Dumbrăveni is a commune located in

Vrancea County Vrancea () is a county (județ) in Romania, with its seat at Focșani. It is mostly in the historical region of Moldavia but the southern part, below the Milcov (Siret), Milcov River, is in Muntenia. Demographics At the 2021 Romanian census, 2 ...

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. It is composed of four villages: Alexandru Vlahuță, Cândești, Dragosloveni, and Dumbrăveni. During the

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, the commune was named Plăinești and was the headquarters of plasa Marginea de Sus, in

Râmnicu Sărat County Râmnicu Sărat County is one of the historic counties of Muntenia, Romania. The county seat was Râmnicu Sărat. Geography Râmnicu Sărat County covered 3,324 km2 and was located in central-south-eastern part of Greater Romania, in the nort ...

. From 1948 to 1964, during the rule of

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dictator

Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (; 8 November 1901 – 19 March 1965) was a Romanian politician. He was the first Socialist Republic of Romania, Communist leader of Romania from 1947 to 1965, serving as first secretary of the Romanian Communist Party ...

, the commune was called ''Generalisimul Suvorov'', after

Alexander Suvorov Count Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov-Rymniksky, Prince of Italy () was a Russian general and military theorist in the service of the Russian Empire. Born in Moscow, he studied military history as a young boy and joined the Imperial Russian ...

, the 18th-century

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general who won several battles in the area. Dumbrăveni lies in a hilly area of southern Vrancea County, on the banks of the river Râmna. It is traversed by

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DN2, which connects the county seat,

Focșani Focșani (; ) is the capital city of Vrancea County in Romania on the banks the river Milcov, in the historical region of Moldavia. , it has a population of 66,719. Geography Focșani lies at the foot of the Curvature Carpathians, at a point of ...

, to the north, to

Râmnicu Sărat Râmnicu Sărat (also spelled ''Rîmnicu Sărat'', , or ''Rebnick''; ) is a municipiu, city in Buzău County, Romania, in the historical region of Muntenia. It was first attested in a document of 1439, and raised to the rank of ''municipiu'' in ...

Buzău County Buzău County () is a county (județ) of Romania, in the Historical regions of Romania, 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/km ...

, to the south.

Natives

Gheorghe Plagino Georghe Plagino (16 November 1876 – 3 May 1949) was a Romanian Shooting sport, sports shooter and politician who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics and served on the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Early life Plagino was born in ...

(1876–1949), sports shooter * George Ștefănescu (1914–2007), painter *

Duiliu Zamfirescu Duiliu Zamfirescu (; 30 October 1858 – 3 June 1922) was a Romanian novelist, poet, short story writer, lawyer, nationalist politician, journalist, diplomat and memoirist. In 1909, he was elected a member of the Romanian Academy, and, for a whi ...

(1858–1922), writer

References

Communes in Vrancea County Localities in Muntenia {{Vrancea-geo-stub