Bucharest metro station
Titan
Photo: Simon Laird from Bucharest, Romania, CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
Where the name comes from
A place or district
The Titan district, which probably takes its name from the Titan cement plant, opened in 1912.
The Titan cement plant opened in 1912 in the commune of Cioplea-Dudești, now part of Bucharest. The link between the plant and the district's name is widely accepted but not directly recorded; why the plant was called Titan is not known. The area is also known as Balta Albă. The district was built from the 1950s to the 1970s.
How the name travelled
- Titan
- the Titan district
- the Titan cement plant (1912)
- why the plant was called Titan
Other explanations
- rejected The name comes from Greek mythology (the Titans, children of Uranus and Gaia). It is a dictionary meaning, not an attested reason for choosing the name.
Worth knowing
- It is an open-vault station, the largest on the network with no support pillars.
- To build it, the ground was frozen for 90 days, using imported technology.
On the line
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