Drobeta-Turnu Severin

Etymology
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Translations

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 * Romanian:
 * Ukrainian: Дробета-Турну-Северин

Etymology
Previously known as, from + , possibly from , from , referring to its geographical position within the Second Bulgarian Empire.

The city's name was originally linked by historians with the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus, during whose reign the name of the city was Drobeta Septimia Severiana. Another possible theory, is that Severin's name was taken in memory of Severinus of Noricum, who was the patron saint of the medieval colony Turnu, initially a suffragane of the Diocese of Kalocsa.

Drobeta, which was the ancient Roman name for the city, was added back to the city's name in 1972.

According to Hamp and Hyllested, Drobeta reflects a Roman misinterpretation of *Druwā-tā (the wooden place) with a postposed article, reflecting an old Albanian syntag for wood from