Timisoara is a linking bridge between Romania and the western part of Europe. Timisoara is also called "The Little Vienna".
In the following I will show with you some curiosities about Timisoara:
- Timisoara is the place where Revolution of 1989 began against Ceausescu the Communist Dictatorship.
- Timisoara was the first electrically illuminated city in Europe and the second in the world after New York in 1884;
- Timisoara was the first European city who had tramways and trams. It was inaugurated on 8th of July, 1869. The tram was made in Vienna (made of wood). It was handled by horses and carried 15 people within.
- The Bega River was the first navigable channel in Romania.
- Here was built the first town hospital in Romania, 24 years before the one in Vienna and 34 years before Budapest, the capital of Hungary, in the year of 1745.
- In 1938 for the first time in the world, the first welding machinery for train and tram rails, the invention of the professor Corneliu Miclosi.
- It is the city with the most foreign invasions throughout history. It was inhabited by the Dacians, then by the Romans, after which the following nations took over the city: the Ostrogoths, the Huns, the Gepids, the Bulgarians.
In 1552, the city on the River Bega came under the rule of the Turks. In 1718, the city was dominated by Austro-Hungary Empire, returning to Romania in 1920.
- It is the largest city in the west of the country, with a population of about 400.000 inhabitans.
- Here there is the oldest beer factory in the territory of Romania, founded in 1718: "The Timisoareana Beer Factory"
- Timisoara is the third largest cultural center of the country, after Bucharest and Iasi.
- In 2011 the first laser heart surgery in Romania, took place in Timisoara.
