Giurgeni is a commune located on the left bank of the

Danube The Danube ( ; see also #Names and etymology, other names) is the List of rivers of Europe#Longest rivers, second-longest river in Europe, after the Volga in Russia. It flows through Central and Southeastern Europe, from the Black Forest sou ...

, in

Ialomița County Ialomița County () is a county () of Romania, in Muntenia, with the capital city at Slobozia. Demographics In 2011, the county had a population of 258,669 and the population density was 58.08/km2. Romanians make up 95.6% of the population, t ...

Muntenia Muntenia (, also known in English as Greater Wallachia) is a historical region of Romania, part of Wallachia (also, sometimes considered Wallachia proper, as ''Muntenia'', ''Țara Românească'', and the rarely used ''Valahia'' are synonyms in Ro ...

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

. It is composed of a single village, Giurgeni. Giurgeni is linked with Vadu Oii–Hârșova over the Danube via the Giurgeni–Vadu Oii Bridge. The ruins of

Orașul de Floci Orașul de Floci, also ''Cetatea de Floci'' or ''Târgul de Floci'', is a lost city of Wallachia, now in Romania. ''Floci'', in this context, means "wool"; the name refers to the local sheep and wool market. The city was located at the confluenc ...

, a lost city of

Wallachia Wallachia or Walachia (; ; : , : ) is a historical and geographical region of modern-day Romania. It is situated north of the Lower Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians. Wallachia was traditionally divided into two sections, Munteni ...

, are located near Giurgeni, at the confluence of the

Ialomița River Ialomița may refer to: * Ialomița County, Romania * Ialomița (river) The Ialomița ( ) is a river of Southern Romania. It rises from the Bucegi Mountains in the Carpathians. It discharges into the Borcea branch of the Danube in Giurgeni.

and the Danube, on the old riverbed of the Ialomița. The

Communist regime A communist state, also known as a Marxist–Leninist state, is a one-party state in which the totality of the power belongs to a party adhering to some form of Marxism–Leninism, a branch of the communist ideology. Marxism–Leninism was ...

operated a forced labor camp at , in between the Giurgeni collective farm and Luciu village, in

Gura Ialomiței Gura Ialomiței is a commune located in Ialomița County, Muntenia, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Gura Ialomiței and Luciu. The Communist regime A communist state, also known as a Marxist–Leninist state, is a one-party stat ...

commune.

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Communes in Ialomița County Localities in Muntenia {{Ialomiţa-geo-stub