Communist-era architecture can also be found in Bucharest's residential districts, mainly in blocuri, which are high-density apartment blocks that house the majority of the city's population.

Jews were first attested as shop owners under Mircea Ciobanul ( ca. 1550 ), and despite frequent persecutions and pogroms, formed part a large of the professional elites for most of Bucharest's history, and the largest percentage of the total population after Romanians ( around 11 %).

She has donated more than $ 140, 000 over two years for a mass sterilization and adoption program for Bucharest's stray dogs, estimated to number 300, 000.

Bucharest's jazz profile has especially risen since 2002, with the presence of two thriving venues, Green Hours and Art Jazz, as well as an American presence alongside established Romanians.

By the middle of the 19th century, it was Bucharest's most important commercial complex, with 15 wholesalers, 23 retail stores, 107 rooms for offices or living, two receiving rooms and a pub.

The newest contribution to Bucharest's architecture took place after the fall of Communism, particularly after 2000, when the city went through a period of urban renewaland architectural revitalizationon the back of Romania's rapid economic growth.

The historian's name was given to several places and landmarks ; these include downtown Bucharest's Mihail Kogălniceanu Square ( near the Izvor metro station, and housing Han's sculpture ) and Mihail Kogălniceanu Boulevard, the Mihail Kogălniceanu commune in Constanţa County, the Mihail Kogălniceanu International Airport ( situated 26 km northwest of Constanţa, and serving that city, the airport also houses a U. S. Military Forces base ), and the Mihail Kogălniceanu University in Iaşi ( the first private university in Moldavia, founded in 1990 ).

Located on Ipătescu Alley and finished in 1929, this was occasionally described as " Bucharest's first Cubist lodging ".

Bucharest's history alternated periods of development and decline from the early settlements of the Antiquity and until its consolidation as capital of Romania late in the 19th century.

It was Bucharest's only airport until 1965, when the Otopeni Airport ( today Henri Coandă International Airport ) was converted to civilian use.

Until March 2012 ( when it was converted into a business airport ), it was the second airport in Romania in terms of air traffic and Bucharest's low-cost hub.

Repeatedly calling on Carp to include PCD ministers in his executive, Ionescu sided with Brătianu in May 1911, during the scandal erupting over Bucharest's tram system ( when the Conservatives uncovered that the former Mayor of Bucharest, Vintilă Brătianu, had contracted some of his fellow Liberals to complete the work in question ).

Several weeks after the elections, when the authorities attempted to evict the remaining protesters occupying one of Bucharest's central square, violence erupted and, as the police and gendarmerie retreated under pressure, protesters attacked several state institutions, including the police headquarters, the national television station, and the Foreign Ministry.

However, by 1986, when construction began on the section between Crângaşi and Gara de Nord, the plans were changed ( a common feature for Bucharest's metro ), with M4 being built with its own trackage from the terminus at Gara de Nord.

It was Bucharest's only airport until 1965, when the Otopeni Airport ( today Henri Coandă International Airport ) was converted to civilian use.

Until March 2012 ( when it was converted into a business airport ), it was the second airport in Romania in terms of air traffic and Bucharest's low-cost hub.

Bucharest's radius, from University Square to the city limits in all directions, varies from about 10 to 12 km ( 6. 25 – 7. 5 mi ).

While many neighbourhood discos play manele, an Oriental-and Roma-influenced genre of music that is particularly popular in Bucharest's working class districts, the city has a rich jazz and blues scene, and, to an even larger extent, house music / trance and heavy metal / punk scenes.

Bucharest's architecture is highly eclectic due to the many influences on the city throughout its history.

One of the best examples of this type of architecture is Centrul Civic, a development that replaced a major part of Bucharest's historic city centre with giant utilitarian buildings, mainly with marble or travertine façades, inspired by North Korean architecture.

Dinamo Bucharest's home ground is the 15, 032-seater Dinamo Stadium in Bucharest's city centre, where it has played since 1951.

These decisively marked Bucharest's development in several ways-the city was the unrivalled capital, being favoured by the decrease in importance of manorialism and rural centers, cumulated with the progress witnessed by the monetary economy ( during the period, boyar status began revolving around appointment to administrative offices, and most of the latter were centered on the princely residence, including, after 1761, the banat of Oltenia ).

In 1885-1887, after Romania denounced its economic ties with Austria-Hungary, Bucharest's commercial and industrial development went unhindered: over 760 new enterprises were established in the city before 1912, and hundreds more by the 1940s.

Bucharest's Şoseaua Kiseleff was named after the Russian reformer Pavel Kiselyov who had the road built while Russian troops were occupying the city in the 1830s ; its Strada Dr. Iuliu Barasch is named after a locally famous physician whose clinic was located there.

On 10 September 1868, Bucharest's Gara de Nord ( North Station ) was finalised.

The Obor market ( Piaţa Obor ), the direct successor of the original fair, was, until 2007, Bucharest's largest public market.

Following a proposal formulated by poet and publicist Nicolae Tzone at the Bucharest Conference on Surrealism, in 2001, Janco's sketch for Vinea's " country workshop " was used in designing Bucharest's ICARE, the Institute for the Study of the Romanian and European Avant-garde.

Ionescu's house on Bucharest's Atena Street was ransacked and partly vandalized by German troops — Constantin Argetoianu recounted that this was accomplished " methodically ", and constituted " an exception " to the German administration's " scrupulous respect for private property ".

A public procession, led by King Ferdinand, accompanied the casket, placed on a caisson, down to Bucharest's Gara de Nord, whence it was transported for burial in Sinaia ( June 30, 1922 ).

It was designed by the architect Horia Maicu, in the pure ( albeit comparatively small-scale ) style of Soviet Socialist realism, resembling the main building of the Moscow State University, and was intended to house all of Bucharest's printing presses, the newsrooms and their staff.

Professionally, he was educated at the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Law ( graduated 1922 ) and at the University of Leipzig ( earning his PhD in 1925 ).

He was soon hired away by Cantor Cuper ( a. k. a. Kupfer ) of Bucharest's Great Synagogue, engaged as a soloist.

It was an unprecedented hit, and ran at length at Bucharest's Central Theater.

On December 1, 2005, Bucharest's electronic over-the-counter stock market, Rasdaq, was merged with the Bucharest Stock Exchange.

Almost one third of national taxes are paid by Bucharest's citizens and companies.

Forces considered to be loyal to the old regime ( spontaneously nicknamed " terrorists ") opened fire on the crowd and attacked vital points of socio-political life: the television, radio, and telephone buildings, as well as Casa Scânteii ( the centre of the nation's print media, which serves a similar role today under the name Casa Presei Libere, " House of the Free Press ") and the post office in the district of Drumul Taberei ; Palace Square ( site of the Central Committee building, but also of the Central University Library, the national art museum in the former Royal Palace, and the Ateneul Român ( Romanian Athaeneum ), Bucharest's leading concert hall ); the university and the adjoining University Square ( one of the city's main intersections ); Otopeni and Băneasa airports ; hospitals, and the Ministry of Defence.

Bucharest's crime rate is rather low in comparison to other European capital cities, with the number of total offenses declining by 51 % between 2000 and 2004.

A major part of Bucharest's architecture is made up of buildings constructed during the Communist era replacing the historical architecture with high density apartment blocks – significant portions of the historic center of Bucharest were demolished in order to construct one of the largest buildings in the world, the Palace of the Parliament ( then officially called the House of the Republic ).

Located on Calea Vitan approximately 1 km outside Bucharest's historic center, the four-story, 50, 000 m² mall opened in 1999, in a Ceauşescu-era abandoned hunger circus, or giant food warehouse, in an area largely shaped during the Communist period ( see Ceauşima ).

On 11 November 1989, before the party congress, on Bucharest's Brezoianu Street and Kogălniceanu Boulevard, students from Cluj-Napoca and Bucharest demonstrated with placards “ We want Reforms against Ceauşescu government.

Bucharest's economy is mainly centred on industry and services, with services particularly growing in importance in the last ten years.

Among her notable stage roles in recent years, in a Romanian-language production of The Blue Angel ( Îngerul Albastru in Romanian ) at Bucharest's Odeon Theater, in 2001-2 she played ( to great critical acclaim ) Lola Lola, the character made famous by Marlene Dietrich.