Drobeta-Turnu Severin, colloquially Severin, is a city in Mehedinți County, Oltenia, Romania, on the northern bank of the Danube, close to the Iron Gates. It is one of six Romanian county seats lying on the Danube river. "Drobeta" is the name of the ancient Dacian and Roman towns at the site, and the modern town of Turnu Severin received the additional name of Drobeta during Nicolae Ceaușescu's national-communist dictatorship as part of his myth-making efforts.
Drobeta-Turnu Severin
1907 reconstruction of Trajan's Bridge across the Danube by engineer E. Duperrex
Trajan's Bridge northern bank
Roman fort
Mehedinți County is a county of Romania on the border with Serbia and Bulgaria. It is mostly located in the historical province of Oltenia, with one municipality (Orșova) and three communes located in the Banat. The county seat is Drobeta-Turnu Severin.
Rock sculpture of Decebalus
The Mehedinți county court building of the interwar period.
Bulba River at Baia de Aramă
Ruins of Trajan's Bridge, Drobeta-Turnu Severin