The Vrancea County 
is the image of the Romanian country
at a smaller size. Various relief
and the most different vegetation is to be found here... 
Simion Mehedinti
Vrancea County, loaded with history and legend, blending together the memory of the past and the present, is situated at the South-Est of Romania at the crossing of old commercial roads, in a zone of incomparable beauties in the split point of the Oriental Carpathians.
The total surface of this region is about 436 skm.You can find here a various forms of relief as mountains, hills and plate also.This very complex physico-geografical unit organized as archaical human comunity is one of the most interesting region of Romania.The first Vrancea's map was published in 1737 by Dimitrie Cantemir, prince of Moldavia. The most important cities of county are the following:Focsani, district capital, Adjud, Marasesti, Odobesti and Panciu.
Climate This region have warm summers and cold winters.
Plants and animals It found here birch, beech, oak and acacia. The forest of the higher altitude are conifereous. Above the timberline the flora is alpine. Wild animal life is abundant in Vrancea:wolf, lynx, fox, bear, deer.
Culture Vrancea's art is rich and varied. The roots of literature grew up from the chronicles written by Miron Costin and Ion Neculce, in the XVth century. The literature from the 15th to 18th century was primarily religious. The dominant literary form in the 19th century was history and a number of major works promoted the idea of the Latinity of the origins and language of the Romanian people. The major figures of the period were Grigore Alexandrescu, Alexandru Vlahuta, Hortensia Papadat- Bengescu, Duiliu Zamfirescu (the creator of the cyclic Romanian novel) and Alecu Russo, that one discovered "Mioritza"(Little Ewe Lamb) is the most famous folk poem: Where the mountains mate/ There is Eden's gate...
The most outstanding figures from Vrancea are: Gheorghe Tattarescu, a painter, Ion Mincu, a remarkable architect, Stefan and Gheorghe Longinescu, Anghel Saligni, Simion Mehedinti, men of science.
History Vrancea was the link between the three historical regions Moldavia, Muntenia and Transilvania. In 1859, when colonel Alexandru Ioan Cuza was elected the common prince of the Muntenia and Moldavia, the center of the Vrancea's County, Focsani became the symbol of the Union. In the first World War, Romanians bravely struggled or their freedom. The Romanian Army fought for each piece of their land. No one goes further! was the slogan of the Romanian solders. In Marasesti, Marasti, Soveja they victoriously succeeded to stop their enemy. Several mausoleums were built in order to glory their memory. The people from this region keep in there hearts the image of Ecaterina Teodoroiu, woman solder and the hero child, Maria Zaharia.
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Special thanks to Tiberiu Dima for the pictures

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