Craiova
or KRAJOVA, the chief city of the province of Doljiu, Rumania, situated on the river Jiu, 110 miles W. of Bucharest, with a population before the World War of about 45,000. The town is the center of an important grain district on the edge of the Wallachian Plain. It was the first important capture made by the Germans on the Rumanian northern front, after the Teutons had broken through the Carpathian Mountains in November, 1916, and began their CRAM invasion of Rumania, the town falling into their hands on Nov. 21, 1916, and giving them control of the Craiova- Orsova railroad line. The final defeat of the Central Empires brought the town once more into the hands of the Rumanians.