Râmnicu Sărat

Râmnicu Sărat lies in eastern Wallachia near the Carpathian foothills. It is recorded in a document of 1439. The town and its surroundings lay along routes between Wallachia and Moldavia, and its church of the Assumption was built under Constantin Brâncoveanu in 1697.

In 1789, during the Russo-Turkish War, Russian and Habsburg forces commanded by Alexander Suvorov defeated an Ottoman army in the Battle of Rymnik near the town. The battle brought the locality into the wider struggle between the neighbouring empires.