Prundu is a commune located in

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. It is composed of two villages, Prundu and Puieni. Some 300 m from the Danube, there was also a hamlet called ''Flămânda'', inhabited by some 30 Boyash and 5-6 Romanian families. The hamlet has been depopulated since 1962, when the Danube swallowed it up and the inhabitants moved to Prundu village.Places in the World
/ref> There was an ancient Roman fort at Flamanda located on the Limes Transalutanus frontier of Dacia. The hamlet was the starting point of the Flămânda Offensive by the

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against the

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