Ploiesti

Ploiesti is a city and county seat in Prahova County, Romania. Part of the historical vicinity of Muntenia, it's miles placed fifty six km 35 mi north of Bucharest. The location of the town is around 60 km2. It borders the Blejoi village in the north, Bărcănești and Brazi villages in the south, Târgșoru Vechi in the west and Bucov village in the east. Ploiești has direct get admission to to the Prahova Valley, one of the most important alpine tourism areas in Romania. Ploiești is an vital transport hub, linking Bucharest with Transylvania and Moldavia. According to the 2011 Romanian census, there had been 201,226 humans dwelling inside the city of Ploiești, making it the ninth most populous inside the us of a. In the mid-19th century the Ploiești region have become one of the world's leading oil extraction and refinery sites.

The Mehedințeanu brothers opened the world's first large refinery at Ploiești in 1856–1857. History additionally recalls the metropolis as the website online of the self-styled Republic of Ploiești, a quick-lived 1870 rebel towards the Romanian monarchy. During World War I Ploiești's oil manufacturing made it a target when the Central Powers invaded Romania in 1916, but a British Army operation under John Norton-Griffiths destroyed manufacturing and sabotaged a good deal of the infrastructure of the industry.