Come and you will not

regret it!!!

Covlea Victor Bogdan

Scortaru Stefania
Ciornei Cristina
Radut Claudiu
Dospina Nicoleta
Buicu Daniel
 The city, which was originally called Drobetae by the To come ….
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 Visit our town ….
Thehill
Ironsurrounded
Gates Museum by a deep moat. This was built to
commemorate a victory over the Gauls and Marcomanni
by theFortress
Medieval Roman emperorTurnu
of Drobeta Septimius
SeverinSeverus (222-235).
Near Turnu Severin are the remains of the celebrated
IronTrajan's bridge, the Plant
Gates Hydropower largest in the Empire, built in 103 by
the architect Apollodorus of Damascus. The Danube is
about
Carstic 1,200
Relief metres
from (4,000 feet) broad at this spot. The
Ponoare:
bridge
- God’s was composed of twenty arches supported by
bridge
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 (4th-
Monasteries
6th centuries). Destroyed by Huns in the 5th century, it
Landscapes on theby
was rebuilt Danube
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 (13th century). The city was claimed and
possessed first by the Kingdom of Hungary, which
established a Roman Catholic bishopric in Severin, and
circa 1330 by the Wallachian voivodes. It 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 (in 1836, following a
rigorous program), 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. The
first written document mentioning the city 1,870 years
earlier was commemorated in 1992.

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