Gorj

Gorj is a county of Romania, in Oltenia, with its capital town at Targu Jiu. Historically, the county changed into located inside the southwestern a part of Greater Romania, inside the northern a part of the historic area of Oltenia. Its capital changed into Târgu Jiu. The interwar county territory comprised a big part of the present day Gorj County. It became bordered to the west by Mehedinți County, to the north by means of the counties of Hunedoara and Sibiu, to the east by using Valcea County, and to the south by means of Dolj County.

In the county capital of Târgu Jiu, there has been a factory producing roof tiles as of 1931. The North facet of the county consists of diverse mountains from the Southern Carpathians group. In the West there are the Vulcanului Mountains, and inside the East there are the Parâng Mountains and the Negoveanu Mountains. The organizations are split via the Jiu River.