Placed in command of a small Russian detachment, Pârvu Cantacuzino was ambushed by Ottoman troops in Comana (Giurgiu County), and killed in battle alongside all his men.
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Focşani, a city 100 miles northeast of Bucharest and the epicentre of the quake, was reported in ruins; Galați, the site of the German submarine base, also suffered severely; and Giurgiu, the principal oil port on the Danube, saw public buildings and factories completely destroyed.
The capital of the region was Bucharest, and at first, its territory comprised an area similar to the nowadays Ilfov and Giurgiu counties.
It is described by Strabo, who had visited it, as a level plain surrounded by mountains: on the south by the Amanus, and on the west by the Antitaurus, which branches off from the Cilician Taurus and contains deep narrow valleys (in one of which was situated Comana, a considerable city on the river Sarus, which flows through the gaps of the Taurus into Cilicia and the Mediterranean).
He continued his involvement in theatre in Giurgiu, Bucharest and Shumen.
Saint Hermias of Comana, an early saint and martyr of the Eastern Orthodox Church
There are monuments to the Meynell and Pole families, including a large marble altar tomb commemorating Henry Pole and his wife, an elaborate memorial to Lieutenant William Meynell who was killed at Giurgiu on the Danube in 1854 when fighting with the Turks against the Russians, and an early Victorian memorial to a Meynell 'who was deprived of his life in a collision of carriages' in Clay Cross tunnel,
Marian Velicu (born July 4, 1977 in Comana, Giurgiu) is a boxer from Romania, who won the bronze medal in the Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg) division at the 2000 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Tampere, Finland.
Networx-BG has plans to invest heavily in the fiber-optics infrastructure of Giurgiu in order to provide similar Internet services as in city of Rousse.
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In May 2007, the company also bought the Romanian ISP Metronet based in Giurgiu, Romania.
Important projects for the company include construction and rehabilitation on several important Romanian roads like DN7, DN1, DN1A, DN73, DN65, DN21, DN2, DN66, DN67C, and DN7A, as well as roads in Bucharest, Voluntari, Ploieşti, Timişoara, Deva and Giurgiu.
In his fifth year, Tiglath-Pileser attacked Comana in Cappadocia, and placed a record of his victories engraved on copper plates in a fortress he built to secure his Cilician conquests.