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Romanian stamp depicting Dănilă Prepeleac "Dănilă Prepeleac" (Romanian pronunciation: [dəˈnilə prepeˈle̯ak]; occasionally translated as "Danilo the Pole", "Dănilă Haystack-Peg" or "Danillo Nonsuch") is an 1876 fantasy short story and fairy tale by Romanian author Ion Creangă, with a theme echoing influences from local folklore.
Location of Dolj County in Romania.The Oltenian Sahara is located in its southern part. The Oltenian Sahara (Romanian: Sahara Olteniei) is a name given to an area in the Romanian region of Oltenia covering the territory between the city of Calafat and the town of Dăbuleni, spanning an area of about 80,000 hectares (200,000 acres), or 6% of Dolj County.
Map of the Olt County and its municipalities showing the parts at the east (part of Muntenia, in blue) and at the west (part of Oltenia, in red) of the Olt River Slatina Caracal Danube at Corabia. Olt County has 2 municipalities, 6 towns and 104 communes: Municipalities Caracal; Slatina - capital city; population: 87,608 (as of 2007)
Oltenia's main city and seat for a majority of the late Middle Ages is Craiova. The first medieval seat of Oltenia was Turnu Severin, anciently called Drobeta, in the Banate of Severin. That city is located near the site of Trajan's Bridge, built by Apollodorus of Damascus for Emperor Trajan in his conquest of the region.
The Banat of Craiova or Banat of Krajowa (German: Banat von Krajowa; Romanian: Banatul Craiovei), also known as Cisalutanian Wallachian Principality (Latin: Principatus Valachiae Cisalutanae) and Imperial Wallachia (German: Kaiserliche Walachei; Latin: Caesarea Wallachia; [1] Romanian: Chesariceasca Valahie), was a Romanian-inhabited province of the Habsburg monarchy.
Oltenia (Lesser Wallachia): the territory between the rivers Danube and Olt and the Southern Carpathians became part of the Principality of Wallachia in the early 14th century. [4] Moldavia (united with Wallachia in 1859 to create modern Romania): Western Moldavia: in today's form part of Romania since 1944;
Mehedinți County (Romanian pronunciation: [meheˈdint͡sʲ] ⓘ) is a county (Romanian: județ) of Romania on the border with Serbia and Bulgaria.It is mostly located in the historical province of Oltenia, with one municipality and three communes (Dubova, Eșelnița, and Svinița) located in the Banat.