History
| Historical population | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1912 | 23,643 | — |
| 1930 | 21,107 | −10.7% |
| 1948 | 31,296 | +48.3% |
| 1956 | 32,486 | +3.8% |
| 1966 | 45,397 | +39.7% |
| 1977 | 76,686 | +68.9% |
| 1992 | 115,259 | +50.3% |
| 2002 | 104,035 | −9.7% |
| 2011 | 86,475 | −16.9% |
| Source: Census data | ||
The first written document, mentioning the city 1,870 years earlier, was commemorated in 1992.
Read more about this topic: Drobeta-Turnu Severin
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“I feel as tall as you.”
—Ellis Meredith, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 14, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)
“To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
“History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)