Buzău is a city in the Buzău county, Wallachia, Romania, situated near the right bank of the Buzău river, between the Carpathian Mountains and the fertile lowlands of south Moldavia and east Wallachia. Buzău is important as a market for petroleum, timber and grain. It is the meeting-place of railroads from Râmnicu Sărat, Brăila, Nehoiu and Ploieşti. Romania with Buzău county highlighted Buzău is a Romanian county (Judeţ) in the Wallachia region, with the capital city at Buzău (population: 149,025). ... Map of Romania with Wallachia in yellow. ... Romania (formerly spelled Rumania or Roumania; Romanian: România) is a country in southeastern Europe. ... This is about the terrestrial mountain range. ... Moldavia (Moldova in Romanian) was a Romanian principality, originally created in the Middle Ages, now divided between Romania, Moldovan Republic and Ukraine. ... . Râmnicu Sărat is a town in the Buzău county, Romania The town rises from a marshy plain, east of the Carpathians, and west of the cornlands of southern Moldavia. ... Brăila is a city in Muntenia, eastern Romania, a port on the Danube and the capital of the Braila county, in the close vecinity of Spanish Libro de conoscimiento (Book of knowledge). This may have been an erroneous transcription of Brillago. ... Ploieşti on the map of Romania Ploieşti (older spelling: Ploeşti) is a city in Prahova county in the Wallachia region of Romania, 56 km (35 miles) northwest of Bucharest, with a population of about 250,000. ...

Population

• 1900: 21,000
• 2000: 233,000

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History

Buzău is the seat of a bishopric, whose cathedral was erected in 1640 by Prince Matthias Bassarab of Walachia, on the site of an older church. In the neighborhood there are many monasteries. Buzău was formerly called Napuca or Buzograd. Events December 1 - Portugal regains its independence from Spain and João IV of Portugal becomes king. ... Matei Basarab Matei Basarab was a Wallachian voivode between 1632 and 1654. ...