Jilava

Jilava is a commune in Ilfov County, Muntenia, Romania, shaped only from the village of house of the identical name. The commune became famous because of Jilava Penitentiary. The reformatory changed into utilized by the numerous Romanian governments for the imprisonment of political prisoners, as well as the "Jilava bloodbath" that befell in this jail in November 1940. Jilava has a millennial records. Archaeological research in 1929 revealed essential vestiges that show the life of a human agreement in this vicinity with 2000 years of e.

Two graves relationship again to the 3rd-4th centuries that specialists have recognized as belonging to free or Sarmatians and one of the 11th century were additionally discovered via a horse rider who, judging by way of stock a height the lance, an iron barrel, did no longer belong to the natives, however to a peceneg. The earliest report recognised thus far that testifies to the existence of Jilava became issued in Bucharest in June 1716 through which "Radu of Jilava sells loggia Matei Farcasanu a house with garden and lawn." Another record, issued 6 years later also in Bucharest, and mentioning the same "Radu of Jilava", indicates that the village belonged to the Archbishop Constantine II.