Meaning of Dâmbovița | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A river in Romania.
2. A county in southern Romania.

Examples

“Oil is found in the whole region of the Carpathian foothills on the Old Roumanian side from the district of Suceava in the north to the valley of the Dâmbovița in the south, a distance of nearly two hundred miles.”

“Near Gemenea (Dâmbovița river) the archaeological data mention a pre-Roman Gethyc site (IV century B.C.) with an activity of extraction of gold from the Dâmbovița alluvial sands (Pârvari, 1967, pg 95) and possibly from Pleistocene Cândești gravels.”

“Cotroceni Palace (Şos Cotroceni 1) lies along the western bank of the Dâmbovița River.”

“1532 England Sir Thomas More resigns over Henry’s divorce. Wallachia Vlad the Drowned is so named after he gets drunk and rides into the Dâmbovița river, where he drowns; Vlad Vintilă de la Slatina becomes prince.”

“This is the narrowest crossing point from north to south of the entire valley, and thus is the best location in the Dâmbovița River valley to control traffic from the Danube Plain northward toward the Carpathians and Transylvania.”

“Angerer also documented the desolate banks of the winding Dâmbovița, the muddy rivulet that divided the Wallachian capital and flooded almost every spring. He captured the contrast between the tanners’ workshops and shanties flanking the Dâmbovița and the imposing public buildings recently erected nearby.”

“From a geomorphological point of view, Piatra Craiului Mountains represent a 20 km ridge oriented NE-SW, separated from the surrounding mountain units by the Bran–Rucăr corridor (east), the Dâmbovița and Tămaș basins in the west, the Brașov Basin (north), and the Dâmbovicioara Basin to the south. The hydrologic drainage of the area is controlled by the Bârsa River and its main tributary, Râul Mare in the north, and Dâmbovița and Dâmbovicioara rivers in the south.”

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