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Situated near the mighty Danube, the main city of Giurgiu
(population 73,000) dominates the county, complemented by the three
smaller towns of Bolintin-Vale, Mihăileşti, and Dealu, along
with 51 communes and countless villages.
The city of Giurgiu offers the only bridge between Romanian and
Bulgaria on the Danube, and it's port at Smarda serves Giurgiu and
Bucharest to the north.
Friendship Bridge in Giurgiu
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Giurgiu (Bulgarian: Гюргево (Gyurgevo);
Genoese: San Giorgio; Turkish: Yerkoekoe) is the capital city of
Giurgiu County, Wallachia, Romania in the region once called Vlaşca.
It is situated amid mud-flats
and marshes on the left bank of the Danube. Three small islands face
the city, and a larger one shelters its port, Smarda. The rich
corn-lands on North are traversed by a railway to Bucharest, the first
line opened in Romania, which was built in 1869 and afterwards extended
to Smarda.
The Giurgiu-Ruse Friendship
Bridge, the only one in the shared Bulgarian-Romanian section of the
Danube, crosses the river nearby.
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The city of Giurgiu is centre on
43°54′03″N, 25°58′26″E
Geography
This county of 3,526 km² is situated on a plain - the Southern
part of the Romanian Plain, or sometimes, the Wallachian Plain. The landscape is flat, crossed by small
rivers. The southern part is the valley of the Danube which forms the
border with Bulgaria. In the North, the Argeş River and Dāmboviţa River
flow.
County Giurgiu is bordered by counties Călăraşi to
the east downriver, Teleorman in the west, Ilfov and Dāmboviţa to
the north. Across the Danube is Bulgaria's Ruse province.
Demographics
In 2002, it had a population of 297,859 and the population density
was 84/km², comprised of just over 96% Romanians, 3.5% Rromas, and a
handful of others.
Economy
The county has two big areas of development: one
close to the city of Giurgiu - The Free Trade Zone Giurgiu, and one in
the North of the county due to its proximity with Bucharest.
The predominant industries in the county include food production and
processing, beverage bottling, textiles, chemicals, wood and furniture
manufacturing, and a mechanical components industry.
Agriculture is the main occupation in the
county. Both extensive agriculture, and small scale - for Bucharest
markets, is practiced, with about 59% of the cultivated surface irrigated.
A Commune is a larger village which usually acts as a regional centre, with a
mayor, postal and police services, and sometimes larger stores. Other
villages may belong to the commune, and the over 2500 communes in Romania vary
widely in size.
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Orthodox Church in Giurgiu
Dacian Origins
The area around Giurgiu was
densely populated in the time of the Dacians as archeological evidence
shows and even the capital of Burebista was in this area (it is thought
to be in Popeşti on the Argeş river).
During the Roman times this was
the site of Theodorapolis, a city built by the Roman emperor Justinian
(483-565).
Medieval Giurgiu
The city of Giurgiu was probably established in
the 14th century as a port on the Danube by the Genoese merchant
adventurers, who established a bank, and a trade in silks and velvets.
They called the city, after the patron saint of Genoa, San Giorgio (St
George); and hence comes its present name. It was first mentioned in
Codex Latinus Parisinus, in 1395 during the reign of Mircea cel Bătrān
and was conquered by the Ottomans in 1420 as a way to control the Danube
traffic.
As a fortified city, Giurgiu figured often in the
wars for the conquest of the lower Danube; especially in the struggle of
Mihai Viteazul (1593-1601) against the Turks, and in the later
Russo-Turkish Wars. It was burned in 1659. In 1829, its fortifications
were finally razed, the only defence left being a castle on the island
of Slobozia, united to the shore by a bridge.
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Situated near the mighty Danube, the main city of Giurgiu
(population 73,000) dominates the county, complemented by the three
smaller towns of Bolintin-Vale, Mihăileşti, and Dealu, along
with 51 communes and countless villages.
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