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Târgoviste (old spelling: Tîrgoviste; ) is a city in the Dâmbovita
Dâmbovita County

D?mbovita is a county of Romania, in Muntenia, with the capital city at T?rgoviste....
 county of 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....
. It is situated on the right bank of the Ialomita River
Ialomita River

The Ialomita is a river of Southern Romania that rises from the Bucegi in the Carpathian Mountains and flows into the Danube.The upper reach of the river is sometimes known as Valea Ob?rsiei or Ob?rsia Ialomitei....
. , it has an estimated population of 89,000.
oviste is a name derived from Slavic, its original meaning being of marketplace, cf. Serbian
Serbian

Serbian may refer to:* A member of the Serbs ethnic group* A citizen of Serbia* Serbian language* English translation for ambiguous word Srbijanci in Serbian language...
 ????????? and Bulgarian
Bulgarian

Bulgarian refers to anything of or relating to Bulgaria and may refer directly to:* Bulgaria* Bulgarian, a citizen of Bulgaria. See also Demographics of Bulgaria and Culture of Bulgaria....
 ?????????, being derived from Old Slavic tr?g?, market.

t attested in 1396, in the Travel Accounts of Johannes Schiltberger, it became the capital of the Wallachia
Wallachia

Wallachia or Walachia is a Historical regions of Romania and geographical region of Romania. It is situated north of the Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians....
n voivodship, probably during the reign of Mircea cel Batrân, when the Royal Court ("Curtea Domneasca") was built.






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Târgoviste (old spelling: Tîrgoviste; ) is a city in the Dâmbovita
Dâmbovita County

D?mbovita is a county of Romania, in Muntenia, with the capital city at T?rgoviste....
 county of 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....
. It is situated on the right bank of the Ialomita River
Ialomita River

The Ialomita is a river of Southern Romania that rises from the Bucegi in the Carpathian Mountains and flows into the Danube.The upper reach of the river is sometimes known as Valea Ob?rsiei or Ob?rsia Ialomitei....
. , it has an estimated population of 89,000.

Name

Târgoviste is a name derived from Slavic, its original meaning being of marketplace, cf. Serbian
Serbian

Serbian may refer to:* A member of the Serbs ethnic group* A citizen of Serbia* Serbian language* English translation for ambiguous word Srbijanci in Serbian language...
 ????????? and Bulgarian
Bulgarian

Bulgarian refers to anything of or relating to Bulgaria and may refer directly to:* Bulgaria* Bulgarian, a citizen of Bulgaria. See also Demographics of Bulgaria and Culture of Bulgaria....
 ?????????, being derived from Old Slavic tr?g?, market.

History

First attested in 1396, in the Travel Accounts of Johannes Schiltberger, it became the capital of the Wallachia
Wallachia

Wallachia or Walachia is a Historical regions of Romania and geographical region of Romania. It is situated north of the Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians....
n voivodship, probably during the reign of Mircea cel Batrân, when the Royal Court ("Curtea Domneasca") was built. Vlad III Dracula later added the Chindia Tower
Chindia Tower

The Chindia Tower was built by Vlad III the Impaler and is located in T?rgoviste, Romania. It is now considered a symbol of the city....
, now a symbol of the city.

In 1597 Mihai Viteazul fought and won a decisive battle against the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
 in Târgoviste.

After Constantin Brâncoveanu
Constantin Brâncoveanu

Constantin Br?ncoveanu was List of Wallachian rulers of Wallachia between 1689 and 1714....
 moved the capital to Bucharest
Bucharest

Bucharest is the capital city, industrial and commercial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the D?mbovita River....
, Târgoviste lost its importance, decaying economically as its population decreased.

Târgoviste was the site of the trial and execution of Nicolae Ceausescu
Nicolae Ceausescu

Nicolae Ceausescu was the Secretary General of the Romanian Workers' Party, later the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 until 1989, President of the Council of State from 1967 and President of Romania from 1974 until 1989....
 and his wife Elena
Elena Ceausescu

Elena Ceausescu was the wife of Romania's Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu, and Deputy Prime Minister of Romania....
 in December 1989. Interestingly, there are towns with the same name (albeit with different spellings as they are written in our days in the Cyrillic alphabet) in both Bulgaria
Bulgaria

The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
 and Serbia
Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans....
. The Romanian and Bulgarian towns are twinned
Twin city

Twin city or twin town may refer to:*Twin cities : two towns or cities that are geographically close to each other, and often referred to collectively...
. The name is of Slavic
Slavic languages

File:Slavic europe.svgThe Slavic languages , a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia....
 origin, from the root -trg- or -targ- ("trade") and the placename suffix -ište, and means "marketplace
Marketplace

A marketplace is the space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates. The term is also used in a trademark law context to denote the actual consumer environment, ie....
".

Population

  • 16th century: 60,000
  • 1900: 9,400
  • 1977: 61,300
  • 2002: 89,930


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Kazanlak
Kazanlak

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, Bulgaria
Bulgaria

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Targovishte

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, Bulgaria
Bulgaria

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Trakai

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, Lithuania
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Orvault

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, France
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 Miami, United States
United States

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 Corbetta
Corbetta, Italy

Corbetta is a comune in the Province of Milan in the Italy region Lombardy....
, Italy
Italy

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 Santarem
Santarém, Portugal

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, Portugal
Portugal

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 Vellinge
Vellinge

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, Sweden
Sweden

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 Castellon de la Plana
Castellón de la Plana

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, Spain
Spain

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Famous natives

  • (1895 - 1988), painter, sculptor artist
  • Alexandru Bratescu-Voinesti (1868 - 1946), writer
  • Iulian Chirita
    Iulian Chirita

    Iulian Chirita is a Romania football who played as a midfielder. His clubs included Flacara Moreni, FC Brasov, Rapid Bucuresti, Dinamo Bucuresti, FC Arges Pitesti and Chindia T?rgoviste....
     (1967), football player
  • Cornel Dinu
    Cornel Dinu

    Cornel Dinu is a retired Romanian football defender.He was born in T?rgoviste and debuted in Divizia A with Dinamo Bucuresti in 1966. He remained with Dinamo throughout his career, winning six league titles and two cup titles....
     (1948), football player
  • Ion Heliade Radulescu
    Ion Heliade Radulescu

    Ion Heliade Radulescu or Ion Heliade was a Wallachian-born Romanian academic, Romanticism and Classicism poet, essayist, memoirist, short story writer, newspaper editor and politician....
     (1802 - 1872), writer, philologist, politician
  • Laurentiu Reghecampf
    Laurentiu Reghecampf

    Laurentiu Aurelian Reghecampf is a Romanian football player.He was born in T?rgoviste, and his first club was VSE St. P?lten in Austria. He later joined Steaua Bucuresti where he helped win the cup title in 1997....
     (1975), football player
  • Laura Stoica
    Laura Stoica

    Laura Stoica was a Romanian singer, composer and actress.In 1986 she graduated from the "Popular Arts School" in T?rgoviste with a degree in classic canto ....
     (1967 - 2006), singer, composer, actress
  • Theodor Stolojan
    Theodor Stolojan

    Theodor Dumitru Stolojan is a Romanian politician. An economist by training, he is a leader of the Democratic-Liberal Party. He previously served as Prime ministers of Romania of Romania from September 1991 to November 1992....
     (1943), economist, politician
  • Claudiu Voiculet
    Claudiu Voiculet

    Claudiu Dorian Voiculet is a Romanian professional football player....
     (1985), football player


External links

  • - includes 25 contemporary photos, 3 ancient images, 2 layouts, a reconstruction of the Court, bibliography and many other info (in Romanian).