Wallachia and Bucharest

To Americans, Wallachia might readily conjure up images of Kansas and Nebraska. It's probably the least beautiful region of Romania in many ways, but it is home to the capitol, Bucharest. Wallachia is bordered to the north by the Carpathian mountains and to south by the Danube river. The Danube defines Romania's border with Serbia and Bulgaria with the exception of a region called Dobrogea, which extends to the Black Sea and into the vast wildreness of the Danube Delta. I'll describe the Delta region and Dobrogea in separate posts, but for now I'll talk a bit about Bucharest.