title: Romanian Historical Monuments: From the regions of Arges and Muscel, 1893
author: Adrian Savoiu
description: Adrian Savoiu graduated the "Golescu" high-school from Campulung-Muscel in 1973 and the Romanian Language and Literature Faculty of the University of Bucharest in 1978. He teaches Romanian language and literature, currently at the "Al. I. Cuza" High-school of Bucharest. From his publishing debut in 1977, he wrote constant, critical studies and literary history, essays, reviews. In 1977 he joined the Romanian Numismatic Society, and is a member of the Society of Philological Sciences. He worked at Radio Romania where he made over 100 programs. He worked under the PHARE program. He published several volumes, focusing particularly on issues of literary history. In parallel with the teaching work, for which he received his "Gheorghe Lazar class" (the highest award in school education), he developed curricula and topics for national exams and high school capacity. He is the author of books of Romanian language and literature, guides and auxiliary school. In 2011 he received the title of "Honorary Citizen" of the city of Campulung-Muscel.
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  # **Chapter Fourteen**
  
  Timisoara turned out to be a fairly interesting place, for a Romanian city.
  
  Much more Western in design and feel than the other towns they'd passed
  through, Timisoara had a rich history. The fertile bottomland around the river
  Temis had attracted settlement as early as 200BC. Subsequently, the area had
  been held successively by the Dacians, the first known settlers, the Romans,
  the Magyar, the Ottomans, the Hapsburgs and every other notable group in
  Eastern Europe's history. Burned to the ground by the Mongols, burned again
  when retaken from the Ottomans, who had made it a central military repository
  and armory, it was rebuilt for the last time by the Hapsburgs and still
  retained their baroque influence. It was that influence, to a large degree,
  that set it off from other Romanian towns.
  
  The reasons it had been fought over so often were apparent. The Temis river
  gave it e