Turnu Magurele

Turnu Magurele is a city in Teleorman County, Romania. Developed close by the website online once occupied by means of the medieval port of Turnu, it's miles situated north-east of the confluence among the Olt River and the Danube. The name of the metropolis approach "Hill Tower" in Romanian, in reference to the defense-wall tower of a citadel constructed on the spot via Byzantine Emperor Justinian I in 6th century. Bulgarians maintained in this location a fort named Holavnik. The metropolis changed into occupied by the Ottoman Empire in 1417, in the direction of the stop of Prince Mircea I's rule, and, like Giurgiu and Braila, constituted a kaza at the left financial institution of the Danube, under the name Kule.

With short interruptions at some point of the anti-Ottoman rebellions of Vlad III the Impaler and Michael the Brave, destroyed by means of Iancu Jianu's hajduks of their campaign in opposition to Osman Pazvantoglu and his successor and in no way rebuilt beneath Turkish rule, Turnu, like the other two kazas, changed into due to be back to Wallachia through the 1826 Akkerman Convention - and was in the long run ceded in 1829, through the Treaty of Adrianopole. It became the capital of Teleorman County in 1839.