Corabia : Romania

Corabia is a small Danube port located in Olt County, used to be part of the now dissolved Romanaţi county pre WW-2. It is a “Frontier Town� with Bulgaria sitting on the other side of the Danube.
Originally called “Corabia� after being built from the remains of wrecked ships (Corabia means “Galley� in Romanian) it became a considerable manufacturing town in communist times with such things as a Sugar Mill and various other plants. However in more recent times the city’s population has dwindled and it has closed a lot of those factories with its inhabitants finding bigger centres to relocate to.
Corabia is still one of the central points of Olt county with other small hamlets & villages such as “Ştefan cel Mare� and “Celei� depending on it as an administrative centre. In the town there is a football club, several shops & bars and a formidable Orthodox Cathedral as well as monumental statue in the middle of town square.