Giuleşti
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- For the commune of Giuleşti, see: Giuleşti, Maramureş.
Giuleşti (pronounced /ʤju.leʃtʲ/) is a neighbourhood in northwestern Bucharest, in Sector 6. The Giuleşti Stadium, Giuleşti Theatre, Podul Grant are located in Giuleşti. Also, the Griviţa Railway Yards and Lacul Morii are located nearby. The Giulesti Stadium (officially "Valentin Stanescu") is the home of Rapid Bucuresti soccer club, one of the best teams in Romania.
The area was inhabited for millennia and it gives its name to the neolithic Giuleşti-Boian culture, the middle phase of the Boian culture, which inhabited in the 4th millennium BC Muntenia and later expanded into southern Moldavia and southern Transylvania.
In medieval age it was a village, which later was included in the Chiajna commune, but it was included in the administration area of Bucharest in 1939.
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