Câmpulung

Municipality

The statue of Negru Vodă

Coat of arms

Câmpulung

Location of Câmpulung

Coordinates: 45°16′04″N 25°2′47″E / 45.26778°N 25.04639°ECoordinates: 45°16′04″N 25°2′47″E / 45.26778°N 25.04639°E

Romania

Argeş County

Government

• Mayor

Andrei Călin

Population (2011)

• Total

31,767

Time zone

EET (UTC+2)

• Summer (DST)

EEST (UTC+3)

Climate

Dfb

Website

http://www.primariacampulung.ro/

Câmpulung (also spelled Cîmpulung, Romanian pronunciation: [kɨmpuˈluŋɡ], German: Langenau), or Câmpulung Muscel, is a city in the Argeş County, Muntenia, Romania. It is situated among the outlying hills of the Carpathian mountains, at the head of a long well-wooded glen traversed by the Râul Târgului, a tributary of the Argeş.

Its pure air and fine scenery render Câmpulung a popular summer resort. In the city there are more than twenty churches, besides a monastery and a cathedral, which both claim to have been founded in the 13th century by Radu Negru, legendary first Prince of Wallachia.

"Câmpulung" literally means "Long Field" in Romanian.

Near Câmpulung are the remains of a Roman camp now known as the Castra of Jidava (or Jidova); and just beyond the gates, vestiges of a Roman colony, variously identified with Romula, Stepenium and Ulpia Traiana, but now called Grădiştea (meaning place of a fortress in Romanian) or Jidovi.

Câmpulung was one of the earliest urban settlements in Wallachia, the Transylvanian Saxon colonists contributing to its development by bringing the German urban culture. The earliest written evidence of the town's existence is dated 1300, and is to be found in the Câmpulung church. The inscription is an epitaph of Laurencius de Longo Campo, the full text being Hic sepultus est comes Laurencius de Longo-Campo, pie memorie, Anno Domini MCCC ("Here is buried Laurentius of Longus-Campus, in pious memory, Anno Domini 1300"). Laurentius was most likely the person coordinating the colonization process.

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