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GIURGEVO (Giurgiu)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 54 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GIURGEVO (Giurgiu) , the See also:capital of the See also:department of Vlashca, See also:Rumania; situated amid mud-flats and marshes on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Danube. Pop. (1900) 13,977. Three small islands See also:face the See also:town, and a larger one shelters its See also:port, Smarda, 22 M. E. The See also:rich See also:corn-lands on the See also:north are traversed by a railway to See also:Bucharest, the first See also:line opened in Rumania, which was built in 1869 and afterwards extended to Smarda. Steamers ply to See also:Rustchuk, 22 m. S.W. on the Bulgarian See also:shore, linking the Rumanian railway See also:system to the See also:chief Bulgarian line north of the Balkans (Rustchuk-See also:Varna). Thus Giurgevo, besides having a considerable See also:trade with the See also:home ports See also:lower down the Danube, is the headquarters of See also:commerce between See also:Bulgaria and Rumania. It exports See also:timber, See also:grain, See also:salt and See also:petroleum; importing See also:coal, See also:iron and textiles. There are also large saw-See also:mills. Giurgevo occupies the site of Theodorapolis, a See also:city built by the See also:Roman See also:emperor Justinian (A.D.

483-565). It was founded in the 14th See also:

century by Genoese See also:merchant adventurers, who established a bank, and a trade in silks and velvets. They called the town, after the See also:patron See also:saint of See also:Genoa, See also:San Giorgio (St See also:George); and hence comes its See also:present name. As a fortified town, Giurgevo figured often in the See also:wars for the See also:conquest of the lower Danube; especially in the struggle of See also:Michael the Brave (1J93–1601) against the See also:Turks, and in the later Russo-See also:Turkish Wars. It was burned in 1659. In 1829, its fortifications were finally razed, the only See also:defence left being a See also:castle on the See also:island of Slobosia, See also:united to the shore by a See also:bridge.

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