Bucharest fortress
The Bucharest Fortress is a fortress belt of the Romanian capital Bucharest built between 1884 and 1900 , which was supposed to form a strong line of defense.
construction
In 1882, at the request of the Romanian government, the General Staff prepared the National Military Development Plan , which provided for the creation of military complexes in five stages. The work was to be carried out in several stages: first the “Bucharest Fortress”, then a “bridgehead” over the Sereth River near Mărăşeşti , another near Cernavodă , followed by fronts and batteries in the Galați and Constanța areas .
The Bucharest Fortress consisted of a ring-shaped system of seventeen forts equipped with artillery batteries, about 20 km around the center of Bucharest. A total of 18 batteries were divided between the forts in the three sectors.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Matrici de securitate / apărare ale României 1878-1918. , accessed August 1, 2013.
- ↑ Teofil Oroian, Gheorghe Nicolescu, Valeriu-Florin Dumitrescu, Alexandru Oşca, Andrei Nicolescu: Șefii Statului Major General Român (1859-2000). [Ed.]: Fundația "General Ștefan Guşă". Editura Europa Nova, Bucharest 2001, ISBN 973-8158-03-6 , pp. 60-61.