Însurăței (formerly known as ''Pârdăleni'') is a
town located in
Brăila County,
Muntenia
Muntenia (, also known in English as Greater Wallachia) is a historical region of Romania, part of Wallachia (also, sometimes considered Wallachia proper, as ''Muntenia'', ''Țara Românească'', and the seldom used ''Valahia'' are synonyms in R ...
,
Romania. The town administers three villages: Lacu Rezii, Măru Roșu, and Valea Călmățuiului. The latter was called ''Rubla'' during
Communist rule and housed political offenders who were obliged to live there. It officially became a town in 1989, as a result of the
Romanian rural systematization program.
The town lies in the
Bărăgan Plain
The Bărăgan Plain ( ro, Câmpia Bărăganului ) is a steppe plain in south-eastern Romania. It makes up much of the eastern part of the Wallachian Plain. The region is known for its black soil and a rich humus, and is mostly a cereal-growing are ...
, a
steppe
In physical geography, a steppe () is an ecoregion characterized by grassland plains without trees apart from those near rivers and lakes.
Steppe biomes may include:
* the montane grasslands and shrublands biome
* the temperate grasslands, ...
plain in the eastern part of the
Wallachian Plain. Însurăței is located in the southern part of the county, from the county seat,
Brăila
Brăila (, also , ) is a city in Muntenia, eastern Romania, a port on the Danube and the capital of Brăila County. The ''Sud-Est'' Regional Development Agency is located in Brăila.
According to the 2011 Romanian census there were 180,302 pe ...
. It is crossed by
national road DN21
DN21 ( ro, Drumul Național 21) is a national road in Romania which that crosses the Bărăgan Plain, linking the Danube port of Brăila with Călărași. The road crosses the A2 motorway near Drajna, between the cities of Slobozia
Slobozia ...
, linking the
Danube port of Brăila with
Călărași.
In 1956,
Corneliu Coposu was sentenced to life imprisonment for "betrayal of the
working class" and "crime against social reforms"; he was freed after 15 years of detention and 2 years of forced residence in Rubla. Coposu later testified having been impressed by the deep scars
collectivization had left in the country, as well as by the resilience of the Rubla deportees (''see
Bărăgan deportations'') — "They traded in vegetables they had grown themselves while locals could not be convinced that these could actually grow on the Bărăgan".
Natives
*
Miroslav Giuchici (b. 1954), footballer
*
Gheorghe Moldoveanu (b. 1945), rower
References
Populated places in Brăila County
Localities in Muntenia
Towns in Romania
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