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About Bucharest
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Bucharest is the capital city and industrial and commercial centre of Romania. It is located in the southeast of the country and lies on the banks of the Dambovita River. It was originally known as Dambovita citadel. In the period between the two World Wars, the city's elegant architecture and the sophistication of its elite earned Bucharest the nickname of the "Paris of the East" or "Little Paris".
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Palace of the Parliament
Local name: "Palatul Parlamentului"
Local phonetic: [Pah`lah`tool - Pahr`lah`mehn`too`louie]
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Dealul Arsenalului, Bucharest
State of Bucharest, Romania
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The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest is one of the world's largest buildings. Its original name was the House of the People (Casa Poporului [Cah`sah - Poh`poh`roo`louie]), but it was renamed (in the post-Communist era) first during the 1989 Revolution with the derogatory name of House of Ceausescu and then as the Palace of the Parliament. The structure combines elements and motifs from multiple sources, in an eclectic postmodernist architectural style. Edward Behr (food specialist who became famous by authoring The Artful Eater) wrote that "the combination of cultural and aesthetic illiteracy, rigid Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy and an innate taste for gigantism was devastating" for the architecture of the edifice.
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