București Berlin green rectangle-shaped plastic bottle opener

## București Berlin

Rectangle-shaped green plastic bottle opener with black-colored **București** and **Berlin** inscriptions. The opener also has a small keychain ring at its end.

**NOTE**: Despite the shape of the opener being identical to those of the rectangle-shaped transparent plastic bottle openers, it is classified simply as plastic due to the fact that it is not transparent.

## Hypothesis

We believe that this opener used to belong to a waiter on the buffet car of the Bucharest-Berlin train and that it is about 25 years old. It is also interesting how the name of the Romanian capital city is written first and in the country's language, which led us to believe that the opener itself was produced in Romania. *However, this is just a theory so if you have any information about this opener, please share it with us!*

## Trivia

### Bucharest

**Bucharest** (RO: *București*) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial center. It is in the southeast of the country, at 44°25′57″N 26°06′14″E, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than 60 km north of the Danube River and the Bulgarian border. Bucharest was first mentioned in documents in 1459. It became the capital of Romania in 1862 and is the centre of Romanian media, culture, and art. Its architecture is a mix of historical (mostly Eclectic, but also Neoclassical and Art Nouveau), interbellum (Bauhaus, Art Deco and Romanian Revival architecture), communist era and modern. In the period between the two World Wars, the city's elegant architecture and the sophistication of its elite earned Bucharest the nickname of *Paris of the East* or *Little Paris*. Although buildings and districts in the historic city center were heavily damaged or destroyed by war, earthquakes, and even *Nicolae Ceaușescu*'s program of systematization, many survived and have been renovated.

### Berlin

**Berlin** is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.8 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. Berlin straddles the banks of the Spree, which flows into the Havel (a tributary of the Elbe) in the western borough of Spandau. Among the city's main topographical features are the many lakes in the western and southeastern boroughs formed by the Spree, Havel and Dahme, the largest of which is Lake Müggelsee. About one-third of the city's area is composed of forests, parks, gardens, rivers, canals and lakes. First documented in the 13th century and at the crossing of two important historic trade routes, Berlin became the capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (1417–1701), the Kingdom of Prussia (1701–1918), the German Empire (1871–1918), the Weimar Republic (1919–1933), and the Third Reich (1933–1945). Berlin in the 1920s was the third-largest municipality in the world. After World War II and its subsequent occupation by the victorious countries, the city was divided; West Berlin became a de facto exclave of West Germany, surrounded by the Berlin Wall (1961–1989) and East German territory. East Berlin was declared capital of East Germany, while Bonn became the West German capital. Following German reunification in 1990, Berlin once again became the capital of all of Germany.

## See also

* Bucharest (Wikipedia)
* Berlin (Wikipedia)