Turnu Măgurele, is a city in Teleorman county, Romania. It is situated North-East of the confluence between Olt river and the Danube.
A ferry plies across the Danube to the Bulgarian fortress of Nicopolis. There are some vestiges of a Roman bridge across the Danube, built in 330 by Constantine the Great.
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TURNU SEVERIN, the capital of the department of Mehedintzi, Rumania, on the main Walachian railway, and on the left bank of the river Danube, below the Iron Gates cataracts.
The town, which was originally called Drobetae by the Romans, took its later name of Turns Severi, or the "Tower of Severus," from a tower which stood on a small hill surrounded by a deep fosse.
This was built to commemorate a victory over the Quadi and Marcomanni, by the Roman emperor Severus (A.D. Near Turnu Severin are the remains of the celebrated Trajan's bridge, the largest in the Roman Empire, built in A.D. 103 by the architect Apollodorus of Damascus.
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