Community: Zimnicea

City Zimnicea ancient Romanian settlement, discharge history whose existence is lost in the darkness of the times, is situated in Teleorman County, the county included in the Romanian Plain, between the Olt and confluenţele see the Danube River. The city is located at the intersection of parallel 43 ° 37'07''north latitude (the same latitude with Nice, Florence and Marseilles) to the meridian 25 ° 23'32''east longitude. counting a population of 15,672 inhabitants, Zimnicea occupies a special place in the urban county of Teleorman . Although the town is a river port with mixed functions of local importance.
Zimnicea is in a rich agricultural area where produce cereals, vegetables, grapes, tobacco, sunflower, fruit trees and has an area of 10,375 hectares of arable land.

Being a port on the Danube, is connected with Zimnicea 8 Danubian countries in Eastern and Central Europe, and thus exit the Black Sea. Since 1993, when the channel Rein-Main-Danube was completed and being at only 60 km of road and rail port Giurgiu - Russe and 120 km distance from Bucharest, the city has connections with the countries of Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Middle East . Zimnicea was typical of evolving Danubian cities, due to role in trafficking of goods. Subsequently, the business is added to the agricultural management and even during the period 1837-1839 the meeting of the county of residence.