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Little Paris, an alternative nickname for Bucharest , the capital of Romania , more popularly nicknamed "Paris of the East ". It has an elegant architecture built in the period between the two World Wars, reason for which it used to be called the Little Paris. The legend says that the name Bucuresti (Bucharest) comes from a shepherd who founded the town on the Dambovita river, whose name was Bucur (this means in Romanian happiness).