Râmnicu Sărat
Râmnicu Sărat (also spelled Rîmnicu Sărat, Romanian pronunciation: [ˌrɨmniku səˈrat], German: Rümnick or Rebnick; Turkish: Remnik) is a city in Buzău County, Romania, in the historical region of Muntenia.The city rises from a marshy plain, east of the Carpathian Mountains, and west of the cornlands of southern Moldavia.Salt and petroleum are worked in the mountains, and there is a considerable trade in agricultural produce and preserved meat.It was also here that, in 1789 (during the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–1792), an army of Imperial Russian and Habsburg troops, commanded by Alexander Suvorov, defeated the Ottoman forces in the Battle of Rymnik.From 1864 to 1950 (with the exception of 1938–1940), the city was the seat of Râmnicu Sărat County.