St. Mary Square | |
Native Name: | Piața Sfânta Maria |
Native Name Lang: | ro |
Place Type: | City square |
Image Place: | Piata Sfanta Maria, Timisoara 1.jpg |
Length: | 184.58 m[1] |
Owner: | Timișoara City Hall |
Location: | Timișoara, Romania |
Coordinates: | 45.7483°N 21.2189°W |
St. Mary Square (Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: 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]