (UK: / ˌ t ɪ m ɪ ˈ ʃ w ɑːr ə /, US: / ˌ t iː m iː-/, Romanian: [t i m i ˈ ʃ o̯a r a] ⓘ; German: Temeswar pronounced [ˈtɛmɛʃvaːɐ̯] ⓘ, also Temeschwar or Temeschburg; Hungarian: Temesvár pronounced [ˈtɛmɛʃvaːr] ⓘ; Serbian: Темишвар, romanized: Temišvar; see other names) is the capital city of Timiș County, Banat, and the main economic, social ...
The Romanian revolution ( Romanian: Revoluția română) was a period of violent civil unrest in Romania during December 1989 as a part of the revolutions of 1989 that occurred in several countries around the world, primarily within the Eastern Bloc. [6] The Romanian revolution started in the city of Timișoara and soon spread throughout the ...
Capitoline Wolf is a statue located in Timișoara 's Victory Square, between the Metropolitan Cathedral and the Palace of Culture. Copy of the famous Capitoline Wolf, the statue was donated by the municipality of Rome in 1926 as a symbol of Latinity that unites the Romanian and Italian peoples. The statue depicts the legend of the founders of ...
Virgin Mary Monument is located in Timișoara 's St. Mary Square and it has been there since 1906, when it was built on an older statue of Virgin Mary. The legend goes that György Dózsa has been executed there. The monument is a romanesque style canopy set on six pillars, under which lies the statue of Mary, carved in Carrara marble.
Location. Cetate, Timișoara. Coordinates: 45°45′20.35″N 21°13′43.61″E. / 45.7556528°N 21.2287806°E / 45.7556528; 21.2287806. St. George Square ( Romanian: Piața Sf. Gheorghe) is a small urban square in the historic center of Timișoara. The place was known in the past as Seminary Square; there was first a Catholic church ...
The St. Mary and St. John of Nepomuk Monument, often shortened as Statue of St. John of Nepomuk, is a Romanian Baroque monument in Timișoara 's Liberty Square. It is one of the two plague columns built in Timișoara after the Great Plague of 1738; the other is located in the neighboring Union Square. It is inscribed in the list of historical ...
Union Square ( Romanian: Piața Unirii ), also known as Dome Square ( Romanian: Piața Domului ), is the oldest square in Timișoara. [1] It was named in honor of the Romanian troops that entered Timișoara on 3 August 1919 and established the Romanian administration, thus finalizing the union of Banat with Romania. [2]