There are two "Chernozem belts" in the world: from eastern Croatia (Slavonia), along the Danube (northern Serbia, northern Bulgaria (Danubian Plain) and southern Romania (Wallachian Plain)), to northeast Ukraine across the Black Earth Region and southern Russia into Siberia, and the other in the Canadian Prairies.
Salisbury Plain | In Plain Sight | Plain old telephone service | Plain White T's | The Plain Dealer | Nullarbor Plain | Upper Rhine Plain | Plain | Stony Plain, Alberta | Mitchell's Plain | Just Plain Bill | Jamaica Plain | coastal plain | The Purple Plain | The Plain | Swan Coastal Plain | St Martin's Plain | Plain Old XML | Plain Antvireo | Coastal Plain League | Zeta Plain | Wallachian Plain | The Plain Truth | ''Symptoms of a locked jaw. Plain sewing done here'' cartoon by David Claypoole Johnston | Songnen Plain | Sharon plain | Plain text | Liuwa Plain National Park | Great Hungarian Plain | Danubian Plain |
In about a thousand pages, grouped in two parts, redrawing, over about twenty years, the slow and deep dissolution of an ordinary peasant family living in the village of Siliştea-Gumeşti (Teleorman), in the Wallachian Plain, Preda aimed to fulfil his credo ("without notions like history, truth, reality, prose would make no sense").