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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 139 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAMPULUNG (also written Campu See also:Lung and Kimpulung) , the See also:capital of the See also:department of Muscel, See also:Rumania, and the seat of a See also:suffragan See also:bishop; situated among the outlying hills of the Carpathian Mountains, at the See also:head of a See also:long well-wooded glen traversed by the See also:river Tirgului, a tributary of the Argesh. Pop. (1900) 13,033. Its pure See also:air and See also:fine scenery render Campulung a popular summer resort. In the See also:town are more than twenty churches, besides a monastery and a See also:cathedral, which both claim to have been founded, in the 13th See also:century, by Radul Negru, first See also:prince of See also:Walachia. The Tirgului supplies See also:water-See also:power for several See also:paper-See also:mills; See also:annual fairs are held on the 20th of See also:July and the 24th of See also:October; and there is a considerable See also:traffic with Transylvania,over the Torzburg Pass, 15 M. See also:north, and with the See also:south by a See also:branch railway to See also:Ploesci. Near Campulung are the remains of a See also:Roman See also:camp; and, just beyond the See also:gates, vestiges of a Roman See also:colony, variously identified with Romula, Stepenium and Ulpia Traiana, but now called Gradistea or Jidovi.

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