Motru

Motru is a town in Romania, Gorj County. Motru is located at the river of the same in western Oltenia. The county capital Targu Jiu is placed about 35 km northeast. The city administers eight villages: Dealu Pomilor, Horasti, Însuraței, Leurda, Lupoita, Plostina, Roșiuța and Rapa. Motru turned into created via an administrative selection in 1966 on the territory of the former Plostina commune, which, collectively with seven different villages, have become part of the new city.

The cause in the back of the selection to create a town was the improvement of several coal deposits. The place is at the least because the time of the Roman Empire, inhabited, within the district Leurda in 1964 found a few silver coins from the time of Emperor Septimius Severus. The oldest documented agreement within the territory of gift-day metropolis Plostina. The Dacian town Amutria is referred to in historic resources like Ptolemy's Geographia and Tabula Peutingeriana, and doubtlessly located here. The call is homonymous with the ancient name of Motru river. After the Roman conquest of Dacia, Amutria became a part of an critical avenue network, between Drubetis and Pelendava.