Grivita

Grivita is an area of Bucharest, Romania, targeted on the Grivita Railway Yards which have been and nevertheless are an critical landmark inside the production landscape of the town. Located near Gara de Nord, their records dates again to the past due decades of the 19th century, after they were developed so that you can carry out preservation and overhaul of railway gadget serving Caile Ferate Romane.

The call displays the Romanian spelling for Grivitsa, a Bulgarian village near Plevna, where one of the Ottoman redoubts inside the Plevna's defenses turned into stormed and captured with heavy casualties by way of the Romanian Army at some point of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877 to 1878. What first of all commenced only to serve the metropolis of Bucharest and the encompassing areas, grew through the years right into a cornerstone of the entire railway industry of Romania. In the interwar duration, after the start of the Great Depression, Grivita Railway Yards additionally turn out to be a focal point of the exertions movement. The Grivita Strike of 1933 and its violent repression by way of the government are still remembered in Romania.