St. Mary Square, Timișoara

St. Mary Square
Piața Sfânta Maria
City square
View of St. Mary Square
Length184.58 m[1]
OwnerTimișoara City Hall
LocationTimișoara, Romania
Coordinates: 45°44′54″N 21°13′8″E / 45.74833°N 21.21889°E / 45.74833; 21.21889

St. Mary Square (Romanian: Piața Sfânta Maria) is a small square in Timișoara, located in the Iosefin district, at the intersection of 16 December 1989 Boulevard (former Carol I Boulevard) and Gheorghe Doja Street (former General Gheorghe Domășnean Street).[2] It is part of the urban site Old Iosefin, classified as a historic monument.[3] According to local tradition, Gheorghe Doja, the leader of the peasant uprising of 1514, was martyred here.[4] Also here took place the first anti-communist demonstrations in Timișoara in 1989, demonstrations that would ignite the Romanian Revolution.[5]

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  1. ^ "Dicționar explicativ al denumirii străzilor din Timișoara" (PDF). Primăria municipiului Timișoara. 2015. p. 234.
  2. ^ Ilieșiu, Nicolae (2006). Timișoara. Monografie istorică (3rd ed.). Editura Planetarium. pp. 317–318. ISBN 973-7836-92-8.
  3. ^ "Lista monumentelor istorice din județul Timiș" (PDF). Direcția Județeană pentru Cultură Timiș. p. 1.
  4. ^ Daniel, Mihaela (1 September 2015). "Monumentul Sfânta Maria". Merg.În.
  5. ^ Antoniu, Gabriela (15 December 2019). "15 decembrie 1989, Timișoara. Drumul spre libertate a început în Piața Sfânta Maria". Mediafax.