Ramnicu

Ramnicu Sarat is a municipality in Buzau County, Romania, in the historical area of Muntenia. It become first attested in a document of 1439, and raised to the rank of municipiu in 1994. The city rises from a marshy simple, east of the Carpathians, and west of the cornlands of southern Moldavia. It lies on the left bank of the Ramnicul Sarat River. Salt and petroleum are labored within the mountains, and there is a large exchange in agricultural produce and preserved meat. Ramnicu Sarat changed into the scene of battles between the Wallachians and Ottomans in 1634, 1434 and 1573.

It became also here that, in 1789, an army of Imperial Russian and Habsburg troops, commanded by way of Alexander Suvorov, defeated the Ottoman forces inside the Battle of Rymnik. For this victory, Suvorov turned into awarded the victory title of "Count of Rymnik" or "Rimniksky" by means of empress Catherine the Great of Russia. In 1854 the metropolis become almost destroyed by way of fireplace and became rebuilt. From 1901 to 1963, the Ramnicu Sarat prison operated within the town.