Curtea de Arges

Curtea de Arges is a municipality in Romania on the left financial institution of the Arges River, wherein it flows through a valley of the lower Carpathians , at the railway from Pitești to the Turnu Roșu Pass. It is part of Arges County. The town also administers one village, Noaptes. On July 7, 1947, the entire rainfall in Curtea de Arges changed into 205.7 mm in 20 minutes, that's a global report. One of the oldest cities in Wallachia, Curtea de Argeș was the capital of a small local kingdom which was the start for the unification of the lands south of the Carpathians. The oldest archeological proof of it being the seat of this sort of ruler date from the 13th century.

Campulung changed into the seat of Basarab I, the voivode of Wallachia, who turned into first mentioned in a document written in 1324 on the courtroom of Charles I of Hungary. The subsequent yr, a warfare broke out among the two and in 1330, Charles I organized an excursion towards the "untrue" Basarab and destroyed the Arges.