Little Wallachia
The Little Wallachia (German also Oltenia , Romanian Oltenia ) is a historical landscape in Romania and part of Wallachia . It is called "Little Wallachia" because it is much smaller than the Great Wallachia . From the time of the Hungarian rule (around 1090-1330) the name " Banat von Severin " has been handed down. Between 1718 and 1739 it belonged to the Habsburg Empire. Occasionally, Little Wallachia was named as "Banat von Krajowa " , "Valachia Cis-Alutana" or "Valachia Caesarea" .
The landscape is bordered in the east by the river Olt , from which the Romanian name of the region goes back. The Great Wallachia lies east of the Olt River. In the south and west, Oltenia extends to the Danube and in the north to the Carpathian Mountains ( Transylvania to the north ). The Banat lies to the northwest .
This historical region includes the following Romanian counties :
- Dolj
- Gorj
- Mehedinți (most of it, except Orșova and the communities to the west of it)
- Vâlcea (most of it, except for the communities east of the Olt River )
- Olt (only half of the district that lies west of the Olt River)
- Teleorman (only the parish of Islaz , which is west of the Olt River)
The most important cities in Little Wallachia are Craiova (also known as its "capital"), Târgu Jiu , Drobeta Turnu Severin , Râmnicu Vâlcea , Caracal and Calafat .
