Scorțeni is a commune in Prahova County, Muntenia,

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Geography

The commune is located in the west-central part of the county. Scorțeni is surrounded by the Sub-Carpathian hills, close to the 45th parallel north, at an altitude of approximately . The most important towns in the vicinity are:

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(14 km),

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(25 km – the county seat), and

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(40 km). The Capital city,

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, is about to the south, while

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is to the north.

Villages

The commune is composed of five villages: Bordenii Mari, Bordenii Mici, Mislea, Scorțeni, and Sârca.

Mislea

Around 1540,

Radu Paisie Radu VII Paisie, officially Radul ( Church Slavonic: Радул воєвода), also known as Radu vodă Măjescul, Radu vodă Călugărul, Petru I, and Petru de la Argeș (ca. 1500 – after 1545), was Prince of Wallachia almost continuously fr ...

, the ruler of Muntenia province of those times, set up a monastery at the confluence between the rivers Mislei and Telega. On the monastery's ruins, a political prison was built by the former communist regime. The building was recently transformed into a state home. Northward, on forested hills, lies Buștenari. This is an old settlement whose inhabitants have dealt with timber cut and transportation, ever since the 15th century. To the West, Telega commune stretches its dwellings upstream the Telega River, up to the salt mines exploited for almost 700 years. Downstream Mislea river to the Est, there are the communes Scorțeni and the villages Sârca and Bordeni where the ruler

Michael the Brave Michael the Brave ( ro, Mihai Viteazul or ; 1558 – 9 August 1601), born as Mihai Pătrașcu, was the Prince of Wallachia (as Michael II, 1593 – 1601), Prince of Moldavia (1600) and ''de facto'' ruler of Transylvania (1599 – 1600). ...

is said to have appropriated four of his captains, at the end of the 16th century. During the first part of the Communist period, Mislea was the site of a penitentiary for female political prisoners. This became an old age home in the 1970s.

References

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