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  2. Timișoara - Wikipedia

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    Timișoara is one of the most important educational centres in Romania, with about 40,000 students [ 18 ] enrolled in the city's six universities. Like many other large cities in Romania, Timișoara is a medical tourism service provider, especially for dental care and cosmetic surgery. [ 19 ]

  3. Bucharest - Wikipedia

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    Bucharest is a beta global city, a major cultural, political and economic hub, and the country's seat of government. Bucharest was first mentioned in documents in 1459. The city became the capital in 1862 and is the centre of Romanian media, culture, and art.

  4. Sectors of Bucharest - Wikipedia

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    The Municipality of Bucharest (the capital of Romania) is divided into 6 administrative units, named sectors (sectoare in Romanian), each of which has their own mayor and council, and has responsibility over local affairs, such as secondary streets, parks, schools and the cleaning services. Each of the 6 sectors contains a number of informal ...

  5. Ana Bǎrbosu receives Olympic bronze medal at ceremony in ...

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    Bǎrbosu, whose score moved ahead of Chiles' after a successful challenge from the Romanian Olympic Committee, received the medal in a "reallocation" ceremony in Bucharest, Romania, on Friday.

  6. Sector 3 (Bucharest) - Wikipedia

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    With a population of 393,226 people based on a July 2005 estimate, Sector 3 is the most populous sector in Bucharest. According to the 2002 census, 97.29% of the sector's population is Romanian, while 1.31% are Romani, 0.29% are Hungarian, and 0.15% are Turkish. In terms of gender, 53.6% of the population is female, while 46.4% is male.

  7. Economy of Bucharest - Wikipedia

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    Economy of Bucharest. Bucharest is the most economically developed and industrialised city in Romania, producing around 21% of the country's GDP and about one-quarter of its industrial production, while only accounting for 9% of the country's population. [1] Almost one third of national taxes is paid by Bucharest's citizens and companies.

  8. Jim Crow laws - Wikipedia

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    Nadir of Americanrace relations. The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation, "Jim Crow" being a pejorative term for an African American. [1] The last of the Jim Crow laws were overturned in 1965. [2]

  9. Larry Fink - Wikipedia

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    Fink was born on November 2, 1952. [6][7] He grew up as one of three children in a Jewish family [8] in Van Nuys, California, where his mother Lila (1930–2012) was an English professor and his father Frederick (1925–2013) owned a shoe store. [3] He earned a BA in political science from UCLA in 1974. [7] Fink was also a member of Kappa Beta ...