RAMNICU SARAT (Rimnicu Sdrat)  , the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of Ramnicu Sarat, See also:

• RUMANIA
• RUMANIA, or ROUMANIA [Romdnia]

Rumania; on the railway from See also:

• BUZEU

Buzeu to See also:

• FOCSHANI (Rumanian Focrani, sometimes incorrectly written Fokshani or Fokshan)

Focshani, and on the See also:

• LEFT

left See also:

• BANK

bank of the Ramnicu, a tributary of the Sereth . Pop . (1900) 13,134, about 1500 being See also:

• JEWS
• JEWS (Heb. Y8hudi, man of Judah; Gr. 'Iovbaiot; Lat. Judaei)

Jews . The See also:

• TOWN

town rises from a marshy See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain, See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east of the Carpathians, and See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west of the cornlands of See also:

• SOUTHERN

southern See also:

• MOLDAVIA

Moldavia . See also:

• SALT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch zout, Ger. Salz, Scand. salt; cognate with Gr. &Xs, Lat. sal)
• SALT, SIR TITUS, BART

Salt and See also:

• PETROLEUM (Lat. Petra, rock, and oleuin, oil)

petroleum are worked in the mountains, and there is a considerable See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade in agricultural produce and preservedmeat . Ramnicu Sarat was the See also:

• SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene of battles between the Moldavians and the Walachians in 1434 and 1573, and between the Walachians and See also:

• TURKS

Turks in 1634 . Here also, in 1789, an Austro-See also:

• RUSSIAN

Russian See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army defeated the Turks . In 1854 the town was almost destroyed by See also:

• FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire and was rebuilt .