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Turnu Magurele

Turnu Magurele, the capital of the Teleorman county, Romanian is situated 21 miles North-East of the confluence between Olt river and the Danube.

A ferry plies across the Danube to the Bulgarian fortress of Nicopolis. There are some vestiges of a Roman bridge across the Danube, built in 330 by Constantine the Great.

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