OLTENITZA (Oltenita)  , a town of Rumania, on the Ieft bank of the river Argesh, 33 M. from its outflow into the Danube, and at a terminus of a branch railway from Bucharest . Pop . (19oo) 5801 . The principal trade is in grain, timber (floated down the Argesh) and fish . Lake Greca, famous for its carp, lies ro m . E. and has an area of about 45 sq. m . Its waters reach the Danube through a network of streams, marshes and meres . Oltenitza is the ancient Constantiola, which was the seat of the first bishopric established in Dacia . In the Crimean War the Turks forced the river at this point and inflicted heavy losses on the Russians .