13th of September () is a district in the south of

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in Sector 5, close to the city center.

History

The name comes from the main street in the area: ''Calea 13 Septembrie'', which is named after the date of the of the 1848 Wallachian Revolution which was fought on the nearby Dealul Spirii between the Ottoman troops and the Firemen division of Bucharest led by captain . The 13th of September is the Firefighter's Day in

since then. On the territory of the district were the former Uranus and Izvor neighborhoods, which disappeared in the 1980s, with the start of construction of the

Palace of the Parliament The Palace of the Parliament (), also known as the House of the Republic () or the People's House (), is the seat of the Parliament of Romania, located atop Dealul Spirii in Bucharest, the national capital. The Palace reaches a height of , has ...

during the

Nicolae Ceaușescu Nicolae Ceaușescu ( ; ; – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian politician who was the second and last Communism, communist leader of Socialist Romania, Romania, serving as the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 u ...

era (see '' Ceaușima'').

Landmarks

* Panduri Hospital * Marriott Hotel Bucharest *

References

{{Geography of Bucharest Sector 5