Alexandria, Teleorman. The city has a surface of 10 sq. km.

/ 2500 acres, it is situated at 41 meters/130 foot altitude, 47 meters/ 140 foot over the sea level and 88km/54 miles from Bucharest. Because it is situated in a low meadow the soil is very good for agriculture (corn, wheat, cotton, sunflower, soybean, hemp, flax and sugar beet). The climate is temperate continental with reduced amounts of precipitations, and high temperature amplitudes. The medium quantity of precipitations is 600l/sq. m. (150 gallons/sq. foot). The minimum 0 0 0 0 temperature is about -10 C/14 F and the maximum is about 40 C/104 C. The population is of about 55.000 of which, less than half is active. The archeological discoveries have shown that the area was inhabited starting with the Paleolithic and Neolithic. The city was officially formed in the Middle Ages by inhabitants of the area that wished a free city from all foreign mingling. The city as we see it today was built in 1834 by the king of Wallachia, Alexandru Ghica who is buried in the cathedral here. It was intensely industrialized in the communist period and suffered great material damage in 1977,

Giurgiu, Giurgiu It is an important port and point of passage into Bulgaria. The oldest testimonies of a human settlement date back to the Mesolithic period, this area was also intensively populated in the 1st century B.C. The Byzantine emperor Justinian, it is said, that he built here the city of Theodorapolis. The general accepted idea is that the city was founded by the Genovese and was named after the Saint protector of Genoa, Saint Giorgio, but this idea was rejected by historians. It was destroyed in the ottoman campaign of 1394 against Mircea the Elder, because it is mentioned in Codex Latinus Parisinus as Zorio- empty place. It was occupied by the ottomans in 1420 and was named Yerg, hence the name, Giurgiu. The first railway system was built to start in Bucharest and end here, in Giurgiu in 1869. The bridge linking Giurgiu to Ruse was built in 1954 and was named the Bridge of Friendship. The main economic activities are agriculture, industry and commerce. As specific activities they have production of alcohol and tobacco, production of termic and electric energy, extraction of natural gas and oil and also textile industry. It has a population of about 50.000, mostly Romanian. It has as twin cities: Ruse, Izmail (Turkey), Edirne and Ramat Gan (Israel).

Oltenita, Calarasi

Its history goes way back to the Gumelnia culture (of the Neolithic period). It is supposed to have been named under the roman rule Daphne (the Naiad or nymph of fountains, streams, springs, brooks and st other bodies of fresh water). Under the byzantine emperor, Constantine the 1 was renamed Constantiana Daphne. Some specialists identified its name as meaning milestone from the Bulgarian otdevlnita. The legend says that the name comes from a man called Oltean Ni, an inn keeper. It is created in 1852 as a free-of-tax city with 750 inhabitants. Today it has about 30.000, mostly Romanian. Its main source of income is the activity on the Danube to which was added in time the industrial activity (food industry, furniture, naval repairs, lite industry). It is about 60 km afar from Bucharest. An interesting fact is that in this city was born the first post-communist presidents of Romania, Ion Iliescu.