Oancea

Oancea lies on the right bank of the Prut, opposite the country around Cahul. The village is recorded in the sixteenth century and appears on Dimitrie Cantemir's map of Moldavia, completed in 1716. The Prut runs south from here towards the Danube, setting the village within the lower river valley. Its place on that bank made it a neighbour to the settlements across the water as well as to those along the Moldavian shore.