Pitesti

Pitesti is a metropolis in Romania, located on the Argeș River. The capital and biggest city of Arges County, it's far an vital commercial and commercial middle, as well as the home of universities. Pitesti is situated in the historic area of Muntenia. It lies at the A1 expressway connecting the city without delay to the countrywide capital Bucharest, being an crucial railway junction, with a category yard in nearby Balilesti. The metropolis houses the Arpechim oil refinery, and is a advertising and marketing middle for the car industry, specially Automobile Dacia.

The earliest traces of human settlements in this place relate to the Paleolithic. Coins minted via the Dacians throughout the 3rd century BC, copying the layout of Thracian tetradrachmon issued by means of Lysimachus, have been discovered right here. A small Roman castrum changed into constructed sometime inside the 3rd century AD in the vicinity of present-day Pitesti. During the Age of Migrations, the Pitesti place was, consistent with historian Constantin C. Giurescu, the web page of trading between Vlachs and Slavs, which, in his opinion, turned into the beginning of Targul din Deal The Market on the Hill, a separate locality.