Pitești

Pitești lies on the Argeș River in Wallachia. Its first known documentary mention dates to 1386, when Prince Mircea granted a local mill to Cozia Monastery. Situated on important routes toward Transylvania, it developed as a trading town and served as a temporary residence for Wallachian princes. An Armenian community was present by the late fourteenth century.

Several rulers issued documents from Pitești, and Prince Constantin Șerban financed the Orthodox church of Saint George, completed in 1656. The town also suffered from conflict: Habsburg troops occupied it in 1689 and attacked again in the wars of the early eighteenth century. A traveller described some 250 houses and seven churches in 1780.