Reni

Reni stands on the left bank of the lower Danube, near the mouth of the Prut. Founded around the middle of the sixteenth century, it occupies a river crossing in the southern Bessarabian lands. The Danube connects this part of the interior with its delta and the Black Sea, and the town's riverside position gave it a place in the traffic along the lower river. Reni received town status in 1821 under Russian rule.