Strehaia

Strehaia is a metropolis in Mehedinți County, Oltenia, Romania. It is located 25 km west of Filiasi, on the Motru River valley. Forests in the region are domestic to the most important Herman's Tortoise colonies in Oltenia. Nine villages are administered through the town: Ciochiuța, Comanda, Hurducesti, Lunca Banului, Menți, Motruleni, Slătinicu Mare, Slatinicu Mic and Stancesti. Strehaia changed into first noted in files of the fifteenth century. As an alternative region for the house of Oltenian Bans during the early Craiovești policies, the city still features the foundation of the Banate estate residence; it had replaced Severin because of common Ottoman assaults, and became in turn changed by using Craiova, final a largely rural locality.

The Monastery of Strehaia turned into built by means of Wallachian Prince Matei Basarab in 1645. In 1671, a livestock truthful became prepared in the city, a ordinary event which contributed to the metropolis's development. Strehaia turned into the website online of skirmishes between the Pandurs of Tudor Vladimirescu and troops dependable to Scarlat Callimachi, in the course of the Wallachian rebellion of 1821. The estates of Prince Antoine Bibesco have been positioned near Strehaia.