Bucharest metro station
Dristor
Photo: Daniele Napolitano, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Where the name comes from
A place or district
Dristor street, named after Dârstor, the old Romanian name of the town of Silistra.
The district and the station take their name from Dristor street. Bucharest City Hall's street register links it to Dârstor, the Romanian name of Silistra, a town in Southern Dobruja now in Bulgaria. A popular explanation linking it to fullers called 'dârstari' has no historical evidence.
How the name travelled
- Dristor
- Dristor street
- Dârstor, the Romanian name of Silistra
Other explanations
- popular explanation The name comes from fullers called 'dârstari'. A popular explanation; the source that reports it says there is no historical evidence for it, and the official register gives Silistra.
Worth knowing
- Dristor 2 is the M1 terminus; Dristor 1 is shared by M1 and M3.
- The opening of Dristor 2 in 1989 closed the metro ring round the centre.
On the line
M1
Where it sits in the network
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