Giurgiu

Giurgiu is a city in southern Romania. The seat of Giurgiu County, it lies inside the ancient place of Muntenia. It is situated amid dust-apartments and marshes on the left bank of the Danube dealing with the Bulgarian city of Ruse on the other financial institution. Three small islands face the city, and a bigger one shelters its port, Smarda. The rich grain-growing land to the north is traversed via a railway to Bucharest, the primary line opened in Romania, which changed into built in 1869 and afterwards prolonged to Smarda. Giurgiu exports timber, grain, salt and petroleum, and imports coal, iron, and textiles. The Giurgiu-Ruse Friendship Bridge, inside the shared Bulgarian-Romanian phase of the Danube, crosses the river inside the outskirts of the town.

The place around Giurgiu became densely populated at the time of the Dacians as archeological proof indicates, and Burebista's capital was in this place. During Roman instances this become the site of Theodorapolis, a town built by the Roman emperor Justinian. The city of Giurgiu changed into possibly set up inside the 14th century as a port at the Danube by means of the Genoese service provider adventurers, who installed a financial institution and traded in silks and velvets.