Buzau
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
Rāmnicu Sărat,
Brăila and
Ploieşti.
Population
History
Buzau is the seat of a bishop, 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.