Râmnicu Sărat

Râmnicu Sărat is a city in Buzău County, Romania, in the historical region of Muntenia. It is first attested in a document of 1439 and was raised to the rank of municipiu in 1994. The city rises from a marshy plain east of the Carpathian Mountains and west of the cornlands of southern Moldavia, on the left bank of the river Râmnicul Sărat. Salt and petroleum are worked in the nearby mountains, and the town has a considerable trade in agricultural produce and preserved meat. It lies near the A7 motorway between Buzău and Focșani and on the Buzău to Mărășești railway line, and it has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Its history includes several battles between Wallachians and Ottomans, the 1789 Battle of Rymnik won by Alexander Suvorov, a fire that nearly destroyed it in 1854, and a period from 1864 to 1950 as the seat of Râmnicu Sărat County.