Râmnicu Sărat (also spelled ''Rîmnicu Sărat'', , german: Rümnick or ''Rebnick''; tr, Remnik) is a

city A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...

Buzău County Buzău County () is a county (județ) of Romania, in the historical region Muntenia, with the capital city at Buzău. Demographics In 2011, it had a population of 432,054 and the population density was 70.7/km2. * Romanians – 97% * Roma ...

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

, in the historical region of Muntenia. It was first attested in a document of 1439, and raised to the rank of ''

municipiu A municipiu (from Latin ''municipium''; English: municipality) is a level of administrative subdivision in Romania and Moldova, roughly equivalent to city in some English-speaking countries. In Romania, this status is given to towns that are lar ...

'' in 1994. The city rises from a marshy plain, east of the

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, and west of the cornlands of southern

Moldavia Moldavia ( ro, Moldova, or , literally "The Country of Moldavia"; in Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, Romanian Cyrillic: or ; chu, Землѧ Молдавскаѧ; el, Ἡγεμονία τῆς Μολδαβίας) is a historical region and for ...

. It lies on the left bank of the river Râmnicul Sărat. Salt and petroleum are worked in the mountains, and there is a considerable trade in agricultural produce and preserved meat.

Population

History

Râmnicu Sărat was the scene of battles between the Wallachians and Ottomans in 1634, 1434 and 1573. It was also here that, in 1789 (during the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–1792), an army of

Imperial Russian The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. The ...

and Habsburg troops, commanded by

Alexander Suvorov Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov (russian: Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Суво́ров, Aleksándr Vasíl'yevich Suvórov; or 1730) was a Russian general in service of the Russian Empire. He was Count of Rymnik, Count of the Holy ...

, defeated the Ottoman forces in the

Battle of Rymnik The Battle of Rymnik ( tr, Boze Savaşı) on September 22, 1789 took place in Wallachia, near Râmnicu Sărat (now in Romania), during the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–1792. The Russian general Alexander Suvorov, acting together with the Habs ...

. For this victory, Suvorov was awarded the

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of "Count of Rymnik" or "Rimniksky" (граф Рымникский) by empress Catherine the Great of Russia. In 1854 the city was almost destroyed by fire and was rebuilt. From 1901 to 1963, the

Râmnicu Sărat prison Râmnicu Sărat Prison is a former prison located in Râmnicu Sărat, Buzău County, Romania. The building is listed as a historic monument by Romania's Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs. Before World War II The prison was built at the ...

operated in the city.

Educationals institutions

* Alexandru Vlahuță National College * Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu National College * Mihai Eminescu National College

Natives

Petre Antonescu Petre Antonescu (June 29, 1873 - April 22, 1965) was a Romanian architect. Over the course of a career that spanned the first half of the 20th century, he established himself as a leader in the field within his country, helping define a national ...

Mariana Bitang Mariana Bitang (born August 3, 1962, in Râmnicu Sărat) is a coach for the Romanian national women's artistic gymnastics team. Along with her partner, Octavian Bellu, she helped Romania win five consecutive team gold medals at the World Champ ...

* Romeo Bunică * Kid Cann *

Nicolae Ciupercă Nicolae Ciupercă (20 April 1882 – 25 May 1950) was a Romanian general, born in Râmnicu Sărat. He served during World War I and World War II under the command of Alexandru Averescu and then Ion Antonescu, but would retire from a military lif ...

Nicolae Fleva Nicolae Fleva (; also known as Nicu Fleva, Correspondent"Scrisoare din București" in ''Românul (Arad)'', Nr. 14/1912, p.4 (digitized by the Babeș-Bolyai Universitybr>Transsylvanica Online Library Francized ''Nicolas Fléva'';Ioan Glogojeanu Ioan Glogojanu (1 July 1888 – 22 October 1941) was a Romanian general of the 10th Infantry Division of the Romanian army during World War II. Glogojanu was one of the Romanian commanders during the Siege of Odessa. He became chief military a ...

* Petre Iorgulescu-Yor *

Damian Militaru Damian Militaru (born 19 December 1967) is a Romanian former professional footballer, currently a manager. Honours Steaua București * Divizia A (4): 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98 * Cupa României (3): 1995–96, 1996–97, ...

Nicolae Minovici Nicolae S. Minovici (23 October 1868 – 26 June 1941) was a Romanian forensic scientist and criminologist who served as head of his country's anthropometric service. He is known for his studies investigating connections between tattooing and cr ...

Ștefan Minovici Ștefan Minovici (July 18, 1867 – December 29, 1935) was a Romanian chemist. The brother of Mina Minovici and Nicolae Minovici, he became a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy in 1925. Education Minovici was born in Râmnicu Sărat in ...

* Costin Murgescu * Leonida Nedelcu * Eduard Nicola * Adrian Oțoiu * Ștefan Petrescu * Traian Săvulescu *

Saul Steinberg Saul Steinberg (June 15, 1914 – May 12, 1999) was a Romanian-American artist, best known for his work for ''The New Yorker'', most notably '' View of the World from 9th Avenue''. He described himself as "a writer who draws". Biography S ...

* Nicu Stoian * Marius Tigoianu

Gallery

Image:Gara rm sarat.jpg, The Râmnicu Sărat train station, designed by

Anghel Saligny Anghel Saligny (; 19 April 1854, Șerbănești, Moldavia – 17 June 1925, Bucharest, Romania) was a Romanian engineer, most famous for designing the Fetești-Cernavodă railway bridge (1895) over the Danube, the longest bridge in Europe at tha ...

Image:Suvorov ramna monument surroundings today.jpg, The

battlefield Image:RSVlahuta.JPG, Alexandru Vlahuță National College Image:RSCityHall.JPG, City Hall

References

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