Oltenita

Oltenita is a municipality in Romania in the Calarasi County at the left financial institution of the Arges River where its waters flows into the Danube. Excavations on Gumelnița hill close to the town found out a Neolithic agreement relationship from the 4th millennium BC. The first mention of a city bearing the name Oltenita appears in 1515 in the course of the reign of Neagoe Basarab.

During the Crimean War the Ottomans tried to go the river at this factor and inflicted heavy losses on the Russians. In the Russo-Turkish War, 1877 to 1878, Oltenita turned into an critical crossing factor into Bulgaria for Romanian troops known as to useful resource the Russian Army at some point of the siege of the Pleven stronghold. During World War I, the garrisons of Oltenita and Turtucaia engaged in numerous artillery skirmishes. The spot become also chosen through allied German and Bulgarian troops for their invasion of Romania. The subsequent Battle of Turtucaia ended in a sizeable defeat for the Romanian Army.