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Dobretu-Turnu Severin in County Mehedinţi

Drobeta-Turnu Severin (pronunciation: /dro'be.ta 'tur.nu se.ve'rin/, Hungarian: Szörényvár) is a city in Mehedinţi County, Oltenia, Romania, on the left bank of the Danube, below the Iron Gates.

 

 

 

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Millennium Tour Drobeta, Str. Crisan, nr.16 in Dobreta-Turnu Severin
+40 (252) 333577  FAX: +40 (252) 333577 
Sind Romania (Dobreta), Str. Progresul,nr.14 in Dobreta-Turnu Severin
 +40 (252) 326725  FAX: +40 (252) 326725 
Flora Tour Drobeta1, B-dul Tudor Vladimirescu in Dobreta-Turnu Severin
 +40 (252) 313488  FAX: +40 (252) 320098 
Flora Tour Drobeta2, Str. Brancoveanu, nr.223 in Dobreta-Turnu Severin
 +40 (252) 318076  FAX: +40 (252) 318076 
Btt (Drobeta), Str. I.G.Bibicescu, nr.4 in Dobreta-Turnu Severin
 +40 (252) 315131  FAX: +40 (252) 315131 
 

 

 

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Drobeta-Turnu Severin  Dumbrava  Căzăneşti  Şimian  Husnicioara  Jirov  Corcova  Comanda  Prunişor  Voloaie  Bistriţa  Izvoru Aneştilor  Hinova  Livezile  Grozeşti  Stângăceaua  Strehaia  Tâmna  Brezniţa-Motru  Greci  Târsa  Buiceşti  Butoieşti  Ţânţaru  Izvorăiu  Plopi  Poroina Mare  Stigniţa  Bâcleş  Podu Grosului  Pădina  Seaca de Pădure  Slaşoma  Vlădaia  Oprişor  Dârvari  Salcia  Vrata  Cujmir  Gârla Mare  Pristol  Vânători  Drincea  Recea  Izvoarele  Gruia  Punghina  Balta Verde  Pătulele  Gogoşu  Jiana  Iablaniţa  Corlăţel  Ostrovu Mare  Burila Mare  Crivina  Batoţi  Vânju Mare  Vânjuleţ  Almăjel  Devesel  Rogova 

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Early Drobeta-Turnu Severin History

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The city, which was originally called Drobetae by the Romans, took its later name of Turnu Severin, or the Northern Tower, from a tower on the north bank of the Danube built by the Byzantines, which stood on a small hill surrounded by a deep moat. This was built to commemorate a victory over the Gauls and Marcomanni by the Roman emperor Septimius Severus (222-235).

Near Turnu Severin are the remains of the celebrated Trajan's bridge, the largest in the Empire, built in 103 by the architect Apollodorus of Damascus. The Danube is about 1,200 metres (4,000 feet) broad at this spot. The bridge was composed of twenty arches supported by stone pillars; only two are still visible at low water.
After the retreat of the Roman administration from Dacia, the city was preserved under Roman occupation as a bridgehead on the north bank of the Danube (IV-VI centuries). Destroyed by Huns in the Vth century, the city was rebuilt by Justinian I (527-565). It was in the Middle Ages that the city changed its name to Turnu Severin and became the political center of the Banat of Severin (XIII-th century). The city was claimed and possessed successively by the Kingdom of Hungary and the Wallachian voivodes, and was seized by the Ottoman Empire in 1524. Once under Ottoman occupation, the territory's administration moved to the west of Oltenia, and was centered in Cerneţi.
After the Danube was freed from Ottoman control (as a consequence of the Treaty of Adrianople in 1829), it was decided to build the present city, with a rigorous program (1836), and then the harbor (1858). The building of some industrial factories spurred the redevelopment of the city.
The city experienced growth on multiple levels (economic, urban and social), and in 1972 it received the name of Drobeta-Turnu Severin. In 1992, the first documentary mention of the city, 1,870 years earlier, was commemorated.

 

 

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