Bacău is the name of a city and county (Bacău county) in Romania. Romania with Bacău county highlighted Bacău is a Romanian county (Judeţ) in the Moldovia region, with the capital city at Bacău (population: 210,042). ...

The city is situated among the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, and on the Bistritza River, which enters the Sereth River about 8 kilometres (5 miles) to the south. The Ghimesh Pass links Bacău to Transylvania. Satellite image of the Carpathians The Carpathian Mountains (Hungarian:Kárpátok; Romanian: Carpaţi; Ukrainian:Карпати, Karpaty; Polish, Czech and Slovak: Karpaty) are the eastern wing of the great central mountain system of Europe curving 1500 km (~900 miles) along the borders of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Romania, and Ukraine. ... A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer) (symbol: km) is a unit of length equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words khilia = thousand and metro = count/measure). ... A mile is any of several units of distance, or, in physics terminology, of length. ... Transylvania ( Romanian: Transilvania or Ardeal, Hungarian: Erdély, German: Siebenbürgen, Serbian: Transilvanija, Turkish: Erdel, Slovak: Sedmohradsko or Transylvania, Polish: Siedmiogród) is a historic region that forms the western and the central parts of Romania. ...

During WWI and the occupation of Wallachia by the Germans, Bacău was the headquarters of the Romanian Army. Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Map of Romania with Wallachia in yellow. ...

Historical Links

• The Princely Court of Stefan's son, Alexander, in Bacau (http://www.patzinakia.ro/wallachiamediaevalis/bacau-index.htm) - images, layouts (at the Romanian Group for an Alternative History Website (http://www.patzinakia.ro/))