Ramnicu Valcea

Ramnicu Valcea is the capital city of County Valcea , Romania within the historic province of Oltenia. The region has been inhabited on account that Dacian and Roman instances, and turned into the website online of a castrum. A new fort become constructed at the vicinity all through the Middle Ages. Ramnicu Valcea became first attested for the duration of the guideline of Prince Mircea cel Batran, as "the princely metropolis of Ramnic" and confirmed because the seat of a Vâlcea County throughout the same length The metropolis seal dates to 1505. Cetatuia, the real fortress, served as the residence of Oltenian Bans and, from 1504, of the Orthodox bishops of the Ramnic Diocese;

in 1543, Prince Radu de los angeles Afumaţi become killed in Cetaţuia by way of a boyar conspiracy.During the regulations of Matei Basarab and Constantin Brâncoveanu, it have become an essential cultural middle. It turned into right here where the primary paper mill and printing press in Romania have been built see Anthim the Iberian. The city was closely damaged during the Habsburg takeover of Oltenia among 1718 and 1739, and its motive changed into again decreased to that of a citadel.