Timișoara (rou)

Timișoara

Timișoara ranks 486th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Šibenik, Singapore, and Yamanashi Prefecture. Memorable people born in Timișoara include Ion Ivanovici, Ștefan Kovács, and Iolanda Balaș. Memorable people who died in Timișoara include Nicolae Kovács, Zoltán Beke, and György Dózsa. Timișoara has been the birth place of many soccer players, and athletes and the death place of many soccer players, and politicians. Timișoara is located in Romania.

Timișoara is the capital city of Timiș County, Banat, and the main economic, social and cultural center in Western Romania. Located on the Bega River, Timișoara is considered the informal capital city of the historical Banat region. From 1848 to 1860 it was the capital of the Serbian Vojvodina and the Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar. With 250,849 inhabitants at the 2021 census, Timișoara is the country's fifth most populous city. It is home to around 400,000 inhabitants in its metropolitan area, while the Timișoara–Arad metropolis concentrates more than 70% of the population of Timiș and Arad counties. Timișoara is a multicultural city, home to 21 ethnic groups and 18 religious denominations. Historically, the most numerous were the Swabian Germans, Jews and Hungarians, who still make up 6% of the population in Timișoara. Read more on Wikipedia