Câmpulung

History

Near Câmpulung are the remains of Jidava (or Jidova) Roman fort built around 190–211 AD on the frontier of the empire, the Limes Transalutanus; and just next to it, vestiges of a Roman colony, variously identified with Romula, Stepenium, and Ulpia Traiana. Now called Grădiștea (meaning place of a fortress in Romanian) or Jidovi. the full text being Hic sepultus est comes Laurencius de Longo-Campo, pie memorie, Anno Domini MCCC ("Here is buried count Laurentius of Longus-Campus, in pious memory, Anno Domini 1300"). Laurentius was most likely the person coordinating the colonization process. The oldest known written document in Old Romanian was dated back to 1521 (Neacșu's letter). The letter was written to warn the city of Brașov of an impending Ottoman attack. The letter, written in Old Romanian, names the city in the introductory part written in Old Church Slavonic as Dlăgopole — Длъгополь (with the same meaning — "a long field"). When the printing press started to get popular in Europe, Matei Basarab managed to bring a printing press in Câmpulung in 1635 where Orthodox books would be printed and would be sent all over the Balkan peninsula for Orthodox people. This did not last long and in 1650 there weren't records of books being printed after that. During the reign of Șerban Cantacuzino (1678–1688), pressure was exerted to change the Catholic judges of Câmpulung to Eastern Orthodox. Originally, the Romanians of the town did not have the same rights as the German colonists, but by the 15th century, the two communities were already merged, as shown by the new Romanian churches built near the Catholic areas and by the fact that some of the elected județs were Romanians. Another community in the town were the Bogomil Bulgarians, who settled in the Șchei…

Geography

The town is located in the northeastern part of the county, within the depression that bears its name, at an elevation of 580–780 meters (1,900–2,560 feet), in the Argeș Hills, at the foothills of the Iezer Mountains, along the banks of the Târgului River.Câmpulung is crossed by National Road DN73, which connects Pitești and Brașov. The town lies 52 km (32 miles) from Pitești and 84 km (52 miles) from Brașov. In Câmpulung, DN73 branches into County Road DJ737, which runs southeast to Mioarele and Boteni, where it ends at DN73D; County Road DJ734, which heads north to Lerești; and County Road DJ732C, which runs west to Bughea de Jos, Godeni (where it intersects with DN73C), and Schitu Golești, where it reconnects with DN73. By rail, the town is served by the Câmpulung and Parc Krețulescu stations. The latter is the terminus of a railway line running south to Golești, where it joins the Bucharest - Pitești railway line. The town has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Dfb) according to the Köppen climate classification, with a mean annual temperature of approximately 9-10 °C. During the winter months, average temperatures are below freezing. In January, the coldest month of the year, the average temperature in Câmpulung is around -1 to 0 °C. Summers are generally mild, with relatively small year-to-year temperature fluctuations, rarely exceeding 3 °C. Spring and autumn temperatures fall between the seasonal extremes of summer and winter. Average spring temperatures range from 8 °C to 13 °C, while autumn temperatures are typically 1-3 °C higher than those recorded in spring. The annual temperature amplitude generally ranges between 8.4 °C and 12.4 °C. Precipitation, influenced by atmospheric humidity and cloud cover, varies seasonally. The Subcarpathian region…

Most-observed species

• Annual Fleabane

  Erigeron annuus (L.) Pers. · Magnoliopsida
  51
• Canadian Fleabane

  Erigeron canadensis L. · Magnoliopsida
  50
• False-acacia

  Robinia pseudoacacia L. · Magnoliopsida
  42
• Bohemian knotweed

  Reynoutria ×bohemica Chrtek & Chrtková · Magnoliopsida
  38
• Cherry Plum

  Prunus cerasifera Ehrh. · Magnoliopsida
  36
• Californian Burr, Burweed, Cocklebur

  Xanthium orientale L. · Magnoliopsida
  33
• Black Redstart

  Phoenicurus ochruros (S.G.Gmelin, 1774) · Aves
  26
• Red-backed Shrike

  Lanius collurio Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  25

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• M 4.6 — 2026-08-11
  9 km ESE of Vama Buzăului, Romania
• M 4.1 — 2023-06-19
  2 km SE of Cașoca, Romania
• M 4.2 — 2021-08-11
  1 km SSW of Lunca Jari?tei, Romania
• M 4.3 — 2020-03-19
  8 km NNW of Glod, Romania
• M 4.1 — 2019-09-07
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• M 4.6 — 2019-09-03
  4 km NW of Lunca Jari?tei, Romania