Covurlui

The Covurlui Plain is located in

Galați County Galați () is a county ( județ) of Romania, in Moldavia region, with the capital city at Galați. History Historically Galați is part of Moldavia. In 1858, it was represented by Alexandru Ioan Cuza at the ''ad hoc Divan'' at Iași, in the wa ...

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

, having an altitude varying between 60 and 200 metres. Its name is derived from the river Covurlui and has a

Cuman The Cumans (or Kumans), also known as Polovtsians or Polovtsy (plural only, from the Russian language, Russian Exonym and endonym, exonym ), were a Turkic people, Turkic nomadic people comprising the western branch of the Cuman–Kipchak confede ...

origin. Before

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

, Covurlui was the name of a county, but it was merged with

Tecuci County Tecuci County was a county (Romanian language, Romanian: ''județ'') in the Kingdom of Romania, in the historical region Moldavia. The county seat was Tecuci. The county was located in the central-eastern part of Greater Romania, in the south of ...

to form the current

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