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Legend has it that Bucharest was founded by a shepherd named Bucur (bucurie; literally ‘joy’) who built a church on the right bank of the Dâmboviţa River. The city, which lies on the Wallachian plains between the Carpathian foothills and the Danube River, was settled by Geto-Dacians as early as 70 BC. By 1459 a […]


