Plosca is a

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Teleorman County Teleorman County () is a county (județ) of Romania on the border with Bulgaria, in the historical region Muntenia, with its capital city at Alexandria. The name ''Teleorman'' is of Cumanic ( Turkic) origin. It literally means ''crazy forest'' ...

, Muntenia,

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. It is composed of a single village, Plosca.

Name

The name is probably derived from a container used for water and beverages (''ploscă'' is the

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word for

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History

In 1943, the three British SOE members of Operation Autonomous were arrested near Plosca by the

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References

* Communes in Teleorman County Localities in Muntenia {{Teleorman-geo-stub