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During the early Middle Ages, the Iron Gates region continued to be an important area of economic and major strategic interests. It was for more than once that political interests prevailed in front of the economical ones. The 12th and 13th centuries turned the Iron Gates area into a field of permanent fighting operations between Hungarian kings and Bulgarian tsars, between Hungarians and Byzantines and between all of them and the legitimate rulers of these places, the Romanian princes and voivodes. Due to these interests, the Iron Gates' region is, for several centuries, the centre of European politics. It was at the end of the 13th century that the western knights erected the Severin Fortress on top of the remains of an older Roman fortress. At the same time, the Hungarian knigship created here the Severin Banate, and administrative and military unit focusing upon the Tartar and Bulgarian dangers coming on the Danube towards Central Europe.
Ruinele Mitropoliei Severinului
The foundation of the feudal state -whose name was ,,Tara Romaneasca" (Wallachia) - under the reign of Basarab I, allowed the Severin Fortress to become a Wallachian possession. The Wallachian ruler Mircea eel Batran (1386-1418) strengthened and enlarged the fortress, coined money in the Severin Fortress and favoured both Romanian and foreign tradesmen (who were) going through the Schela Cladovei Customs. The sub dual of the Severin Fortress by the Turks and its final destroying opened the way to the Turks towards Central Europe. In 1541, half of Hungary's surface was turned into a Turkish province.
Medieval Pottery
In the Middle Ages, the city changed his name in Turnu Severin, which signifies the tower or the north walled city (being situated at north of Danube). Becoming political center of the Banat of Severin (XIII-th century), claimed and possessed successively by the Magyar king and the Wallachia voivode, the city was possessed by the Turkish in 1524 and gradually declined, the territory's administration from the west of Oltenia moved at Cerneti, where also worked the duty point. After the Danube was saved from the Turkish control - consequently of the Adrianopol peace (1829) - it was decided the building of the present town, with a rigorous project (1836), then of the harbor (1858). The building of some industrial unities determined the redevelopment of the town.
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