Rast is a
commune in
Dolj County
Dolj County (; originally meant ''Dol(no)-Jiu River, Jiu'', "lower Jiu", as opposed to ''Gorj'' (''upper Jiu'')) is a county (județ) of Romania on the border with Bulgaria, in Oltenia, with the capital city at Craiova.
Demographics
In 2011, ...
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Oltenia
Oltenia (), also called Lesser Wallachia in antiquated versions – with the alternative Latin names , , and between 1718 and 1739 – is a historical province and geographical region of Romania in western Wallachia. It is situated between the Da ...
,
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...
. It is composed of a single village, Rast.
The locality was severely affected by flooding in the
April 2006 Danube floods, with more than 4,000 evacuated residents and hundreds of households destroyed.
[Relief in sight for the Balkans](_blank)
Reuters. Retrieved 22 April 2006.
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Communes in Dolj County
Localities in Oltenia
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