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Timisoara- all of the variants of its name derive from the Timiş River, known in Roman Antiquity as river Tibisis or Tibiscus. The evolut

ion of the river name from antiquity (with the phonetic change "b" → "m") can be explained by the transition of Latin into Old Romanian. However, the city name in Romanian is an early borrowing from Old Hungarian and the name originally referred to a castle or fortress. The other names of the city (in German and Serbian) are later borrowings from Hungarian.

In the Roman period, there was a military camp named Zambara or Zurobara in the place where Timisoara is today, or in the immediate vicinity. During the time of invasions of the nomad tribes of the Central-Asian plains, especially that of the Avars, on the site of the ruins of Zambara, a new settlement was built - Beguey.

In 1019 Timişoara (as Dibiscos/ Bisiskos/ Tibiskos/ Tibiskon/ Timbisko/etc.) was mentioned for the first time in written documents by the Byzantine Emperor Basil II, although not all historians agree with this identification.

In 1154 the arabian geographer Sarif al Idrisi mentions the city saying it's a "nice city offering a lot of riches".

The first mention of the fort of Timişoara (castrum regius Temesvar) is found in the decree of King Andrew II of Hungary dating from 1212.

In 1474 there is the first official mention of Timişoara as a city, in the official documents.

It was captured by the Turks in 1552 and remained under Turkish control until it was regained by Prince Eugene of Savoy in 1716.

In 1718 the first beer factory in Transylvania was built. The first tobacco mill in today's Romania was set up in Timişoara. Between 1728 and 1771 a canal Bega was built to unite the city with the Danube river. The city was also the first city in the Austro-Hungarian Empire to have public lighting using suet candles and lamps with oil and grease. Timişoara also became the first city in Europe to have electric public lighting on the 12th of November 1884, (four years after New York City). A tram tracted by horses also came into service around this period. Meanwhile, in 1869 Timişoara was the first city to have an ambulance station in the Kingdom of Hungary.

The city had a mainly German and Hungarian-speaking population until it became part of Romania following the break up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I. The population also consisted of minority Romanians and Serbians. During the Ceauşescu era, mostly during the great great drought of the 50's in the Moldova provence, many Romanians were re-settled to Transylvania.

These new inhabitants tended to move into houses of native Germans and Hungarians who had been ethnically cleansed by the Communists. Timişoara's population has more than tripled over the last 50 years (it was slightly more than 90,000 at 1930 census), but the Magyars' percentage decreased from 30% to 7%, Germans from 30% to 2% and the Jews(8%) were almost disappeared.

On December 16 1989 townspeople supported Hungarian pastor László Tőkés against efforts to deport him by the Securitate, or secret police. On the 17th a popular uprising began in Timişoara against the Communist regime of Nicolae Ceauşescu. This was the beginning of the Romanian Revolution of 1989, which ended the Communist regime a week later.

In recent years, Timişoara has enjoyed a significant economic boom as the number of foreign investments, especially in high-tech sectors, has risen constantly. It is frequently considered the second most prosperous city in Romania (following Bucharest) and there have been frequent debates on whether the so-called "Timişoara Model" could be applied to other cities. In an article in late 2005, French magazine L'Expansion called Timişoara "Romania's economic showcase", and referred to the increased number of foreign investments as a "second revolution".