Dristor is a neighborhood located in the southeastern part of Bucharest

Bucharest

Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....

. Nearby districts include Dudeşti

Dudesti, Bucharest

Dudeşti is a neighbourhood in south-eastern Bucharest, along the Calea Dudeşti. Nearby neighbourhoods include Vitan, Văcăreşti and Dristor....

, Vitan

Vitan

Vitan is a neighborhood in southeastern Bucharest, Romania, along the Dâmboviţa River, located between Titan, Dristor, Centrul Civic, Olteniţei and Berceni....

, Văcăreşti

Vacaresti

Văcăreşti may refer to several entities in Romania:*the Văcărescu family of boyars*the Bucharest neighbourhood of Văcăreşti*the Văcăreşti Monastery and the Văcăreşti prison*Văcăreşti, a commune in Dâmboviţa County...

 and Titan

Titan, Bucharest

Titan is a neighborhood of Eastern Bucharest, part of Sector 3. It surrounds the Alexandru Ioan Cuza Park, formerly known as "Titan", "I.O.R." , and "Balta Albă" ....

. The Dristor metro station

Dristor metro station

Dristor is a major metro station in Bucharest. Its name comes from Dristor street which used to be the road that led to Silistra , on which one of the exits is located. The part of the station at the end of metro line 1 is called Dristor 2; the other half of the station is Dristor 1, where trains...

 is a major node of Bucharest Metro

Bucharest Metro

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's network.

Between the two World Wars, Dristor contained the southern gate of the city and the road (Drumul Dristorului) that led to Southern Dobruja

Southern Dobruja

Southern Dobruja is an area of north-eastern Bulgaria comprising the administrative districts named for its two principal cities of Dobrich and Silistra...

 (known in Romania as Cadrilater) and the city of Dristor (Dârstor) nowadays Silistra

Silistra

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, in Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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(whence the name is derived). The same street was known in the 19th century as "Gura Lupului" (Wolf's Mouth).

Prior to the 1960s, there were no apartment buildings in the area, the houses being demolished in the 1970s and replaced with 4 and 10-floors apartment buildings.