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Drobeta-Turnu Severin
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city in Mehedinți County, Romania
Drobeta-Turnu Severin is a city located in Mehedinți County in Romania, situated along the Danube River in the southwestern part of the country. The city is notable as an important regional center and historical site, with roots tracing back to Roman times when it served as a strategic point along the Danube frontier.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- border city
- Official name
- Drobeta-Turnu Severin
- Country
- Principality of Wallachia
- Located in
- Mehedinți County
- Population
- 79865
- Area
- 57.430000
- Elevation
- 65.000000
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Body of water
- Danube
- Capital of
- Mehedinți County
- Official website
- primariadrobeta.ro
- Image
- Turnu Severin Theater.jpg
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- native label
- Drobeta-Turnu Severin
- owner of
- Stadionul Municipal
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Drobeta-Turnu Severin
- twinned administrative body
- Orly
- Commons category
- Drobeta-Turnu Severin
- topic's main category
- Category:Drobeta-Turnu Severin
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Drobeta-Turnu Severin
- postal code
- 220004–220256
- phone number
- +40-252314379
- street address
- Str. Mareşal Averescu, nr. 2(Cod poștal: 220131)
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- population by native language
- 19
- alternative name
- Turnu Severin
- inception
- 1833-04-23
- historical region
- Oltenia
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Encyclopedic overview
Drobeta-Turnu Severin ( Romanian pronunciation: [droˈbeta ˈturnu seveˈrin] ), colloquially Severin, is a city in Mehedinți County, Oltenia, Romania, on the northern bank of the Danube, close to the Iron Gates. It is one of six Romanian county seats lying on the river Danube. "Drobeta" is the name of the ancient Dacian and Roman towns at the site, and the modern town of Turnu Severin received the additional name of Drobeta during Nicolae Ceaușescu's national-communist dictatorship as part of his myth-making efforts.
Etymology
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