A commune is the lowest level of administrative subdivision in Romania. There are 2686 communes in Romania. The commune is the rural subdivision of a Counties of Romania .... in southern Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea.... , located in southwestern Teleorman County
Teleorman County
Teleorman is a county of Romania, in the historical region Muntenia, with its capital city at Alexandria, Romania.The name Teleorman is of Cumans origin.... , 10 km west of Turnu Magurele
Turnu Magurele
Turnu Magurele is a Municipalities of Romania in Teleorman County, Romania . Developed nearby the site once occupied by the medieval port of Turnu, it is situated north-east of the confluence between the Olt River and the Danube.... . It is part of the historical province Oltenia
Oltenia
Oltenia is a historical province and geographical region of Romania, in western Wallachia. It is situated between the Danube, the Southern Carpathians and the Olt River river .... , and comprises two villages (Islaz and Moldoveni).
The village was first attested on July 9, 1569, and, until 1950, belonged to the former Romanati County. It was made notorious in 1848, as the site where the Wallachian Revolution
Wallachian Revolution of 1848
The 'Wallachian Revolution of 1848' was a Romanians Liberalism and Romantic nationalism uprising in the principality of Wallachia. Part of the Revolutions of 1848, and closely connected with the 1848 Moldavian Revolution in Moldavia, it sought to overturn the administration imposed by Russian Empire authorities under the Regulamentul Organic... erupted, and where the Proclamation of Islaz
Proclamation of Islaz
The Proclamation of Islaz was the program adopted on June 9, 1848 by Romanian people revolutionaries. It was written by Ion Heliade Radulescu.... , listing revolutionary goals, was publicly read (June 9, 1848).
