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TURNU SEVERIN

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 481 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TUM-VAN
TURNU SEVERIN , the
capital
  of the department of Mehedintzi, Rumania, on the main Walachian railway, and on the left bank of the river
Danube
 , below the Iron
Gates
  cataracts. Pop. (1900), 18,628. It is a modern commercial town, having a school of arts and crafts, several churches, and large government yards for the building of river steamers, lighters and tug-boats. There is a considerable
trade
  in livestock, preserved
meat
 , petroleum and cereals. The town, which was originally called Drobetae by the Romans, took its later name of Turris Severi, or the " Tower of Severus," from a tower which stood on a small hill surrounded by a deep fosse. This was built to commemorate a victory over the Quadi and Marcomanni, by the Roman emperor Severus (A.D. 222-235). Near Turnu Severin are the remains of the celebrated Trajan's
bridge
 , the largest in the Roman
Empire
 , built in A.D. 103 by the architect Apollodorus of Damascus. The river is about 4000 ft. broad at this spot. The
bridge
  was composed of twenty
arches
  supported by stone pillars, several of which are still visible at low water.


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